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You should try applying for a job just to see how far your accomplishments have actually gotten you.
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I'm glad no one responded to my job posting here a few months ago. The company cut me loose along with the majority of the work force. I don't particularly want to move to the bay area, but it sure seems like every iOS job in the world is out there.
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May 7, 2014 01:06
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ManicJason posted:I don't particularly want to move to the bay area, but it sure seems like every iOS job in the world is out there. Not all of them; I'm in St. Louis, working for a company doing a fair amount of iOS work.
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May 7, 2014 01:20
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ManicJason posted:I'm glad no one responded to my job posting here a few months ago. The company cut me loose along with the majority of the work force. If you're in Richmond, VA; Charlotte, NC; Philadelphia, PA; or the DC area my company is hiring iOS devs. PM me if interested.
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May 7, 2014 01:32
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My company hired like 100 engineers last year. All mobile. Tons of iOS. Toronto. I think we've stopped hiring though 
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May 7, 2014 01:32
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status posted:My company hired like 100 engineers last year. All mobile. Tons of iOS. Toronto. Extreme Labs?
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May 7, 2014 01:34
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Axiem posted:Not all of them; I'm in St. Louis, working for a company doing a fair amount of iOS work. I am also in St Louis, we've got a small mobile outpost here for a Silicon Valley based firm. We've actually been trying to hire more iOS and Android people here too. There's plenty of work to go around. kitten smoothie fucked around with this message at 01:40 on May 7, 2014 |
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May 7, 2014 01:35
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I'm looking around, I want to make the switch to iOS full time. We shall see... Everyone says apply at Apple but a million bucks buys you a shack to live in around SF.
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May 7, 2014 01:42
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Subjunctive posted:Extreme Labs? Yeah
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May 7, 2014 01:43
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Ender.uNF posted:I'm looking around, I want to make the switch to iOS full time. We shall see... Everyone says apply at Apple but a million bucks buys you a shack to live in around SF. We're hiring at FB too, if you decide to consider Silicon Valley. Extreme Labs does good stuff. I was/am super happy with the work they did for a couple of apps for us. 
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May 7, 2014 01:48
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Subjunctive posted:We're hiring at FB too, if you decide to consider Silicon Valley. Past that, I'd say look at places with decent iOS apps and apply to those places. I could also ask around with some of my contacts, if (either of) you like? EDIT: BTW, strong anti-recommendation for Crunchyroll. They are ruining themselves so fast it's tragic. Ender.uNF posted:I'm looking around, I want to make the switch to iOS full time. We shall see... Everyone says apply at Apple but a million bucks buys you a shack to live in around SF. Doctor w-rw-rw- fucked around with this message at 09:18 on May 7, 2014 |
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May 7, 2014 02:03
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Subjunctive posted:Extreme Labs does good stuff. I was/am super happy with the work they did for a couple of apps for us. The guys that worked on those projects worked hard, so I'm happy you're happy. 
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May 7, 2014 02:51
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Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:Seconding Facebook even though they didn't hire me. If you want access to Apple-caliber people minus the iron fist and secret police, Facebook has got some of the best. Lots of room for growth as an engineer there if you join the right team. Sure, in the DFW area now but I'm happy to relocate. My wife really wants to live somewhere where it isn't 105-113degF in the summer for a month straight, night and day. Simulated fucked around with this message at 03:37 on May 7, 2014 |
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May 7, 2014 03:33
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wolffenstein posted:You should try applying for a job just to see how far your accomplishments have actually gotten you. I think I might actually do this later this year. Reading this thread has been intimidating, it's obvious the posters here know what they are talking about and I'm not even close to that level of understanding. I think if I focus on building my knowledge over the next few months I might be tempted to try for a position someplace to accelerate my learning process, but I want to be well prepared. I'm in silicon valley so it sounds like I'm in the right location at least!
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Ben Grahams Ghost posted:I think I might actually do this later this year. Reading this thread has been intimidating, it's obvious the posters here know what they are talking about and I'm not even close to that level of understanding. I think if I focus on building my knowledge over the next few months I might be tempted to try for a position someplace to accelerate my learning process, but I want to be well prepared. I'm in silicon valley so it sounds like I'm in the right location at least! You might also have some success with a position at a company that will let you train into a primarily iOS role, starting from another area of expertise. I ran a training program at FB that sent >500 engineers through Big Nerd Ranch training for iOS or Android, and it worked really well. Most of them didn't have immediate mobile dev plans, but they got to get the fundamentals for when they wanted to move into that role on a team. I suspect that there are other companies that do similar cross-training things.
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Is there a way to safely guarantee that ARC will free memory at a particular time? I have a class of object that needs to be basically a series of singletons. You can have as many as you want but only one in the app at a time. Occasionally ARC won't call dealloc of one that was niled until sometime later. We've tried various things like wrapping them in an autorelease pool, dispatch_sync on the main queue, call runloop run on that dispatch sync etc... But it seems to always be possible for ARC to sometime keep them around.
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May 9, 2014 03:12
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Hughlander posted:Is there a way to safely guarantee that ARC will free memory at a particular time? I have a class of object that needs to be basically a series of singletons. You can have as many as you want but only one in the app at a time. Occasionally ARC won't call dealloc of one that was niled until sometime later. We've tried various things like wrapping them in an autorelease pool, dispatch_sync on the main queue, call runloop run on that dispatch sync etc... But it seems to always be possible for ARC to sometime keep them around. Well ARC uses a bunch of compiler analysis to determine when it can safely elide retain/release calls but I'd be wary of relying on the current behavior or attempting to move things around until it "works". That's one recompile or one code change away from blowing up again. I would assume what is happening is you are crossing a boundary (method call chain, background queue, block capture, etc) that is causing the object to be retained for a bit because ARC isn't certain the object isn't needed anymore. Off the top of my head, if my object lifetime needs are that fussy I would make it an explicit part of my contract. I would have a -(void)invalidate method on the object and internally tear down or release whatever resource I was concerned about. It effectively becomes dead even if it hasn't been deallocated yet. If you aren't doing this to protect some resource then why bother? You can allow creation of instances only via a class method and refuse to proceed if the previous instance weak reference is still alive and not invalidated. Then the user of the object should send invalidate before it nils out the reference. Actually scratch that, I probably wouldn't design something this way to begin with. If it's a singleton, make it a singleton. If it can support multiple instances, why do you care of someone creates 10 of them? Simulated fucked around with this message at 03:32 on May 9, 2014 |
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May 9, 2014 03:24
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The ARC lifetime rules are pretty simple even with all of the exceptions to leave room for optimizations. It can never observably extend the lifetime of an object past the end of the statement where the "obvious" point for the deallocation would be, so if you're seeing objects kept alive longer than that, there's a reference being kept around somewhere.
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As long as you're controlling for autoreleases, that should be true, yeah.
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May 9, 2014 05:42
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Ender.uNF posted:I'm looking around, I want to make the switch to iOS full time. We shall see... Everyone says apply at Apple but a million bucks buys you a shack to live in around SF. Good news, Apple isn't in SF! In all seriousness though, check out jobs.apple.com and apply if anything looks interesting. You won't regret it.
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May 9, 2014 06:33
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Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:EDIT: BTW, strong anti-recommendation for Crunchyroll. They are ruining themselves so fast it's tragic. Got a link?
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May 9, 2014 06:34
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eschaton posted:Good news, Apple isn't in SF! In all seriousness though, check out jobs.apple.com and apply if anything looks interesting. You won't regret it. Ah yes, the Santa Clara valley, where a million bucks buys you a lovely ranch house instead. eschaton posted:Got a link? I think he's speaking from first hand experience.
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May 9, 2014 06:54
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Hughlander posted:Is there a way to safely guarantee that ARC will free memory at a particular time? I have a class of object that needs to be basically a series of singletons. You can have as many as you want but only one in the app at a time. Occasionally ARC won't call dealloc of one that was niled until sometime later. We've tried various things like wrapping them in an autorelease pool, dispatch_sync on the main queue, call runloop run on that dispatch sync etc... But it seems to always be possible for ARC to sometime keep them around. Without any other details, I'd politely describe this as "ill-considered". I'm curious: what's actually going on here? I don't mean to open you to a public redesign of the semantics of your app, so I understand if you'd rather not say, but I'm having trouble coming up with something that would fit your "class of object".
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eschaton posted:Got a link? Hughlander posted:Is there a way to safely guarantee that ARC will free memory at a particular time? I have a class of object that needs to be basically a series of singletons. You can have as many as you want but only one in the app at a time. Occasionally ARC won't call dealloc of one that was niled until sometime later. We've tried various things like wrapping them in an autorelease pool, dispatch_sync on the main queue, call runloop run on that dispatch sync etc... But it seems to always be possible for ARC to sometime keep them around. Care to explain a bit more why you have that requirement?
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Thanks all, the why is basically an experiment with using Dependency Injection in general, and a modified version of Objection in specifics as a way of managing Resource lifecycles. Want to send a message to a connection to a remote server? Inject the message send class into your object, if it's not nil that means the connection is ready for you to use, if it's nil it's been torn down already. The issue that was being run into was the system that initializes and maintains control of Objection itself wanted to have more specific lifetimes. I think in the end we're going to store it in a std::shared_ptr.
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May 9, 2014 14:30
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For crying out loud Xcode you've been linking to that framework for 16 months it's right there it's right there.
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Does anyone use ObjectAL? I've been really loving it, but I've run into an issue where it seems like I can't keep the functionality of using OALSimpleAudio and listener/sources/context stuff separate. If I have a listener/context with a source, all the OALSimpleAudio calls are only audible when my game's hero is in the bottom left corner of the screen. Other ALSources work as expected, playing the audio positionally according to the listener (the game's hero). I think this is because OALSimpleAudio ends up using the context defined for my listener and ALSources, but according to the documentation, it seems I should be able to use both separately:OALSimpleAudio.h posted:* A simpler interface to the ObjectAL sound library. This singleton can be I tried changing the max amount of ALSources OALSimpleAudio uses to 16, as I think I should anyway, but did not solve the problem. I made a StackOverflow too: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23569548/ios-and-objectal-using-oalsimpleaudio-and-listener-context-sources-at-the-same
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I love Reveal. Turns out setting a tableview's cell's background color also sets the sneaky scroll view's background color. So if there's any transparency involved it means doubling up on the alpha. Couldn't figure that out before I remembered Reveal.
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lord funk posted:I love Reveal. Turns out setting a tableview's cell's background color also sets the sneaky scroll view's background color. So if there's any transparency involved it means doubling up on the alpha. Couldn't figure that out before I remembered Reveal. I love Reveal but I couldn't justify the price so I went with Spark and have been just as pleased.
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I hope applescript is allowed here  I'm trying to rustle up a script to change the wallpapers of both my monitors. At the moment I have this: code:code:
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May 10, 2014 23:16
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Experto Crede posted:I hope applescript is allowed here Of course! quote:But I get this error: I'm not sure exactly, but for what it's worth I get the exact same error and message, and I don't have a file at /Users/foo/Pictures/1.png. So I'm guessing error -10006 is a "file not found" kind of error.
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May 11, 2014 00:10
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pokeyman posted:I'm not sure exactly, but for what it's worth I get the exact same error and message, and I don't have a file at /Users/foo/Pictures/1.png. So I'm guessing error -10006 is a "file not found" kind of error. The files definitely exist, I even chmodded them to 777 just incase. More weirdly, if I use POSIX file and then /Users/foo/Pictures/1.png it doesn't give an error, but my wallpaper changes to the default Mavericks water one. But not in Desktop/Screensaver settings, it's still set to my usual one, but I have to deselect and reselect it so that it swaps out the default if that makes sense.
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May 11, 2014 00:37
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-10006 is AppleScript-specific: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CarbonHeaders/CarbonHeaders-18.1/MacErrors.h code:
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Anyone aware of alternatives to zsync? We have some files we'd like to efficiently keep updated (there is no back and forth just daily/hourly updates to clients) and zsync is the best option for this but maintaining it as a dependency is getting annoying.
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I've been using Moarfonts to handle fonts in the app that I've been working on. It works great in iOS7 but doesn't seem to work in iOS6. It fails silently and does not change the font or font size from default at run time. Is it even possible to use Moarfonts for custom fonts on iOS 6? Do I have to go an IBoutlet every single piece of text in my app?
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Are you building with Xcode 4 or 5? It says on the site you need to use Xcode 4 if you want iOS 6 to work.
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Xcode 5. But if I build against Xcode 4 will I be able to build it against the latest SDK. I have vague memories of doing something along those lines a couple of years ago. Also my version of Xcode 4 is so old it appears to build for iOS 5.1 so I suppose I have to track down a later version of XCode 4.
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I'm doing some research, and I was hoping I could get people's opinions on iOS open source stuff. Question 1: what do you think are the ~3 "most interesting" open source iOS projects? how are you defining interesting? Question 2: when you're looking to choose between similar projects (testing framework, animation library, JSON, etc.), what do you look for to make that decision? Please feel free to tell me I'm an idiot for asking.
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Subjunctive posted:I'm doing some research, and I was hoping I could get people's opinions on iOS open source stuff. The interesting ones are the ones I haven't used long enough to dislike. The ones that generally seem to work are utterly uninteresting. But I'll throw one out there: ReactiveCocoa. A better language exists somewhere near where RAC is thrashing around. The one deal breaker for me is being a bad citizen. For example, unprefixed or unnecessary methods in categories is an automatic fail. Beyond that it's simply maximizing (value delivered - pain induced). If it helps, I'd place myself closer to the "willing to do it myself" side of the spectrum, further from the "use a library whenever possible" end. For objc anyway; I move around depending on the language.
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pokeyman posted:But I'll throw one out there: ReactiveCocoa. A better language exists somewhere near where RAC is thrashing around. Also: Will the MemModels infrastructure be open-sourced at some point? Question 2: If it's going to be used a lot, performance and thread-safety. If it's a big abstraction layer that's supposed to make my life easier, how much magic can I punch through? What dependencies does it require? Is the API any good? (For example, I wish the Bolts Framework had never, never, never been open-sourced. I've cleaned up [read: been forced to completely rewrite] code using it recently, and it is horrible)
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