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jacksondeane

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    Comment #11218363

    Long story short... you will likely need a liquidity event for your shares to be sold for cash. This could be though an acquisition, IPO, or the board deciding to let you sell your…

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    Comment #11073771

    I'm sorry Mike.. "However, the bigger news is that Microsoft plans to integrate the functionality from its mobile calendaring app Sunrise into Outlook, then shutter the Sunrise app…

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    Comment #10502163

    I am giving Fantastical 2 another try. https://flexibits.com/fantastical

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    Comment #7067445

    http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?searchTerm=rails&locat...

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    Comment #6938058

    I'd start with these companies. http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/17/the-top-25-highest-paying-...

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    Comment #6877198

    * I am assuming you are applying/interviewing for developer jobs. Stop worrying about being "too bubbly or enthusiastic", coming across young & organizing meetups. Start worrying a…

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    Comment #5927443

    The upcoming OS X Mavericks release will support external displays over AirPlay and AppleTV. http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/#multiple-displays

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    Comment #5861476

    "Flat" is simply an aesthetic style. To me, it does not require any more or less skill to produce compared to other design trends (Web 2.0, Skeuomorphism, ect). Flat design not new…

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    Comment #5765161

    Your take-home pay should be somewhere in the $2500/mo range. That leaves you with about $600,after paying your rent and parents mortgage, for everything else in life (utilities, c…

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    Comment #5475875

    Pretty straight forward here... take the cash. With a wife and family, you need some savings for a rainy day. I don't know your specific situation, but I rarely count on options as…

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    Comment #5188776

    It depends on how polished you are looking to get and how much experience you have with Photoshop/Illustrator and general front-end development. If you are simply looking to get so…

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    Comment #5166179

    $100 USD (assuming this is USD) is pretty steep for remote mentoring. ...unless you have an extremely challenging, and specific problem they are going to help you solve. For genera…

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    Comment #5124480

    I've had a lot of luck writing RESTful JSON APIs for mobile Apps with the Slim Framework [PHP]... lightweight and easy to use http://www.slimframework.com/

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    Comment #5022760

    No worries, just trying to keep the hiring stuff centralized.

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    Comment #5022713

    It's not that hard to find. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617

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    Comment #4712603

    Go sign up for TestFlight right now... it is going to save you hours of time, and countless emails/headaches. http://testflightapp.com

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    Comment #4583007

    Check out cocoacontrols.com (just looking at 1 of my projects...) AFNetworking (Amazing Networking Framework) https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking CocoaLumberjack (Robust L…

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    Comment #4524692

    Audio Technica ATH-A700 I can not recommend these more. Super comfortable, closed back, huge drivers, great balanced sound, affordable. The "winged" support makes these babies wear…

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    Comment #4229060

    From what I have seen, both your salary expectations and cost of living should be very similar. However... 110k for a PM w/ 2 years exp. does sound pretty high to me (for NYC), but…

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    Comment #4189552

    I like the concept, and am waiting for someone to execute on it well. As for your FaceToFriend site... It is very difficult to figure out exactly what to do after logging in. You n…

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    Comment #4049283

    So you have a great idea, you are 1% of the way to a successful App. The rest will rely on how you execute, and getting a low-budget iOS developer will result in a low-budget imple…

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    Comment #4041123

    There is no way someone with adequate computer skills, let alone programming skills can only find a job for $15 an hour in the Bay Area.

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    Comment #4034963

    I'd probably use 2 different views, one for the view you are manipulating and 1 for the border. You can apply the same rotation transforms to both views but only apply the scale tr…

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    Comment #3891120

    1) I normally use Amazon's S3 service to host and serve images to iOS apps. Your backend will maintain and "serve" up the URL's to these photos and the iOS app will have to pull th…

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    Comment #3885425

    What you are seeing are hours and hours of developers and designers crafting custom iOS interfaces, typically in Obj-C and Cocoa Touch. There are some 3rd party libraries that stre…