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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Realtime audio DSP seems like about the last thing that in-browser JavaScript was designed to do well. Janky audio is unnacceptable in a way that janky visuals aren't. It totally kills the experience. Without very strong guarantees abo
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
If nothing else, why not make the licenses non-transferrable and auction the available licenses? Seems like they're missing out on an easy source of income by letting third parties benefit from the restricted supply.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
PDF: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
The really sad thing is how many great ideas must get forgotten because they were developed in secret and didn't align with the commercial interests of the company paying for it.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Thanks for the advice and references. Some great starting points there. I hadn't thought of checking out local universities, but will definitely try to do that!
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Ask HN: How to keep up on research relevant to HCI and Product Design?
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
I think Chromebook wins there with "chromebook how to use"
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
You can't at the moment, but you will be able to soon: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24003918/does-swift-have-...
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
You are free to use one of the many tableview helper libraries if you aren't happy with the tradeoff between flexibility and convenience that the built-in API makes. You could argue that the frameworks should ship with such a wrapper,
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
You're thinking of the Objective-C runtime, which in fact is opensource: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/objc4/objc4-551.1
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
I was thinking more about runtime method replacement.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
For many developers, the cross-platform API that they care about is Unity or some equivalent. They will continue to be cross-platform and get a free speedup from the removal of an unnecessary layer of abstraction.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Anyone know how Swift might achieve its claimed speedup vs. Objective-C? I can't see how it could get the advertised numbers without method inlining, which appears to be incompatible with the dynamic object model that it inherits from
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Bret Victor used to work in R&D at Apple, so that probably isn't a coincidence
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
If you have certain religious beliefs then the concept of NoBeef or NoPork is an important one. I guess that databases must be the same for some people.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Sounds perfect for my new unsecured lending startup idea...
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Presumably yes if it uses native APIs. On iOS, although .nib files are supported, people tend to prefer Ruby DSLs to define interfaces though. I imagine that something similar will happen on Android. Expect that it won't be long before
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
There would be a moral case to answer if this class exposed OS functionality that is otherwise unavailable. This is a convenience class that could easily have been copy-pasted between apps. I don't think that there is a moral case to a
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
This is a fairly straightforward, boring UI class which you could easily implement yourself, or use one of the many open source replacements[1]. Whatever the reasons for making this API private on the iPhone, I seriously doubt that it'
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Putting my tinfoil hat on for a second, I wonder if (and how much) post selection is tuned to maximise advertising revenue. To give a crude example, if I see lots of posts about people enjoying expensive holidays, I'm probably more lik
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
> but if you honestly believe this, you should give up right now That sounds a bit dramatic, I'd advise changing what you believe. There will always be things you believe that hold you back, but you will never overcome them with an
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
I have a suspicion that 90% of platform/editor/etc nerd-rage is really motivated by occasionally being 'forced' to use one that you don't know the keyboard shortcuts for.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Wonder if Jobs was involved in this stuff before he died. One of the reasons that pancreatic cancer is so serious is that it tends not to manifest itself until it's too late to treat. This fact, and the scope for devices that provide e
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Anyone care to explain how this is supposed to work? If Chadder don't store or transmit the key, how does the person I'm sending a message to have it? The ambiguity in the way the video explained it makes me a bit suspicious.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Most people would consider their own investment in their company to be 'negative salary'
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
I also own my company, zero is not a limit.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
It appears to let you add your own animation primitives, instead of being restricted to composing changes to the animatable CALayer properties. Could be useful for some things.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Good point, hadn't thought of that.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Which makes sense for them, given that they can get away with it. They'd be well-placed to win a price war if one started, although it would probably hurt.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
> surely the headline should be warning Samsung, not Apple Even then, Xaiomi surely couldn't compete with Samsung on pricing or advertising, given Samsung's huge advantage as a component manufacturer.

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