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christo16on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)

Apple | SWE | ONSITE | Cupertino, CA & San Diego, CA (US) | Full-time

Looking for mid to senior level engineers with Apple platform experience (Objective-C/Swift/C) and either networking and/or WiFi experience. Please reach out directly using: WiFi_Experience_Careers [AT] group.apple.com

San Diego: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200573152/software-deve...

Cupertino: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200606006/software-deve...

christo16on Redis Geo

I'm also curious in this if anyone has an answer.

christo16on Tiny Piano sales quadruple due to Apple commercial

I read this title much more literally, I thought they had seen an uptick in physical tiny piano sales (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/Schroeder_Pian...)

christo16on Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball through two houses

Here is an official statement from the city http://www.dublin.ca.gov/civicalerts.aspx?AID=351

christo16on Twilio Raises $17 Million Series C To Expand Abroad

It's a good service, but unless they bring prices way down, some big provider (Cough Amazon..) is going to come in and eat their lunch. Granted they probably wouldn't offer the level of detailed APIs that Twillio does.

We started using them for SMS sending but went with Nexmo at a fraction of the cost.

christo16on Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball through two houses

This is crazy, happened only a couple miles away from my house...

christo16on Chameleon - UIKit for Mac development

Definitely a cool, will make porting iOS apps easier. However, a lot of the ideas in UIKit are meant for a touchscreen and wont translate well.

christo16on What to do After Making a Billion dollars

Two chicks at the same time

christo16on Move Over Apple, My Tablet Cost $200

I think you mean sarcasm detector

christo16on Apple has not made any significant donations to charity since 1997

SJ believes that his job is to make shareholders rich and by doing so, gives them the means to be charitable. I would tend to agree with him.

christo16on ShowHN: an easy way to track your packages

I suspect the delivery companies know this information internally, but don't want you to freak out if your package says it will arrive at 10am but doesn't come till 2pm because of traffic or the truck breaking down.

christo16on Apple: if we get you subscribers, we deserve a cut

It's more than just providing a subscriber base, it's the infastructure to process recurring payments, while making it stupid simple for the customer. Whether this is worth 30% is debatable, as some of us know it's not trivial/cheap to do on your own.

christo16on Plupload - A beautiful file uploader powered by jQuery

Ugh flash...pass

christo16on Ask HN: Great Book for learning PHP?

I learned PHP from this book:

Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes (http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Teach-Yourself-PHP-Minutes/dp/067...)

christo16on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from just 1 app?

I've played stick golf it's great! Keep up the good work.

christo16on Show HN: Instant Search for iPad

I can't wait till this instant search fad is over...

christo16on Has an iPhone/Android app "saved" a Start-Up?

Pandora- http://www.businessinsider.com/pandora-was-saved-by-the-ipho...

christo16on Ask HN: What code editor do you use?

Xcode, only tool available for iPhone/iPad dev

christo16on What software to use for support/new development?

Lighthouse app: http://lighthouseapp.com/

christo16on Hacker News Offline Reader for the iPhone / iPod touch

"wget" is not installed on a iPhone. You would use something like NSURLRequest/NSURLConnection.