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ryan gerard - Dang, girl

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Software magician, Hackasaurus, Love Machine. In that order. Awesome print from Michelephant. Dang, girl. from MICHELEPHANT on Square Market. Larr; Read More.

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ryan gerard - Time, Money, and Email

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Software magician, Hackasaurus, Love Machine. In that order. Time, Money, and Email. This is a repost of an article I wrote on Medium. When people talk about the future possibilities of BitCoin, one of the more practical ideas they talk about is how BitCoin could prevent email spam. Imagine if every email you sent cost fractions of a cent: it would be prohibitively expensive for spammers to send huge amounts of junk email, but it would still be cheap enough for the average person. The real email address ...

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ryan gerard - Test Your Product with Strangers, not Friends

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Software magician, Hackasaurus, Love Machine. In that order. Test Your Product with Strangers, not Friends. Got started in earnest in April 2011. We left our previous positions, and decided to work on this project full-time. We believed then, as we believe now, that fantasy sports as it stands is a poor mobile experience, and that the time is right for someone to innovate on the concept of fantasy sports on mobile. We had a decent sized list of beta testers ( 20). We ended up putting ads on craigslist as...

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ryan gerard - In-app Purchase Testing for iOS

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Software magician, Hackasaurus, Love Machine. In that order. In-app Purchase Testing for iOS. I’ve recently been working on integrating in-app purchasing for the upcoming iPhone app for Pickmoto. You have to follow are pretty well done in explaining to you how to use StoreKit and go through the process of making an in-app purchase, and the iTunes Connect documents. Do an excellent job of walking you through the steps to accept payments. Sign-in using this account on your device from Settings - Store.

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ryan gerard - Fixing the Testflight "Unable to download" error

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Software magician, Hackasaurus, Love Machine. In that order. Fixing the Testflight “Unable to download” error. If you’ve ever used Testflight to help track and manage the testing of your app, you may have run across the following error:. User tried to download your app. The app downloads, but fails to install, giving the generic error “Unable to Download Application”. I don’t know exactly why this error pops-up for some users, but I can now tell you how to fix it:. Open up the Organizer. Larr; Read More.

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ryan gerard - Ryan’s Favorite Things - July 2015

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Software magician, Hackasaurus, Love Machine. In that order. Ryan’s Favorite Things - July 2015. This is a repost of a newsletter I sent out on July 1st. Click here. If you’d like to join. This month, I watched Mad Max. It was a visually stunning movie, and absolutely worth watching in the theater if you get a chance. I’m also learning the intricate process and details around that most delicious meal, kabob koobideh. Lsquo;On Being’ interviews Maria Papova. 40 brilliant idioms from around the world.

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ryan gerard - Betable Hackathon Postmortem

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Software magician, Hackasaurus, Love Machine. In that order. I just finished the Betable hackathon. This weekend, and it was quite a well done event. As a refresher, Betable. Provides a platform for real-money gambling that can be integrated into any game or app. They recently received their gaming license from the UK, and this is their first hackathon. For this hackathon, Ben (my co-founder at Pickmoto. And you can sign-up at http:/ tweetchance.com. The game works like this:. Go to TweetChance.com.

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ryan gerard - About

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Software magician, Hackasaurus, Love Machine. In that order. Just kidding. I was born and raised around the Seattle area, attended UCLA, and am now living in San Francsico, living and breathing my startup, Pickmoto. I’m a tech generalist. I love playing with different languages and frameworks, building both client and server-side projects, and attending hackathons. I was an early employee (#7). And spent 4.5 years as a software developer there. I. Am now working full-time on my own startup,.

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ryan gerard - Ask me anything

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Software magician, Hackasaurus, Love Machine. In that order. Larr; Read More.

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ryan gerard — The Modern Day Sorcerer

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Model:a:3:{s:1:"c";s:5:"Theme";s:1:"a";a:16:{s:5:"title";s:14:"Tidy Theme 3.0";s:5:"theme";s:30445:". Software magician, Hackasaurus, Love Machine. In that order. The Modern Day Sorcerer. Which goes as far back as the 6th century BC. These enchantments, spells, and charms all have their root in one idea: transformation. It is the act of transforming reality that keeps us enthralled. It is, as Wikipedia puts. Richard Stallman and Gandalf the White. And the Raspberry Pi. When devices are connected and can ...