mpakes

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by mpakes 7mo ago
If you are feeling the way that James does, that the magic is gone... I encourage you to try creating things in a new domain. Try making music, creating videos, making interactive LED art, building robots, or fabricating toys. The tools w
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by mpakes 8mo ago
Cranking out open source tools one day, endurance racing in IMSA LMP2 the next — I love it. Condolences about the DNF, but truly an impressive run nonetheless (especially the first-lap recovery). Kudos to you and your team.
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by mpakes 3y ago
What is the wholesale source for the gift cards and CD keys?
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by mpakes 4y ago
You're not alone in this. It might be a good idea to delete or edit this post; As currently written, it provides instructions and encouragement to make these connections. :)
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by mpakes 8y ago
Splice | Data and Growth Engineering, Product Design | New York, NY, ONSITE and REMOTE (North + South America) | https://splice.com/ Splice is a creative platform of tools and services that helps musicians stay in the creat
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by mpakes 14y ago
The smoothness is a huge improvement, but touch-latency and scrolling physics are still huge problem areas, even in Jelly Bean on Nexus 7 hardware. In testing, I've enjoyed the Nexus 7 form-factor, but the iPad's responsiveness and scroll b
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by mpakes 14y ago
Fair enough, and that's why I attempted to tone down the message with my statement of respect. I've followed Cody's work with interest for years. I do stand by my general point, though. I think it's worth thinking about how we represent our
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by mpakes 14y ago
Was it necessary to wear a t-shirt that reads "It's fun to use learning for evil!" in the photo shoot for a Forbes spread? This doesn't help the negative perception of the word "hacker". :-/ All due respect to the work you're doing – I'm a
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by mpakes 14y ago
CoffeeTable - San Francisco - Full time, local. At CoffeeTable ( http://www.coffeetable.com ), we’re combining the best parts of commerce, catalog shopping, and tablet devices to create truly inspiring shopping experiences. Whereas the ecom
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by mpakes 14y ago
Not a typo. Ronny Conway is Ron Conway's son.
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by mpakes 14y ago
Good point; I may have replied too hastily. It's relatively straightforward to use CFUUIDCreate as a building block for an application-specific UUID, but you're correct in stating that the API itself simply returns a new, pseudorandom UUID.
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by mpakes 14y ago
Such a thing has existed since iOS 2.0 (CFUUIDCreate [1]), and Apple's updated docs on UDID specifically recommend using CFUUIDCreate. The problem is that an application-specific UUID doesn't address all current use cases for UDID. Specific
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by mpakes 14y ago
Push notifications use a device token that is separate from the UDID. An app can only get access to the device token if the user enables push notifications for that app.
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by mpakes 15y ago
EDIT: This is in reply to a deleted question about the impact of an inevitable commercial spacecraft failure. Great question. In my mind, I compare this to the stigmatization of nuclear power. The combination of the public's lack of trust i
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by mpakes 15y ago
As a former engineer on the Atlas V launch vehicle program, I'm so excited to see the commercialization of spaceflight come to fruition. The latest projections I've seen have the Dragon and Falcon 9 coming in at 20% of the price of an equiv
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by mpakes 15y ago
ASLR is enabled, yes. ASLR actually makes ret2libc much more difficult to pull off (esp. on 64-bit platforms), because the location of libc.so itself is randomized.
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by mpakes 15y ago
Return-to-libc (a.k.a. ret2libc) is usually used to bypass NX-bit / DEP, but NX was disabled for level04 - the solution does not require return-to-libc.
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by mpakes 15y ago
Nice.. looking forward to the meetup. In the meantime, if anyone wants tips/tricks or just to chat about it, feel free to contact me (email in my profile). I captured the flag late last last week. FWIW, Stripe has a campfire room setup for
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by mpakes 15y ago
Start working really closely with someone who is a user.
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You're Overthinking It(engineering.gomiso.com)
348 points by mpakes 15y ago|53 comments
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by mpakes 15y ago
I believe the genesis of this line of quotes is Walt Disney. http://startupquote.com/post/859040744
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by mpakes 15y ago
San Francisco, CA [Remote Considered] - Coffee Table ( http://coffeetable.com ) Coffee Table is looking for iOS Developers to join our team in changing the world of retail commerce. We're a small, driven, entrepreneurial team, so you'll hav
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by mpakes 15y ago
I presume you're saying this firmly tongue-in-cheek? ..or are you commenting that Altair Basic truly is a feature-not-a-product and that MS did well to move into the OS realm?
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by mpakes 15y ago
Optimize for your personal learning style. I learn best by immersion and example, so I just picked a project and started building. I looked at prominent open source iOS apps and constantly referred to Apple iOS SDK docs, Apple example code,
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by mpakes 15y ago
How do you accomodate merging changes to XIB files within your VCS? It's already pain enough to deal with the Xcode project file. I ended up tearing out all use of IB in my large project after spending too many hours manually merging XIBs.
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by mpakes 15y ago
Coffee Table is looking for an iOS Developer to join our team in changing the world of retail commerce. You’ll be one of the first developers to join our driven, entrepreneurial team. We value independent thinkers and expect everyone to be
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by mpakes 15y ago
To me, the biggest news here is the 1QFY12 guidance of $37 billion. Guidance of 30% above their best recorded quarter ever. Wow.
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by mpakes 15y ago
I haven't had a chance to verify this myself, but according to Marco, this does not actually avoid the iCloud sync: https://twitter.com/#!/marcoarment/status/124587437799374848
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by mpakes 15y ago
See Marco's post. Apple has made it clear that anything outside of Library/Caches/, tmp/, or the app bundle will be backed up to iCloud. I have personally witnessed this with Documents/ (as expected) and even Library/Application Support/ (w
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by mpakes 15y ago
It's no accident that many public web APIs don't implement HATEOAS. Conceptually, HATEOAS is fantastic. Practically, it often stumbles. As an example, 90+% of the web APIs I've designed and worked with are heavily used by mobile clients, wh

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