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tialys

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http://davelyon.net/

email dave at davelyon dot net

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tialys··on Ask HN: How do you have fun?
For me, I had to find some things where you can enjoy it alone, but also find a community and sometimes be social: Roller skating, Pinball tournaments, board games (and board game bars). Pinball especially has been great for me, as it has a near unlimited skill ceiling, but is also fun and interesting even when playing poorly.

To find community, check out Instagram for local people in your hobby, and follow the trail of suggestions to the big local “community” accounts. E.g. my metro has 2-3 big roller skating community-run accounts that announce all of the events.

I personally found that making time for a “hobby” that was also athletic was a huge mood stabilizer and positively impacted the rest of my life as well. Highly recommend!

tialys··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2020)
SEEKING WORK

Technologies: Swift, Obj-C, iOS, React, React Native, Javascript, Gatsby, Ruby, Rails

Location: Arizona / MST

Remote: Yes

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveisonthego/ -- https://iosdev.recipes/

Email: hire@davelyon.net

Can help in particular with:

• iOS app architecture, build process/CI, etc.

• Rapid mobile app prototyping (native iOS or React Native)

• Custom internal tooling and web apps

• Helping teams transitioning to/from React Native

tialys··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?
Looking for remote contract work, and can help in particular with:

• iOS app architecture, build process/CI, etc.

• Rapid mobile app prototyping (native iOS or React Native)

• Custom internal tooling and web apps

• Helping teams transitioning to React Native

Location: Arizona / MST

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Swift, Obj-C, iOS, React, React Native, Javascript, Gatsby, Ruby, Rails

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveisonthego/ -- https://iosdev.recipes/

Email: hire@davelyon.net

tialys··on The State of Apple's Developer Documentation
The state of the docs is what got me to dump all of the links I'd been collecting to useful, but hard to find docs in to a small website -- https://www.iosdev.recipes/

Some things are incredibly useful and well organized, but completely blocked from indexing, like the documentation for xcconfig files: https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/dev745c5c974

Apple has been doing a great job in some aspects at documenting more and updating things gradually, but at the same time, has been hiding more and more of the "old" docs and it's a shame since many of them are still correct, relevant and useful.

tialys··on Ask HN: Great iOS / Swift Blogs?
I write reference-style articles on confusing/underused areas of iOS development, and maintain links to hard to find documentation over at https://www.iosdev.recipes
tialys··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2016)
SEEKING CONTRACT WORK

Location: Phoenix, AZ or REMOTE

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, Ruby, Rails, iPhone/iOS Development, Mobile Apps

Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveisonthego

Github: https://github.com/davelyon

Email: hire at davelyon.net

Website: davelyon.net

I’m a product-minded iOS and api backend developer looking for interesting teams to work with at any stage of development, from initial prototyping to late-stage maintenance.

Contract work only please.

tialys··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2016)
SEEKING WORK

Location: Phoenix, AZ or REMOTE

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, Ruby, Rails, iPhone/iOS

Development, Mobile Apps

Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveisonthego

Github: https://github.com/davelyon

Email: hire at davelyon.net

Website: davelyon.net

I’m a product-minded iOS and api backend developer looking for interesting teams to work with at any stage of development, from initial prototyping to late-stage maintenance.

I specialize in identifying and fixing hard-to-find bugs on iOS and have worked at previous companies to raise crash-free rates dramatically.

For iOS especially, I can help with: Core Data, multi-threading issues (GCD, NSOperationQueue), memory pressure and general performance issues.

tialys··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)
Cotap | San Francisco, CA |

Cotap is building mobile tools to help people communicate and collaborate at work. Deloitte, Box, Hyatt Hotels, and Philz Coffee are just a few companies that have experienced the benefits of mobile messaging in the workplace. Our passion is building great products and our goal is to reach everyone who works, regardless of what they do.

We're looking for all sorts of talented folks:

• iOS Engineer

• Backend Engineer

• Full-stack Web Engineer

• Android Engineer

• Quantitative Product Analyst

• Mobile UI Designer

More details on our jobs page: https://www.cotap.com/jobs/#job_listing_header

Questions? Get in touch directly https://cotap.me/jessica

tialys··on SQLite.swift: Swift framework wrapping SQLite3
Sorry, simply meant to say that it was excellent open source swift project.
tialys··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)
Chicago, IL

Hashrocket is looking to grow our Chicago office. We're specifically looking for experienced Ruby/Rails developers.

Want to get paid open source time and work with a small, dedicated group of developers? Email jobs+chicago at hashrocket.com. See our Github post for more detail: https://jobs.github.com/positions/2adac242-5cca-11e1-9778-92...

tialys··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (February 2012)
Chicago, IL and Jacksonville, FL

Hashrocket is hiring Ruby on Rails consultants for our offices in Chicago and Jacksonville. For more information, see: http://hashrocket.com/people/work-at-hashrocket/developer for more information.

ONSITE FULLTIME

tialys··on Faster TDD feedback with tmux, tslime.vim, and turbux.vim
Arguably the start of the big community push in that direction was Corey Haines' "Fast Rails Tests" talk, which is really just a clever way of presenting the separation of logic argument. See: http://arrrrcamp.be/videos/2011/corey-haines---fast-rails-te... (or google "fast rails tests corey haines" for other videos)
tialys··on Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for Steve Jobs?
When a member of the community, or a popular figure in the hacker community passes away, a black bar is put at the top of HN in memory of that person.
tialys··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)
Jacksonville, FL

Hashrocket is hiring a front end web developer. Familiarity with Rails is preferred. Really excellent benefits, and really awesome people to work with.

http://hashrocket.com/people/work-at-hashrocket/front-end-de...

tialys··on Ask HN: rate my idea - shared office finder
Similar idea: http://desksnear.me/
tialys··on Hello Backbone.js - A step-by-step tutorial
As someone who's just getting started with Backbone, I'd be very interested to see that talk, and here suggestions for what to do instead of 'this.model.view = this'.
tialys··on Awesome Posterous Phishing Attempt?
Seems legit... but I don't see anything on the blog so I think I'll wait until I see something there. It does seem very phishy to me.

dig custom.posterous.com

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;custom.posterous.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:

custom.posterous.com. 3600 IN A 184.106.20.102

tialys··on Kindle and Nook readers bash high e-book pricing with angry one-star reviews
I made a comment below about price changes and how it hurts the usefulness of such reviews, but I also wanted to add that what you mentioned is another example of where the system fails. A 1/5 or 4/5 review that contradicts itself with a single sentence 'this rocked/sucked' isn't useful. We should be forcing people to provide a real review, or not allowing them to do so at all.
tialys··on Kindle and Nook readers bash high e-book pricing with angry one-star reviews
What happens when the price changes then? Suppose it's on sale in a month for $1.99 and still is loaded up with 1-star reviews that say "SO OVERPRICED!" -- not very useful then is it? Ideally, I'd love to see a completely independent review source that has common 'tags' that are easily understood. Rather than complain about the price, just check a box that says you don't believe it was a good value at the price, so when someone looks for reviews, they see "Customers don't think this product is a good value at $14.99" (Which is relevant, and useful even if the price changes).
tialys··on Kindle and Nook readers bash high e-book pricing with angry one-star reviews
This is why I hate the 'star' review system. It very often leads to users trying to 'punish' the maker of the product, and creates an incorrect perception that the product itself is flawed. This might be a great book, but someone browsing through titles will only see that it has a 1-star rating and assume it sucks. I really think there'd be a lot of potential in some sort of hybrid review system that could weed out these sorts of garbage reviews.
tialys··on Ask HN: Programming Problems for Plane Rides
One of my professors has a large collection of previous ACM programming contest problems (with solutions) on his web site, along with problems from the contest he runs: http://math.nmu.edu/~apoe/
tialys··on Why I went with them and not you: feedback to an interviewer
Right or wrong, there is a sense that some people have that any place that mandates Windows usage to developers is the equivalent of "Initech" from the movie Office Space. At least, that's the feeling I get from similar discussions with my undergrad friends.
tialys··on I wanna work at Instagram
If you wouldn't say it to my face, don't say it here. Pretty simple concept. I'm sad to see your only contributions here have been negative comments, all but one of which were on this story. People on Hacker News don't discourage criticism, but do prefer that it is done politely, and with reason.
tialys··on First-ever images of the entire Sun
The point is, for the first time in human history, we can see by direct observation that the sun is in fact a sphere. It's not huge in the sense that "We were right!", but rather that wow... now we can actually see it!
tialys··on Power user replacements for OS X default apps
Gmail only (for the time being), but Sparrow has become my new mail app of choice.

http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/

tialys··on Show/Tell HN: My (New Year's) Resolution Is
-Get my first iPhone app published (So close right now!)

- Get my second iPhone app published

- Find a job before I graduate in April

- Maintain my website better, and try to blog interesting coding discoveries when I find them

- Improve my Javascript abilities

- Overall: Be 'Better' ( http://www.merlinmann.com/better )

tialys··on Google earth for the Sun
I worked on the web version as well as an upcoming iPhone version of this over the summer.

Check out: http://helioviewer.org/ for the web version, and http://helioviewer.org/wiki for info on other related projects.

tialys··on I always forget the argument order of the `ln -s` command
Someone once said to "What you have, then what you want" which made ALL of these easier to remember for me. In the case of strcat/cpy I think it still follows: I have an empty string 'target' and I'd like it to be 'source'.
tialys··on IBM Open Sources Multi-core Smalltalk VM
That was my reaction as well. I've been learning Smalltalk recently, and this seems like a really great addition to Squeak!
tialys··on Ask HN: Do CS students enjoy C anymore?
I carry around my copy of K&R like it's my bible. Learning C really opened up programming in general for me. I love it. Here at school though, we're never required to write pure C code. We learn C++ (as it's own class! Yuck.) and use it for data structures, but other than that it's not required anywhere either. It's all Java and Python, and most people here can't be bothered to learn a new language. I've probably got more to learn about C before I'm at the level of the people you hire, but if you think you might be hiring in May, I'll be graduating soon! ;)
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