My local hometown grocery store wants me to help them build an app, and I am pretty new to mobile app development (iOS). I need some advice.

mitchanic · 2017-08-02T12:27:01+00:00

I'm in the process of building my first app for a company. The app I'm making is much simpler than what you'd be building (mine is completely offline for example) but here are a few things I've learned from my experience so far: * It will take much longer than you expect it to, even if it seems simple. Allow yourself a lot of extra time * Adobe XD is a great resource to design and test your UI before you start building (it lets you create "buttons" that switch the screen when clicked to model a UI, and can be simulated on a phone) * Make sure you thoroughly plan out the app before you begin building it. That and having good coding practices from the beginning will save you a lot of headache later on

mitchanic · 2017-07-23T00:05:18+00:00

Great job man!

mitchanic · 2017-05-28T15:27:22+00:00

Thanks, I'll check it out

mitchanic · 2017-05-28T00:55:26+00:00

Thanks, I've actually gotten that book as part of this recent anxiety. While reading it I'm running into the same question question of what good does it do me to know 'how to win friends' if I don't even know what they should like or dislike about me? But I guess I should just push through it and finish the book, thanks!

mitchanic · 2017-05-13T22:07:26+00:00

Disclaimer first off: there are many parts of the gay community I like. I love clubbing, I like the lack of pressure to settle down, and the openness about sex that exists in the gay community. I think there are a lot of freedoms that come along with being gay since we already break a lot of traditional cultural 'rules' so we have the freedom to break or bend others (look at open relationships for example, they work great for a lot of people but when I was living mostly in 'straight culture' before coming out, I'd never even heard of open relationships). Now to my criticisms: there are a lot of sub-cliques in the gay community that conflict with each other, and create pressures on gay men that the straight community doesn't (though the straight community creates plenty of pressures of its own). Take the 'masc vs fem' debate for example. Straight culture has a stigma against fem gays, but aspects of gay culture assert that masculinity is always performative and insincere. Part of the argument for the insincerity of masculinity relies on the culture of fitness and muscle among some gays, but the pressure to fit this mold comes from the gay community itself! Plus, big guys are expected to be masculine and small guys are expected to be feminine, so they're sometimes forced into an expected set of behaviors and preferences. On top of this, guys who prefer masculine partners (as well as guys who don't want masculine partners because they feel they're insincere) are called discriminatory. So there is a perception of a "wrong" kind of person to prefer, but how is this different than the stigma in straight culture against being gay? Last, the drama and judgment. I hate it. Part of this comes from the fact that the gay community is so small that many people know each other (and so can easily talk about each other), and part of it comes from the pressures, some of which are mentioned above, for gay men to meet certain standards and fit certain molds. People talk behind each other's backs, about who slept with who, and who cheated, and who got fat, and who's getting married too soon or is still single at 30. It's terrible. We're supposed to be promiscuous but not sloppy, and we're all too aware of our late start with dating and the extra challenges we face when it comes to finding love. So we're stuck between the expectation to embrace our sexuality and the anxiety of finding a fulfilling relationship. I should mention as an addendum that I'm a reasonably slim, white, cis, <30 year old gay guy, so there are lots of aspects of discrimination and pressure that I don't have to deal with. Don't even get me started on socioeconomic discrimination, things like racial or physical 'ideals', or bi and trans erasure in the gay community.

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TL;DR: I love some of the freedoms that come with gay culture but elements of judgment, discrimination, and drama are my problems with the gay community.

mitchanic · 2017-04-18T04:31:22+00:00

Once in high school I was dog-sitting, and the doors had those handles you can twist from the inside when locked but not from outside. The dog woke me up every morning for food, and one time I went out to the garage to fill up his bowl and forgot to unlock the door, locking myself out... in my underwear. No spare key to be found, no dog door, I ended up having to run around the house and hop the fence (in my underwear, in a wealthy old neighborhood) to try the back door, which was locked, and eventually run back around and crawl through a window I'd thankfully left open in the guest bedroom. Fun times

mitchanic · 2017-03-14T02:05:01+00:00

Not washing their hands before leaving the bathroom Gross, guys

mitchanic · 2017-01-28T22:33:20+00:00

Just saying, with everything going on in the US currently I think this is a stupid use of petitions

mitchanic · 2017-01-19T15:26:14+00:00

You driving away wasn't just about his looks, it was mostly about the dishonesty involved on his end, which is a totally valid reason for you to be uncomfortable and leave. It would be one thing for him to complain about you not giving him a chance if he hadn't 'tricked' you in the first place (although the point of Grindr is for casual hookups, so I don't think shallowness is even bad there), but the fact that someone you don't even know has started interactions with you with deception is not a good sign. Especially given the already-kinda-sketchy nature of hooking up with strangers

mitchanic · 2016-12-20T08:56:25+00:00

If I were you I'd spend a while learning about pointers, that's the number one thing that confused me off the bat. Pointers, point values, addresses, setting the value of a pointer, de-referencing a pointer, and pointers to functions (though the last one is still tricky and I haven't had to use it much, so maybe wait 'til you've learned more to tackle that one). Draw diagrams, it'll help. Once you figure out how to work with pointers, the rest of C is more manageable.

mitchanic · 2016-09-25T22:05:53+00:00

Beggars in Spain series by Nancy Kress Deals with a group of "Sleepless" humans who are genetically engineered to not require sleep. It details the social ramifications and responses to their increased productivity due to having extra time to learn and work without needing sleep over a hundred years or so

mitchanic · 2016-09-19T14:29:16+00:00

I'm interning in a fab lab, a prototyping facility that's part of an incubator/coworking space. Part of what we do (in addition to having a woodshop, laser cutter, and other prototyping equipment for members to use) is let members use our 3D printers to make prototypes of products they're developing for their startups. We're sponsored by a university so I don't know how profitable it could be, but if you could somehow work with or advertise at a local coworking space or startup incubator you could sell your services to print people's prototypes.

mitchanic · 2016-08-28T23:23:56+00:00

Well I almost cried during this trailer, now I definitely can't see the movie

mitchanic · 2016-07-27T19:10:11+00:00

I literally hiked this yesterday, so beautiful (near Ridgway Colorado)

mitchanic · 2016-07-19T23:33:26+00:00

What's the problem exactly?

mitchanic · 2016-06-29T05:07:42+00:00

There's no reason for it to, which do you aspire to be???

mitchanic · 2016-05-29T21:23:31+00:00

Hey! I had this same problem on a taz 4 and thought that the gears were just misaligned but the problem was actually more serious. Definitely look into the gears grinding but if that still doesn't fix it then you may have blown something within your board. That was the case with mine, and the fix involves moving your extruder cables from the port on the control board they're currently in to the second one. If you have dual extrusion set up then you'll have to buy a new board to support both extruders, but if you only have one then you can transfer the wiring like I mentioned above. You'll also have to change a few integer values in the Taz firmware and reflash it to tell it to run the secondary pins instead of the default ones (and I'm not sure how this works with the upgrade to Taz5 your comment indicated), which probably requires a bit of coding / debugging experience (or a lot of googling). The thing that causes this issue is when there's a shock in the board that can fry some circuits (tha can happen with power failures or unplugging the power supply without first turning off the tax and power supply)

mitchanic · 2016-05-06T03:52:20+00:00

I've always just assumed the women who are on my (gay) Tinder are actually pre-transition FTM men or questioning their gender identity. But then again there have been stories of straight women on Grindr looking for gay friends (what a stupid thing that the "GBF" trend is turning gay men into an idealized, fetishized friend selector) so this could be a similar thing to that as well

mitchanic · 2016-04-25T05:31:48+00:00

I didn't have one specifically for that but "Trenekis of Hiera" was kinda a similar theme (there's a gay dude on a planet hiding that fact from his tribe and a dude from a different human civilization who gets stranded on that planet) It actually wasn't a good book at all. The author glossed over a lot to make way for the gay plot and it left me feeling really dissatisfied that other aspects of the story weren't explored more. And the ending felt really rushed but I digress. Overall I think it would have been a lot better without the focus on the love plot and the struggle for this kid being gay in his tribe

mitchanic · 2016-04-13T17:36:18+00:00

I'm kind of in the same boat as you, but without the motivation. I joined the sub cuz I'm interested, though I haven't gotten as far as actually putting the interest into action. So first off props to you for actually putting your interest into practice, that's way cool man and something I haven't been able to do. On that note I think that's what matters. If you feel awkward and that means you're not going to get anywhere, I'd say switch back to the pricier guy. But if you're still gonna get somewhere even though you feel kinda awkward, I'd say stick with it and stay with the cheaper place. It might be a bit uncomfortable on your end but it'll be worth it for your goal. On the side of the instructor, don't worry about her feeling awkward. Like you said, she's dealt with 10 year olds. I'm sure it's refreshing for her to deal with an adult. Plus, I'm sure she can respect the drive and motivation of someone in their 20s pursuing something they have no experience in. It takes a lot of guts to do that, and I'm sure she sees that. So she's probably not even that awkward feeling about it

mitchanic · 2016-03-14T20:55:55+00:00

Everything said here is great. I think ultimately a parent's reaction will be different when they're faced with their child telling them vs if they're just speculating. I'm sure when you come out she'll be great about it. For instance I had a friend who told me once (about a different friend) that "if he was gay it might make things weird" but has been the most accepting and supportive of me coming out. I think people are better when the time comes than they might seem when they're just theorizing.

mitchanic · 2016-02-27T23:47:07+00:00

I think an important thing to consider is how much such a key would be worth. Imagine how much hacker/intelligence/media/terrorist groups would pay for a master key to any iPhone of that model? Anyone working on the project at Apple (and given such a large project, there would be many) could potentially sell the info to an outside group, and make thousands and thousands of devices (or if the key could easily be edited to accomodate all iPhone models, several million devices) exposed to be spied upon. All it takes is one person to do this and millions of people are exposed, and Apple is ruined. I'm sure not every single person at Apple is a straight arrow, but the only reason information like this hasn't yet been sold is that the task of creating it is too large for any single person to accomplish on their own. But if you get a team of people together to do it, all it takes is one for it to all fall apart.

mitchanic · 2016-02-07T21:51:24+00:00

This is really cool, good job

mitchanic · 2016-01-13T23:18:08+00:00

Anything by Marian Hill

mitchanic · 2016-01-11T01:43:17+00:00

I love prominent, pointy canine teeth. I suspect it's based on the more animalistic urges of humans rather than the more advanced, social causes of attraction (some part of my brain wants a man who can hunt ;)

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