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chubs
12y ago
Reading through the code, it's extremely tidy. Very confidence inspiring :)
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12y ago
Wow CSS is unfriendly, you really realise how poor it is once you learn other layout systems (android's XML and iOS auto layout, etc). Wish there was another standard that could co-exist side by side on the web, something simple enough
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What if Mark Z framed it as 'free facebook + some educational site access' instead of 'free internet', then he could sidestep all these complaints easily? "The perfect (NN) is the enemy of the good (free fb+wiki)&qu
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12y ago
Love it! Thanks. I'll recommend it to some friends who are into blogging.
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chubs
12y ago
That would be incredible.
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chubs
12y ago
Is this related to China DDOS'ing the NY Times and Github a few days ago?
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12y ago
Good example of how to use mantle, too!
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12y ago
Hi, technical question from a long-time iOS developer here, i hope you can put my concerns at ease: How, when you're running JS on a different thread to the iOS main thread, do you avoid race conditions? A simple example: * Say a butto
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12y ago
I can confirm this, it is true. Basically, your app is not allowed to have any links to sign up, or to your website, and you can do this for eg a SaaS app. The idea is that then you're not using the app store for marketing, it's
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12y ago
You're right, it has awesome potential, and said potential has been realised in the past with apps such as Paper and Cook. But due to the race to the bottom in app prices, nobody can make a living out of the App Store any more (besides
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If you look at the App store market, there have been no killer apps for the ipad for a long while. I mean, when was the last app as awesome as Paper by 53? The inability to make a living from the App Store has put the development of killer
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12y ago
The two i know of are shifty jelly and some guy who makes a period tracking app.
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Thats awesome :)
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12y ago
How would you apply these icons?
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12y ago
Agreed: The terrible discovery is the worse problem, it leads to a market of hits, with no long tail. Whereas if you open the play store on an android phone, it suggests apps your friends have, and many other 'discoverable' things
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12y ago
What he said. Highly recommended books. Also, I wrote a post about this: http://www.splinter.com.au/turning-30-all-ideas-no-execution... Good luck :)
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Ask HN: How to market a video course?
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Mobile in 2014 – Year in Review
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12y ago
With the latest firmware + ios7, Airplay now works in such environments because it uses bluetooth for handshaking. Might be worth re-trying?
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Lossy images for retina iPad apps - JPEG vs WebP
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13y ago
Actually, apple got the runtime right in the 80's :) Objective-C hasn't really changed all that much since then. It really is 'less is more'.
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Sydney-based career options I wish I knew about when I was younger
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Range on the cheapest model is comparable to my Suzuki SV650, would be great for commuting eg you can charge every night. Plugging in at night would be much better than having to waste 15 mins at the service station every 3 days. Probably n
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13y ago
Be ready to hear more and more from SQLite as the world moves to mobile (iOS/android) - it really shines in that environment.
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Tactility
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Programmatic UI on iOS
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My thoughts are that the Cocoaheads meetup i go to has all sorts of really interesting talks about advanced topics, but a lot of people who attend are just beginners, dipping their toes in iOS development, and it'd be helpful to show them t
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Show HN: I made some free screencasts on iOS dev, should I make more?
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Hi, I wrote (with another guy) the objective-c wrapper. You might be misinformed re schema layers, as msgpack does convert to and from a dictionary in much the same way that JSON does, keeping all your dictionary keys (which are strings) in
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Behind enemy lines: 3 months as an iOS developer at Google
(splinter.com.au)
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