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bio	website	heroicsoftware.net
	location	New York, NY
	age	33
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Freelance software engineer/developer/programmer in New York City. Focused on native iPhone app development, but I could probably make you a Mac app if you ask real nice.

Among other things, I'm responsible for

FatWatch, the best Hacker's Diet tool for iPhone,
MetroCost, a tool to save you money on public transit, and
Fingerpaintball, a brick breaking game designed for iPad.

My company is Heroic Software. I have a blog, a tumblelog, and I tweet.

	1,691 reputation	bio	website	heroicsoftware.net	visits	member for	2 years, 7 months
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Aug 17	awarded	Nice Question
Aug 17	answered	Are there any Phone Interview equivalents to FizzBuzz?
Aug 17	asked	Is there an analogue to “FizzBuzz” for choosing clients?
Aug 15	comment	Is SQL important if I know ORM frameworks well? @Craig I agree there's too much out there to learn, but a programmer really ought to have a basic knowledge of the levels below where he is working.
Aug 14	comment	Is SQL important if I know ORM frameworks well? I agree: if you don't know SQL, you often write dozens of lines of code to do what you could have done with a single SQL query.
Aug 14	comment	Is SQL important if I know ORM frameworks well? +1 No free lunch! What's with all the questions basically asking if ignorance is OK?
Aug 5	comment	How can I help open source win in the future against closed systems like iPhone and iPad? @LieRyan let us continue this discussion in chat
Aug 5	comment	How can I help open source win in the future against closed systems like iPhone and iPad? Those aren't forks.
Aug 5	comment	How to browse an open source project efficiently? Announcing Git Support for Google Code Project Hosting!
Aug 5	comment	How can I help open source win in the future against closed systems like iPhone and iPad? There are a lot of Linux distros, but they are all using the same kernel, not forking their own. The question is, how many of these Android forks will see patches go back upstream to Google? It doesn't seem like Google is managing the project in a way that is amenable to that.
Aug 4	comment	How can I help open source win in the future against closed systems like iPhone and iPad? True, but if it weren't for Apple, Objective-C would likely still be an obscure footnote in the story of C++.
Aug 4	comment	How can I help open source win in the future against closed systems like iPhone and iPad? Lots of forks isn't necessarily a good sign, it indicates a fragmented community.
Aug 4	comment	How can I help open source win in the future against closed systems like iPhone and iPad? I read the question title as "win the future", and thought Obama's slogan was catching on after all.
Aug 4	answered	How can I help open source win in the future against closed systems like iPhone and iPad?
Aug 4	comment	How can I help open source win in the future against closed systems like iPhone and iPad? What does the future look like if you win? It's hard to suggest solutions when you haven't defined the goal concretely.
Aug 2	awarded	Mortarboard
Aug 2	answered	My Dad is impatient with the pace of my learning to program. What do I do?
Aug 2	comment	Does searching documentation and samples look bad? The cargo cult analogy has helped me understand so many problems with the world.
Aug 2	awarded	Good Answer
Aug 2	comment	What to do when your “failing” project is actually “successful”? Also: jwz's Groupware Bad. (Sorry for all the links, I'm having fun re-reading them now...)