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by brandontreb 4y ago
Oh man, I wish I had enough karma to downvote this comment! (I’m in NM ;))
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by brandontreb 6y ago
Ahh, this is a great tip. I’ll have to double check now. Thanks.
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by brandontreb 6y ago
It's crazy that companies are still using SMS for 2FA. TOTP solves this problem is a much more elegant way and is immune to such attacks.
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by brandontreb 6y ago
I'm assuming you are talking about ARGOS tags (more sophisticated tag that actually transmits GPS (last comment was talking about pet tags (which are RFID)), but it's FAR from microscope / injectable via needle. I get it, pe
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by brandontreb 6y ago
That's a 'dumb` RFID chip. I don't think folks are too concerned with offline chips that require close proximity scanning (for power). RFID also doesn't 'track' dogs. They contain information about the dog to g
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by brandontreb 6y ago
I can't understand the 'microchip in vaccines' issue. You mean to tell me that my iPhone can't last a full day on a battery charge, however we have microscopic tech capable of tracking location data and relaying it some
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by brandontreb 8y ago
That title font is hard to read.
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by brandontreb 8y ago
And he didn’t even provide an affiliate link! I’m impressed.
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by brandontreb 8y ago
We have a mix of employees / contractors but usually hover around 9-10. As far as asking questions, it’s about the long game. I aim to build relationships with people and establish myself/my team as an authority on software dev. A
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by brandontreb 8y ago
"I don't have a ton of networking skills" Work on this. I have built my consultancy over the past 6 years and it started with me doing freelance and now we do over $1m/year in revenue. I attribute the majority of succes
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by brandontreb 9y ago
So, code updates from the server doesn't matter as we can hook all of the audio recording APIs at a system level. Their _only_ defense IMHO is to NOT do it on Jailbroken devices. You are right, it's super easy to detect jailbroken
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by brandontreb 9y ago
Interesting. So you are suggesting they may have already considered this and may have some defensive programming around it?
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by brandontreb 9y ago
See my response to the other comment about them using private APIS. Basically, we would have to try and guess which APIs they were accessing under the hood. But you are right, this would def be a considerable effort for someone not in the
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by brandontreb 9y ago
It is, however when building a mobile substrate tweak, you have visibility / access to the headers of every single system class. One could theoretically hook into any number of audio recording mechanisms (assuming they knew where to lo
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by brandontreb 9y ago
I did quite a bit of Jailbreak/tweak dev in the past, and I was curious if you could just hook into AVAudioRecorder and show an alert any time it was invoked. So, I did this sort of thing years ago when I wrote a tweak for the InPulse
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The Importance of Side Projects(brandontreb.com)
7 points by brandontreb 10y ago|0 comments
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Our Converted School Bus Kitchen(trebventure.com)
2 points by brandontreb 10y ago|0 comments
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by brandontreb 11y ago
This must be a common joke amongst programmers. We often joke that we should all become potato farmers. Being outside, watching things grow, working with something physical. I totally get the appeal.
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Software Consultant Contracts: Fixed Bid VS Time and Materials(brandontreb.com)
1 points by brandontreb 12y ago|0 comments
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Being An Indie Software Developer And Signing NDAs(brandontreb.com)
15 points by brandontreb 13y ago|2 comments
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by brandontreb 13y ago
I have that exact same regret.
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by brandontreb 13y ago
Make sure to subscribe, that post will be in my upcoming series :)
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by brandontreb 13y ago
I believe that it played a huge role. Although, I feel that you could still start a successful iOS blog today, you would have to bust your butt to even come close to sites like http://www.raywenderlich.com . Believe me, I'v
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by brandontreb 13y ago
Great question. Yes, you can be fired for just about anything. Companies also love to give you very few reasons as it lowers their risk of a lawsuit. (i.e. if you say "You are fired because of your lack of professional dress".
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by brandontreb 13y ago
Thanks for posting the link. I would have put it up, but Hacker News penalized me last time I linked in the comments of my own post.
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by brandontreb 13y ago
I love this and it's precisely why I wrote this post. I just looked at what others were doing and realized "These guys are no smarter or riskier than I am. The only difference is, they just did it". Thanks for the comment.
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Becoming A Software Consultant: My Backstory(brandontreb.com)
119 points by brandontreb 13y ago|38 comments
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by brandontreb 13y ago
I totally agree. I generally solve this issue by paying the developer for the programming challenge. Usually, it's something that benefits the project that I'm working on. Then, if I hire them, it's a pretty easy transition
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by brandontreb 13y ago
Weird this article fell like a stone from #2 to 20 in seconds. Crazy
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by brandontreb 13y ago
Congrats and good luck!

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