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by jsankey 12y ago
Exactly. The entire post is cherry-picking and proves nothing.
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by jsankey 12y ago
Absolutely, this is why popularity of the project matters, as it means it is more likely to be tested and actively maintained. And as a good citizen you should participate! Also: if you find you need to write this non-core functionality in
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by jsankey 12y ago
There's a lot of truth in this post but this line of thinking also plays into our own prejudices. I do often look at third party code and think it's pretty crappy, but then I need to remind myself that my own code is far from per
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by jsankey 12y ago
Obviously moving can be a big deal, but IMO you should seriously consider it. You have a problem with available time, and commuting by car is a massive time sink. It's pretty insane how much "human capacity" is wasted this
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by jsankey 12y ago
Good issue tracking tools can produce changelogs for you, which is preferable to maintaining a redundant, separate log manually. It also encourages good practices like tracking all user-visible changes and keeping issue summaries accurate
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by jsankey 12y ago
You're right that you'll (practically) always have more than one feature in a product, so counting features doesn't really make sense. You should approach it from the other end: identify a segment of the market, a narrow set
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by jsankey 12y ago
No problem John, I'm not (yet, at least) a user of your app I'm just a fellow indie that wanted to illustrate the reality of doing business at just $30/copy. Prices are low enough to make most indie development uneconomical
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by jsankey 12y ago
$30 is most certainly not "a lot of money", and it is this attitude that makes indie development so hard these days. This app is meant for serious bloggers (i.e. those that spend many hours writing each week), so if it works for
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by jsankey 12y ago
Although I agree that our own bodies tend to be pretty awesome and require less help than many people think, your argument in this case is a little shaky. We live in a very different environment to our ancestors and expose our skin to all
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by jsankey 12y ago
Yes, the problem is man made, but not only due to unofficial access to antibiotics. I suspect that's not even a major factor, but correct me if I've missed something. As discussed: TB currently takes a long time to fully treat.
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by jsankey 12y ago
Agreed. Living in the age of antibiotics we (in the developed world) have quickly forgotten how deadly TB is (it was a leading cause of death just 100 years ago). Given the difficulty in developing new antibiotics (and relative lack of co
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by jsankey 12y ago
Most programmers are barely capable Stack Overflow copy'n'paste merchants. Programmers value the hacky over the elegant, and work hard to tight release cycles. And yet there are programmers who care, and who seek out and use bette
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by jsankey 12y ago
This is a subjective issue, of course. Personally I find autocomplete and navigation in Xcode still sorely lacking compared to IDEs in the Intellij family, to the point where I happily pay for AppCode to do most of my iOS work (basically a
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by jsankey 12y ago
I should have been more clear: I agree with you on this and think C should be one of the batch of first languages students are exposed to (as the best choice in its class at the moment). The OP seems far too biased towards C, though. What
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by jsankey 12y ago
It helps a lot to be exposed to a variety of approaches, exactly as you say, and to be exposed early while you're still forming ideas about how things work. Simply saying C is the "best" way also misses that point that differ
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by jsankey 12y ago
Yes, this was very jarring, leaving exactly the opposite impression the author was aiming for at that point! My memory of learning to drive a manual was also not nearly as fraught as the author describes, and I don't claim any particu
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by jsankey 12y ago
It's not clear that running makes joint problems any more likely, in general, see: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/28/134861448/put-those-shoes-on-r... For example, keeping joints active with weight bear
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by jsankey 12y ago
I would be more careful trusting The Australian on anything to do with smoking (and a few other issues) given their writers' links to the tobacco-funded IPA. Media Watch put it a lot better than I could, with sources: http:/&#x2
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by jsankey 12y ago
Absolutely, the forums are very useful particularly at beta time. But they aren't the best or only way to share information. I think Apple could still open up things a bit more here to help developers without harming themselves. There
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by jsankey 12y ago
This is compounded by the fact that you can't publicly discuss issues with prerelease versions of iOS/Xcode (although they seem to be relaxing this as of iOS 8, there are still restrictions). This prevents excellent blog posts li
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Geography of Jobs(tipstrategies.com)
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by jsankey 12y ago
Just a heads-up: the font-weight of your lead paragraph makes it too light on Chrome+Windows, some of the diagonals pretty much disappear.
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by jsankey 12y ago
Excellent question and this is on our roadmap (yes, I know, vapourware until we ship it). The plan is to export as HTML with standard microdata annotations (the same we use to automatically import). That should be fairly durable, as far a
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by jsankey 12y ago
> as my bookmark folders for recipes (RIP BroEats.com) and designs and other things is filled with more and more duds If you'll forgive me the self-promoting diversion, this is one of the reasons I created my recipe manager app Ze
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by jsankey 12y ago
If you've accidentally published a key, your only safe option is to change that key. Abolishing it from history is closing the gate after the proverbial horse is well into the distance.
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by jsankey 12y ago
It's nice that the dollar figures are all upfront on this page, but it seems a bit strange to say "Get a working, launchable prototype for $3,500" when the client actually pays $3570. It seems that you're putting half o
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by jsankey 12y ago
I'm excited to see the integrated UI designer - it's frustrating having to switch back to Xcode when working on the UI. So much so that for short periods I even try switching back to editing code in Xcode too ... but I always come
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by jsankey 13y ago
Actually, our taxes are not high compared to other OECD countries (only Mexico and Chile have significantly lower tax/GDP ratios): http://www.treasury.gov.au/Policy-Topics/Taxation/Pocket-Gui...
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by jsankey 13y ago
I actually prefer Android as a user. But if I'm building native (instead of HTML5), it's because I want a polished UI, and that is easier to deliver on iOS where there are only a handful of devices to test against (in particular
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by jsankey 13y ago
This and the linked guides claim there is no advantage to using instance variables (preferring properties), but I see at least one advantage: simplicity. When you're reading code that uses an instance variable you know exactly what it

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