jparishy

we should start a club

While this thread is on the front page, I wanted to chime and say I had a good experience with the folks at https://www.rpmhst.com

They do home sleep testing and will write a prescription for a PAP machine. The discount of buying one through them is also pretty good. I got a ResMed AirSense 10 and it's been very helpful and I'm grateful that I didn't have to go through an in-clinic sleep test and could just pay for this out of pocket with a fixed price. Not associated with them, just a fan. I found them through the r/SleepApnea subreddit which is a good place to discuss this sort of thing.

Almost, kinda related is this Invisbilia episode that's pretty interesting about a blind man that uses directed clicking in his mouth as a way of "seeing via echolocation". They talk about how it activates similar parts of the brain that vision does which I think is a cool parallel to what's been created here.

http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/378577902/how-to-bec...

RunSwiftLang.com's Swift interpreter component runs on OS X to make use of the native Foundation libraries. Not a huge app (Ruby/Sinatra) in of itself but fits the bill.

This is cool but I think it's misleading to say that Swift is a good option for starting a web backend project _today_, at least for anything that's not hobby work. The folks at Apple update the dev builds so frequently that in my experience it breaks things often enough that you'll spend 50% of your time updating your code for a new build or waiting for dependencies to update their code.

And just to be clear I think that's awesome. I love the work they're doing; it's just time consuming. I've been writing my own approach to a Swift MVC framework so this is something I'm experiencing firsthand:

Swerver: https://github.com/jparishy/swerver (example usage: https://github.com/jparishy/swerverorg - it's based on libuv and makes many choices for you a la Rails compared to the framework demoed in the OP)

and it has been way more time consuming that I would have expected going into it. And right now it doesn't build on Linux because the latest Apple build broke something in CryptoSwift, which Swerver depends on.

All that said, Swerver has been super fun to work on so. After a lot of the hard work had been done, the actual usage (as demoed in jparishy/swerverorg with user authentication, client-side session state, and the basic MVC/DB access stuff) has been really smooth and enjoyable. /shamelessplug

Seems strange to me that you cannot afford the "great options" if you're getting bigger clients! QuickBooks costs $10/mo, and the competitors like FreshBooks are in the same range (~$12/mo). I use QB and am quite happy with it; worth every penny to me :)

Pretty cool, fellow Julius!

Not entirely related but just reading this brought back a lot of memories of the PSP homebrew scene. I miss those days. Idolizing Dark_Alex was what got me into software.

##psp-programming represent!

SEEKING FREELANCER - Princeton, NJ. Local candidates only, with a liberal WFH policy

Hiya, I'm working on a project for a client that's looking to expand their product to Android. I'm currently building the iOS app and overseeing the development of the backend APIs & webapp. I'm looking for someone in the Princeton, NJ area that would be able to work on-site some of the time to sync up on the project at least 1-2 times a week.

The client-side is prelaunch so they don't have a web presence yet, but feel free to reach out to me with any questions. Looking to get started around July 1st. Thanks!

You can reach me at: hello@juliusparishy.com

There's an active subreddit for discussing Financial Independence (FI) that often links to MMM and recommends his blog to people interested in learning about the topic.

If you liked the article, you might find the community there interesting: http://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence

Pretty cool. Ever since going solo I've wondered why more development conferences aren't in tropical locations so it can double as a vacation :-)

I worked at an agency that did work for pharmaceutical companies and doctors/med salespeople do this all the time! There were a couple of jobs in Punta Cana, DR alone each year.

Nice to see other devs in the area — good luck with your search!

SEEKING WORK - NJ/NYC/Remote

Hiya! I'm Julius & I'm a freelance iOS developer. I do most projects remotely from my co-working space in Princeton, NJ but I'm generally open to negotiating other arrangements.

You can find more about my work & a copy of my resumé at my site: http://www.juliusparishy.com/

You may have seen RunSwiftLang.com on HN before in the past. That's one of my side projects! In the past I was the iOS developer at Fitocracy and more recently I worked on the iOS app for Chicago-based startup, Charlie App.

I'm booked for the summer but I'm currently scheduling work for September so if you're looking to start a project around then you should definitely get in touch.

Contact info: hello@juliusparishy.com

Thanks!

Excellent band to see live if you haven't yet :-)

I did this around October of last year out of necessity and started doing it because I wanted to in January. So far it's going quite well. Here's roughly what I did:

First, read everything patio11 and Brennan Dunn have written on the subject.

Start here:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/

and here:

http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/

Get yourself a website. Don't spend a lot of time building this, just on the content. It's stupid easy for developers to get sidetracked working on their own site and rebuilding it in Hot New Technology X every two weeks; don't bother. I recommend Squarespace as it makes it easy to setup & change content as well as track some basic metrics. Make sure it's very clear what you do. Separate it out into Articles for SEO, a Portfolio, and a page about working with you. Write articles about things you're very, very good at and at the end plug yourself.

For examples, I have:

http://<domain>/articles/

http://<domain>/portfolio/

http://<domain>/app-development/

Regarding a portfolio, there is no reason you cannot include the programming you did as part of a larger project. Just make sure that you accompany each entry in the portfolio with what your responsibilities were and how you contributed and why it was a success. Link back to other key members of the project, too; they'll appreciate it.

Next, I set up something to drive traffic to my website. Think of something interesting that would make a potential client say, "Oh, that's pretty cool!", or that other developers find useful to increase your clout.

For me that was RunSwift (removed link to avoid looking like another plug).

I plug my Twitter & Website there. It gets several hundred hits a day and drives a small percentage back to my website. It also gets me a few followers on Twitter a week which as been good for building a professional network (albeit slowly).

Finally, I joined a co-working space. These exist out outside of the big tech hubs. And there are people in them who are building technology projects and struggling to find developers. I joined Tigerlabs (https://tigerlabs.co) here in Princeton, New Jersey and just from talking to new people around my desk I had a new client sign a contract within two weeks.

I wouldn't take any of this as set in stone as I believe that being successful in this game involves a lot of trial and error in the beginning. But, this is what worked for me though so hopefully it can be of some use!

Feel free to reach out, email is in the profile.

Xamarin is a good option. You can also write your logic & rendering code in C++, which you should be able to share across those platforms.

Well, for new developers they might not put together "we use this calling convention" with "and that means you can find things like self, _cmd, or the exception that was thrown in these registers ... which can ease debugging your app". That's useful information I wish they'd put up in their docs, is all.

This is a really great read, especially for new iOS developers who haven't picked up a ton of debugging tricks from experience alone.

In particular the section "Calling Conventions 101" contains a lot of very useful information that isn't documented very well in any of the iOS resources provided by Apple (AFAIK). Commit it all to memory, you'll be glad you did :)

Same here. Shout out to the ##psp-programming crew from Freenode. So many memories!

Not strictly related, but reminded me of the exercise in genetic programming by Roger Alsing: http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolut...

It's a rather cool attempt to draw the Mona Lisa using random, semi-transparent polygons

Yep, you can compile it on 64 bit OS X with clang's -m32 option and it should work:

    ➜  c4 git:(master) ✗ clang -m32 c4.c
    ...
    ➜  c4 git:(master) ✗ ./a.out hello.c 
    hello, world
    exit(0) cycle = 9

SEEKING WORK - Princeton, NJ; Remote only

Software Engineer specializing in iOS applications. I have been doing iOS development for 6 years now and have the experience to tackle just about any project.

Recently I built http://runswiftlang.com/ and for the last couple of years I've been building the Fitocracy iOS apps.

I can also do work with other languages/platforms. Proficient with: Swift, Ruby, Python, C, C++. Also a very quick learner if it's something I'm not extremely familiar with.

Check out my site for more information: http://juliusparishy.com/consulting/

Or shoot me an email directly: juliusparishy@gmail.com

Thanks!

If anyone hasn't seen this I highly recommend it, if not just because Weirich was a great guy and was very entertaining. RIP.

I posted this to HN the other day and people seemed to like it: http://www.runswiftlang.com/learn

It'll let you run Swift code from your browser. The Learn page gives you a short run down of some features as well (I'm in the middle of writing up content for it, what's there now is a placeholder really, just the basics) and links to more documentation from Apple.

Thanks! What kind of web stuff stuff are you trying to do?

And I would love to, but unfortunately I live on the other (better ;)) coast! Will you all be taping the talks?

Thanks for the tips! I'd love to move to LXC should an appropriate/feasible compiling solution become available :)

Just deployed a new script runner backed by sandbox-exec! Thanks again for the tip!

Debugging an issue with the runner now, but the output should still show above the error. It'll be fixed soon!

Edit: Rolled back my changes; I'll sort them out when the server is a little busy :) Happy Saturday!

Excellent! Thank you for pointing me to this!

Hah, had never seen that :) thanks for the link!