Aqua_Geek

Seriously. Miserable load times in iTunes, not being able to use the same Apple ID to access different teams in iTunes Connect, lack of an API to the dev portal, lack of OAuth support, laughable reporting in iTunes connect, cryptic sync errors with iCloud. The list goes on and on.

>> Apple has proven over and over again that they're utter crap at online services.

> Yes. They only have the most successful online app and music store service on the planet.

> And one of the biggest backup online service (iCloud) too.

> Oh, and the most popular online computer shop.

> Utter crap indeed.

I really don't understand this argument. The quality of the code powering something is completely orthogonal to the amount of money said thing can generate. As long as the transaction goes through, money can be made. That doesn't mean that behind the scenes it's not a complete disaster.

Seriously. I usually end up grabbing my iPhone and doing a search there instead of via the web interface. So, so bad.

Or they would actually be able to do something in the first term instead of worrying about/working toward re-election.

I have an iPhone app in the store (been there for a while) and it has yet to run into approval issues. FWIW, I don't allow sign-ups from within the app (or direct users to their website to sign up) - I expect users to already have an account.

My skill set consists mainly of lots of iOS (worked on over 2 dozen apps in the store, including major brands), Mac development, Ruby + Rails (more experience in the backend side of things than the HTML/CSS/JS portion), but I've dabbled in a lot of things over the years.

> especially in SV and similar locations, where it is a seller's market

I keep hearing this, but it's not at all what I experienced last time I went on a job hunt.

It looks like they're shipping orders up to Oct 2012 now: https://forums.butterflylabs.com/blogs/bfl_jody/

Or am I reading that wrong?

Verisign still verifies - at least to some extent. Last time I got a cert I had to take my business registration stuff to a notary and get them to notarize a statement to the effect that I am who I say I am, etc.

> just run it on the same machine

Sometimes you don't have that option (e.g. Heroku).

Although they'd take a lot of flack for it, Apple and Google should really be more liberal with the ban hammer. If it can be proved that you're doing stupid things like this, your dev account should be revoked.

I have 7GB of data sitting in one of their Postgres instances right now. It only takes a couple minutes to backup and restore to a new db, so I guess it depends on how you'd define "prohibitively long."

> Sometimes I think the thought just "is" as an abstract concept language-less concept. Sort-of like a geometric shape isn't German or English.

I've found that learning another language becomes incredibly easier if you can get to that point - linking words in the new language to the idea of the thing itself instead of the word for the thing in your mother tongue.

> Mixpanel's are the most up-to-date and their numbers mirror Apple's.

I just noticed this at the bottom of Mixpanel's graph:

   THIS REPORT WAS GENERATED FROM 79,977,999,480 RECORDS.

That's quite the large dataset – 80B records!

Depends on what you mean by "integration." Google Maps is now a standalone app available (from Google) in the App Store, but it does have quite a different interface from Maps on iOS 5.

Doesn't Heroku already have a few of these? https://addons.heroku.com/#queues

Getting rich may not be the goal, but they're doing pretty well for themselves: they've paid out $10B to devs[1], so they've made ~$4.2B.

1. http://9to5mac.com/2013/06/10/tim-cook-talks-numbers-at-appl...

Thanks! MongoMapper is at the top of my list. Hard dependency on ActiveModel 3.

> Many of the gems/plugins which you might be using with your current application will not be compatible with Rails 3.

I'm genuinely curious what gems people are using that are not yet compatible with Rails 3, given that it was released almost three years ago. Maybe my use cases for Rails don't match the most common ones, but I have yet to run into this issue.

For Rails 4, well, that's another matter =)

master is the GitHub pages branch for User and Organization pages.

You could also set the default branch in the project settings to gh_pages for other repos.

I've gotten a couple of interviews through the Who's Hiring threads. I've found that you tend to get a faster response from posts where the poster include an email address (for obvious reasons).

I've yet to get a job from those threads (if that's what you're asking), but I have met some awesome teams and my pool of contacts has significantly increased.

It loads environment variables from a .env file when starting your app so that you don't have to do

$ SECRET_TOKEN=abcdef SOME_OTHER_VAR=hello rails s

or pollute your .profile with a bunch of app-specific variables.

You don't need it to do it; it just makes it easier.

Related: Here is the source code to the first web browser: http://browsers.evolt.org/?dir=archive/worldwideweb/NeXT

Really interesting to read, particularly if you understand Obj-C.

According to Zach Holman, it's four legs and a tail: https://speakerdeck.com/holman/git-and-github-secrets?slide=...

> And Storyboards are certainly in principle a cool idea, but I've never seen a production app that has actually used them

Fly Delta app uses them all over the place (first-hand experience) - they're fantastic for static cell table views. Admittedly, merging them can be a HUGE pain, though.

> As far as I know, Apple aren't dog-fooding them in their own apps either.

From what I've heard from an Apple engineer, Apple doesn't dog-food a lot of this stuff because the tools either don't exist yet by the time they need to ship or aren't stable. A lot (most?) of their apps end up being done programatically.

Wow – the application is almost a verbatim copy of the YC app. Glad to see other opportunities, though.

True, but it's in-memory only (there was no persistence with ZeroMQ in the given setup).

It's a Unicode character (U+1F680).

TestFlight gets your UUID by having you enroll your device in their MDM system. Support for this will likely never go away.

Looks more like Pivotal Workstation: https://github.com/pivotal/pivotal_workstation