As you will probably already know, Apple’s i OS 7.1 update recently became available. Along with a raft of revisions, security patches and other improvements there was one little feature I was particularly interested in: a new Mobile Safari property known as minimal-ui . Apple describes this as…

Have you ever wondered what the most popular colors are in each category of the iOS store? We did. So we crawled the iOS app store and grabbed the top 5 app icons in each category and ran a histogram analysis on each one to find which colors were used most often. What we found was very interesting.…

Nearly 5 years ago, Paul Graham first proposed the foundervisa. There has been a lot of discussionsince, but nothing has happened. Maybe he was too ambitious in asking for 10,000 startupvisas per year

Unicorn Jobs December 2013 (perspective of a postdoc) Summary Many creative technically-minded people want a dream “unicorn job” where they can get paid to spend most of their time hacking on their own projects. Bad news: Unicorn jobs don't exist, at least not for long. Good news: There are ways to…

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It's an oft-stated goal in introductory coding books and courses: to get you to think like a programmer. That's better than something overly specific and low-level like "to learn Java." It's also not

Much has been written about the meteoric rise and abrupt demise of Flappy Bird, the highly addictive mobile game that seems to have captured the world over the past couple of weeks. Dong Nguyen, an independent game developer in Vietnam, who launched the game obscurely last May, decided to take it…

On Tuesday, under pressure from the New Jersey auto dealer lobby to protect its monopoly, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, composed of political appointees of the Governor, ended your right to

I've been an iOS dev for 5 years and have always managed to avoid Android, until now. But believe it or not it's actually a lot of fun, and not that big of a jump from iOS development. Here is a bunch of things I learned building 7 Minute Workout for Android, I hope you find them useful. Note that…