You're from the Bay Area and you think $60/hr is expensive? I charge the least out of contracting friends, and I charge a non-trivial amount more than that. I also don't live in or around San Francisco.

I have a 15" MBP and I run it at 2880x1800 (not in HiDPI mode) by using RetinaDisplayMenu. I've been working without an external monitor like this for ~6 months now.

Really? It's kind of usable but it requires being really close to the monitor. I find 1920*1200 more comfortable.

Does it really top out at $80k? I just moved here from Toronto and I was expecting ~$110k as an iOS dev with a couple years under my belt.

which company pays $110k in Vancouver?

I just moved here and I haven't been looking for work so I wasn't sure. This was just the number I had in my head. I guess I work too much with US clients :)

I talked to a Sr dev in a game tools company in Burnaby and he was making $85k.

The reality is that in Canada tech staff are costs. In silicon valley tech staff are assets.

Because I don't see it as torture. I find Objective-C to be a perfectly pleasant tool, and it allows me to do things that would be A) implausible or B) impossible were I to make webapps (or PhoneGap apps) instead.

I'm in. I wonder if we should just have a HN meetup around WWDC time.

I was wrong on the dates. The conference is the week of the 10th, not the 4th.

I was sitting at my Mac Book refreshing like crazy. I got a ticket.

Matasano's site mentions office culture. Are remote employees impossible to work out? I'd LOVE to get into this sort of thing, but I'm not a US citizen and I don't qualify for any visas.

If I get in touch, would you point me towards some resources even if it won't lead to employment?

Of course I will!

Fantastic! I dropped you (and Sean) a line.

I actually had a bit of trouble with this problem, it took a while to iron out the bugs. I copied down the triangle for reference but accidentally had 1 2 2 1 as the third row.

Took me about 15 minutes to do. Doesn't seem like an unreasonable question to ask.

The solution (in Objective-C)

- (NSArray)pascal:(int)n { if (n == 1) return @[@(1)];

NSArray array = [self pascal:n-1]; NSMutableArray* mArray = [@[] mutableCopy]; for(int i = 0; i < array.count+1; i++) { int r = i - 1; if (r >= 0 && i < array.count) [mArray addObject:@([array[r] integerValue] + [array[i] integerValue])]; else if (i < array.count) [mArray addObject:@(0 + [array[i] integerValue])]; else [mArray addObject:@(0 + [array[i-1] integerValue])]; }

return [mArray copy]; }