jamesjguthrie

Due to the massive amounts of tutorials, Stack Overflow questions, libraries, projects, etc. all written in/about Objective C for iOS and OS X, I personally would not start anywhere else.

That I can remember:

Netflix

Spotify, used to pay for it before they brought mobile to the free tier

Xbox Live

115GB Google Drive and ~52GB Dropbox that I haven't started paying for yet

Github student account that will expire next summer

BiteSMS

Probably more apps on iPad/iPhone.

Usually explaining that paying me £x per day works out the same or just a little more than the equivalent salary for a full time developer, works ok. If they still complain after that then I usually don't take them on unless I'm desperate and give them a rates cut.

I struggle with it too. Sometimes there's loads of work then sometimes none. There's plans to start that never materialise. They always think you're too expensive. And they're always SO persnickety with their damn PSD layouts!

For the non-server edition apparently, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about practicalities of doing it.

OSX in VMware and Windows in VirtualBox. OSX VMware images are available online.

There's many Hackintosh VMware images available online.

> You can't visualize OSx on Linux or Windows for practical reasons

I have an OSX and XP virtual machine on my Ubuntu chroot on my HP Chromebook 14, so I don't know where you're getting this from.

I really love my HP Chromebook 14. It comes with 4GB of RAM and the RAM is upgradeable. I've installed an Ubuntu chroot which had no issues with wifi/trackpad/etc. I'm on 13.10 but the new version is supported too. Everybody comments on its looks - I got the white one - and it was only ~£280.

I gave up after this point and came here for the TL;DR.

Nah, I like the sound of it. It's like, suddenly all the potential that Oculus Rift had is going to be become (virtual) reality.

Central Scotland seems to be around 25-30k.

[1] In the UK this is illegal without your consent. Have you checked your local laws?

1. http://www.lindermyers.co.uk/can-an-employer-reduce-an-emplo...

It's only 'going away' in regards to new car models. There's many millions of second hand cars on the roads all over the world that could facitate an aftermarket double-DIN unit.

I'd like to see this available in a double-DIN sized unit that could be fitted in any car. Instead of it only being available in 2014+ cars.

I personally read lots of blog posts, news website articles, engineering papers (when required) etc. but find it a real struggle to read novels or lots of short stories. I enjoyed some Sherlock Holmes but lost interest after a few.

I just really prefer to consume fiction in film format and always have.

In running your own freelancing/consulting business full time, I think you can't be expected to be available to clients full time. You need to leave time to do other essential work such as sales, marketing, accounting, etc.

Right to Buy is ending in Scotland shortly to protect social housing.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/Housing/...

I was excited when I seen the headline about Chrome apps, thinking mobile was getting the same kind of in-browser apps that are available on the desktop Chrome Store. Mainly because that would give us the ability to write apps without an Apple Developer Account and we could publish outside of the App Store to users who aren't jailbroken. Seems like that's never going to happen.

I think I'm going to buy the new game. I never played it when I was younger but wanted to and since I've been watching Big Bang Theory box-sets I've really wanted to!

I'd like to have:

1) Device testing without a dev account or jailbreaking.

2) Xcode on Windows and Linux.

I don't think these are unreasonable!

As someone living nearly 30 miles from the nearest city (Glasgow) with a constant 120Mb connection I completely agree!

You can build on iOS devices without worrying about the $99/year fee, if you jailbreak them. I would say that Android would probably be the best way for you to go though since you already have some Java experience and only have an old Macbook.

Lots of GTA V, GT5, FIFA 13, Star Trek: Online, TF2, CS.

Don't try to 'reinvent the wheel' just put it on YouTube or similar.

Thanks for the recommendation for SymCalc, I've just downloaded it. I had been using TouchCalc and GraphCalc but this is much better!

The only thing that matters is that it's against the law to sell a broken product and not give any kind of refund. You can't say that because it may be relatively cheaper to buy from Steam that we as consumers should just metaphorically take it in the arse.

I don't know about everybody else but I don't use wiki as a verb, it's a noun in my vocabulary. I'll say "Google it" but I won't say "wiki it" or "Wikipedia it." I'll say "Check the wiki" as if every other wiki on the internet doesn't exist and Wikipedia is the wiki.

This is not the same reason that my latest phone upgrade was to iPhone. I always root my Android devices so that I can get the latest OS when I need it. For example, my Galaxy S2 is not 4 major updates behind as this chart says, it's actually fully up to date. The Android ROM community is massively popular [1] so this comparison here is invalid.

[1] 5.4 million registered users on XDA-dev.com with the majority of the subforums being for Android phones.

I know, I'm sick of websites that do things like this.