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by rbritton 10y ago
For some I'm sure it is, but I believe there's another facet to it: waste. A lot of tax revenue is totally wasted, and while some is almost certainly inevitable in an organization as large as the government, I strongly feel that n
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Tower's the Great Mac Developer Survey Results(git-tower.com)
5 points by rbritton 10y ago|0 comments
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Not on that kind of connection, but I can rarely successfully download something that large from the App Store on the first attempt. I've found it far better to get from the tools area of the developer member center.
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Thick plywood can handle a lot. My dad is a general contractor and uses sheets of 1 1/2" plywood to prevent his forklift (~24,000 lbs) from sinking into soft ground. At that weight a single sheet (per tire) crunches a little, but
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That particular rule is pretty universally ignored. Even Apple breaks it [0]. [0]: https://marco.org/2014/12/01/app-store-rule-5-6
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by rbritton 11y ago
Depends on your definition of extra large, I suppose. I've gone as big as about 10 megapixels in my implementations with it and it's held up. The big problem with iOS image handling has always been the pitiful amount of RAM on the
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by rbritton 11y ago
I've had sort of a different theory on that. When explaining something from my field to someone without the background and knowledge needed to understand the precise terms, I reduce the explanation to terms and context that they'r
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by rbritton 11y ago
I recently started using PHPStorm for some of my PHP coding. They have an interesting hybrid purchase model that I consider very fair. The way it works is that there's a monthly subscription to start using it. While you're paying
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by rbritton 11y ago
If you want a really good example, the northern lights are a good one. The majority of the color is something you cannot see with your eye because it's too dim for the cones to pick up. A camera doesn't have this limitation. See:
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by rbritton 11y ago
The sites I have that are actually up right now are those routed through CloudFlare.
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A previous employer of mine actually had a policy of never matching offers from other employers. I'm no longer there.
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I'm actually in the hiring process at a place currently, and their process is reasonable for someone in my position coming from freelance: 1. Phone screen amounting to about 45 minutes. 2. Skype interview with small code samples betwee
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Definitely, but I can personally attest to that being much more effective when the number of apps was 10% of what it is now. Most of the old marketing channels are gone with little replacing them.
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I have a <first initial><last name> gmail address. It's unbelievable the number of people who sign up for stuff and think that's their email address. I get pay stubs from some New Zealand company, OB-GYN reports for
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by rbritton 11y ago
Unfortunately, that's only half the battle. Just telling potential customers about the app is incredibly difficult, particularly with the very broken state of App Store search.
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It is for those that leave their debug logging enabled. A lot of code I've seen uses CocoaLumberjack[0] or something similar, which makes it easy to turn that off for production builds. [0]: https://github.com/CocoaLumb
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Developers: Apple's App Review Needs Big Improvements(macstories.net)
1 points by rbritton 11y ago|0 comments
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Previous discussion last year here[0] but I had completely missed that, so thought it would be of interest again given the current events. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9401453
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FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades (2015)(washingtonpost.com)
80 points by rbritton 11y ago|6 comments
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Looks like it's yet another cloud one based on the code here [0]. [0]: https://github.com/mguterl/sensi/blob/master/index.js
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Mine at least correctly controls the furnace, but the one feature I bought it for -- a thermostat I can control from my iPhone -- barely works. Their app has gone downhill with every single release, and it's at least half the time that
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by rbritton 11y ago
In my experience I have usually been told if someone else beat me out (usually phrased as "We're moving forward with another candidate who is a better fit"). While it's possible, I don't think it was the case here.
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The timing on this posting is somewhat darkly amusing for me -- I was just rejected by Stripe on Wednesday. I fit the job posting perfectly, so I asked why, and the answers I received were almost identical to those highlighted in the postin
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by rbritton 11y ago
In the US, Utah is very similar. Some places will sell you a "sidecar" shot with a mixed drink, but a lot won't. Hard alcohol is measured electronically to ensure it is exactly one ounce.
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Though it's a C API, CGBitmapContextCreate is notorious for this. While it doesn't address everything you're alluding to, I'm a big fan of Swift's nonnull/nullable making its way into Objective-C since some of
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by rbritton 11y ago
At the risk of downvotes, why can't you? At some level, personal responsibility must come into play. There's a limit on how much you can protect people from themselves, though where that limit is can be a very political topic.
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It's nice to see an article on developing for the new Apple TV, but I've been hoping to see an article like this for a paid tvOS app (up front or IAP). I received one of the first round developer units myself and started on a numb
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by rbritton 11y ago
I doubt there is much out there to cite. This isn't a medical school anecdote, but it's a similar process. My sister and someone she went to high school with both went to the same college to pursue physical therapy. When it came t
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AgileCloudKit: iCloud Sync Gets Its Wings(blog.agilebits.com)
3 points by rbritton 11y ago|0 comments
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I just checked and you're right. Their website is very misleading on the subject: "The StartCom Certification Authority, provides the StartSSL™ Free certificates instantly, without limitations". Correct me if I'm wrong,

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