wattson12

I see the horizontal loading, and it is also very slow (30 seconds + in some cases)

you could (depending on the app) write and submit an app without ever running it on a device. Obviously not recommended though

no

I've been an iOS developer for about 5 years, and I do all my UI in code (one exception: the watch app we have is using storyboards). Storyboards are fine but I find them slow once they get to a certain size, which for any non trivial app, I always hit

I try to keep view controllers clean by having view subclasses which manage layout, and I use auto layout as much as possible

Saying that though, its not the standard, and Apple push storyboards more and more every year, so I would guess I'm in the minority

his videos are only blocked until they air on HBO in the US, so in a day or so they should be available in the UK

I can't remember the last time I signed for something. These days (UK / Australia) its annoying when I can't just hold my wallet against the reader and have to enter my PIN

I just bought a 2 bed terrace in zone 4 for 280k, its not cheap but there are some places that are a lot more affordable (especially if you don't mind going south of the river)

you can scroll that view sort of horizontally

assuming they are not already on a visa. I can legally work in London (on a sponsored visa) but have no right to work in the EU

definitely wrong, i've submitted > 10 apps and updates without a single storyboard

There is a third party IDE: AppCode by jetbrains which does most of what you need (and apparently lots of things better than Xcode) but i've never used it for any long periods

Xcode gets a bad rap, but i use it every day and can't remember the last time the current version crashed or did something strange, maybe i'm just used to it by now though

No worries, I understood where you're coming from. I partly agree with you: I switched to git at the command line from tower because I wanted to script some features (and understand the tool better), but having the GUI there made it easier for me to get used to git in the first place. (though admittedly, tower is one of the good GUIs which make it easy to do a simple task, too many of them do the opposite)