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graetzeron Ask HN: Help me get rid of a dilemma I've never had[The Apple dilemma]

Learn objective-c first and swift afterwards, when you feel like it. You will need to know most concepts from Objective-C anyway

graetzeron OpenGL in 2014

It seems there is a cross compiler for Go https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs There are also bindings for WebGL https://github.com/gopherjs/webgl

graetzeron Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in

Maybe he should use data from http://www.expatistan.com/ to get more accurate results

graetzeron Show HN: Solo - An app for sharing solitude and loneliness

That's nice work. Do you have plans to add a web interface? I think at least for viewing/commenting posts. That way posts could reach a larger audience

graetzeron San Francisco Noir

To be fair, the Public Transport system in the Eastern European states is usually pretty dense. The downside is that most of the buses and trains seem to be from the soviet era

graetzeron Java is the COBOL of my generation and Go is its successor

I think it fits in this context. JavaScript alone has no standard library or execution environment. Unlike the other languages listed there.

graetzeron Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed

I don't think they would nessesarily build in both processors. They'll just assume that developers will update their apps very fast.

The whole XCode toolchain already supports x86_64 and arm64. It's trivial to build "fat" binaries with clang that run on both platforms.

graetzeron Go and Android

Objective-C doesn't have generics either. The id type is used just like interface{}

Also canonical is building QML support for golang, so they seem to think it's well suited to build apps for Ubuntu http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HB-3o8Cysec

graetzeron The Mt. Gox alleged insolvency document has been posted

The statement doesn't imply anything about a insolvency

graetzeron Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones

Microsoft is a kernel contributor, and Android isn't really linux

http://go.linuxfoundation.org/who-writes-linux-2012

graetzeron Npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round

The infrastructure of npm is open-source: https://github.com/npm

graetzeron Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

Do you think it would be possible to re-use the sync-code from firefox directly? The library wouldn't have to be iOS specific.

graetzeron Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

Does anyone know if there will be a standalone client library for this API? I build an iOS browser that works with the old sync api and building a client on my own is probably a bad idea

graetzeron Gen - a generics library for Go

It would be like Java to the Pizza Language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_%28programming_language%2...

graetzeron Objective-C in the Cloud

I happened to be at a presentation the creators of this gave a few months ago

* I think ARC helps with most of the problems, of course you'll have to understand where to use weak or strong etc.

* You don't have to write @synthezize anymore, literals remove a lot of boilerplate too: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html

* As far as I know the protocol between server and client is just HTTP + JSON

* They use the BSD sandboxing facility https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...

graetzeron 404 - File not found

That sounds pretty depressed https://gist.github.com/graetzer/7972341

graetzeron Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats

I wouldn't trust a random website with my login info

graetzeron Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple

Chrome is not just a wrapper. WebKit requires you to implement networking, graphics rendering, font rendering etc. There are huge differences between the different WebKit based browsers

graetzeron Show HN: Foxbrowser, Firefox Home for iPad done right

That is already on my todo list for the next release.