joshavant

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by joshavant 1y ago
I want to build a large format, real-time, physical music visualizer that could orchestrate an artistic light symphony for any song. I'm imagining physical visualizers that are columns of multiple, discrete light nodes, each able to ha
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by joshavant 2y ago
Here's my strategy: - Setup VMs locally, on your development machine. (This eliminates the cost of hosting but gives you all the technical learning opportunities). My development machine is macOS and UTM has been an excellent app to ma
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by joshavant 2y ago
Similarly, Google purchased reCaptcha and ended up harnessing the stream of human interaction into that to, among other things, classify all of their Street View content (e.g. select the stop lights/bridges/license plates/etc
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by joshavant 3y ago
Looking at the Beeper Mini announcement [1], they clearly state that a user doesn't need an Apple ID to register their phone number and send/receive iMessages. Also, they describe direct, device-to-Apple interactions. However, thi
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Ask HN: Cloud security auditing for indie-grade projects?
2 points by joshavant 3y ago|1 comments
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by joshavant 5y ago
I've hesitated to ever attempt this because every residential ISP I've had refuses to offer static IP addresses. As well, deploying a server in a Google/Amazon/Microsoft datacenter which could be surreptitiously monitore
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by joshavant 7y ago
I got a job at 'early' Tinder (2014) after someone I chatted with on a Freenode programming channel went on to become one of its cofounders.
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by joshavant 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | Austin, TX or Remote | iOS Hi, I'm Josh. I've been developing iOS apps for the last 7 years including Tinder, CrowdRise, and LivingSocial. I've also spent time at Apple, Google, Microsoft, and an acquired start
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by joshavant 8y ago
When I worked at Apple, it was fun to walk in some buildings and notice the California 'cancer warning' sign posted in the lobby. From that, you knew there was probably a hardware engineering lab somewhere in that building, becaus
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by joshavant 9y ago
I'm a front-end developer. I'd like an OSS solution that will allow me to deploy an arbitrary server-side service - be it a Ruby, Python application or even a package like OpenVPN - to some cloud infrastructure, easily. This solut
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Chris Espinosa talks about weird `man` output related to 70s pinfeed printers(twitter.com)
2 points by joshavant 9y ago|0 comments
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by joshavant 9y ago
Ah! I noticed this interior layout in more than a few buildings but didn't realize the backstory. Thanks for posting!
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by joshavant 10y ago
I'm moving to Austin soon and currently trying to get a grasp on local salaries. Would you mind adding your years of experience ? I'd appreciate the update!
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by joshavant 10y ago
I'm moving to Austin soon and currently trying to get a grasp on local salaries. Would you mind adding your years of experience and what parts of the stack you're working in (iOS, Rails, 'full stack')? I'd appreciat
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by joshavant 10y ago
I assumed this was happening through their acquisition of Rapportive and all the authorized Gmail plugins that came with that. But this... this is sneaky.
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by joshavant 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Los Angeles - Remote OK Hi! I'm Josh. I've been an iOS developer for 5+ years. Recently, I finished leading the development of a ground-up Swift app. Prior to this, I used to work at Apple, Google, Microsoft, and an
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by joshavant 10y ago
You're the founder of Cocoa Controls?? Thank you for creating an incredibly valuable resource that I've used frequently for many years, and do get in touch if you ever find yourself in LA and would like a free beverage on me!
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by joshavant 10y ago
In the article, the author mentions contacting Google + they instruct him to attempt pen testing on please.break.in@gmail.com. Didn't know they maintained an account like that. Interesting.
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by joshavant 10y ago
Alamofire (an all-Swift library) is linked in 31% more of the top 200 free apps than AFNetworking (an all-Objective C library). I guess Swift is still making headway into Big Apps... Also, 6 apps are still using ASIHTTPRequest, despite the
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by joshavant 10y ago
I thought I once read that, since Touch ID relies on fingerprints, a US court order can compel you to provide those, thus forcing you to unlock an iPhone in question. This, as opposed to a passcode-only configuration, which a court order ca
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by joshavant 10y ago
IANAL, but, for the _California_ readers, I'm fairly certain a contract with a clause like 'losing all intellectual rights to ANYTHING done/written/created ANYTIME and ANYWHERE' will NEVER hold up in California cour
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by joshavant 10y ago
I've done a small amount of work for a Swift-based project that was packaged as CLI program. FWIW, it was a really difficult project to develop for. This mainly had to do with the fact that the project had to be built from a hacky Rake
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by joshavant 10y ago
Does anyone see a link to a demo of anything?
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by joshavant 10y ago
CrowdRise | Onsite | Downtown Los Angeles, CA CrowdRise allows anyone to raise money online for personal causes and charities. Right now, we're looking for a senior-level iOS Developer to join me as iOS Developer #2! Technical Backgrou
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by joshavant 10y ago
I seem to remember someone telling me how there are a couple of cottage industries that center around the fact that the US Government has to buy goods that are US-made. I think ceiling fans are one example. (i.e. There's relatively few
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by joshavant 10y ago
This has always been a difficult challenge when job hunting for me, and I'd be curious to hear how you dealt with this in your application process. Nearly every job offer I've encountered expects a response within a few days. In p
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by joshavant 10y ago
CrowdRise | Onsite (Los Angeles, CA) CrowdRise allows anyone to raise money online for personal causes and charities. Right now, we're looking for iOS Developer #2 to join me, iOS Developer #1. Technical Background: 100% Swift codebase
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by joshavant 11y ago
This has always been a difficult challenge when job hunting for me, and I'd be curious to hear how others deal with this in their careers. Nearly every job offer I've encountered expects a response within a few days. In practice,
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by joshavant 11y ago
Los Angeles, and curious to hear about the opportunity regardless of where it's located! Contact information is in my HN profile. Please get in touch!
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by joshavant 11y ago
Thanks!

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