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kerbs··on I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroyed His Mind
Worse - you get hurt irreversibly, sometimes mortally, very slowly over time. A broken leg is often the least of your problems compared to multiple concussions or the cumulative effects of CTE.
kerbs··on Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile
Using Patagonia as the harbinger for the downfall of apps is really poor. Patagonia's website is horrible on a mobile device - especially for a "premium brand".

Contrast with Lululemon's mobile app, which is an absolute delight to use. I don't buy the authors thesis at all.

kerbs··on Gameroom
It literally says "Available for Windows 7 and above" with an unmistakable Windows logo :).
kerbs··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
Thanks, done :)

Didn't realize the email field itself wasn't public.

kerbs··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
Target - Minneapolis, Minnesota. ONSITE. -- Experienced iOS Developer.

Come join Target's Flagship iOS team and help make Target the best app in retail. We have a big team of world class developers and designers, and are looking for passionate iOS developers to help take us to the next level.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/target/id297430070?mt=8

Looking for various levels but experience in iOS is a must. Deep experience and a passion for iOS is a big plus.

Email me using the address in my profile. Tell me about yourself and what you've been working on recently. --

kerbs··on Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
Mostly the navigational system is a mess - and feels of duct taped features without ever a desire to go in and clean it up.

Some points from just using it now:

- The strange lower left/lower right hamburger slide out menu things with odd icons. Right one leads to news, left one leads to snaps.

- When you go to the lower, right hamburger thingy - to go "back" there is a camera (not a back chevron/arrow) at the top left. Go experience it - it is weird.

- You can swipe down from the main camera view to get your profile. Took my 31 year old ass a year to discover that.

- The view snap vs. message view is just... no. I know what it does and I still input wrong.

kerbs··on Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
They are different kinds of confusing. Twitter is fundamentally confusing (for all the reasons mentioned - @'s, reply, RT, etc..)

Snapshot's confusing part is only in the strange UI decisions of the app itself. Those I feel they could easily remedy.

kerbs··on Launching an Apple TV App: What We’ve Learned So Far
Fortunately/unfortunately this works iff you have an Apple Music subscription.
kerbs··on Swift is Open Source
Check Twitter, they are more than happy to see their work deprecated.

Both Cocoapods and Carthage should eventually be phased out with an official package manager.

kerbs··on The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
Great comment.

I have also noticed the really strange response from what feels like (anecdotally, I admit) EVERYONE being ecstatic that not only did this leak happen, but that Ashley Madison's users are "getting what's coming to them".

The comparison to fighting against a terrorism-inspired surveillance state was great.

kerbs··on Fired
I was so sad when it wasn't true :(. My reaction was "OMG maybe he will make JIRA not suck!!!"
kerbs··on Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics
Can somebody humor me that there is a non-zero chance he will be the WWDC Bash performer?
kerbs··on Announcing Xamarin 3
Considering it's per-developer:

Imagine an enterprise of 20 devs hacking away at various Xamarin projects with one dedicated "deploy" person. They'd get away with not paying licenses for 19 of those devs.

kerbs··on Sources: Microsoft In Talks To Acquire Mobile App Development Startup Xamarin
Why would they reject a "generic abstraction layer"? How do you think Titanium works?

Disclaimer: I hate Titanium

kerbs··on Sources: Microsoft In Talks To Acquire Mobile App Development Startup Xamarin
Xamarin maps iOS and Android API's 1:1, and you usually have access to bindings within days (sometimes hours?) of SDK releases.

Note the date: http://blog.xamarin.com/introducing-ios-7-support/

kerbs··on The Inside Story of Mt. Gox, Bitcoin’s $460M Disaster
Fool me once...

http://flexcoin.com

So what do people have to do to "be more cautious"? If both the biggest and smallest Bitcoin exchanges are getting ransacked, then what does cautious even mean?

kerbs··on Alcatraz – Package manager for Xcode 5
Ah, doh! 10.8 :(

#EnterpriseLife

kerbs··on Alcatraz – Package manager for Xcode 5
Crashes XCode for me when entering the package manager.

I work for TheMan® (with Firewall) and assuming it is due to some non-http ports being used?

kerbs··on The Inside Story of Mt. Gox, Bitcoin’s $460M Disaster
I wouldn't go that far. If people are comparing Bitcoin to ye old Dollar, then the lack of regulation that can lead to a disaster like this is something people need to be aware of.
kerbs··on An iOS Developer’s Wishlist
lol
kerbs··on What is your best programmer joke?
The joke is he doesn't get binary.

...or off by 1 error.

OK, I'm confused too :)

kerbs··on Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To Developers To Date
I'd be more curious in dollars per developer-hour.

Numbers would get screwy throwing in every curious person who got skin-deep into UIKit enough to pop out a 3 hour TODO app.

kerbs··on Mac Pro Trash Icon
Fortunate for Apple, the iPad debacle was short lived.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs

kerbs··on Poll: Changing to Android after iOS7 Update?
I can't help but think of this Simpson's scene when Windows Phone comes up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAT_BuJAI70

kerbs··on A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95
Nothing gives me more rage than opening "other" drawing software, selecting the "paint bucket", and clicking anywhere inside an enclosed shape and not seeing it fill with the color I selected.

Layers, vectors. Give me break. MS Paint was more intuitive in the 90's than any software to date.

kerbs··on Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes
The problem is still room sizes. You would almost need to mirror the conference in each venue. The Apple engineer area/cafeteria etc. couldn't really hold any more.
kerbs··on Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes
Bigger than Moscone? Cowboys Stadium for the keynote?
kerbs··on Microsoft just sponsored Daring Fireball
Apple dev/Mac fanboy.

I can affirm we eat up the stuff he promotes. Dark Sky, Pixelmator, Fantasical. I heard them all first on DF and bought each (and more). He's usually spot on in the things he promotes to (I don't think he accepts sponsors for products he doesn't think are great).

Paying for ads on his site I believe are totally worth it.

kerbs··on FireMe - Who wants to get fired?
Similar to, but not nearly as damaging as @NeedADebitCard https://twitter.com/NeedADebitCard
kerbs··on Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant
Wait, so this 69$ little contraption can read the code behind a check engine light? That's $100 in savings that would otherwise go to the Car Mechanic Mafia.

Pre-ordered.

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