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You're from the Bay Area and you think $60/hr is expensive? I charge the least out of contracting friends, and I charge a non-trivial amount more than that. I also don't live in or around San Francisco.
I have a 15" MBP and I run it at 2880x1800 (not in HiDPI mode) by using RetinaDisplayMenu. I've been working without an external monitor like this for ~6 months now.
I just moved here and I haven't been looking for work so I wasn't sure. This was just the number I had in my head. I guess I work too much with US clients :)
Does it really top out at $80k? I just moved here from Toronto and I was expecting ~$110k as an iOS dev with a couple years under my belt.
Because I don't see it as torture. I find Objective-C to be a perfectly pleasant tool, and it allows me to do things that would be A) implausible or B) impossible were I to make webapps (or PhoneGap apps) instead.
I'm in. I wonder if we should just have a HN meetup around WWDC time.
I was wrong on the dates. The conference is the week of the 10th, not the 4th.
Posted by
pandaexpress on Thursday April 25, 2013 @01:51PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I got my ticket to WWDC and I am planning on staying an extra week to explore (I've never been to California). The conference is the week of the 4th, and I'll be around the week after (11th). Anyone have an open door?
I was sitting at my Mac Book refreshing like crazy. I got a ticket.
Fantastic! I dropped you (and Sean) a line.
Matasano's site mentions office culture. Are remote employees impossible to work out? I'd LOVE to get into this sort of thing, but I'm not a US citizen and I don't qualify for any visas.
If I get in touch, would you point me towards some resources even if it won't lead to employment?
The solution (in Objective-C)
- (NSArray)pascal:(int)n
{
if (n == 1)
return @[@(1)];
NSArray array = [self pascal:n-1];
NSMutableArray* mArray = [@[] mutableCopy];
for(int i = 0; i < array.count+1; i++)
{
int r = i - 1;
if (r >= 0 && i < array.count)
[mArray addObject:@([array[r] integerValue] + [array[i] integerValue])];
else if (i < array.count)
[mArray addObject:@(0 + [array[i] integerValue])];
else
[mArray addObject:@(0 + [array[i-1] integerValue])];
}
return [mArray copy];
}
I actually had a bit of trouble with this problem, it took a while to iron out the bugs. I copied down the triangle for reference but accidentally had 1 2 2 1 as the third row.
Took me about 15 minutes to do. Doesn't seem like an unreasonable question to ask.
Posted by
pandaexpress on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @02:54PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm 18 and taking a gap year to work as a mobile developer. I don't know if I'll go back to school afterwards, and I'm wondering what topics I'd need to cover to have the equivalent of a undergrad CS education?Suggestions for books on topics from algorithms to discrete mathematics are appreciated.