adamjernst

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Comment · 10 years ago

Jevon's Paradox! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons's_paradox

Comment · 10 years ago

> The other thing I would say is to stay close to professions that create and make things, and stay away from derivative professions like finance. I think makers increasingly have the power in our society.

Wow, interesting words from someone who works in finance.

Swift Ported to Android github.com

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Comment · 11 years ago

Garbage collection is controlled by the mob.

Delivering high scroll performance in Facebook for iOS code.facebook.com

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Comment · 11 years ago

Because it's part of a series: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/upshot/our-series-on-the-d...

With an entirely separate article on women: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/upshot/us-employment-women...

Don't assume the worst!

Comment · 11 years ago

Actually ComponentKit is built on GCD!

https://github.com/facebook/componentkit/blob/master/Compone...

GCD is fantastic—one of my absolute favorites. We're trying to solve a problem one level above that: exposing an API that doesn't require every view developer to know the details of managing GCD queues and updating a UICollectionView.

As for Autolayout, it's very powerful but isn't performant enough for layouts as complex as Facebook's News Feed. We tried it first before developing ComponentKit.

Comment · 11 years ago

Will do shortly.

Comment · 12 years ago

You're right about this. My terminology was incorrect.

Facebook's iOS Infrastructure youtube.com

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Comment · 12 years ago

Requires writing to executable pages, which iOS doesn't have.

Comment · 12 years ago

pngquant is great. I make an iPhone app that displays transit maps. Transit maps are ideal candidates for quantization (limited color range, large blocks of color that are perfect for RLE) and I saved a lot of file size by quantizing the map tiles. Thanks pngquant!

Comment · 13 years ago

Fatal flaw in this plan: unions. New York has already tried to switch to driverless subways, but progress is slow due to constant union interference.

Comment · 13 years ago

Windows 1.01 feels much closer to Mac Classic than Windows 3.1 does. (Button appearance, close button on left, menus must be held down to stay open, "Get Info" instead of "Properties".)

Comment · 13 years ago

> sentenced to a community order for 49 hours and ordered to pay £400 costs at Brent Magistrates' Court for theft from motor vehicle

To me (an American), that sentence seems incredibly lenient.