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Twitter Inc | San Francisco, CA | Consumer Video Client + Periscope | ONSITE, FULL-TIME We're hiring on the Twitter Video and Periscope team for iOS, android, web, and backend. We …

> On September 9th, 2015 we received $127,827.01 from Kickstarter. This sounds like a lot of money, until we say that this week, November 22nd 2016, we have finally gotten out of d…

CocoaPods is much more akin to RubyGems or PyPI or CPAN, all of which are established as useful tools outside of OS level package managers. There's a need for a iOS/Cocoa package m…

I've been using Virgin Mobile happily for coming on two years. $35/month for LTE on my iPhone 5s is pretty much impossible to beat. Plus, I can get tethering for $5/day if I need i…

Warning: there's a section of this post called "Drive engagement"

When showing off a brand new app with no existing userbase, please show or tell what your app does before waxing poetic about its beauty. If it hadn't been for the HN headline, I w…

While I'm excited to see Google Fiber push into Austin, I've been very happy with my 110 mbps down / 11 mbps up from local company Grande: http://mygrande.com/internet/compare . Au…

iOS 8 apps can still be built to support iOS 7

> "The SSL layer instead handled a raw file descriptor and, consequently, lifetime handling was not automatically synchronized ... We worked with the networking team and fixed this…

I think you misspelled acquihired.

It's worth noting that if you're always searching in a git repo, git-grep is pretty comparable to ack and you already have it installed.

Looks like the blog is down now, the linked to post says simply "Hello, this is Seth’s sister, Amy, with the sad news that Seth died on Saturday, April 26, 2014. He collapsed while…

I would love to hear more about what it took to wrestle Bundler to do what you guys needed and any insight into how Bundler's design could have been improved to make doing this eas…

I'm being quoted $22 shipping within the US. Seems really excessive.

Sounds like GOG wants to make sure they can have a presence on Steam Boxes. Good call.

The site's name is an Apple/OSX cultural reference. It refers to NeXSTEP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextstep In particular, the core classes of Objective-c (and thus Cocoa and C…

The Schiit Modi is double the cost of the Wolfson card and has no audio input capabilities. Seems like for uses outside of an HTPC the Wolfson card provides a lot more flexibility.…

One followup: I feel really scammed by entering my email address just to be redirected to github. If you don't want to give them your email address, just click here: https://github…

I think you just saved me a lot of unnecessary development time. Thanks!

Q. Why did you use Python3 as a reference language? A. Because not having distinct binary and unicode string types is barbaric. Well played.

Watch out, the browser plugin upgrade instructions at http://learn.agilebits.com/1Password4/Mac/en/KB/v3-extension... require you to launch 1Password 3 to sync your browser, someth…