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rismay

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It's the default font on all Apple products and abbreviates to HN. My favorite variant is Ultra Light condensed. Unfortunately, a lot of people have problems reading such a light and tight typeface. Thus, I made an effort to use dynamic fonts in as many places as possible so that the font is the same size and weight as you would see in first party Apple apps.

Actually, I have had an iOS app using the client out for about 3 weeks. It was meant to be a tutorial on how to use Couchbase Lite to consume APIs. However, it's going through a complete rewrite to make it full featured. I use it to consume Hacker News. I have a version that allows me to sort and hide stories I've already read that is waiting for approval.

Github: https://github.com/wrkstrm/HelveticaNeue

App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/helvetica-neue-native-open/i...

I (briefly) took tax law in college. In the US, if you are a professional and you offer your services for free, there could be a tax liability past a certain amount of time. I always thought this had interesting complications for time banks. Anybody look into this?

Currently in San Franciscoc, CA. I would remote from Houston, TX, Or relocate to Austin, TX. Full Time. Stack: Objective-C, Swift, Rails, Backbone, D3, Javascript. Website: www.rismay.com Contact: cmonterroza@wrkstrm.me Personal Github Organization: github.com/wrkstrm Personal Github Account: github.com/rismay

I am passionate about location based apps and the quantified self movement. I am looking to join a team which takes mobile seriously.

I got started by programming a prototype for an ambient location platform. As a result, I am fluent with CoreLocation, CoreBluetooth (iBeacons) and MapKit. However, I am now fluent in general Mac and iOS programming. Recently, I picked up Rails, Backbone and D3.

Seriously love this product. What the Realm guys are missing is the fact that Couchbase Lite is really a replication protocol overlayed SQLite. Couchbase Lite did not always use SQLite and is in the process of switching to ForestDB as the underlying persistent store. As far as API's go, I have not seen a more intuitive design than CBL's. It almost makes too much sense. Once you get Sync Gateway setup, you have a mini iCloud. Watch the CloudKit presentations and you'll see that CBLite solves what Apple is leaving up to developers as far as Sync goes.

Actually, this was discussed at the last session of Alt Conf. WebObjects is "Server Side Swift." (SSS) If you look at EVERYONE that presented during the keynote, they all had a hand in developing WebObjects. I think this would be the Apple play:

* A lot of App developers develop iOS first as it is (Think Instagram). * The entire toolchain is provided by Apple. From IDE to digital distribution. * However, they have to go outside of the Apple ecosystem for Servers. * What if Apple could provide - along with distribution a server side EC2 style service. * Then, developers could use Swift in the cloud and their apps.

Here is the kicker: * Now developers can develop Web Apps to push to Android and Windows phone devices with a completely Apple toolchain.