Zev

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by Zev 16y ago
Just make a symlink from the iOS Beta SDK location to the framework dir for Xcode 4 and you can use iOS 4.1's SDK.
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by Zev 16y ago
Or just LLVM 1.5 or LLVM 2.0, as there are C flags you can pass in that will make it so you no longer have to add ivars to your header and make @synthesize the implicit default.
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by Zev 16y ago
Agreed. But, I like it when I get to take it a step further; change a method's implementation while said method is in the middle of being called :)
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by Zev 16y ago
..but practically no one is using this for production code. Io isn't very fast, certainly not in comparison to MacRuby or IronRuby - or even YARV. It doesn't do all too well against Python or any other scripting language either. But, that
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by Zev 16y ago
Just remember, however many smart people there are on HN, there are just as many people who are very nice and more than willing to share what they know. And thats my favorite thing about HN; if I ever have a question about something (that I
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by Zev 16y ago
Say you have a pro account for larger photo sizes, and then your pro account expires. Neither you (or anyone else ) can access photos that you uploaded at their original sizes anymore. You're limited to 1024x768. The only way to get the ori
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by Zev 16y ago
IIRC, /classic will only count the votes of people who have been registered on HN for over a year.
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by Zev 16y ago
861 days and I'd like to have a rocking chair and a cane to shake at people who are complaining. Which, I suppose, is a complaint in itself. I suppose that if the cane's short enough, I could shake it at myself. But then it would be rather
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by Zev 16y ago
I entered college three years ago thinking almost the exact same way as you did. I even had to memorize a soliloquy from Shakespeare in my HS English class; How all occasions do inform against me... . Yet I'm about to enter my senior year
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by Zev 16y ago
...is there an easy way to update these examples to get them to work with iOS 4? Apple probably doesn't ship the SDK it targets anymore. Double click on the project name under "Groups & Files" and change the "Base SDK" setting from w
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by Zev 16y ago
You know that inner voice you have when reading, that mentally speaks what your eyes are reading? Tell it to shut up. When I read, at most, I'll say the first two words of a sentence every two to three sentences in my mind, before reading t
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by Zev 16y ago
NSString has plenty of methods to deal with this, and you get boxing for free between CFString and NSString. And that pesky char * that you get from C.
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by Zev 16y ago
The best way to hate a language is to implement it. It forces you to learn all the ins and outs of the language, every nook and obscure corner that something, somewhere, depends on.
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by Zev 16y ago
That said, if you're using clang for your production builds, you're a much braver soul than me. Hardly brave; I only use it personal projects (which target 10.6/64-bit Mac) and debug builds. Release/Ad Hoc/Distribution builds for what I w
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by Zev 16y ago
Apple is now suggesting that you use three-character class name prefixes, since they claim all the two character ones. So you saw that talk at WWDC as well? Every engineer from Apple that I've spoken to and asked about this has gone "What
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by Zev 16y ago
I don't understood why people think automatic deallocation = garbage collection = slow language. You can have reference counting without garbage collection. It's pretty obvious to a compiler when a variable has gone out of scope and can be
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by Zev 16y ago
Back when I expected to get some $ from an app I worked in the past on, I typically banked on 40 days after the payment period. I believe that the agreement says 45 days after the end of the payment period. From personal observation, the pa
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by Zev 16y ago
You're talking about their readability rip off In Safari, if you go to Help and then Acknowledgements, Apple explicitly mentions Arc90 and Readability. Does it also display the whole article on one page? Safari automatically loads the s
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by Zev 16y ago
Apps are simply more valuable than logos, period. It isn't too hard to make an app generator that pumps up generic apps in a similar way that icons can be made by slightly tweaking another preexisting icon. The value with apps is much the
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by Zev 16y ago
I'm a fan of writing your own; it isn't very hard (just send back some data in appWillTerminate: and a quick ruby/perl/python/cgi/whahtever script to parse it into results) and it lets you keep track of information like the OS or device typ
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by Zev 16y ago
...but I do not have enough time to do it. Neither do I, really. I don't go back to change something around unless I do have time.
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by Zev 16y ago
Too much, probably. For me, its not usually not related to reorganizing my code around. But, I'll nitpick over whitespace or brackets. I won't fix formatting up if I'm in the middle of working on something, but I'll make a mental note to co
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by Zev 16y ago
The life cycle is weeks... Only if your plan to make money is to make a cheap, one-time-use $.99 app. If you're working in a niche or two, you can make $100/day, consistent for months/years. Thats firsthand experience, by the way. Not me
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by Zev 16y ago
~$100/day is ~$100/day. Its nothing special, but if you have a couple apps that sell like that, you can make a decent living.
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by Zev 16y ago
Is there anything specific that you want to do? In some cases, there might be better books for you to be reading (like OpenGL books, if you want to make some types of games). And targeting Mac vs iOS is rather different in some ways (UIKit
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by Zev 16y ago
Ouch, it sounds like GPUs are a royal pain to work with. (Also: this little bit of perspective makes what you guys do seem even more awesome). Thanks for the details!
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by Zev 16y ago
GTK is a UI toolkit. Cocoa is more than just UI.
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by Zev 16y ago
VLC uses Sparkle for updates now. I think it was just added in 1.1.0.
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by Zev 16y ago
(I can explain if needed...) I'd personally be very interested in hearing some details about this, if you have a few moments to write something up (or even paste a few links to some mailing list posts or the like, somewhere that I can do
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by Zev 16y ago
I don't know the exact details (or, this may be all there is to it), but, I've seen a few people mention that votes below -4 are still counted, but the total will never be shown anything lower. IIRC, someone compared it to the (in)famous

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