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Hilarity from the comments: I wish I could upvote twice: once for the inverted-cancelling hack, and once for answering your own question, just to counteract anyone daft enough to downvote you for that. – Daniel Earwicker 1 hour ago

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i think that was aimed at me. i said in a now deleted comment:

> Wow! Even though I know it's allowed, some coolness points deducted for posting the question yourself :-). I'd definitely do the same though. I'd be stopping random people in the street telling them the hack!

i know posting and answering your own questions is encouraged on SO, it was just a joke!

It looks like he posted it AND answered it at the same time though, which is really weird.

There's a checkbox at the bottom of the "Ask" screen that lets you write your answer before posting the question. Makes it easier to document a piece of knowledge if you don't have a blog to post it on.

http://stackoverflow.com/help/self-answer

Especially weird considering the hack is totally unnecessary. You can take a picture without making a shutter sound using AVFoundation.

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