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by jbrennan 14y ago
Definitely. And Super Debugger can be used just as well for IB projects too (some things you can't test out with IB, like a corner radius). And of course, this tool isn't just for UI tweaking. It's for any kind of messages you might want to
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by jbrennan 14y ago
I'm the developer and I did the design myself! (I'm not much of a designer, but I try to stick to the essentials. Typography, contrast, and direction)
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by jbrennan 14y ago
Although I haven't attempted it, I'm guessing that example would also be possible with Super Debugger. It would require a different interface, but I think it's possible. >One thing that isn't shown is that the code is simultaneously sav
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by jbrennan 14y ago
I was wondering how long it would take someone to recognize that. Glad you like it! I put a lot of work into the project page.
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by jbrennan 14y ago
And feel free to contribute changes back. So far there's the shell, but I think many different tools could be built on this. I'd love to see someone do a column browser for objects.
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by jbrennan 14y ago
Builds on F-Script to give a Smalltalk-like syntax to iOS apps. You can read a bit more about it here: http://www.shopify.com/technology/7183290-introducing-the-su...
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Show HN: Super Debugger, a realtime messaging iOS Debugger tool(shopify.github.com)
75 points by jbrennan 14y ago|28 comments
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by jbrennan 14y ago
I've always wondered why there doesn't already exist such a tool. Regex strings are so opaque and hard to read. We can't really fix that for code (short of building objects), but what we could fix is a better way to write them. A graphical
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by jbrennan 14y ago
I don't feel like any of my suggestions revolved around "careful wording", but instead were about how using language which gave the vibe of "Just do it", without reasoning, doesn't get me as far as it could. I even put that in its own parag
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Sins of a Modern Objective C Developer Community(nearthespeedoflight.com)
5 points by jbrennan 14y ago|2 comments
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by jbrennan 14y ago
Yep, I'd already linked to it twice already in this comment thread! I agree fully.
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by jbrennan 14y ago
>Your statement is what I mean. "Thinking things through" should be done during design. Once you have built system, its much harder to compensate for design flaws. I agree with this fully. This is something that would need to be solved
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An Interesting Idea for Flickr(nearthespeedoflight.com)
1 points by jbrennan 14y ago|0 comments
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by jbrennan 14y ago
Can you explain why you think it's an inherent flaw in the design? The way I look at it is, yes the software should keep a history of user behaviour and base its actions off that, but there must be feedback involved, either explicit or im
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by jbrennan 14y ago
>Doesn't "provide better context" just push the problem one turtle away? How could I communicate to the website that the item for which I'm shopping is for a friend, not for me, and that I don't want the current actions to figure into f
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by jbrennan 14y ago
>2. Using AI is a "step 2: ???" solution, and the flaw with it is best exemplified by the columnist who bought a pregnancy book for a pregnant friend on Amazon Flaws like this might exist right now, but that's really a "bug". It's a fai
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by jbrennan 14y ago
This whole thing sounds an awful lot like Bret Victor's “Magic Ink” paper (that's a compliment): http://worrydream.com/MagicInk If you like the ideas in the OP, you owe it to yourself to chew through Bret's paper. A lot of the same ideas,
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by jbrennan 14y ago
That could happen, but really that would be a "bug", not an inherent problem with the design. That would be the developer's job to fix.
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A Suggestion to Improve Objective-C's new Autoboxing support(nearthespeedoflight.com)
1 points by jbrennan 14y ago|0 comments
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by jbrennan 15y ago
The page is totally busted on iPad.
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by jbrennan 15y ago
If we wrote "Don't Panic" on it, it'd be perfect.
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by jbrennan 15y ago
I believe that limit was lifted as of the iPhone 3GS (i.e., for OpenGL ES 2.0 devices and greater).
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by jbrennan 15y ago
It's a nice little tool! Be proud of it. Pasties tend to be prone to the same issues. The point is, this is handy and focused.
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by jbrennan 15y ago
Warning: On-Swipe link.
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by jbrennan 15y ago
I'm not sure anyone is arguing the iPhone invented all these individual technologies, and if anyone is claiming that, they shouldn't be as the evidence is overwhelming to the contrary. I think the real meat of the argument is "iPhone synth
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by jbrennan 15y ago
There are methods you can implement in your own classes to provide setting and getting for both the array and dictionary style syntax. If you're a Mac developer, check the forums. Else, wait for the info to be non-NDA.
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by jbrennan 15y ago
>Back then I had no permission to use a computer ("they make you stupid" was my parents argument) and certainly no credit card to pay anybody to do development - and even then, as a minor I would probably never have gotten that certific
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The Importance of Interface Language: Clicks, Taps, and Buttons(nearthespeedoflight.com)
6 points by jbrennan 15y ago|1 comments
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Who is your customer?(sethgodin.typepad.com)
2 points by jbrennan 15y ago|0 comments
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by jbrennan 15y ago
This is a total rip of this article: http://makegames.tumblr.com/post/1136623767/finishing-a-game without any attribution.

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