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fictorial

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Just another full-stack developer.

http://fictorial.com

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fictorial··on Introducing Twine: String Management for iOS, Mac OS X, and Android Development
> ibtool does not do merging

Upon receipt of an updated .strings file for a localization, run

  ibtool --strings-file updated.strings xx.lproj/existing.xib --write xx.lproj/existing.xib
which will preserve any layout changes made to

  xx.lproj/existing.xib
It is working out fine for a client app called Chumkee which has about a dozen localizations.
fictorial··on How I've Made $200k in the iOS Education Market
Your time is not free is it?
fictorial··on Vim is hard, I just want to click around
I've personally been thrilled with LustyExplorer

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890

fictorial··on The future Firefox UI
How is name-calling useful to anything here?
fictorial··on Terence Tao's General Exam
The part about Wolfram.
fictorial··on The Problem with the iPhone's Home Button
I haven't experienced that but the lock button on my iPhone 4 did break. Now the phone cannot be locked manually. I have set the auto-lock timeout to be 1 minute however.
fictorial··on The Problem with the iPhone's Home Button
I would like a different SpringBoard in which there's just a single vertical scrolling list of icons with the app name to the right instead of the current horizontal pages and app groups. This list could be sorted by last-used-date or alphabetically. Hit the home screen once to go to this list.
fictorial··on Webdoc: This Changes Everything, Just Like Apple Did
I don't see anything remotely Apple-esque here.
fictorial··on Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation
Mind if I ask what the specs are for those servers?
fictorial··on GameSalad: Free HTML5/iOS game creator for Mac
... in Basic
fictorial··on 10,795 iOS apps submitted, 3,123 schemes, 98 contributors, * and other odd CURLs
"There are 7 different apps that respond to “fb259197467584”"

From [1] we know this is a Facebook app with appID 259197467584. From [2] we know that the app is something called AppMakr which from [3] looks like some sort of crappy iOS app generator.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk

[2] https://graph.facebook.com/259197467584

[3] http://www.appmakr.com/

fictorial··on Elixir v0.3 released: Method dispatching and charming syntax for the Erlang VM
> 2011-01-09 First commit.

Wow, that's a lot of effort in a small amount of time. Nice work!

fictorial··on Pusher Raises $1M From Heroku Founders And More To Bring Realtime Tech To Apps
To be fair, "more than enough" depends on the problem being addressed. It's trivial to have tens of thousands of concurrent connections on a $20/month VPS. You get 100 concurrent connections on PusherApp for $20/month. That's a huge difference. Sure, it just works and you do no administration, etc. PusherApp seems like a convenience service for startups with money to burn.
fictorial··on Pusher Raises $1M From Heroku Founders And More To Bring Realtime Tech To Apps
Pusher seems very expensive for the number of connections supported per tier.
fictorial··on Django on Heroku running with Celery
Only http traffic is routed to your web processes so a different protocol (I don't know, IRC) won't be routable to one of your deployed processes, correct?

Also, how much RAM can a process use? What happens if I run Redis and fill it up with "a lot" of data?

fictorial··on VimAck: A port of TextMate's Find-in-Project feature for MacVim.app
Nice work. I am using lusty juggler's buffer grep right now for something similar.
fictorial··on DotCloud acquires Duostack, rolls out MongoDB support
Email is in my profile as well; thanks.
fictorial··on Top Programming Fonts
I am a big fan of the M+ fonts [1], especially "M+ 1mn" at 24pt. Here's a screenshot of iTerm2 on Mac OS X: http://i.imgur.com/PjfOY.png

[1] http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/index-...

fictorial··on DotCloud acquires Duostack, rolls out MongoDB support
Sounds familiar! :)

"shykes 152 days ago

Expect a pricing page very soon."

Seriously, when are you going to post the pricing details?

I hope it is something very straightforward such as $0.04/process-hour.

fictorial··on Scale Fail (part 1)
Etsy's statsd and Graphite. http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-meas...
fictorial··on Mongrel2 v1.6 Released
Care to elaborate? :)
fictorial··on Mongrel2 v1.6 Released
TNetStrings seems quite similar to Bencode less the size prefix.

http://tnetstrings.org

http://enwp.org/Bencode

(sample implementation) https://github.com/bittorrent/bencode/blob/master/bencode/__...

fictorial··on App Store Experiments Gone Wild
This is hardly wild in concept.
fictorial··on The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
"I don't think most hunger-gatherers farmed until they had to..."

Is there a term that describes a typo like this, wherein a word relevant to the context is used instead of the "correct" word for the sentence?

fictorial··on [dead]
This makes me very sad.
fictorial··on Pixel Perfect map of china
This is mind-blowing. How was this created? The detail is incredible: http://i.imgur.com/gmsu4.png
fictorial··on Paul Graham says there’s no bubble. Ha
> Carlyle and other buyout firms are swallowing up VC firms like a toothless prostitute.

stay classy

fictorial··on Is Node.Js Becoming A Part Of The Stack? SimpleGeo Says Yes.
> For example, the naming conventions for methods are camel-case instead of of the python standard “lowercase with underscores.”

This has to be a joke right? Style preferences gone wild!

fictorial··on Jshon: A command line program to parse, read and create JSON
> In Aurphan there is an alarming bit of awk:

Senator, I know awk, and that is not an alarming bit of awk.

fictorial··on Game Closure Makes it a Breeze to Build Multiplayer, Cross-Platform Games
Wow, this sounds very similar to an idea I started working on last year (http://playrelay.io) right before my daughter was born. Someday I will get back to it. Good luck!
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