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by zoul 16y ago
When I was learning to program there was no Internet and there were preciously few technical books on the market. Often I had to resort to trial and error, where error could easily mean watching my machine rebooting, since there was little
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by zoul 16y ago
Perl
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by zoul 16y ago
That's the problem with most arguments and information in these topics. It seems to me that both sides can come up with information that would require almost a full-time job to reasonably verify. In the end it usually boils down to finding
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by zoul 16y ago
This has to be some weird issue on your side, I don’t see any latency on my 1G iPad when playing the drums. (Otherwise there would be little point to the whole application, right?)
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by zoul 16y ago
Stack Overflow actively tries to avoid open-ended discussions because it’s not a discussion site. I see that as a feature.
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by zoul 16y ago
I’ve written a block-based UIAlertView and UIActionSheet wrapper that makes working with alerts and action sheets less painful (no more button indexes and alert tags): https://github.com/zoul/Lambda-Alert
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by zoul 16y ago
If somebody’s wondering about the double dot like me: “A common misconception is that number literals cannot be used as objects. That is because a flaw in JavaScript’s parser tries to parse the dot notation on a number as a floating point l
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by zoul 16y ago
They could be considered clever tricks because the Java type system does not seem very well suited to expressing such higher-level invariants. These excercises are interesting, but smarter solutions are not magically guaranteed to perform b
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by zoul 16y ago
While that's true, it's hard to imagine a platform with millions of users willing to pay for apps and shortage of good developers. With the recent events it looks like Apple is mistreating all iOS developers, but in practice I think that mo
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by zoul 16y ago
I simply like the platform. The hardware is nice, Objective-C is a pleasant language for me to write in, the library is very well thought out. And it certainly does not hurt that we can keep the company afloat by developing for iOS -- we si
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by zoul 16y ago
How is this hacker news, then? :)
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Why Streaming Sucks on iOS, part I(subfurther.com)
5 points by zoul 16y ago|0 comments
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by zoul 16y ago
As the article states, the numbers come from referals collected by Toplist, a Czech web stats service similar to Analytics. Not sure how that itself skewes the results. What’s more interesting is that Google only comes before its competior
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by zoul 16y ago
I meant that they don’t work against the orientation neutrality that much and can be left there.
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Encoder Is Not a State Machine(subfurther.com)
29 points by zoul 16y ago|10 comments
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by zoul 16y ago
Oh please. It’s been shown over and over that modern Perl is a very pleasant ecosystem to work in, can we spare such childish comments for other websites?
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by zoul 16y ago
Rechargeables don’t cut it?
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by zoul 16y ago
I would dare to say that more money probably went into this issue so far than Sony will ever lose because of the hack?
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by zoul 16y ago
Getting rid of the home button would be very interesting/nice, since it is one of the last things that keep the iPad from being truly orientation-agnostic. (The rest being the power switch, speaker and the headphone jack, but these don’t ma
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by zoul 16y ago
"Short-term thinking" can easily mean five or ten years on the web. Should I be happy as a user when Google makes my situation worse to make it better five years later?
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by zoul 16y ago
Good point. One of the main reasons against non-standard UI design is that there is a huge amount of behaviour attached to the standard UI and once you start implementing your own interface elements, you’ll almost never get everything rig
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by zoul 16y ago
It’s very similar to the new iTunes icon. I sincerely hope that Apple is not going away from the realistic icons, I have always loved those. I am not much impressed by symbols on blue circular backgrounds.
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by zoul 16y ago
Doesn’t look programmable, though? That would make it next to worthless for me, unless it’s possible to hack it easily (not that I would be able to do that).
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by zoul 16y ago
RSS is dying because browser vendors do not want to implement or maintain integrated RSS readers? That does not sound very convincing.
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by zoul 16y ago
Seriously, there are still some features left to be new in Emacs? :-)
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by zoul 16y ago
Doesn’t this issue mostly go away when using a decent editor? I also found out that while I don’t particularly enjoy writing boilerplate code, it gives me a second to rest my brain, relax, think about the context etc. I think I like the res