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hiraki9on How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong

I mean, the same thing happened to Howard Stern when he signed with Sirius XM, right?

hiraki9on Launch HN: Scaphold.io (YC W17) – GraphQL Backend as a Service

How did you find your first customers, and how did you get them to trust you enough to build their apps on your infrastructure?

hiraki9on Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?

Technical debt won't necessarily kill a project, but over time it will reduce the speed at which you iterate and ship software. That loss of speed does kill companies, young and old.

hiraki9on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2016)

SEEKING WORK Location: Nomad; Remote/Travel OK

I’m an MIT alum and contract iOS engineer, and I’ve been helping companies develop iOS apps for 4+ years. I love new product development and specialize in working with fresh ideas and incomplete specifications. I’ve also worked with a number of established companies on existing products: Disney Interactive, FiftyThree, Sanebox and Lexicon Branding for example.

I’ve had my work featured in the App Store numerous times and written up in publications such as Wired, CNet, Fast Company, and The Verge.

I’d be happy to talk about potentially working together. Feel free to send me an email at vf@alum.mit.edu.

hiraki9on WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

Blog post: http://blog.lexiconbranding.com/2015/05/12/our-first-iphone-...

hiraki9on China collecting Apple iCloud data

Does this only occur when the user logs into iCloud using the web, or does it happen on the device as well?

Does anyone know if iOS uses certificate pinning when connecting to iCloud services, and if so if that is sufficient to prevent against this type of attack?

hiraki9on Ask HN: What is HN reading?

Currently reading: The Humans, by Matt Haig.

Funny, insightful, perceptive. It's a really great book.

hiraki9on Port of SGI ElectroPaint screensaver made via decompilation

The original source code for Electropaint was released a few years ago: http://freeweb.siol.net/matevzb2/igl.html

hiraki9on Fish oils don't slow mental decline

Full Text: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/43533989_Beneficial_...

hiraki9on Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

I just downloaded the app, and the designer made excellent design choices. There's an elegant balance of playfulness and utility, tasteful color scheme and font choices and a healthy amount of animated sizzle. Well done!

hiraki9on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2012)

SEEKING WORK - San Francisco, CA or Remote

Hi there. I'm an experienced freelance software engineer focused on web and mobile. I love building kick-ass products that make a positive difference in people's lives. I've done projects from big clients like Disney Interactive and small startups and R&D labs. It's all good with me.

iOS & Django projects preferred.

Portfolio: http://vfleurima.com

Last Project: http://fabboard.com [Backbone.js heavy]

E-mail: vf@alum.mit.edu

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/vfleurima

P.S. I have a car and can commute throughout the Bay Area if you need me too.

hiraki9on Codify: native coding environment for iPad

Apple relaxed their restrictions 5 months after announcing them: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/09/09/app-store-statem...

hiraki9on TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API

That was very, very well done.

How did they do video compositing on top of an embedded browser window in Flash?

Perhaps they pre-rendered the webpages server-side using WebKit or some such and sent a screenshot to Flash....

hiraki9on A better introduction to Objective-C

This is incorrect:

  - (void) dealloc
  {
    self.caption = nil;
    self.photographer = nil;
    [super dealloc];
  }

Using the dot syntax will invoke a setter whose implementation might change if the class is subclassed, which can be the cause of subtle errors. Also, if you're using KVO (Key-Value Observing), invoking the setter might notify observers who then try to work with a (partially) deallocated object.

This is standard:

  - (void) dealloc
  {
    [caption release];
    [photographer release];
    [super dealloc];
  }

hiraki9on BackType (YC S08) is hiring product designers, engineers and interns

The job descriptions are wonderfully enticing and precise. It's like the writer peered straight into my geeky soul.

hiraki9on Buzz Kill

If you try to use social media as a traditional advertising platform, of course nobody's going to notice.

Leo used Google Buzz, Twitter, etc. to broadcast content instead of cultivating conversation & community. If he was using these tools for two-way interaction instead of one-way communication, he would've gotten a lot more complaints when he went offline.

hiraki9on Disney About To Acquire Playdom

Social gaming is fundamentally about your relationships with your friends, not about your relationship with a main character or avatar.