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by jondwillis 9y ago
Cell phones were banned during my years in high school, and smartphones didn’t even exist until halfway through my final year. In hindsight, I am thankful for the enforcement as it made for fewer addictive interruptions in attention that I
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by jondwillis 9y ago
The first thing I think of as a burn-in risk is the ever-present bottom touch indicator. It is a black strip that sort of resembles a mic or speaker grill at the bottom of the screen and it is always drawn. Does anyone know if that will bu
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by jondwillis 9y ago
Very cool. I’ll have to try this out the next time I have trouble with a RxSwift observable chain. One of the nicer sides of using Rx is that converting from one implementation to the next is usually fairly trivial.
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by jondwillis 9y ago
I believe OP is referring to the screen real estate next to the notch on both sides.
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by jondwillis 9y ago
Anecdotally, after updating from 10.12.6 to 10.13 on my maxed-out 2017 15” MBP, transitioning between spaces and apps remains silky smooth, even when under heavy CPU load, which wasn’t really the case previously.
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by jondwillis 9y ago
Yes, but there are actually some positive and negative side-effects of checking in dependencies. See “Should I check the Pods directory into source control?” at https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/using-cocoapods.html f
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by jondwillis 9y ago
Wow! One line of code that is 400 characters long and difficult to parse! I don't know anyone worth their salt who writes functionally that doesn't use line breaks liberally to make things readable. Functional programming has ver
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by jondwillis 9y ago
What would you like "us" to focus on? As for MVP variations and RxJava, those are useful tools. MVP variations are often for organization and writing more modular, testable code. RxJava and other Rx implementations are useful for
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by jondwillis 10y ago
Yeah, but... does everyone know that?
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by jondwillis 10y ago
I have been logged out of Facebook for a few weeks, and started receiving emails (trying to entice me to come back) that I hadn't previously. The latest one was April 15, 3:12 PM PST.
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Arms race for attention, ethics of persuasion, consequences of ad-based economy(samharris.org)
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by jondwillis 10y ago
>I do wonder what will we do when computers do everything for us. Yeah, this is a pretty existential question that has been posed a lot around here. What do you do if you do not have to do anything? It is like vacation, forever. You are
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by jondwillis 10y ago
>I don’t think it’s a coincidence that both Peter Thiel and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick have been chummy and beyond with Trump. Travis has been chummy and beyond with Trump? What's beyond?
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by jondwillis 10y ago
There are so many parallels to what Yuri is talking about here, to plausible explanations behind the actions of and sentiment that elected Trump's administration, and some of the views of some of Trump's seemingly strange bedfello
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by jondwillis 10y ago
I have been using gfxCardStatus https://gfx.io/ for years. It offers a finer level of visibility and control over what's going on with my GPUs.