Zev

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by Zev 12y ago
It does not require encrypted connections, although it does have extensions to indicate that future connections should occur over TLS (through the optional `tls` extension in IRCv3.1) and there is discussion for standardizing IRC over SCTP
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by Zev 13y ago
I can't speak to its accuracy, but, June 2013 wasn't yesterday. It isn't that old -- and it isn't like there's been a release of Photoshop in the past month and a half, so, it seems pretty recently updated.
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by Zev 13y ago
I still don't get why this has to be a full-sized TV. What if the AppleTV (sized as it is) had the sensors in it to detect motion? (Of course, I still don't see the appeal in using motion to control my TV, after using a Kinect on-
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by Zev 13y ago
Neat. Playing with parsers is fun! FWIW, a similar tool exists that works with most C-style languages, `uncrustify`. Might be worth looking into as well? http://uncrustify.sourceforge.net
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by Zev 13y ago
Saying "Always rasterize" isn't necessarily the solution, either. Its actually pretty bad advice to follow all the time ;) I suspect (but can't confirm without the source code to the demo) that shouldRasterize would actually hurt performanc
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by Zev 13y ago
Re: 2: While its great to have a small image that doesn't require much I/O to read, "small" shouldn't only refer to file size. Instead, a "small" image should be one that has a small resolution, and is stretchable. This lets the GPU tile th
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by Zev 13y ago
It wasn't mentioned in the article, but, it is very important to note: CAGradientLayer is not GPU-backed. In other words, the comparison is between the CPU redrawing a gradient 60x a second, and, an image being moved around on screen. Not e
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by Zev 13y ago
Re: Your first point, the App Store uses delta updates now, so, it doesn't download/replace files that haven't changed.
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by Zev 13y ago
Selected "I read multiple books a few times a week", but, I'm not sure if thats the best fit. I read for some amount of time every day, but, its rare for me to be on the same book for longer than a few days -- and if I finish a book in the
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by Zev 13y ago
The typeface in many new OS X 10.8 apps is Helvetica. The typeface of OS X is Lucida Grande. I bet this changes in 10.9. At least, for Retina machines. There's a reason why iOS uses Helvetica Neue as the system font, and not Lucida Grande
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by Zev 13y ago
..sometimes programmers are just different and work environments can be rigid. No. Just, no. While I can totally relate to not wanting to have a 9-5 job (and even moreso when it comes to holding out for the right job) a dislike of working
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by Zev 13y ago
Try marking your storyboards as binary files in git. It worked pretty well for me the last time I was working with a designer and using xib files.
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by Zev 13y ago
You can easily do without a protocol[1] -- NSKeyValueCoding doesn't require a protocol to be implemented anywhere. For example: @interface MYObject : NSObject @property (nonatomic, copy) NSString *foo; @property (nonatomic, copy) NS
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by Zev 14y ago
You designed an iOS app, not a Mac app. That it happens to live in the menubar doesn't actually mean very much ;)
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by Zev 14y ago
Both Rails and Django will be here for a long time, regardless of what the current fad of the day is.
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by Zev 14y ago
Why not use CFDictionaryRef and pass it along via toll-free bridging?
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by Zev 14y ago
What do you get out of subclassing NSDictionary or NSArray that you don't get out of a category?
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by Zev 14y ago
Can you give an example of some things that you subclass?
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by Zev 14y ago
A lot of Apple stuff may be a black box but it is designed to be subclassed. Aside from a small number of top-level classes[1] UIKit isn't designed to be subclassed. When you subclass things like UIAlertView, UIButton, UISwitch, UITextFie
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by Zev 14y ago
Mostly a really good list. My only nitpick is: RegexKitLite - Powerful regular expression support Use NSRegularExpression instead. It's built into the OS (in Foundation) as of iOS 4, which is below the minimum target you have (if you supp
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by Zev 14y ago
Cocoa Auto Layouts are what you're looking for: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserE...
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by Zev 14y ago
Only 5300/day and #5 has to be for a given category. Too low to be that far up in the App Store otherwise.
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by Zev 14y ago
The project itself is the only thing that uses the NS prefix. The classes within the project have the (rather long and safe) prefix of "Logger".
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by Zev 14y ago
Worth noting that if you're a "single person business", you don't need to bother with a DUNS number: https://developer.apple.com/support/ios/D-U-N-S.html (ie: If you were planning on hacking something together and charging for it on the A
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by Zev 14y ago
Maybe the author had a need for it, built it, and is throwing it out there for anyone else who might have a similar need? Maybe you need to embed a web server in your app for something? Maybe you're really comfortable with ObjC and just wan
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by Zev 14y ago
This mostly sits at a higher level than Magenta does -- you don't need kernel support for Foundation/AppKit ABI compatibility.
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by Zev 14y ago
I'd highly recommend The Soul of a New Machine as well. It definitely fits your quest for capturing a real moment, and anyone who's been an engineer for a any amount of time can go "Oh. I totally know that feeling" after reading any secti
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by Zev 14y ago
Once you've failed (and maybe, given your post-mortem), what else is there to do? You move on to working on something else. To extend your analogy: during WW2, they didn't study the same plane every time a plane was shot down. They studie
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by Zev 14y ago
Having spoiler tags on everything that possibly discusses a movie is silly. The movie was released 9 months ago. By now, either you cared about the movie enough to have seen it or don't care enough to care about spoilers.
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by Zev 14y ago
iOS only seems stagnant because they don't have to trumpet every year about how they've finally gotten rid of ui lag.. You might not notice it, but, there is an eighth-of-a-second-ish delay between when you tap on most buttons and when th

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