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Re:The world’s first trillionaire is a killer on Saturday June 13, 2026 @02:05AM (#48513863)
it's refreshing to see how brave the verge is to finally write an article critical of Musk
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2016) on Thursday December 01, 2016 @12:25PM (#13081287)
SEEKING WORK - Seattle, WA or Remote

Freelancer developer with a corporate background. I've built large websites for Microsoft, Vevo, and MySpace. In my freelance career I've done fullstack work from Swift/iOS/ObjC projects to Angular/React/Redux/HTML5/Node/Mongo projects.

My last two iOS apps which can be found here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/upshot-simple-video-editor/i... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photofile-web-image-browser/...

My last web project was a modern JS stack with React/Redux/Webpack/React-router

Find me here: http://lithe.net

Solomon

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2016) on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @04:32PM (#12849775)
SEEKING WORK - Seattle, WA or Remote Freelancer developer with a corporate background. I've built large websites for Microsoft, Vevo, and MySpace. In my freelance career I've done fullstack work from Swift/iOS/ObjC projects to Angular/React/Redux/HTML5/Node/Mongo projects.

My last two iOS apps which can be found here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/upshot-simple-video-editor/i... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photofile-web-image-browser/...

My last web project was a modern JS stack with React/Redux/Webpack/React-router

Find me here: http://lithe.net

Solomon

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2016) on Monday October 03, 2016 @01:57PM (#12629725)
SEEKING WORK - Seattle, WA or Remote

Freelancer developer with a corporate background. I've built large websites for Microsoft, Vevo, and MySpace. In my freelance career I've done fullstack work from Swift/iOS/ObjC projects to Angular/React/Redux/HTML5/Node/Mongo projects. My last two projects were both iOS apps which can be found here:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/upshot-simple-video-editor/i.... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/livecap-gaming-highlights/id....

Find me here: http://lithe.net

Solomon

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2016) on Friday September 02, 2016 @05:10PM (#12416310)
SEEKING WORK - Seattle, WA or Remote

Freelancer developer with a corporate background. I've built large websites for Microsoft, Vevo, and MySpace. In my freelance career I've done fullstack work from Swift/iOS/ObjC projects to Angular/React/HTML5/Node/Mongo projects. My last two projects were both iOS apps which can be found here:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/upshot-simple-video-editor/i...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/livecap-gaming-highlights/id...

Find me here: http://lithe.net

Solomon

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2016) on Friday August 05, 2016 @01:51AM (#12230311)
SEEKING WORK - Seattle, WA or Remote

Freelancer developer with a corporate background. I've built large websites for Microsoft, Vevo, and MySpace. In my freelance career I've done fullstack work with Swift/iOS/ObjC projects to Angular/HTML5/Node/Mongo projects. My last two projects were both iOS apps which can be found here:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/upshot-simple-video-editor/i... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/livecap-gaming-highlights/id...

Find me here: http://lithe.net

Solomon

Re:Google Home on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @02:41PM (#11724584)
This is such an odd statement as it's already been proven false. The Echo is already quite popular. I gave one to my 70 year old technophobe mom and she uses it in the kitchen all the time. I use mine everyday.
My guess is in general the Real Estate market doesn't want this. What happens if it tests positive for something? Do you start tearing down all the walls until you find the issue? Suddenly the house is unsellable and a huge money pit for the seller or new buyer.
I get that it's trying to be funny, but is it really no longer possible to create a website with a single arrow that doesn't have to pull down all this cruft ?

  <link href="bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <link href="bower_components/bootstrap-social/bootstrap-social.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <link href="bower_components/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <link href="assets/css/ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <link href="cover.css" rel="stylesheet">

  <script src="bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="../../assets/js/vendor/jquery.min.js"><\/script>')</script>
  <script src="bower_components/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> 
  <script src="assets/js/ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.js"></script>
Part of that is right out of the Microsoft playbook. Promote you right before the review cycle. Give you a bad review by comparing you to all your peers in your new level. They had a limited number of promotions and good scores to give out. This way they didn't have to give a promotion and high score to the same person.
Re:Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team on Friday December 11, 2015 @04:53PM (#10720358)
When I worked at Microsoft many years ago they had an large QA team with equal footing to Development and Product in determining what shipped and when. This was the same for every development team I was a part of there for over 9 years. It wasn't perfect, and the ship cycles were slow, but the quality bar was set higher than what I've seen outside of Microsoft.
That's not correct. Apple doesn't allowing purchasing digital goods through a non-apple payment method. The margins are so low for Amazon it doesn't make sense to give apple 30% for every kindle book purchased.
Re:Swift 2.1 on Thursday September 24, 2015 @06:16PM (#10275145)
I wouldn't call that a bug. That's like saying you can't do

  let a = Foo()
  a.addItem(i)
Re:Angular 2: Built on TypeScript on Thursday March 05, 2015 @03:49PM (#9153710)
It's not like anything you build in React is going to transfer over to another framework either. In fact, I've been to a lot of React talks and people mostly ask "how do I do X" in react. The last talk I went to they spent 10 mins talking about how you might make a spinner when data is loading.

I think that's the nature of any framework.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2015) on Sunday February 01, 2015 @03:58PM (#8981630)
SEEKING WORK Location: Seattle, work almost 100% remote

Tech: Node.js, Angular, React, Mongo, Redis, C#, ObjC, Swift, Sql, + more

web: http://lithe.net

I'm a full time freelance full stack engineer with over 15 years experience. I've recently built and shipped a mobile app written entirely in swift with a backend written in Node.js ( Houseline ). I've worked with a lot of name brand companies working mostly with SPA JavaScript apps and native iOS apps. I produce quick with quality and get stuff shipped.

Re:Io.js 1.0.0 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:14PM (#8884257)
It's for bin scripts such as NPM which refer to the executable directly. See here: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/249
Re:Salted Password Hashing – Doing It Right on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @03:45PM (#8790107)
Nice, I was actually testing on my server hardware which is obviously lower end. This is hopefully useful for people though.

For me 1 second seems pretty aggressive, that's CPU time/latency per login.

Re:Salted Password Hashing – Doing It Right on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @02:11PM (#8789655)
From my testing 600 took about 15ms. 100k would take about 2.5 seconds.
Re:Salted Password Hashing – Doing It Right on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @01:41PM (#8789479)
It's what I always find odd about the incredible open armed love of developers for Apple. People used to hate Micro$oft ( $ uses for emphasis. ) I can't imagine what the 90's would look like if MS took 30% of every software sale and decided what software could and could not exist on it's OS. The walled garden's have peeps and minor outrage, but I never understood why it wasn't more of a roar.
Re:Why I like XSLT on Friday December 05, 2014 @06:24PM (#8707544)
That's it's biggest problem. If you ever had to look at a giant XSLT file and tried to debug some issue, you can understand why it never become popular.
It's actually easier depending on the animation you want to do. You can set an NSLayoutConstraint to an IBOutlet and then change it's constant in an animation block.
Re:Ask HN: How was your experience using parse.com? on Sunday September 21, 2014 @02:02PM (#8347787)
Parse gets you up and running crazy fast. So it's extremely useful in that way. If you're making a mobile app the speed the SDK gives you in working with a pre-built backend cannot be underestimated.

Recently I started a project with Parse but eventually moved off it ( with some pain ). The pain points for me were random requests timing out or randomly taking 20+ seconds to respond. Also the SDK wasn't as flexible as I needed it to be ( which is typically the case with any ORM ). The forums/support isn't great so if you run into a showstopper, you're pretty much on your own.

It worked pretty good for MySpace... oh wait
This is a really useful writeup. Might consider doing one on trying to convert my app to use WKWebView ( hint. lots of radars )
Re:Sandwich Video: The company that makes nearly all startup videos on Saturday September 13, 2014 @08:32PM (#8314173)
Huh. I remember robinhood. I signed up for that a year ago and I'm still #183,851 in line. Cruise'n right through that wait list.
Re:Frame.io: A GitHub for Video on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @07:53PM (#8045259)
Pretty slick video. The page is pretty buggy is some annoying ways. The chrome gesture for paging back doesn't work since I assume it's grabbing the mouse. When you page back or forwards to the page it reloads and it's white.

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