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by nodamage 11y ago
That article appears to be discussing Apple's avoidance of taxes on non-US sales: "By running nearly all its non-U.S. sales through the Irish subsidiaries, Apple also avoids paying taxes on sales in other countries, including the
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I get the impression that MVVM only really works well when you have robust data-binding support baked into the framework (e.g. WPF/XAML). Otherwise you end up with a bit of an impedance mismatch and a lot of overhead in keeping the vie
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by nodamage 11y ago
Quite the opposite, in fact: > Q: I’m pretty sure that you are familiar with Realm. I want to know your opinion about Realm and Core Data. Should we use one or the other, or which one is more suitable for you? > Marcus: Realm has a fe
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by nodamage 11y ago
That sounds harsh but is more or less accurate. It sounds like the developers fundamentally misunderstood the purpose of productivity apps on mobile. They fell into the trap I've seen a lot of others fall into, which is taking a task n
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Disagree. My time is valuable, and I already have enough difficult problems to solve that I'm not interested in creating extra work for myself. If a quick 2-second Google/StackOverflow search reveals the solution to my problem, I&
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by nodamage 11y ago
If an engineer gets bored and leaves because they wanted to rewrite your codebase and you said no, that's probably not an engineer you wanted to retain anyway. Even if you said yes, you're only kicking the problem down the field a
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by nodamage 11y ago
Bicycle touring is an absolutely fantastic way to see any country, I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in adventure travel. Although if you've never done it before I'd recommend starting in Europe (with its large netw
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The top paid chart is irrelevant on the Mac App Store, because it's mostly filled with $.99 super-niche or throwaway apps. The bread and butter of the Mac App Store is low volume, higher cost apps. The dynamics are totally different co
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The only people that think Javascript is appropriate for native development, are frankly, people whose only experience with mobile is writing trivial apps. This was true five years ago and is still true today. The second you need to do anyt
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It's amazing to me that people still don't understand the importance of user experience (and low friction setup processes). Do you remember having to hand write your Xorg.conf files to setup a Linux desktop back in the day? Wasn&#
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Sadly, a lot of people (generally die-hard nerd types) genuinely believe that marketing was the sole reason for the iPhone's meteoric rise in 2007. They don't place any importance on user experience and therefore can't tell t