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by penpapersw 9y ago
Right. But that's implied by the fact that the phrase exists.
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by penpapersw 9y ago
It kind of sounds like you have a very specific context in mind when you say this. Mind explaining?
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Hmm, if you get near the bottom and then resize your window smaller, it doesn't "jump" back up to the top.
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by penpapersw 9y ago
First of all it's not bad to keep using what you know, if what you know works well and is the right way to do something. Like if you're very good with the delegate pattern, don't throw it out just because you heard closures a
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by penpapersw 9y ago
> "We often follow a secret move immediately with a joke. A viewer has only so much attention to give, and if he’s laughing, his mind is too busy with the joke to backtrack rationally." I've seen this same trick used a l
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by penpapersw 9y ago
The first language I learned was QBasic, so when I started to learn C++, the concept of pointers was bizarre and took longer to learn than it should have, but after it finally clicked, it gave me a special love for pointers, the simplicity
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by penpapersw 9y ago
I can relate too well with the author here with knowing more than others, but I see it from a different perspective. From the perspective that there are other forms of being smart besides knowledge. There is a bigger picture of culture, whi
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by penpapersw 9y ago
An important factor in choosing a language is platform. I'm not going to choose Go or D to write an iOS app in, because it would be painful and buggy, if it's even possible in the first place. I'm restricted to Objective-C(++
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ObjC equivalents to Swift solutions #2: Avoiding ObjC method name collisions(penandpapersoftware.com)
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by penpapersw 9y ago
There's plenty of full-featured Todo list apps, but what's really missing is a quick & easy todo app that's got just the right amount of features. Using Reminders and Notes for this feels clunky and awkward, and using a m
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by penpapersw 9y ago
I'm always a bit skeptical when someone defends an organization by saying it's non-profit. AFAIK, the only difference between non-profit and for-profit is that the owners of a non-profit don't get to keep them money for thems
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Considering Edge is improving steadily on Windows, and Chrome is pretty good and cross-platform, what is the niche of Firefox at this point?
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by penpapersw 9y ago
For http://penandpapersoftware.com/accomplish/ and the accompanying blog we entirely used GitHub Pages. Took me about 3 hours to fully make everything in that website from content to style, except the blog posts which
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by penpapersw 9y ago
The article implies that Apple would take too big of a tax hit by doing so, to the point where it's better to wait until the laws change to make it more profitable for Apple to do so.
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Really? That's not good. Well, as long as they're not using any kind of class-aware RPC, you can probably just add prefixes to all the classes yourself. Would take about 10 minutes using the Rename Class feature of Xcode, and it w
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Good point! Just updated the blog post to mention this. Ultimately I don't think it's still too big of an issue. It just means that you may need to rename your classes in the future if an OS update causes a class name collision.
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Very good point. I addressed our reasoning behind choosing Objective-C to some extent in the previous blog post[1]. A big reason behind this was to minimize the binary size, which means a much faster download. Because we used Objective-C an
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ObjC equivalents to Swift solutions #1: Avoiding ObjC class name collisions(penandpapersoftware.com)
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Using Objective-C for iOS instead of Swift(penandpapersoftware.com)
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Show HN: Accomplish – truly simple todo-list iPhone app(penandpapersoftware.com)
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by penpapersw 9y ago
It's only consistent because they've lowered people's standards over time, like boiling a frog. The sooner people realize there's better ways to spend their time, and that they can get better and more relevant news and s
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Yep. We really enjoy watching the new Marvel movies when they come out, and watching older superhero movies from anything before the 2000s is painful at this point. But things like Star Trek TNG or Stargate SG-1 really hold up to the test o
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by penpapersw 9y ago
We're going on a half century of still-good television and films that have already been made! That's probably more TV than someone could watch in a whole lifetime! Even if all you do is borrow DVDs from the library (usually for
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by penpapersw 10y ago
Everything is done for a reason. Sometimes that reason is just "to have fun / learn something new / expand ones horizons" and that's okay. But sometimes the reason is "to get the same amount of work done faster
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Show HN: Penny Pincher – budgeting app for Mac, with a focus on simplicity(penandpapersoftware.com)
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