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by stevenp 12y ago
My experience has been that finding mobile developers in general is extremely difficult, primarily because there are so many opportunities for mobile developers to make a ton of money freelancing that they don't necessarily feel the de
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by stevenp 12y ago
PaintCode 2 supports direct import of PSDs and adds a ton of additional features as well, like the ability to use variables and expressions to drive attributes of shapes.
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by stevenp 12y ago
If anything, this story calls out the sensationalism of a tech press that just sucks up anything it can find and runs with it as a story. We've seen unsubstantiated "reporting" of Apple rumors like this for years, and these s
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by stevenp 12y ago
It's the same concept as having footnotes in printed books. Adding lots of commentary in the middle of a document breaks the flow of the text. On RG, you can read the text intact in its original form if the annotations don't inter
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by stevenp 12y ago
Ah, this is one of the problems with isolated ecosystems, I guess. Until Apple opens up AirPlay (never), I'm stuck with whatever they give me. :/
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by stevenp 12y ago
For me, AirPlay is the killer Apple TV feature. Any time a new app comes out for iOS that supports streaming video, I know I'm going to be able to play it on my television. The local content provider apps on the device don't reall
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What It's Really Like to Work at Rap Genius(ste.vn)
7 points by stevenp 13y ago|0 comments
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by stevenp 13y ago
Now I'm paranoid that I might be a weirdo for holding my phone primarily in my left hand even though I'm right-handed. Am I alone in that? I think the reason I do it is because text and navigation are generally left-to-right, so h
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by stevenp 13y ago
This is true, and Foursquare does use Background Refresh, but I don't believe that encompasses background location updates, so changing the setting to disable them in Foursquare is still necessary.
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by stevenp 13y ago
Where?
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by stevenp 13y ago
Seriously? It's not trying too hard at all. If there's a job you really want and you're really passionate about getting it no matter what, you should do anything in your power to try to get it. If you fail, you can at least s
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by stevenp 13y ago
Aww, thank you. That always makes me feel good to hear.
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by stevenp 13y ago
I've been employed as a software engineer since age 19, and I'm almost 33 now. I've worked for companies like MetLife, Tommy Hilfiger, Yahoo!, and IMVU, and my lack of a degree has never been an issue. It helps that I was alw
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by stevenp 13y ago
My mobile app, Routesy ( http://routesy.com ), falls into this category through a combination of sales of the paid version and advertising in the free version. It was one of the first 500 apps in the App Store when it launched in
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Key-Value Observing Considered Harmful(khanlou.com)
9 points by stevenp 13y ago|7 comments
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by stevenp 13y ago
I'm red-green colorblind and the dots are extremely hard to see (at least for me). Any chance you might change them to be further apart in color, or use different colors? Blue and red, for instance, would not cause the same issue for m
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by stevenp 13y ago
I will happily sell my apps for the price listed. Who should I contact for my check? :)
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by stevenp 13y ago
I had the extreme honor of seeing former Marketplace host Tess Vigeland give this speech at the World Domination Summit in Portland earlier this month. Although reading it isn't the same as hearing it spoken by her famous golden voice,
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Tess Vigeland: What the Hell are You Doing?(medium.com)
3 points by stevenp 13y ago|2 comments
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by stevenp 13y ago
Developers get 70%, and Apple gets 30%, not the other way around. The sum paid to developers is substantially larger than the sum paid to Apple.
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by stevenp 13y ago
The pagination is dead in Safari and Chrome when looking through the company list, so I'm unable to browse the companies. Changing the number of results per page doesn't do anything either, and the "page" dropdown is empty.
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by stevenp 13y ago
That's an awesome domain name! Did you acquire it for this project, or did you already have it?
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by stevenp 13y ago
We've got two dogs at turntable.fm: my chihuahua, Miss Cleo, and a corgi puppy named Newton. Having them around is probably one of the best things about working in our office. They're both well-behaved (although Miss Cleo does bark at the f
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by stevenp 13y ago
I guess he took my advice. :)
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by stevenp 13y ago
At my current job at turntable.fm, we only have standups twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday), and I honestly was surprised at how effective that is. I've always operated under the assumption that a standup needs to happen daily to be valuab
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by stevenp 13y ago
This is really cool, and the info is super-useful. However, your SEO links at the bottom of the page make your site look unnecessarily spammy, especially because the color and font size makes it look like you're trying to hide the links, li
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by stevenp 14y ago
You honestly don't believe that, if the allegations are true, Heroku has done something wrong?
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by stevenp 14y ago
Agreed. This article is completely useless.
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by stevenp 14y ago
For me, not being able to try the library in my app is a deal-breaker. I'm not willing to shell out $199 on faith alone.
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by stevenp 14y ago
The concept is interesting, although OkCupid actually launched this service in 2007 and it never really caught on. I'm guessing that they're betting mobile will change things significantly. What I really don't understand is why the design i

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