Hacker News: frenger

New comment by frenger in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2015)"

frenger — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 15:19:25 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Remote or near Amsterdam, Netherlands

I'm looking for a freelance iOS project in Swift, starting anytime from now onwards.

More information: http://iandundas.com/resume/

LinkedIn: https://nl.linkedin.com/pub/ian-dundas/90/156/91b

Code examples: I'm currently building an app in Swift 1.2 and ReactiveCocoa 3.0, I'm open-sourcing it here: https://github.com/iandundas/Tacks

About: I'm super interested in bringing quality designs to life as strong, functional and stable software. As a freelancer I've developed for iOS since 2010 (iOS3) and to-date I've shipped 18 diverse, native, apps (becoming comfortable with a wide range of iOS techniques and frameworks). Recently I worked on a few high-profile iPhone apps: a healthcare app for Philips, and two apps for Audi. I'm suited both to working on fast, simple prototypes that take only a few weeks, as well as architecting and building a full app across many months.

To contact me: contact@iandundas.com, skype: ian-dundas, twitter: @id, iMessage: +31610998215

New comment by frenger in "Firefox 29"

frenger — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:27:34 +0000

and what phone do you use?

New comment by frenger in "Why We Hate Google Glass – And All New Tech"

frenger — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 09:48:21 +0000

I think it's less fear of the unknown, more the fact that we've recently opened the Pandora's box of surveillance (in the public consciousness at least) and we know that this device will step up the pervasiveness by another large factor. People are uneasy, and to write this off simply as silly ignorance or lack of imagination is, I think, rather patronising.

New comment by frenger in "Man Walks Nearly 3000 Miles Through China"

frenger — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:04:43 +0000

> A lot of people look at the video thinking “I want to be free like that guy!” – but they don’t realize that I was driven by something, and maybe I was losing control over it.”

very interesting

New comment by frenger in "GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide"

frenger — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:21:29 +0000

Disgusting. A new low. Who the fuck do you think you are, UK & USA? You do not have the right to intrude the way you do.

New comment by frenger in "What's in my iOS toolbox? "

frenger — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:31:18 +0000

I feel way faster using appcode - their refactoring is so powerful.

New comment by frenger in "Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize"

frenger — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:43:32 +0000

See this huge American Nazi Party gathering at Madison Square Gardens: http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=7735 [1939]

New comment by frenger in "Germany's Privacy Stance Boosts Berlin's Tech Startups"

frenger — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:57:16 +0000

Cool, I didn't know that

New comment by frenger in "Germany's Privacy Stance Boosts Berlin's Tech Startups"

frenger — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:37:29 +0000

I know this is why I use Wunderlist (Berlin), rather than RTM or Things or similar (USA) - I'm more comfortable under their local privacy obligations. (In reality I don't know how much difference it makes?)

New comment by frenger in "A Slashdot comment on Google Fiber "no servers" clause (2012)"

frenger — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 10:01:36 +0000

A silly comment.

New comment by frenger in "Telegram protocol defeated. Authors are going to modify crypto-algorithm"

frenger — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 09:59:21 +0000

What about iOS? I wish there was one go-to secure messenger for iOS, and I thought telegram would be it.

Ask HN: How much data do mobile analytics frameworks collect?

frenger — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:41:57 +0000

Exactly how much data do mobile-analytic frameworks (such as Flurry etc) collect?

As a mobile app developer I'm often asked to add these opaque frameworks to my projects but, not wanting to be Part Of The Problem, I'm curious how much data (beyond the specific metrics you can tell it to track) they collect.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6917668

Points: 3

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New comment by frenger in "NSA surveillance: tech companies demand sweeping changes to US laws"

frenger — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:01:20 +0000

Can you recommend any? Snow Crash was awesome :)

New comment by frenger in "Privacy And Why It Really Matters"

frenger — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:24:28 +0000

They do, on the other hand, receive every URL you type via the auto-completion feature on the address bar.

New comment by frenger in "Our biggest gripes with OS X Mavericks"

frenger — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 10:09:23 +0000

I think clean install must be the answer tbh - I upgraded too. I'll let you know if I try it, maybe over the weekend.

New comment by frenger in "Our biggest gripes with OS X Mavericks"

frenger — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:05:17 +0000

I'm having real issues with the windows of certain specific apps (Chrome especially) either vanishing or retreating to the edge of the screen and becoming unmovable each time I lock the machine/it goes to sleep. Really annoying. Hopefully a bugfix soon!

p.s.: a fix I've found is changing the screen resolution (and back again) each time you unlock. hmmmmm.

New comment by frenger in "Show HN: Capture a screen area in OS X and automatically pin it"

frenger — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:02:03 +0000

CMD+Q is intended to quit: that's what CMD+W is for (for closing the current window).

New comment by frenger in "Why I’ll Never Return to Singapore"

frenger — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:16:00 +0000

Cool, let's move to Syria and mediate from there then. /s Choosing a nice place to live is important.

New comment by frenger in "NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide"

frenger — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:03:00 +0000

France hasn't built itself on a platform of French Exceptionalism. The USA demonstrably has.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

New comment by frenger in "NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide"

frenger — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 06:54:41 +0000

"Similarly Americans don't enjoy legal protections from the governments of other countries."

Yeah right.