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by reidmain 15y ago
How am I incorrect? I'm referring to the idea of an average consumer buying 100 apps for their Android device and then being leery about switching to iOS because they would lose those apps and vice-versa. Also, what company are you referrin
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Well any iOS app you purchase can be installed on all of your iOS devices. UNLESS, this is about how you can ONLY buy stuff from Apple's App Store and then I can understand the point being made. But jailbroken iPhone users are such a small
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You're ignoring the significant downsides to the Android ecosystem. For example, if you purchase apps, you would be better off with an iPhone. Why? Because purchasing those apps on an Android phone means that the associated cost of switchin
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It is sad that depression seems to have become a four-letter word. Too many people are afraid to talk about it or unaware about what depression really is. Your suggestion about taking up another activity is spot on. When you define yourself
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This is exactly what I was thinking. If Macro wants to give someone more money than power to him. There are developers who I've bought additional licenses for friends in the slim hope that they would use the app but worst case I supported t
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My recommendation to you would be to not use any of these frameworks to start. If you come to a point in your project where you think you would need one then write it yourself and use these frameworks and their alternatives as references. I
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Lines of codes are a horrible metric. Having 10+ "frameworks" that you don't understand automatically included in a boilerplate project is just bad practice. Explaining why these frameworks are useful in certain scenarios and how they work
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by reidmain 15y ago
Having to copy in 4-5 frameworks every time you start a project is not a bad thing. Alternatives are always emerging to even the most used frameworks. Every time I start a project it is a time to look and see if there are better ways to do
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Agree 100%. I think this sort of thing would work better as a list of common problems that you encounter when doing iOS dev and the possible frameworks with example projects. Having one massive Xcode project with all of these things already
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Nimbus by Jeff Verkoeyen is inspired by Three20 https://github.com/jverkoey/nimbus He realized that Three20 was becoming pretty bloated and outdated and created this spinoff project. I'd say both this and Three20 are pretty bloated and da
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They actually brought on a developer specifically to work on the Android version. Notch and Jens are the only two developers who work on the PC version of Minecraft. Everyone else that has been hired at Mojang is working on their next game
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That is true but Apple does seem to have a higher adoption rate with their physical products. iOS 4 killed support for the original iPhone and now iOS 5 is killing support for the iPhone 3G. When the iPhone 5 comes out this fall I think by
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It is quite impressive that in just over a year developers are able to start requiring iOS 4. I hope that iOS 5's OTA updates we could get to the point where iOS versions older than a few months are considered obsolete. Apple has done a gre
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Does anyone know of any other developers that have published these kind of stats? I suspect that Instapaper was extremely popular with the techie/start-up crowd when it first launched but it has become quite well known in these last three y
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That was my original thought but when I looked back at the past 2 years of my life I found that I was always working on the same machine. Do you find yourself needing to be productive on other machines than your own? I would think that the
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Yeah there is that wall inside that you gotta break down. I'm in Canada so when Winter hit I stopped running but something inside just eventually clicked and I went out and started running in the snow.
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by reidmain 15y ago
Great story Jason. I just started running in my Vibram Five Fingers July of last year and I just reached my goal of 5km in 24 minutes. I found that Runkeeper really helped with my motivation because I could see the smallest improvements.
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by reidmain 15y ago
Because you are being so open about it why do you feel you need to use a nick in real-life? A lot conversations for this story seem to have focused on the concept of permanence with a nickname. If you use the same nickname across a multitud
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by reidmain 15y ago
I agree that Google+ will probably get in on some sort of "Login with Google+" thing. I guess someone could see this as this real name policy then "infecting" the Internet. It would really come down to why are these sites implementing this
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by reidmain 15y ago
Some top level domains actually require you to give a valid address and you can't use a masking service. I know .ca domains work this way.
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Why do you suppose more people on the Internet choose to exercise this right then in real-life? I had never considered that the level of pseudonymity available on the Internet is available in real-life as well. Really the only thing that th
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by reidmain 15y ago
I understand not wanting to use your real name everywhere. Do you not want to use services like Facebook or Google+ or you would use them if they allowed pseudonyms?
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It definitely narrows the search quite a bit. The concern would be if you posted stuff online that alluded to your physical location as well. Or if you name is so unique that there are only a few people who share it.
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by reidmain 15y ago
1) That is a good question. I would like to think I would because I would want to prove to those who stereotype that I am not an exception but like any of those difficult scenarios I will not presume my ideals would hold. 2) The only other
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by reidmain 15y ago
That is a good point. I didn't think about how I made a lot of the connections with my friends on the Internet. Most of my Google+ connections are from email addresses I knew beforehand or links spewed out on Twitter. How I got a lot of the
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by reidmain 15y ago
You are right. I didn't mean to downplay these edge cases as much as I did. Is the concern that Facebook and Google's decisions are going to permeate so far it will become common place or that because these two social networks are the big d
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by reidmain 15y ago
If it sounded like I was saying that anything someone wants to share anonymously is not worth being shared then I apologize. I see the need to be able to say something controversial and not fear reprisal. My main argument was that services
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I won't be naive and say they don't want it for that exact reason. I am not Google's customer and I realize this. I am getting a good service from them for free for their ability to use the information I am providing. We don't walk around g
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by reidmain 15y ago
The scenario where a person doesn't want to use their real name because they are fleeing an abusive relationship or are they are a rape survivor, etc I don't have a solution for. But for everyone else god forbid that you have to think twice

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