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lordmatty | 12 years ago | on: Apple Claims Mogenerator's Methods
Good thought, but Apple is the gatekeeper here - not sure changing your license will help. What if they continue to use the methods without using Mogenerator (they could easily write their own categories to implement the methods for example)?
lordmatty | 13 years ago | on: Custom UI Controls for iOS and Mac OS X
Great resource, but we've always found the issue with these to be the level of polish expected on iOS.
On occasion you spend as much time customizing these controls to fit with your UX/UI as you do building it from scratch.
As an added benefit, building from scratch gives you a clean room implementation.
lordmatty | 13 years ago | on: Siri is old tech now - check out Google's solution
As I posted on the freshte.ch blog, the commercial drive behind Siri is that you don't use Google when on Apple's platform.
Google coming out with a competitor that stacks up feature-wise doesn't fix that for them because it will only run on Android.
Google's going to miss out on a lot of search/ad revenue due to Siri in the future.
lordmatty | 13 years ago | on: Introducing ccv, a modern computer vision library
Any thoughts about putting this on a smartphone?
lordmatty | 14 years ago | on: Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account
I agree. I can't say I like standard practise of employers owning everything their employees do whether in or out of work, or requiring that you stop anything they don't own.
However, this is hardly something that is limited to Goldmans or financial services. I'm pretty sure that Apple require you not to work on side projects, for example.
We had a discussion regarding this at my company - Future Workshops - last week, and decided that what people work on in their own time is their own business, with the caveats that a) people don't work in conflict with any clients, b) the IP is clearly separate, and c) it doesn't affect their day job in a negative way.
lordmatty | 14 years ago | on: Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account
I guess it probably depends on the position/team. I wouldn't expect GS to open source anything they consider a competitive advantage, but then I don't see Google open sourcing their search algos either :-)
lordmatty | 14 years ago | on: Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account
I can understand the reaction on this community to the news, and I'm sure that there are elements of PR and recruitment strategy here, but I happen to know that the primary driver is pretty sound; job satisfaction for top employees.
Goldmans has its share of top programmers and, like any company, is keen to retain them. One of these people made contributing to Open Source a major goal for last year.
Well done to him, and well done to GS for supporting him. The company (rightly) gets a ton of bad press, but that doesn't mean it can't do good things as well.
Disclaimer: I'm an ex GS employee, but have nothing to gain.
lordmatty | 14 years ago | on: Being acquired doesn't have to suck
Great example of an acquisition that will work out - two startups motivated by the same type of goals and both, as far as I can work out, optimised for happiness, not optimised for profit.
lordmatty | 14 years ago | on: Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?
I got stock options in exchange for sweat as a consultant in what is now a NASDAQ listed company. Great deal, which netted about a 10x profit over the money Id have been paid. Of course, not without it's risks, but as a freelancer I feel my risk was limited.
lordmatty | 14 years ago | on: The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dustbin of history
The guy talks about tired analogies, whilst making one that looks positively sleep deprived in his headline and conclusion!
lordmatty | 14 years ago | on: Awesome web development productivity tools
All of these Apps are small, focused and free...
Loving LiveReload, Mou and Launch Effect.
lordmatty | 14 years ago | on: JSONH: JSON Homogeneous Collections Compressor
Sounds excellent - would love to create an ObjC server/client library to take advantage of this!
lordmatty | 14 years ago | on: HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
Great to see some positive press on HP. Hope HP can innovate their way out of the current slump.
lordmatty | 14 years ago | on: Apple Reveals Siri Voice Interface: The “Intelligent Assistant”
I can see this starting to take over simple tasks. Love the idea of being able to dictate a reminder, or ask the phone to wake me up at 6AM (7AM?!).
How much quicker is it ask those questions, rather than navigate to the App, input the info? Lots!
lordmatty | 14 years ago | on: StackMob now supports secondary indexes
Can anybody share experiences on using StackMob?
lordmatty | 14 years ago | on: TestFlight SDK Released
TestFlight are doing excellent work - congrats guys!
lordmatty | 14 years ago | on: Apple Patent: Mini-Projectors Could Soon Come to iPads, iPhones
Just because they have a patent doesn't mean they will manufacture a product.
Perhaps they just don't want their competitors to put it in their products, for example.
lordmatty | 15 years ago | on: Google APIs Discovery Service: one API to find them all
That was a joke.
lordmatty | 15 years ago | on: Google APIs Discovery Service: one API to find them all
How do you discover the discovery service?
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ICYMI, next best option is plugging your iPhone into MacBook via Lightning cable so the tethering connection doesn't drop and your iPhone stays charged.