Tiny correction since I see this mistake often (and I was making it myself in the past): the symbole for Apple is AAPL, not APPL. Not intuitive like Apple is supposed to be, huh? :)
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My first task was to add a dismiss button on a Javascript popup. I thought the task would be easy, but each page actually has dozens of files of code fitting together to make a page work– style sheets, controllers, distributed all around the code base. (…) Instead of being off-put by how long it took, or being overly sympathetic, he just said, “Yup. That’s what development is. It’s very frustrating until it works.”
I'm currently in a similar situation, working on a project with a guy who uses libraries and frameworks I know very little about and it honestly frustrates me. I've had other things to do on the project so far, so I've postponed digging into it.
But it makes me wonder if that's how things should be. Often you're fine once you're beyond the breaking waves of setting up your environment and getting a grasp on the codebase, but before that, it can be very frustrating… especially, when you want to implement something, that you theoretically know exactly what you want and what you need, and you get slowed down by some problem with library incompatibilities or what not.
Besides the all-domain permissions which you might want to constrain a bit, I'd also remove the button which doesn't do anything. Chrome lets me hide it, but you could make me forego that step too.
I only recently jailbroke my iPhone because I wanted to change some APN settings after switching to an MVNO (StraightTalk), but hadn't really installed anything besides Zeppelin, to remove the carrier name. I had the same "tackiness" sticker in my mind about Cydia. A lot of stuff seems to be tacky though, and the store itself feels very cheap as well.
Were they bought out or something? That page doesn't seem to indicate so.
This was also the one thing I was missing from the post. I did try '/' as well.
For a lot of apps, it could mean doing nothing at all, since the typical app has a navigation bar at the top, which won't change, a list view which will just stretch longer and show more cells, and a tab navigation at the bottom, which won't change either.
Of course, this won't work for all apps, but at least it will work for many, whereas going for 720p, will make pretty much nothing work out of the box.
It's really too bad when great software gets tangled with a service. What I mean is that I'd ideally like to use Skitch with whatever online storage I want.
Tiny nitpick: this is more an iPhone 4 than a 4S: the black notch on the top frame is not present with the 4S. (they have one notch at the top of each side) Though to be perfectly accurate, you'll also need two notches at the bottom (one on each side) of the frame as well. ;-)
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This is no different but reversed in "favor" of the candidate.
"I'm sorry but I don't think it's worth both of our times to continue. I just don't think I'd be a good fit here. It's nothing wrong with you or me, it's just that we don't have the same vision on some things. I really appreciate the opportunity, etc."
If the guy had three hours of interviews already and 3-4 more in the afternoon were planned, plus a lunch, I don't see the problem. It's very easy to end up doing interviews and realizing that the position is not what you had in mind: maybe there's more travel, less hands-on, you'd be working by yourself on the project, etc. You can often easily tell that's not what you're looking for.
Of course, I wouldn't leave in the middle of an hour-long interview and I wouldn't give the impression that I'm rushing out either.
In more details: not having a parking barrier means you can just drive in the lot without stopping your car, opening your window, scanning your badge, putting your badge away, starting your car again just to stop just after in a spot. I don't know where Yahoo! HQs are but I'm guessing they are little use to check who is parking on their lot. So what does that change for employees? It removes one useless step in your morning routine.
Turnstiles are similar. Turnstiles are a bit uncomfortable and unnatural. If you can remove them, it just simpler. I doubt they just let anyone in, but you can put a couple of security people, a badge scanner and you're good to go. I know Facebook has something where you just badge and walks through without having to push a hard metal bar with your leg, hoping it won't catch your gym bag.
I'm skipping the steps because you stopped too far from the scanner
However, more often than not with games, IAP is used for expendables and more often than not, the gameplay now revolves around making you buy things, rather than the game itself. You have artificial scarcity on some things, not to make the game more interesting/difficult/rewarding but to make more money for the game author.
Don't get me wrong: I'm totally for developers and studios making money, but not when it skews the gameplay.
That being said, the revenues discussed in this post are crazy.
On a side-note, I wish the App Store allowed to filter out by apps that have or not IAP. I really don't mind paying for apps and games but sometimes there will be a cool free game available. Nowadays most games are free but with many IAP. If I see a high-ranked free game I tend to turn around when I see it has IAP because I know the gameplay will be around buying more stuff.
On a second side-note, I wouldn't mind the fall of Angry Birds. IMO, the game has received a disproportionate amount of success and the merchandising all over the place has been ridiculous (e.g. a "Angry Birds" Roku box? That makes no sense). The game is ok but not very original or entertaining (again, IMO) but the milking of the brand has been the worst part of it.
There are ways to do it with apps for jailbroken iOS devices, though you're likely to get a lesser quality. You might want to have a look at this one for example, made by a former colleague: http://www.plutinosoft.com/idemo
But thanks to things like Pusher, you don't need that!
I was just picturing the request going to Twilio and then pinging the Sinatra app on the Arduino directly… But Pusher and the like really help so much to put things "online", albeit indirectly. But between a free Pusher app and a free Heroku app, it's easy to get going without worrying of your home router configuration or anything anything like that.
(somehow, it now says "this video does not exist" right now)
As in automatically removing them from posts? That would be very stupid because some people use their Google Voice number exclusively, and it shouldn't be up to them to decide how I should be contacted.
Law enforcement wants info on a phone number -> it goes to Twilio -> Twilio links this number at that time to Burner -> Burner links this number at that time to a user account. At this point, I'm not sure how they can link it to a real person. I'm guessing the credits are from in-app purchases, which means Burner itself might not have any real personal info on you and the buck then passes to Apple.
That means three different privacy policies involved and most likely a pretty long delay.
It's actually a good idea. I'll think about doing that…