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by tl 11y ago
Unfortunately, it's not practical to emulate battery life.
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by tl 11y ago
From the Urbit whitepaper: "Besides cosmetic details like character sets, this exercise should yield the same results on Mars as Earth." My personal opinion is that if you believe that you need to re-invent everything (and that pa
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The Great Republican Revolt(theatlantic.com)
3 points by tl 11y ago|0 comments
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The Same User Interface Mistakes Over and Over(prog21.dadgum.com)
15 points by tl 11y ago|4 comments
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12 resolutions for programmers (2012)(matt.might.net)
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by tl 11y ago
iPad 2's performance on iOS 9 makes me wish they had made something around iOS 5-6 into an LTS version for older devices.
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by tl 11y ago
This level of offense is not possible but for the fact that these "games" have access to your Facebook. If Maytag had a plausible justification to stalk people this way, they would. Considering that games outside of Facebook are a
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by tl 11y ago
That's a very Windows-centric view of the world. Macs are increasing popular in education and come with Python pre-installed. Linux comes with Python pre-installed. iOS / Android require installing an app to do local programming e
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by tl 11y ago
As someone who has owned a Charge HR and an Apple Watch, I'd say the Charge / Charge HR / Surge qualify as decent smartwatches in a way that doesn't apply to Fitbit's lower-end or previous devices.
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by tl 11y ago
And how would you respond to friends / family buying them? Or to a coworker who brought one into the office?
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by tl 11y ago
Well, you can start with all of the things that Objective C has that Swift does not that are likely to cause bugs. For example, static analysis returns nothing where it did something before. Not calling super.viewWillAppear() in a subclass
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Living in the Age of Software Fuckery(medium.com)
13 points by tl 11y ago|5 comments
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Don’t expect more Game Boy, SNES downloads on modern Nintendo systems(arstechnica.com)
1 points by tl 11y ago|0 comments
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by tl 11y ago
I've been experimenting with python scripts in my build process to create structs of static strings for Apple APIs that require strings (ex: Storyboard filenames/identifiers, Core Data entity/properties, Image filenames) for
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by tl 11y ago
Watching the evolution of languages / APIs makes me believe that Optional over-use is a necessary step between "our language has no formal Optional therefore crash" and "our language uses null in a sane manner". C#&
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Remember to Reevaluate(bitquabit.com)
1 points by tl 11y ago|0 comments
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ObjC is our generation’s COBOL(sealedabstract.com)
4 points by tl 11y ago|4 comments
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by tl 11y ago
I think it's because there's no space in the modulus-equals operator your FizzBuzz Archtitect wrote instead of writing useful code.
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by tl 11y ago
I'm not sure that matters either. Let's say you're talking about Java. A "bad" team will have mountains of code. A "good" team will apply Greenspun's Tenth Rule and use a lisp to compress down the mou
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by tl 11y ago
The "try it now" button returns "Oh Noes! Scratch project cannot display." (because Flash), and the "Offline Editor" (in small print at the bottom of the page) appears to be based on Adobe Air. When was Scratch
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by tl 11y ago
From my experience, using a moving average works really well to track weight. I am repeatedly amazed that more apps don't have something like this considering Hacker's Diet[1] was doing it over a decade ago. [1] http://
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Making Architecture Matter [video](youtube.com)
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by tl 11y ago
Twitch without Flash has been available for a while now, if you were willing to use VLC + an IRC client. Twitch HTML5 chat went live on June 30th, HLS was prior to that. I'd say they're open to ditching Flash.
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by tl 11y ago
> Employee access to sensitive internal applications (like document and image management) gated through Citrix-like environments, so you have to remote terminal in to get to the browser that actually talks to the application. That may be
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On Port 80(medium.com)
3 points by tl 11y ago|1 comments
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by tl 11y ago
Depending on how you structure your application, "business logic" may include persistence, network code, and everything that's not UI.
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by tl 11y ago
The handful of companies that I've dealt with using Oracle bought into a product that Oracle sells (like payroll) that runs on an Oracle database (obviously). Oracle convinces them to pay for way more than they need for that applicatio
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by tl 11y ago
Well, not with that attitude. It's funny because approximately right now they are giving out free hardware --- to Apple Design Award winners.
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by tl 11y ago
> Flash sites, apps and games also earned a bad reputation for eating up CPU, loading too long, doing too much and running poorly. And it was mostly due to the culture of the developers. That's one reason. The other reason is that a
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by tl 11y ago
Bought two devices one of myself, one for a family member. Both had same issues as parent. Support's response was basically "too bad, here's a list of things you can try every morning to maybe fix the problem." Never buy

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