Peter Maurer

@petermaurer

Jack of · Trying to make it as a comic book artist seemed risky, so I played it safe and became an indie developer.

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  1. Oct 13

    …it was 3+ orders of magnitude faster, because someone at Apple knows how to sort strings. Anonymous Apple engineer, you rock!

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  2. Oct 13

    Example: I had a metadata duplicate search mechanism that worked, but was slow. So I translated it into a string sorting problem, and boom…

  3. Oct 13

    Stories about standard CS problems in job interviews remind me that I'm an amateur. I'm glad modern frameworks solve these problems for me.

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  4. Oct 13

    On the internet, you're either 110% good or 110% bad.

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  5. Oct 13

    So if you link to that as new info, you're not. You're linking to an opinion piece.

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  6. Oct 13

    …other apps were crap. I never used any of them, but I was in touch with Kapeli customers who seemed to like his non-Dash apps.

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  7. Oct 13

    We don't know which account is which, but it strikes me as unlikely that the Dash account is the new one. We also don't know if all of his…

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  8. Oct 13

    I wonder why that MacRumors comment on Dash got so much traction. It contains facts we already knew + conjecture + opinions on app quality.

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  9. Oct 11

    And I've noticed the same trend in Xcode. So now I wonder if we should use that color more often in our apps to appear hip.

  10. Oct 11

    Speaking of iTunes, its rating stars are blue now. Theme- and highlight-color-ignoring blue/selectedMenuItemColor. Is that the new standard?

  11. Oct 11

    Oh hey, iTunes still does that thing where the drag & drop highlight is different from the selection highlight. The iTunes UI wins for once!

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  12. Oct 11

    Got the app's name wrong. It was called DockView.

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  13. Oct 11

    TIL I'm a member of a Twitter list called "Angsty Tech". What does it meeeeeeeaaan?

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  14. Oct 10

    Yikes, this could be misinterpreted — I should add that I was _not_ talking about Kapeli in those last two tweets.

  15. Oct 10

    …about those, though — unless the person tries to sell the whole web of apps/companies to you. :D (Fishy, but not against the rules, AFAIK.)

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  16. Oct 10

    Side-side note: One person operating several dev accounts/companies (sometimes competing with themselves) isn't unhead of. You rarely hear…

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  17. Oct 10

    (I know about DockViewer, because we discussed a DockViewer vs. Moom incompatibility with him years ago.)

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  18. Oct 10

    …apps exactly triggered Apple's fraud thing, but that's basically a character flaw of mine and really none of my business.

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  19. Oct 10

    As a side note, some of the Kapeli apps mentioned in coverage on this, such as DockViewer, were actual Bogdan apps. So I'd be curious what…

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