AshFurrow

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by AshFurrow 15y ago
I'm a developer because I want to develop software, and by working for someone else, I'm paying them (with my time) to deal with all the nonsense I don't want to do. Things like marketing, infrastructure, support, etc... I'm employing my em
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
37signals reference in the article notwithstanding, they're right. When you stop treating every opportunity to interact with your users as an opportunity to interact with your users, what are writing?
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Young Software Developer Learns Joys of Beta Testing(ashfurrow.com)
3 points by AshFurrow 15y ago|0 comments
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
I didn't say it was a better product - I said it's because consumers feel it's a better product (implicitly, a better product for them). I don't want one smartphone to rule them all; I want a smartphone that suits my needs. I'm often frustr
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
Mmmhmm ... I actually wrote what I thought was a fair article describing the current state of Android vs. iOS and ended with a call for Android to become awesome enough for me to switch. That's not "Android sucks, haha."
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
The Future of Emacs/Vi doesn't matter. The Present Does.
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
Because I only ever get to discuss the topic in flamewars online and speaking to an actual person was very refreshing.
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
Right ... the tired argument that people only buy Apple products because of marketing. It couldn't be that consumers feel like it's a better product, could it?
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
>>> the Android "Present" is always a few steps ahead and some of us like it that way. Ah, that explains Android's clear and longtime dominance over iOS in the smartphone market, then.
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
What's really interesting is this applies to closed source solutions with a terrible user experience. PhotoShop is awful, but still better than the Gimp.
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The Future of Android/iOS Doesn't Matter. The Present Does.(ashfurrow.com)
5 points by AshFurrow 15y ago|25 comments
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
Referring to the USD as a "secure asset" made me giggle a bit.
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
I think the biggest problem I made with this particular post was conflating it with a code sample. Few people who probably argue that OOP is the only way to code. But when faced with an example of another way, people are focusing on that sp
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
>>> Writing well (and creating useful posts) requires the same attention to craft that coding does. Yeah, for sure. And rushing through writing a quick response when I should be heading out the door for work was probably a bad i
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One of the Worst Bits of Programming Advice I ever Got(ashfurrow.com)
13 points by AshFurrow 15y ago|13 comments
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Words are to writing as statements and expressions are to code. Both can be art.(coffeetimerapp.com)
1 points by AshFurrow 15y ago|0 comments
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
"Also, in Objective-C you should never user the Garbage Collection feature." Why not? On the Mac, the garbage collection process is offloaded to another CPU. Any performance hit is more than made up for the fact that developers probably mes
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
I think that if you master UIView and MVC as Apple prescribes it, you learn the conventions you need for proper memory management in ARC. Knowing the conventions is going to suffice. My argument wasn't to go and be naive about memory manage
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by AshFurrow 15y ago
Exactly. That's why you have to pay the $100 for the dev license - to get Xcode 4.2 beta.
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How to Write Good iOS Apps(coffeetimerapp.com)
171 points by AshFurrow 15y ago|62 comments
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Student's Thoughts on iPhone Development(atteroignorantiam.blogspot.com)
2 points by AshFurrow 17y ago|0 comments