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   by glenra 16y ago

   Cool startup: http://makerbot.com News source: http://www.nycresistor.com/
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   by glenra 17y ago

   > "He downloaded Titanium on a Saturday morning, and by Sunday night he had a functional prototype of his Location Scout app..." Getting a functional prototype to work should be simple and fast. (There's a big difference between a fun
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   by glenra 17y ago

   > I've heard a lot of complaints about developing for the iPhone, but none about the quality of the development environment. Consider this your first, then: the iPhone development environment sucks. People are using it despite the suc
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   by glenra 17y ago

   I'm right there with you in that minority. I think using previous Apple tools had led me to expect the interface should be "discoverable" and it wasn't. UIBuilder is, if anything, user-hostile. Plus the XCode integration is really poor. The
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   by glenra 17y ago

   Having written Cocoa apps in the past probably makes a huge difference. They did make the DRM work somewhat better later - I actually started trying to develop the instant they made the SDK available so initially I was one of a huge numbe
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   by glenra 17y ago

   I haven't looked at Android yet but my experience with Objective C and the iPhone SDK is exactly the opposite of his - I found everything about iPhone development painful. As far as I could tell, Objective C does not work the way my brain d