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by armadsen 6y ago
At 17:57 there's a question about using the communications board to get programs from Apple. Woz talks about wanting to set up a way to download software over the modem, with billing handled automatically, so you don't have to go
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by armadsen 6y ago
Yep, and I happily spend a fair amount of my free time working on open source, as well as personal projects that I don't make any money from. I'm also currently helping a friend of mine learn to code just for fun and to give back.
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by armadsen 6y ago
This interesting to me. I spent the last 4 years teaching programming full time, and also have a decently high SO reputation. I've recently gone back to full time software development, and miss teaching. The main problem is that at $0.
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by armadsen 6y ago
We'll see. Off the top of my head, only Combine and SwiftUI are Swift only for now. And Combine has specific features that are explicitly meant to make it interop with ObjC (and @objc Swift) objects, e.g. KeyValueObservingPublisher. Th
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by armadsen 6y ago
I had the privilege of working with Beej for a couple years at my last job. He was one of my favorite coworkers I've ever had. Just great to be around and work with. Incredibly sharp, but also humble, easygoing, and eager to just solve
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by armadsen 6y ago
My full time job as an iOS developer is for a company that makes 100% of its income from app purchases. Mostly up front (our app is a plain old paid app), but we do have a couple in app purchases for optional extra "pro" features.
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by armadsen 6y ago
I'll go a step further. When I was in college, as an electrical engineering major, we were required to take a Matlab course in our first year. Matlab was used fairly heavily in courses where it was useful throughout the rest of my ma
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by armadsen 6y ago
> As a counter-example, when I was at Sago Mini, I was getting incredibly nitpicky and subjective feedback about the precise way in which to procedurally animate sheafs of wheat in a field in a game for toddlers. While the same culture o
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by armadsen 6y ago
Manual Reference Counting (aka Manual Retain Release) is obsolete in the sense that there's no reason for most people to use it, but it is still completely supported, and Apple themselves still have huge MRC codebases, including AppKit
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by armadsen 6y ago
My main (wired) headphones are 15 years old now, with zero degradation. My headphone amp, turntable, and CD player are roughly the same age or older. I have no plans to get rid of them anytime soon. My parents haven't passed any down t
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by armadsen 6y ago
You've missed it the second time around too, unfortunately. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectru... I have no idea when or if they'll do another batch, but at the very least a bun
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by armadsen 6y ago
Exactly. Obesity alone means ~40% of the population of the US, and ~30% of the UK have an underlying condition as far as COVID risk goes.
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by armadsen 6y ago
Because ObjC is a strict superset of C in the technical sense. That is: every valid C program is also a valid Objective-C program. Of course idiomatic ObjC is heavily tilted toward the non-C parts of the language (OOP features), but that do
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by armadsen 6y ago
Objective-C is the programming language that made me fall in love with programming, and led to my career for the past 14 years. I never met Brad Cox, but the work he did to create it has had a huge impact on my life. Watching his long inter
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by armadsen 6y ago
Oh, I definitely think the comparison would be unfair if price weren't part of the comparison. I'm just arguing that for me, the price premium of the AirPods Max is worth it, because they have things about them that make them more
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by armadsen 6y ago
I own Sony 1000XM3s, and have since they were released. I've really enjoyed them. However, I like my AirPods Max much better, mostly because of their better UX around pairing/multiple devices and better onboard controls (digital c
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by armadsen 6y ago
Yes, and that's part of my point. A brainwashed, irrational Apple fanatic should be convinced that Beats are magically amazing and worth whatever price Apple decides to charge.
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by armadsen 6y ago
This seems to have missed that I also talked about repairing cheap plastic Beats headphones recently. I don't really care if my headphones are made out of plastic or metal. I do care that they don't break easily. As a heuristic, f
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by armadsen 6y ago
Yep. I did a tiny bit of Fortran for antenna design and modeling in college in the 2000s. I noticed then that the professor -- who had been at my university since the late 50s -- and surrounding material (textbook, etc.) referred to program
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by armadsen 6y ago
> AirPods Max are aimed squarely at Apple devotees – of which there are millions – who simply could not bear to be seen with a pair of Beats headphones, even though Beats are superb. You see this all the time in critical reviews of Apple
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by armadsen 6y ago
You're not allowed to sell digital goods, including things like feature unlocks or paid upgrades, via your own payment mechanism (which Apple Pay requires). You have to use in app purchase so Apple can take their cut, and so the transa
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by armadsen 6y ago
The standard review prompt is actually presented by an Apple API, and it's designed so that developers only have some control over the details of its presentation. Basically you request it whenever you think it's appropriate, but
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by armadsen 6y ago
> Geekbench has also not traditionally been a benchmark used for x86 desktop chips, it's more commonly used to compare android and apple phones. This isn’t really true. Geekbench started out as a desktop (Mac) app. Originally it was
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by armadsen 6y ago
Yeah, it was definitely in 2012. I was there that year (was not in 2014), and remember briefly speaking with at least one of the Growl developers (might have been OP) about it. As I recall, they were (publicly) optimistic about the future o
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by armadsen 6y ago
All great design innovations seem dead obvious in hindsight. But they're not.
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by armadsen 6y ago
Growl existed before webOS, Android, and Windows 7.
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by armadsen 6y ago
The auto updates software you're thinking of is Sparkle, and it's still going strong. Still by far the most common way for Mac developers to do automatic updates for apps distributed outside the Mac App Store. https://s
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by armadsen 6y ago
AppleScript does work well for this. It might also be nice for somebody to write a little UNIX-y command-line app that just allows you to pop up a notification, and potentially get a response to it. Maybe I will...
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by armadsen 6y ago
I think he's suggesting that Apple would have donated them to Homebrew and MacPorts if they had asked. Seems extremely doubtful to me...
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by armadsen 6y ago
No. Even with Gatekeeper enabled, running binaries that you compile from source on your own machine doesn't require that they be notarized. As of Big Sur, they must be _signed_, but can be self-signed by a certificate you create locall

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