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When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching via Is it too late to be awesome by Chanelle Henry

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Listening to Sloppy Seconds by Watsky

This song has been my jam for two or three weeks now. So good. – Preview it on Path.

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Thought via Path

I love gin. All hail the pine tree king of liquor. – Read on Path.

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First time being at a bulls game since 1996 at United Center – View on Path.

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Interesting read. If you're not using mocks for behavior verification you're just writing stubs.

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Computing systems are suffused through and through with the constraints of their materiality. – Jean-François Blanchette

http://www.elasticspace.com/2013/03/no-to-no-ui

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Does everybody use NSLog for debugging at some point or is it just me?

Answer by Daniel Hammond:

Using log statements liberally in development is fine, but you really want to remove those from production, we use a log macro like:

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#ifdef DEBUG

#   define DLog(FORMAT, ...) printf("%s %s ~ %s\n", [[[NSDate date] description] UTF8String], __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, [[NSString stringWithFormat:FORMAT, ##__VA_ARGS__] UTF8String])

#else

#   define DLog(...)

#endif

// ALog always displays output regardless of the DEBUG setting

#define ALog(FORMAT, ...) printf("%s %s ~ %s\n", [[[NSDate date] description] UTF8String], __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, [[NSString stringWithFormat:FORMAT, ##__VA_ARGS__] UTF8String])

spenrose/gist:4539571 A couple things here: 1. Uses printf which is faster than NSLog 2. Prints out a timestamp and description of the function where the log came from which helps you pinpoint problems 3. #ifdefs it to a no-op in non-debug builds to avoid cluttering up the system logs of your users with debug logs you'll never see (unless you use ALog intentionally) If you need even more control over your logging check out LibComponentLogging

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Supposing that an iOS app, built with Parse to handle the back end for a quick launch, gains lots of traction and it's decided that the c...

Answer by Daniel Hammond:

Absolute easiest path to migration would be to use the Parse REST API (https://www.parse.com/docs/rest). You could build out the client to use a networking/object mapping tool like RestKit or roll your own. You would lose the benefits of the native Parse SDK like offline saving (although Restkit+Core Data could provide this) or a native querying objective-c interface, simplified file support, but it would make it incredibly simple to switch out Parse for some other REST based web service.

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...We tend to set ourselves impossibly high standards, and are invariably our own toughest critics. Satisfying our own lofty demands is usually a lot harder than appeasing any client, who in my experience tend to have disappointingly low expectations. Most artists and designers I know would rather work all night than turn in a sub-standard job. It is a universal truth that all artists think they a[re] frauds and charlatans, and live in constant fear of being exposed. We believe by working harder than anyone else we can evaded detection...

Linds Redding, A Overdue Lesson in Perspective

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Short Interview I did with Anthony Pompliano at NC Dev Con 2012

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Gave a talk at NCDevCon this afternoon regarding how mobile development is largely entrenched in long development cycles and poor execution. I put together this app during some live coding in the talk to show how split testing techniques can be really quickly implemented in a mobile app, slides from the talk are included in repo as well.

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But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue

-Ayn Rand, Anthem

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I installed Z a couple weeks ago after reading Andy Matthew's Command line tools for the novice and have been loving it. In a sense it is like alfred type z and a pattern matching a directory you've been using a lot and it jumps your right there. Perfect if you, like me, like to structure your work environment in hierarchical directory structures and spend a fair bit of time jumping from project to project.