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Thanks for creating it! As for me it was certainly the "people don't have confidence in their success rate". Also was always a bit afraid of recruiter spam.

Here's the link of this month's edition, if anyone wants to give it a go (I finally did!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325923

I'm an iOS developer with close to ten years experience building apps, some of which have multiple million downloads and are used daily by hundreds of thousands of people. I've worked for large corporations such as BMW and Daimler (Mercedes Benz) as well as digital agencies and early startups. Recently, I was head of product for a sales enablement startup and worked on user interface, architecture and mobile strategy.

I also love designing things and spend a lot of time thinking about UX. Some ideas I posted up:

App Switcher for iOS: https://twitter.com/marcedwards/status/422287961778970624

Convert a screenshot to a PSD: https://github.com/vpdn/MMLayershots

Clickwheel for iOS: https://dribbble.com/shots/1814927-Click-Wheel-iOS

I’ve been working on mobile apps since the dark days of j2me: When SMS were still expensive, a friend and myself developed and sold a mobile app, that would allow people to squash up to 400 characters into a single SMS, instead of the usual 160 characters.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

I'm looking for a company that welcomes remote work and has a mission I can relate to (latter is really important to me, the best ideas come in the shower). Companies that I admire from the outside include Stripe, Plangrid and YNAB. If you're also a fan, I think I'd fit right in.

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Location: 🇩🇪Offenburg, Germany

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Unlikely (my wife also has a career and we both love the Black Forrest )

Technologies: iOS

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5d5znls0jq71rdl/resume.pdf?dl=1 Email: vp at dinhmail·de

Tags for the CMD+F folks: [iOS, Swift, Objective-C, mobile, product, designer, UI, UX]

Generally companies do not decide against a product due to the price tag. There's always another, stronger reason.

As far as I can tell, you need to have a degree.

"Who can apply for the EU Blue Card: ...he or she has a German or an accredited foreign or a university degree that is comparable to a German one"

http://www.bluecard-eu.de/eu-blue-card-germany/

http://www.apply.eu/BlueCard/

Fyi, on iOS you can also just press the power button to snooze.

I am thinking of renting a larger flat that can fit 10-12 people for the weekend. Anyone interested in sharing the flat with me?

We could also run small sessions with flatmates presenting a topic or whatever they're currently working on.

Awesome hack! If anyone wants try it out and play around, here's a demo project: https://github.com/vpdn/SilentPhotoCaptureDemo

Thanks! I think I screwed up the source_files regex in the Podfile. Have pushed a new pull request to the Cocoapods repo, hopefully will be fixed soon.

Update: There's a transitioning period currently ongoing at Cocoapods (migration to Cocoapods Trunk). For now please use the updated podspec in the github repo directly:

pod 'MMLayershots', :podspec => 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vpdn/MMLayershots/master/M...

It's still early work in progress and I've only tested with a few apps so far. Also test coverage could certainly be better. If you find any issues, feel free to ping me up (@vpdn).

And one of the reasons why I built the library in the first place. Thanks Koen for Framer.js, it's awesome!

The cards are already showing stale information, including Apple's own apps: http://d.pr/v/NuY5. As for background updates, there are some ways around through iOS7 background modes, but the situation could certainly be improved. I agree there should be an Apple provided "AppSwitcher Kit" framework.

Adam Bell (@b3ll) just hacked together a working, interactive prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub3OuEREu2c

Wish more companies are like that. Scott Berkun maintains a list of companies with distributed teams, if anyone looks for a new job :-)

http://scottberkun.com/2013/how-many-companies-are-100-distr...

The integrated iPhone camera app even tells you about the objects within the picture.

"I simply gawped when one blind woman pulled out an iPhone then snapped a perfect shot, guided by the built-in Camera app [..] One face. Small face. Face near right edge. Autofocussed."

http://svan.ca/blog/2012/blind/

You should add the intend of the g+ community somewhere. Also I wouldn't name it "The Official Hacker Community" unless it's started by pg.

Found a good interview with the founders: http://outsourcedvideomarketing.com/fiplab/

To put another data point out there: I recently released a little kids puzzle game[1]. I payed a friend to help out with the coding, contracted out illustrations and purchased the sounds from stock sound services. I've put in around 10k$ to develop the app and it's generating around 2$/day. It will take me roughly 13-14years to break even :)

However I also see the app as a advertising for my consultation business and plan to use it to cross promote my next kids app[2], so it's hard to figure out the real cost/benefit structure.

[1] Animal Puzzle - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kids-animal-puzzle/id54051213...

[2] ToddlerTube - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4504690

"Having a budget to spend tens of thousands EACH DAY on generating downloads" implies that you are probably generating more than that from your apps.

Do you have tips on each of the mentioned points? Details would be very interesting. Also how do you evaluate app ideas for example to come to apps like "Ghost for G+", the "Menu Tab" series and "Ask A Girl"?

Selling the car and cashing in 401K is generating cash flow. The hardware they bought would be around 8k-10k$ expenses (4k-5k$ per person). I don't consider this as a lot. Or is your point that they should have put that money into marketing instead?

The unique identifier was really just the technically simplest way to do it. I might eventually deduplicate the data and aggregate profiles with identical settings into a "canonical profile" if I can find the time.

"Mocava has done a decent job of streamlining the setup and installation."

Thanks :) Usability wise, the hardest part was to explain that you have to install a profile to deactivate an existing profile. Also people associated the word "profile" with a facebook profile and thought it contains their personal data like name & address. To prevent confusion, the page I removed (almost) all instances of the word profile from the page.

rada got it right, that's exactly how it works. It installs a configuration profile with restrictions on when you want to lock the device and a configuration profile without restrictions (an empty restrictions set) when you want to unlock the device.

That would be awesome of course, thanks!

Didn't know about the group, thanks for the pointer.

Seems like the group is invite only (my signup is pending for approval). If you have a minute, would be great if you could help me post the link there, otherwise I'll wait for the approval and do it later.

good points, thanks for the feedback! I'll look into how I can reword the text to make it clearer.

For github, I would add advertising as a source of revenue. From looking at the september data, github jobs seems to add around $1.2m per year to the bottom line.

"The kind of typography I’m talking about is not your typical “What font should I use” typography but rather your “knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash” typography."

Is there a good solution to the first problem? I constantly find myself confronted with the problem which font I should use. Is there maybe a service that suggests fonts based on a visual design? Or even based on the 'purpose' of a site?

There seems to be currently two entries of the same story on the main page (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4504246).

In case someone here has kids and would be interested: I'm creating ToddlerTube, a YouTube iPad app for young kids.

If you have a few minutes, would be awesome if you could help fill out this three question survey: http://goo.gl/nYIGD

(Link to the other post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4504690)

They might have just set the priority differently, given the time and resource constraints.

I started building ToddlerTube, a YouTube iPad app for kids. The first minimal version is almost finished.

Is anyone with kids maybe interested in helping beta testing it? Some more info in the google docs form: http://goo.gl/nYIGD

Background: We have an iPad first gen and an iPad3 at home. My young nephew would always ask for the older iPad and for a long time, I didn't understand why. After looking over his shoulder for a few days, I came to realize that he loved to watch certain clips on YouTube (other kids singing his kindergarten songs, Mr. Bean, kitten videos).

Since he cannot type, his search strategy works as follows:

1. Start up the youtube app

2. Go to History (recently watched videos)

3. Piggyback on the app's history feature to watch existing videos and find new related videos.

Since the history of "his videos" were only available on the old iPad1, it makes sense that he would insist on using this device only.

YouTube channels were cumbersome to create and maintain. The user experience was so bad and my nephew so insistent, that I believe there is a problem here to be fixed.