almata

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by almata 10y ago
Super interesting reading, thank you. Does anyone know similar papers on functional programming? I've sometimes found some that were much more difficult to read if you're not a mathematician.
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by almata 10y ago
Thanks guys. Actually I added the "correct me if I'm wrong" part because I suspected this could very well be the case :) You know, we're getting old, we forget the worst parts...
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by almata 10y ago
I'm pretty sure stevetrewick wasn't talking about this when he wrote "and realised that just to run hello world I would need to give Apple money and then do those things that you said". If you put it that way, it's
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by almata 10y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong (it's been a while), but I'd say you never needed to give Apple money to run your code on your device. You just needed to create a free developer account. The payment option was to publish apps in the
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by almata 12y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Meanwhile, let me keep thinking native gives better results...
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by almata 12y ago
I don't think it's the fact of charging money that makes the difference. The creator of Instapaper did also charge money for the app itself (I don't know current owners, but they still probably do). To be fair I also don&#x27
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by almata 12y ago
I don't know. I know apps requiring login as step zero have a higher rate of "installdeletes" (I myself do that usually). Not sure if the users who actually decide to stay (so, to login) are then "better users". It
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by almata 12y ago
There's one thing I totally disliked: I hate when I need to login as the very first required step. I (may) still don't know what the app does and I already have to login or create an account. To me, that's a bad user experien
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by almata 13y ago
"Ultimately, we're all amateurs." - Wow, that's something I've been thinking a lot lastly. It's true that a good developer can learn a new language (or technology, or even paradigm) in a quite short amount of t
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by almata 13y ago
Sligthly related to the part you find crazy, Google has their main European HQ in Ireland, basically because of the very low corporate taxes here, but guess what? It's impossible to buy a Nexus on Google Play from Ireland. If you try y