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by joshavant 13y ago
Would this enable the private industry to create services and analyses based off this cheaply available data? Yes, it seems heinous at first, but are there legitimate, palatable Big Data opportunities here, assuming the data is properly ano
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by joshavant 13y ago
2014 will finally be the year for Linux.
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by joshavant 13y ago
In iOS, sometimes the line between view and controller gets blurred. UIViewController is part of UIKit. UIKit is a framework developed specifically for iOS as a high-level wrapper over OpenGL, for performance reasons as well as making touch
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by joshavant 13y ago
Thanks! Very glad to hear that! I suspected most of the concepts could be pretty easily applied to other languages, so I'm especially glad to hear this feedback.
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by joshavant 13y ago
Hi! Post author here. Totally agree with that last statement. That said, I tried to write the post to be geared towards the beginner audience. And I remember when I first started iOS development, UITableView seemed weird. It comes with two
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by joshavant 13y ago
This sounds like an outstanding Kickstarter project.
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by joshavant 13y ago
If you don't mind, please drop me a line about which company you work for (or post up here). I'm not on the job market now (necessarily), but am keeping an eye out for your kind of companies and would love to keep yours on my rada
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by joshavant 13y ago
True story: I got my first industry job, out of college - at Apple - by hiring a VA to iterate through all open jobs that met a list of criteria I gave them (years experience, skills listed, etc), and submitting my resume to them.
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by joshavant 13y ago
Netvibes! I've used Netvibes for many years and love it. I'm honestly quite surprised it's not more popular in the hacker community. It's quite tweakable and flexible. One major drawback: They still have no native mobile
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by joshavant 13y ago
Don't forget Bacon Ipsum: http://baconipsum.com/
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by joshavant 13y ago
Does anybody know of a good VPS provider - overseas is fine, perhaps even preferable - that accepts Bitcoin, which I could run an exit node on? This lists Good/Bad ISPs, but a CMD+F for 'bitcoin' has 0 results: https:/&
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by joshavant 13y ago
It was! There's also lots of gloriously amazing tech that the Microsoft Research division produces. However, from what I can see, for whatever reason, much of it doesn't see the daylight.
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Current HoR reps who voted against Patriot act + all renewals + for Amash Amend(gist.github.com)
3 points by joshavant 13y ago|1 comments
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by joshavant 13y ago
Very excited to hear from companies in the Southeast VA region - and TC-covered, YC companies, no less!
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by joshavant 13y ago
'How do I "think in X" if I have a Y background" seems like an incredible programming blog/book idea. I, for one, constantly find myself thinking along the same lines whenever I try out a new language.
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by joshavant 13y ago
If your favorite language isn't here, another trick you could use is adding 'site:github.com' to your Google searches.
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by joshavant 13y ago
I think you meant 'performance' instead of 'capability'. As far as 'performance', Apple has never been one to put performance numbers up as a selling point. Macs have never been marketed as an X (M|G)hz machine
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by joshavant 13y ago
To be sure, there's such a thing called 'custodial interrogation' which is, essentially, a situation where a person's freedoms are restrained, but not fully under arrest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by joshavant 14y ago
I like the optimism, however, you'd expect the same factors would be at play as you move backwards into the past (while funding amounts continued to rise). I don't think any major event happened around Jul-Sept 2012 (about where it started
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by joshavant 14y ago
It's also worthwhile to watch the WWDC 'recap' videos for a given category or framework every year. These usually include discussion about Apple's reasoning for the changes they've introduced and suggestions about where the categories/frame
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by joshavant 14y ago
So an Apple engineer spent time adding support for more 'liberal', non-Apple-based Objective-C runtimes? Wow! That seems unusual of Apple, but very cool. EDIT - Looking at the clang source, it looks like GNUstep and and ObjFW (with the exce
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by joshavant 14y ago
The part about the Treasury building is a common misconception! It's actually related to the size of the street in front of the building: http://www.welovedc.com/2009/05/19/dc-mythbusting-the-height...
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Where Bob Dole Stands on Technology and Internet Issues (1996)(dolekemp96.org)
2 points by joshavant 14y ago|1 comments
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by joshavant 14y ago
The Phrack link brings back fond, fond memories.
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by joshavant 14y ago
Here's my MIT licensed implementation of a horizontal 'quilt' view: http://github.com/joshavant/JAGridView In fact, the inspiration behind this layout was Google+/Picasa albums!
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The Leanest Startup in Silicon Valley(inc.com)
62 points by joshavant 14y ago|31 comments
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by joshavant 14y ago
By the way, I'm local to San Francisco and the Bay Area and not opposed to in-house work or onsite meetings!
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by joshavant 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco/Remote I'm an iOS/Rails developer with App Store experience who used to work at Hipster (www.hipster.com). Our work was ranked on all of Apple's top lists: What's Hot, New and Noteworthy, and Staff Favorites. We
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by joshavant 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco/Remote I'm an iOS/Rails developer with App Store experience who used to work at Hipster (www.hipster.com). Our work was ranked on all of Apple's top lists: What's Hot, New and Noteworthy, and Staff Favorites. We