ageektrapped

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by ageektrapped 4y ago
IIRC, something about opportunity cost or maintenance burden.
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by ageektrapped 4y ago
The choice to port to RN wasn't technical at all. Tobi (the CEO) prefers RN philosophically. No technical argument opposed to RN--which is super easy to come up with, along several axes--would have stopped the port. It was inevitable.
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by ageektrapped 4y ago
Former Shopify iOS dev here. I pushed SO HARD to get dark mode to be a thing we would do. It's table stakes, IMO, in 2020 and beyond, to support it. We'd get roasted on Twitter, LinkedIn, just about everywhere. HN Comments, even.
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by ageektrapped 8y ago
Loblaws sold their interest in PC Financial last year sometime. CIBC took it over.
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by ageektrapped 10y ago
Couldn't agree more. I priced Macbook Pro 15" plus adapters in CDN $ and got sticker shock.
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by ageektrapped 10y ago
Extra space and ergonomics to keep coding into my seventies is why I use an external keyboard. I'm in my thirties currently. Maybe by the time I'm 70 I'll be talking to my computers, but still: why wreck my wrists?
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by ageektrapped 10y ago
That resize to mobile form factor at the end of the gif! Made me watch it twice. I'll be checking Antetype out for that alone.
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by ageektrapped 10y ago
> 1. Joel saying "I didn't understand that question" and then moving on might have been succinct and practical, but it was just not a good reflection of him. He's presenting in the style of You Suck at Photoshop, a se
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by ageektrapped 10y ago
They specifically made comparisons to the A8 chip (in the 6 and 6+) during the event and emphasized the speed increase. Apple knows their true problem is getting old iPhone users to upgrade. Also, did you see the event? Not the same phone a
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by ageektrapped 10y ago
When I switched to Mac from Windows about 5 years ago (because I decided to be an iOS developer), this is the biggest thing I noticed. There was zero feedback, or a just a quick beep out of the speakers. The anthropomorphic equivalent would
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by ageektrapped 10y ago
This is normal. I'm feeling it right now with what I want to do. In my heart and mind, I _know_ I can do it, but then the doubts and fears rush in. I totally understand the feeling you're going through. I just finished _Art &
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by ageektrapped 10y ago
I don't quite have that feeling watching this show (I can relate to it, but I'm not in the Valley; the show is hilarious), but shows like Catastrophe or movies like This is 40 hit _very_ close to home for the same reason. Funny, b
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Taking the Robots to Design School, Part 1(jon.gold)
3 points by ageektrapped 10y ago|0 comments
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by ageektrapped 10y ago
Amen. I couldn't agree more with this. A lot of comments in the thread are commenting that the developer should be able to slice up PSDs, but why not go further and be responsible for the design and interaction. It requires empathy for
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by ageektrapped 10y ago
> The server should always be the source of truth. It should always enforce all the consistency rules. Database schemas can be a critical tool here as well. Amen. And I'm a client developer. Clients aren't for data validation,
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by ageektrapped 10y ago
> I think people often confuse "simple" with "pretty". Oh man, this. Even richer is confusing usable with pretty. I guess nowadays people say "user experience" instead of usability, or the extremely unfortun
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by ageektrapped 11y ago
It's fine _if you're not audited_. In Ottawa. We got audited for FY 2013. It was brutal. Took the entire FY 2014 to get our claim. We got it in full because of me explaining everything several times in front of the auditor. It&#x
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by ageektrapped 11y ago
I use a lot of Jetbrains' IDEs and have for years: ReSharpe, dotCover, etc., WebStorm, PHPStorm. I also have Rubymine but probably won't need it after the license expires. I use the first three often enough that I'd keep rene
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by ageektrapped 14y ago
Great idea! Has great promise! I've had a similar idea, but for my kids. Arranging xmas with the grandparents is an administrative burden. It would be great to say, "Go here." Some possible things to add to the site: clothing sizes, so gett
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Why Microsoft Should Screw Its Hardware Partners(wired.com)
2 points by ageektrapped 14y ago|0 comments
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by ageektrapped 14y ago
Is there somewhere I can go to check if my Macbook is one of those? I have to start buttering up my boss if I need a new one. (Xcode updates sure force upgrades. I was just fine with Snow Leopard, except iOS 5.1 wouldn't build without the l
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by ageektrapped 14y ago
Same. Winamp is the only player I use. The feature that sets it apart: I set a playlist, and _the playlist stays around_ until I change it, no need to explicitly save anything and it survives restarts. WMP and iTunes always forget what you
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by ageektrapped 14y ago
This is epic if it works as advertised. I was thinking recently that the dev tooling story is pretty bad for mobile apps, compared to desktop apps or server side. I find iOS apps particularly onerous to test and automate (and refactor and a
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by ageektrapped 14y ago
Speaking as a Windows user who uses a Mac for dev on iOS: you will be frustrated by Mac OS, at least initially. I've been using Mac OS daily for over a year and I still find Windows superior in many ways. This is my opinion, of course. Not
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by ageektrapped 14y ago
Cool! Great socks that will get me laid. $11/month? Doable. I'm not in the US (Canada, which is close but oh so far when shopping online), so I look all over for an FAQ or Shipping policy. Can't find it. Now I won't get laid. Bummer. You're
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At Work, Do Headphones Really Help?(online.wsj.com)
2 points by ageektrapped 14y ago|0 comments
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No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8(arstechnica.com)
12 points by ageektrapped 14y ago|2 comments
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by ageektrapped 14y ago
I found this to be true with the term 'M$', specifically with the '$'. I didn't think that term was still a thing, and then I came across it in an email. I wanted to note my surprise on twitter, making a ridiculous comparison that I shall n
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by ageektrapped 14y ago
Yes! This wasn't what the OP was referring to, though: he had shipping shrink wrap software with APIs in mind. But still, you're totally right and this occurred to me as I was reading the post, for Web APIs: keep versioning the URL for ever
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Mavericks Invent Future Internet Where Cisco Is Meaningless(wired.com)
6 points by ageektrapped 14y ago|0 comments

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