patricksroberts

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by patricksroberts 12y ago
My grandfather was a mechanic in the Enola Gay's bomber group. He mentioned that his personal bar for heat and humidity are from some of the islands they setup airfields on in the Pacific. Considering he spent a fair amount of his care
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by patricksroberts 14y ago
Alternately, here's BubbleWrap on camera: https://github.com/rubymotion/BubbleWrap#camera on JSON: https://github.com/rubymotion/BubbleWrap#json
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by patricksroberts 14y ago
I think one of the most interesting points about the presentation is the BubbleWrap libraries. The greatest pain I've felt with iOS development are some of the terrible APIs. The amount of ceremony needed to Parse JSON from a web based
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BostonRB August presentations(bostonrb.org)
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by patricksroberts 14y ago
Or perhaps 37signals is of a size that losing a small % of subscriptions due to an issue is considerably larger cost than placing a couple of people on-call to deal with it immediately.
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by patricksroberts 15y ago
Disclosure: I'm one of the maintainers of the new Copycopter. When the announcement that Copycopter was to be shut down both Crowdtap and Iora Health reached out to Thoughtbot about keeping the service alive. Dan Croak facilitated communic
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by patricksroberts 15y ago
Thoughtbot isn't actually a VC backed startup. They have always developed products by building tools to fit needs in their consultancy work and unfortunately not all the products were successful enough to keep going. The reality for Copyco
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by patricksroberts 15y ago
The coolest thing I learned by far was from Steve's Minitest talk; the linear performance assertion is a killer feature.