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by jordansmithnz 8y ago
I certainly agree that deprecating millions of lines isn't a great way to win over developers. Apple hasn't deprecated Objective-C yet though, and I think both Swift and Objective-C will be supported side by side for a long time y
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by jordansmithnz 8y ago
As someone with a significant amount of experience in both ObjC and Swift (4+ full-time years in each), I don't agree with this article. Yes, Swift isn't perfect, it has its flaws. Totally agree there. It's not perfectly inte
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by jordansmithnz 8y ago
Yeah, was about to point out the same thing. I’m a little surprised - it’s one thing for a global tech giant to build a service that competes with yours, but it’s another to use exactly the same name. Is that actually allowed?
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by jordansmithnz 8y ago
Yeah, that’s a good point. To me it’s a little more clear than ‘else’ but there might be a better name still that doesn’t suggest this code always runs. Naming is hard :)
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by jordansmithnz 8y ago
To me, the else isn’t intuitive if you haven’t encountered it before. It’s a nice feature, but perhaps better naming could improve code readability. How about for-finally? It’s a hard thing to name correctly, but to me this seems to be slig
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by jordansmithnz 8y ago
Nice, there’s some great stuff here in something that originated as a fun/joke project: - it might not look ‘pretty’, but heck, the Windows 95 UI sure is intuitive. Buttons are very apparent, icons make sense, and what was never meant
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Smartphone Security: You'll Never Guess Who Just Messaged You(jordansmith.io)
161 points by jordansmithnz 9y ago|79 comments
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Smartphone Security: You'll Never Guess Who Just Messaged You(jordansmith.io)
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Impersonating Address Book Contacts (iOS and Android)(jordansmith.io)
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A Collection of Interesting Swift Features(jordansmith.io)
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A Collection of Interesting Swift Features(jordansmith.io)
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A Collection of Interesting Swift Features(jordansmith.io)
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Code Golf: Write Moby Dick, Approximately(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
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by jordansmithnz 9y ago
I received an offer from one of these companies not too long ago - here's my two cents on the subject: • I was reached out to, rather than applying for a job. In the past I'd tried applying for jobs at some of the companies but di
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How Not to Design a Microwave(jordansmith.io)
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User Interfaces: How Not to Design a Microwave(jordansmith.io)
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by jordansmithnz 9y ago
I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed this! It’s a small detail and easy to miss, unless you’re an actual user. It makes me wonder if the engineering team doesn’t use Apple Music as their daily music player. You can work around it by t
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by jordansmithnz 9y ago
A few years back I read a book on neuroplasticity. It was a great read, although possibly aimed slightly above my knowledge on the subject (zero). From memory, this was what I took away: • you can change the way you think. It takes a lot of
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Haiku Project(haiku-os.org)
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by jordansmithnz 9y ago
Not sure why it was reverse engineered when the source code is publicly available: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/4ddac3fbbd5b9ba8d980fa88...
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by jordansmithnz 9y ago
Shoot, I have an app on the App Store with a user count in the hundreds of thousands, and local notifications are one of the main features. Can't say I'm looking forward to responding to App Store reviews tomorrow (although I gues
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Why is being “on hold” on the telephone not made less annoying?(ux.stackexchange.com)
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by jordansmithnz 9y ago
Seems like there’s new information since this article: “Argentina says signals detected, likely from missing submarine” - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-submarine/argen...
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On Performant Arrays in Swift(jordansmith.io)
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by jordansmithnz 9y ago
I’ve developed primarily with ObjC for about 4 years, and when Swift was released, primarily with that - so roughly an even amount of time with each. The article has a lot of very opinionated comments, some of them not true (e.g. ObjC devel
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How Deep Is Redundancy on Avionics Computers?(aviation.stackexchange.com)
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Thoughts on Apple's iPhone X Announcement(jordansmith.io)
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Thoughts on Apple's iPhone X Announcement(jordansmith.io)
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by jordansmithnz 9y ago
Actually, I believe it has a barometric altimeter, for measuring height - e.g. flights of stairs climbed.
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Releasing a Large Scale iOS App Update(jordansmith.io)
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