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by commanda 14y ago
I just want to point out that I first mis-parsed the name of the technology as "wif islam".
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by commanda 14y ago
Unfortunately, this web app reliably crashes Mobile Safari on my iPad 3. Perhaps the logic is done clientside over the set of all my ~1000 friends?
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by commanda 14y ago
Does m-Pesa work securely enough to not need those proposed regulations then? The consumers are protected against fraud for the most part already?
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by commanda 14y ago
HTML5 is definitely not the only way to write a game for iOS. It seems glaringly obvious, but the OP could perhaps try writing their game as a native app.
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by commanda 14y ago
It may be a little misguided to say that companies like Parse are speeding up the iteration cycle for mobile apps. Every business is going to need a backend to store all its data, so the time spent architecting and building the backend laye
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by commanda 14y ago
I'd say M2 research is way off the mark for the estimate of cost for a mobile title. Let's take the $5K cost and break it down. A competent young programmer, making $80K/year, would be paid $5K in 3.3 weeks. However, games don't just need p
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by commanda 14y ago
There's nothing that guarantees success for the passionate. If you are passionate about being a screenplay writer, your talent will be drowned out in the deluge of other passionate and hardworking people also trying to be screenplay writers
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by commanda 14y ago
I declared a double major of dance and creative writing when I entered college. Nobody discouraged me. It was sheer luck that I stumbled across computer science, fell in love, and never looked back. I shudder to think how my life would have
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by commanda 14y ago
I'm not sure why college students aren't told that a degree in anthropology/english/women's studies is not going to give you marketable skills, while a degree in nursing/engineering/computer science will. Perhaps incoming freshmen should b
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by commanda 14y ago
RockMelt and Flock are both browsers built with sharing in mind. I don't think either of them really caught on, but I'm not sure why.
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by commanda 14y ago
Wait a sec - if the investors put in $50M and the sale price was $1B, isn't that a 20x return in 2 months? Or am I doing the math wrong?
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by commanda 15y ago
Part of the claim was that for most people, the tablet (with the retina display) is enough for all the computing they want to do. I think "most people" excludes us - the programmers/makers. We will always need a full general computing
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by commanda 15y ago
Luckily, the acquiree knows that "It doesn't look so hard, we can build it ourselves" is almost certainly a mistaken belief on the part of the acquirer. I've found that any system, no matter how complicated, when explained by a competent en
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by commanda 15y ago
This is exactly what I felt when I was taking Adderall when I was about 25. I chose to stop taking it after a few months because I just couldn't handle the sense of impending doom, and at times fear, which would strike every day around 7pm.
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by commanda 15y ago
I'm assuming that by "smartphone" this article is only referring to Android devices? As far as I know, it's not possible (without jailbreaking the user's device) to get read access to SMS on iPhone.
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by commanda 15y ago
If it never comes back to bite you (or anyone else) in the ass, was it really a mistake?
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by commanda 15y ago
Apple's ARC documentation explains how to deal with those kinds of things. It's as accessible to an iOS beginner as retain/release are, perhaps more so. Specifically, regarding strong vs weak, the point is that you are to think about your
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by commanda 15y ago
"ARC is awesome, but I highly suggest that you don’t use it until you can manage memory yourself. In other words, don’t rely on ARC until you understand what it’s doing." This is not good advice. ARC is meant to free the programmer from hav
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by commanda 15y ago
This sentiment is probably why there is such a proportionately low number of devs who take the time to learn Objective-C, which in turn makes those who do learn it even more valuable.
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by commanda 15y ago
>But right now thats like saying a kid won't have a good job because of his grade 5 scores. Conversely, would you say that a kid in grade 5 who has bad scores is going to have a great job when he grows up, just you wait and see? We can
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by commanda 15y ago
Is it true that there is a dearth of women in online dating sites in general? If so, where did you see that info? Or is that an assumption you're working from based on the gender ratio in bars/clubs?
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by commanda 15y ago
Why would you move back to NYC from the bay area? Having just made the move from SF to NYC myself (for personal reasons, although it's been working out professionally so far as well), I feel like the bay is really the place to be for the n
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by commanda 15y ago
I'm not a front end developer, but it seems to me that pre-evaluation of javascript, or even compiling the js into byte code, would be something that front end developers would want to try in order to speed up their own users' experience of
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by commanda 15y ago
There also seems to be a contingent of knowledgeable Twitter users in a boat off the west coast of Africa. (I'm kidding - this is due to tweets where lat,lon = (0,0))
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by commanda 15y ago
When I was a younger game programmer, I considered for a while getting a tattoo of: function intersectRect(r1, r2) { return !(r2.left > r1.right || r2.right < r1.left || r2.top > r1.bottom ||
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by commanda 15y ago
This article skips discussing one reason why jobs are in a sense ends to themselves: the feeling of being useful. Retired people often complain that they don't know what to do with themselves after leaving the workforce, so they go do thin
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by commanda 15y ago
I was 19, my second semester in college, when I started programming. Incidentally, I've heard from at least 3 other successful women programmers that they started in college as well. (I'm defining "successful" as "speaks at conferences, ge
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by commanda 15y ago
My favorite of these is http://twitter.com/#!/big_ben_clock , which tweets on the hour in London. (I copied this idea and made @sf_o_clock). The idea of devices broadcasting information to provide ambient data to anyone who cares to liste
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by commanda 15y ago
Unfortunately, no matter what safety mechanisms Airbnb puts in place, messes like this are still going to happen. Even if there were a reliable rating or karma system, and you could exchange messages with a potential renter before acceptin
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by commanda 15y ago
This is similar to a URL shortener my friends and I wrote a few years ago: http://get.emo.gd/ . Emoji TLDs are even better.

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