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by Zev 16y ago
..which is why Joe Hewitt's Three20 framework was such a big deal. Three20 wasn't a big deal because it was different from Apple. The noise behind Three20 is that it was (and still is, to a large degree) a cluttered mess of a framework
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by Zev 16y ago
..outside the safety of Cocoa, there isn't even a standard way to ask an object what class it is or what selectors is responds to. Yes, there is. The Objective-C run time lets you do all of this. It is in C and not Objective-C. But, NSObj
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by Zev 16y ago
FWIW, iOS and open source aren't opposites. It is quite possible to have open source apps (or even use an open source library) on the app store - just avoid the GPL. My rationale: I contribute to Mobile Colloquy, an IRC client for iOS that
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by Zev 16y ago
You haven't answered my question. How is 30 billion different from 60 billion? Why would investors be okay with 30 billion cash in hand but not 60 billion? Whats the magic threshold? 31 billion? From the Back to the Mac event, Apple sold 13
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by Zev 16y ago
You're absolutely kidding yourself if you think that Apple is failing as a company. We haven't even heard sales numbers about Verizon iPhone yet! And the GSM iPhone 4 has (and continues) to sell pretty damn well, even after antennagate. I t
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by Zev 16y ago
I think its safe to say they agree with you already. From the post: Even after making it easy to skip levels, the game will likely still be too challenging for some players’ tastes, but we’re OK with that. It’s a puzzle game, not a scenic
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by Zev 16y ago
An JSON / XML / YAML parser? The fastest JSON parser that I know of is implemented in ~1800 lines of Objective-C: https://github.com/johnezang/JSONKit . Its about 2-3x faster than the yajl bindings for Objective-C are, in my testing.
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by Zev 16y ago
Casasanta has a history of this sort of thing: http://kingscourt.posterous.com/more-from-john-casasanta-mac... is another example. And to me, it sounds like the only reason this isn't extortion is because Dan didn't go along with Casasant
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by Zev 16y ago
I have a some good friends who work at Black Pixel and had the fortune of meeting Daniel Pasco (and others on the Black Pixel team) a few days ago, just after MacWorld. They're all class acts and damned good at what they do. I wouldn't hesi
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by Zev 16y ago
Perhaps I misread the tone of " I'm sure it's a great tool though ". Apologies, in that case.
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by Zev 16y ago
WebObjects doesn't necessarily mean Java.
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by Zev 16y ago
As little as I like IB, it being a black box is not one of my complaints. A xib is just an xml file. You can open it up in a text editor and see what happened. You can copy the xib, set an option and diff the two files and clearly see what
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by Zev 16y ago
Also, what happens if you set all your background colours to white in IB In that case, its easy for marketing to do it themselves. IB is a UI, after all. You click on a field and select the new color from the wheel a bunch of times. The a
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by Zev 16y ago
So the name's free now? ;)
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by Zev 16y ago
If you're on a Mac, you can do it with Quartz Composer: http://www.cybero.co.uk/QuartzComposerJavaScriptGuide-Eng/in... If you do make a Quartz composition out of this, please do share it!
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by Zev 16y ago
As a rule, or what Apple has historically done? Because those are two different things. And are there any laptops with a resolution higher than 1920x1200?
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by Zev 16y ago
Justin.tv is looking for interns (and new grads)! We're doing some pretty cool things right now, if I dare say so. JTV is based in SF (SoMA if you want to be slightly more specific). See http://jobs.justin.tv/software-engineer-intern.html
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by Zev 16y ago
The rumors come from a BGR[1] post saying that the playbook may or may not use the Dalvik VM, without bothering to look into the rest of the SDK and if it would work with QNX or not. 1. http://www.bgr.com/2011/01/26/exclusive-blackberry-pl
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by Zev 16y ago
..this release is similar to iOS 3.2. (3.2 was iPad-only, 4.0 and 4.1 were iPhone/iPod-only, and 4.2 finally unified the two branches.) My guess is that iOS 3.2 for the iPad was a fork of an earlier version of iOS, worked on by a separate
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by Zev 16y ago
I've heard that Apple still maintains WebObjects for Objective-C for the iTunes Store (and for Radar).
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by Zev 16y ago
..that would make things like phone to phone payments possible.. Maybe I'm missing something, but, why couldn't Square do something like this on their own already?
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by Zev 16y ago
TPB is unique in that it hosts it's own tracker. A much larger majority of (public) sites do not do this and only serve to index the same data and show ads to people who click on a link from google. And they still have trouble from the RIAA
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by Zev 16y ago
My guess is that the theory behind this is - Robots.txt : File that robots look for, to get certain kinds of information about a site :: Humans.txt : File that people look for, certain kinds of to get information about a site.
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by Zev 16y ago
That doesn't say anything about making a bootable partition. Just that it involves the MBR (rather than EFI, which Mac uses by default), somewhere.
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by Zev 16y ago
It matters because you need the extra step and the article didn't mention doing so. Not that there isn't a way around it.
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by Zev 16y ago
2) they're using CopyCatX, a drive duplicator, instead of the disk utility. Does this matter? It matters; Disk Utility doesn't create a bootable image.
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by Zev 16y ago
My point about AppKit is that AppKit doesn't exist on the iPhone or iPad. You need to use UIKit instead.
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by Zev 16y ago
Well, in a sense you are right, however before starting to code an Iphone game you should learn Objective-C The language is the easy part; you can pick up Obj-C in a day, if you have any reasonable experience in any other language. The fr
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by Zev 16y ago
Watches: Maybe as quaint jewelry, but the correct time is on your smartphone, which is pretty much always in your hand. I don't know about anyone else, but, I like wearing a watch. When I need to know what time it is and look at my watch,
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by Zev 16y ago
Mobile is no longer a gold rush where you can get money for putting out any random crap, but, there is still plenty of money to be made.

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