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Did you mostly use vi to edit files? What were some of your goto IDEs?
Re:Ask HN: Which language to learn (Golang or Scala)? on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @02:22PM (#8999017)
A scalable RESTful api service w/ easy to implement versioning, routing, etc.
Re:Show HN: Matterhorn – Your new project manager on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @01:20PM (#8992073)
This is a pretty lightweight self-hosted kanban solution I've made: https://taskfort.com

The ios app should be coming out by the end of this month.

Ask HN: What are some must know xcode / obj-c topics / libraries?

I'm trying to step up my iOS game to be competent + have the ability to use the appropriate libraries / tools when building any type of iOS app.Some topics + tools that I've already used w/ obj-c + xcode:-auto-layouts-cocoapods-afnetworking -post / get -fmdb-json handling-location manager-mantle-RNCryptor-singletons-blocks-Segues-kiwi testing-spritebuilderWhat are some other must know topics...

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Ask HN: How does Stripe or AWS's api work in regards to being secure?

To my understanding, when interacting with AWS or Stripe, the client has a public and private key. The Client connects to the API w/ these values and the server generates and sends back a session token. When the client wants to make a call, it encrypts the session key with the public and private key, then the server decrypts the message, and verifies the session key matches it up for the...

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Re:UI Performance Decline – OS X Tiger to Yosemite [video] on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @10:06AM (#8793057)
The only application holding me back from using Linux on all my machines is xcode.. only if there was a wine for mac apps that could run xcode.
Re:UI Performance Decline – OS X Tiger to Yosemite [video] on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @09:49AM (#8792993)
A little bit off-top, but what are you using as your Host Machine? I've been trying to get Yosemite to install on VBox w/ Ubuntu as the host to no avail.