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That said, in my experience if Apple has secretly decided they don't like you, they tend to move the goalposts on you in subsequent reviews, so migrating their systems to WebKit may not be time well spent.

Comment · 9 years ago

Imagine if we nationalised Uber.

Comment · 9 years ago

A pox on people that make me add closed source binaries to my apps! Adtech companies are the worst for this.

Comment · 9 years ago

It also seems like they were trying to abuse/repurpose OS level functionality (the power button). I imagine that was difficult on Android, and the article completely fails to acknowledge that this is actually impossible on iOS.

Comment · 9 years ago

We ran some casual benchmarks on this at work once, and it's important to note that the performance of AutoLayout dramatically improves based on the degree of nesting you employ.

If you have sixteen views on a cell and their locations all depend upon each other, it's going to take a long time to solve those constraints. But if you can break up the cell, say into four subviews with four elements inside them, it's likely to be faster (no guarantees, though)

Comment · 9 years ago

A long time ago I put my Snapper Card (NZ equivalent) in a cup of acetone to get the chip out. I then stuck the chip in the back of my Nokia bar phone.

Comment · 9 years ago

> It’s no secret that I really like Clojure and as a lisp, it was the easiest language for me to start the prototype with, but there’s no reason this couldn’t be done for any language with a dynamic runtime. The rest is mostly simple analysis of an AST and some clever inference.

I have looked into this. It is kind of criminal that for most real world languages (Ruby[1], C[2] etc), it's not possible to just define a grammar and throw it at a standard parser generator for them - they generally have one or two quirks which make this infeasible.

In my ideal alternate universe it would be considered unthinkable to publish a language without also publishing a grammar in a standard format for said language, which can then be plugged into your favourite text/semantic/tree editor. Our tools should dictate our languages, not the other way around.

[1] http://programmingisterrible.com/post/42432568185/how-to-par...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lexer_hack

Comment · 9 years ago

"Design hubris" is such a common problem for mobile/front end developers and the source of so much wasted time I'm surprised it's not talked about more commonly. Shit's expensive, man!

I am thankful that these days I get to work with talented designers who know what a UITableView is and understand the limitations of the medium.

Comment · 9 years ago

I find this 'Facebook = cigarettes' meme fascinating and hope it continues to propagate

Comment · 9 years ago

Ostriches... is that up by that bizarre castle house that's been turned into a dog kennel?

Comment · 9 years ago

As I remember, an early CSS proposal included the Cassowary constraints solver engine, but they decided not to go with it because either a fast implementation didn't exist at the time, or they were worried users wouldn't find the system intuitive?