pretz
Joined 18 years ago
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Comment · 8 years ago
Twitter Inc | San Francisco, CA | Consumer Video Client + Periscope | ONSITE, FULL-TIME
We're hiring on the Twitter Video and Periscope team for iOS, android, web, and backend. We own the entire Periscope app and everything in Twitter's clients that plays video including live, gifs, uploaded videos, and partnerships with big media companies.
We're a small diverse team making a big impact, with a huge audience, solid benefits, and a focus on work-life balance. My management chain is 50% women.
Feel free to reach out to me at https://twitter.com/apretz/ if you have questions!
Job listings: iOS: https://careers.twitter.com/en/work-for-twitter/201802/softw... Android: https://careers.twitter.com/en/work-for-twitter/201801/andro... Web: https://careers.twitter.com/en/work-for-twitter/201801/web-s... Backend: https://careers.twitter.com/en/work-for-twitter/201710/softw...
Comment · 10 years ago
> On September 9th, 2015 we received $127,827.01 from Kickstarter. This sounds like a lot of money, until we say that this week, November 22nd 2016, we have finally gotten out of debt. That’s 440 days of work after creating the product and running the Kickstarter before we made $1.
As someone who's spent their professional career working for venture-backed tech companies that hadn't yet made a profit, that sounds damn good. Many many companies never get that far.
Comment · 10 years ago
CocoaPods is much more akin to RubyGems or PyPI or CPAN, all of which are established as useful tools outside of OS level package managers. There's a need for a iOS/Cocoa package manager (that understands Xcode!) and CocoaPods has so far been the most successful.
Comment · 11 years ago
I've been using Virgin Mobile happily for coming on two years. $35/month for LTE on my iPhone 5s is pretty much impossible to beat. Plus, I can get tethering for $5/day if I need it while traveling.
Yes, it's Sprint, and their network isn't the best, but since I don't live in San Francisco I've rarely had problems.
Comment · 11 years ago
Warning: there's a section of this post called "Drive engagement"
Comment · 12 years ago
When showing off a brand new app with no existing userbase, please show or tell what your app does before waxing poetic about its beauty. If it hadn't been for the HN headline, I wouldn't have stayed on this page long enough to see what the app did.
CORRECTION: I missed the intro animation when I opened the link in a background tab, and somehow got left with a masthead image with just three icons on a blank phone, not even the download link it showed after I refreshed.
Comment · 12 years ago
While I'm excited to see Google Fiber push into Austin, I've been very happy with my 110 mbps down / 11 mbps up from local company Grande: http://mygrande.com/internet/compare. Austin is lucky to have actual competition among cable and ISP providers, unlike many other cities.
Comment · 12 years ago
iOS 8 apps can still be built to support iOS 7
Comment · 12 years ago
> "The SSL layer instead handled a raw file descriptor and, consequently, lifetime handling was not automatically synchronized ... We worked with the networking team and fixed this issue within hours."
Why on earth is Facebook writing their own SSL layer for iOS?
Comment · 12 years ago
I think you misspelled acquihired.
Comment · 12 years ago
It's worth noting that if you're always searching in a git repo, git-grep is pretty comparable to ack and you already have it installed.
my public key: https://keybase.io/pretz; my proof: https://keybase.io/pretz/sigs/38mbvDS7AnGctA1flNpg0B1cvP1aTQDxLc0_lD9uIAc