Greenisus

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by Greenisus 12y ago
I haven't spent any money on Boom Beach either, but it can take over 2 hours to train troops if you're at max level using all tanks (4 per boat at 36 minutes each = 144 minutes).
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by Greenisus 12y ago
Good point, but I'd worry about overlap, since you'd likely be touching two icons at once with an approximate touch. I suppose you could take the center point between the two touches and expand on whichever icon that lands on (wi
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by Greenisus 12y ago
That's a clever approach to widget-izing apps, but I suspect that using the pinch gesture on such a small touch target could be problematic. In the iOS Human Interface Guidelines, Apple suggests that your touch targets have a minimum s
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by Greenisus 12y ago
This is certainly very impressive, but I don't think I'd ever actually use it. Two things that I didn't really like: 1. Tons of generated code in -drawRect: 2. When the UIButton was created with the background image, it look
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by Greenisus 12y ago
That's generally true, but I would say that in some instances you can substitute one book for another. For instance, books on a particular programming topic are often interchangeable.
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by Greenisus 12y ago
I don't understand all the hate in this thread. This is a clever and creative use of technology that combines a favorite toy (iPad) with the one thing it lacks: physical interaction with real world objects. From what I understand (I&#x
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by Greenisus 12y ago
I love this. I found AFNetworking 2.0 to be a bit overcooked (meaning it was far more flexible, but also far less easy to learn to use; nothing against mattt, it has really come a long way towards feeling like an official Cocoa lib, and NSH
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by Greenisus 12y ago
Most iOS developers prefer to use composition (categories + swizzling) over subclassing because subclassing can have unexpected side effects depending on what you subclass. (I haven't tried subclassing UIApplication, so I don't d
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by Greenisus 12y ago
I agree with the parent. The Time Profiler data is more important in my opinion than the Energy Usage for something like this. I worry about energy usage when hardware is involved (Core Location, networking in general, accelerometer) but id
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by Greenisus 12y ago
In general, people avoid subclassing in Cocoa/Cocoa Touch because you often don't know the implementation of the parent class and what effect using a subclass might have (is the parent a class cluster, etc). Many Cocoa/Cocoa
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by Greenisus 12y ago
It doesn't seem too frequent to me, but I often hear of languages first here on HN.
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by Greenisus 12y ago
I'm inclined to believe this, but I'm skeptical of Google Analytics numbers being deflated. Wouldn't people notice the data not being consistent with other tools or their own web server logs?
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by Greenisus 12y ago
This is very cool. I made the Rackspace and Slicehost apps back in the day and I always wanted to make a tool like this to manage Rackspace servers. Unfortunately I never got around to it.
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by Greenisus 13y ago
The way this is written doesn't sound like _why at all to me.
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by Greenisus 13y ago
The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit, so they may not care too much about monetization.
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by Greenisus 13y ago
I've been developing in Objective-C for years now and I didn't know you could declare a method without explicitly stating a return type. I imagine many other people don't know that either, so I'd argue that saying -(id)d
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by Greenisus 13y ago
I'm looking forward to trying this. KVO is very powerful (I used it extensively in my last app: Well), but it's delicate. Registering/unregistering, making sure you write methods to properly fire KVO events for collections, e
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by Greenisus 13y ago
I've wanted them to do this for years, and I know I'm not the first person to think of it. I wonder what made them decide to finally try out a user experience like this.
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by Greenisus 13y ago
Does anyone know if this is an issue at the Foundation API level (affecting any apps using NSURLConnection, for example) or if it's a Safari issue?
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by Greenisus 13y ago
I think the real answer is that human beings are reviewing the apps. (Machines now at least check for apps making private API calls and stuff like that, but that wasn't the case in the beginning of the App Store.) There are a lot of d
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by Greenisus 13y ago
I love it, but I have one suggestion: show the employee's name on both sides. For some reason, I have a hard time remembering names (but never forget faces), so I often glance at badges to try and remind myself what the person's n
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by Greenisus 13y ago
I was rejected in a similar way for my very first iPhone app many years ago. I wrote the Slicehost app, and it had a tab for managing DNS. I had a friend draw the icons for me, and for DNS I went with a globe. The globe my friend drew looke
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by Greenisus 13y ago
It looks amazing. I'm buying it right now.
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by Greenisus 13y ago
If you want Twitter to be more like Facebook, why not just use Facebook? I agree that I'd like for it to be easier to dive into a conversation. It's a lot better than it was years ago, but I still struggle with the UI for that som
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by Greenisus 13y ago
My favorite quote: "the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their oper
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by Greenisus 13y ago
That's interesting but I'm not sure launch date should be the date that determines when it's fair for you to have a name. FiftyThree's Paper is no doubt the better one (I was at WWDC and applauded them when they won the
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by Greenisus 13y ago
Yeah, I suppose it's subjective. I personally think the RapGenius result is better, but you make a valid point about the performance and simplicity of the AZLyrics result.
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by Greenisus 13y ago
What should Google do in this situation? I fully understand them murdering Rap Genius in their indexes, but it also hurts Google since Rap Genius actually has the best content. First result for "jay-z holy grail lyrics" Google:
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by Greenisus 13y ago
Yeah I'd love to see that. This results in this survey sound nothing like what I hear from my friends around here.
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by Greenisus 13y ago
Speak for yourself :) I moved here 5 years ago from the South (Memphis, TN) and I'm never going back.

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