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i personally have problems with tinnitus and hearing loss, and creatine use tends to trigger it due to water retention so i stay off the stuff.

You mean like half the engineers I've worked with in my career? I wonder how we got here :)

Have you observed any humans and their decision making capabilities lately? :)

I believe we saw that this week - https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/time-serves-ai-bots-a-diff...

I believe that was an intent/goal of BAT in Brave.

lots of canonical/ubuntu down https://status.canonical.com/

been in the python game a long time and i've seen so many tools in this space come and go over the years. i still rely on good ol pip and have had no issues. that said, we utilize mypy and ruff, and have moved to pyproject etc to remotely keep up with the times.

Yeah I gotta agree here, I'm not sure I've seen someone so opinionated with python. I tend to try to use things built into python or official recs until I hit an actual problem that needs to be solved.

I'm not saying every choice they made is perfect. One of my qualms is the lack of backgrounds for button selection in areas with 'ok' and 'cancel' - which is one of the most important areas to give the user clear direction.

Google is making a huge amount of progress in UI and UX; the company has historically been rather mediocre in terms of it's UI and UX, while Apple was always the star. Over the past year or so the roles have reversed, and Google continues making strides towards unifying their applications in a single user experience and ui paradigm that allows for simpler app use, particularly for new users.

It's easy to get upset when things change, but keep in mind that change can be positive and/or negative.

Some big companies do, just not the ones you'd probably care to work at. If they make this choice they simply lose out on a certain set of individuals. Their loss, not yours.

Safari on OSX has always had the ability for a user to set their default browser preference (to chrome for example). I wonder if iOS will ever go this route.

I find it odd that Microsoft went to court for doing the same thing in Windows but it's okay for Apple to do it.

I just wanted to throw this out there:

you should first read the objective-c primer.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#referencelibrary/Ge...

You mentioned the apple docs feel complex to you but I'd honestly recommend truly taking your time and working through them as they really are the best.

As a long time Obj-C/iOS dev, web service interaction frameworks and/or best practices have been lacking for some time now. While RestKit works, it's learning curve is a tad steep and the sheer size of it can be a tad frightening in terms of 3rd party component reliance. If AFIncrementalStore is as great to work with as AFNetworking itself devs may have found themselves a new standard.

If Microsoft could actually release a desktop operating system that is properly designed visually and in terms of user experience, people could actually admire their PC's like they do in all of their stupid commercials. Their market share is so massive that a success in the desktop space could then drive growth in mobile as they actually have build a good UX there.

There _is_ usefulness to it if people would stop using it as a marketing/advertising tool and try to drive real value (which people need to be doing in general with mobile). We need to find uses within the enterprise or industrial space in combination with OpenCV.

I posted and complained about that same skeumorphic podcasts app today. Apple leads so much in the realm of hardware design but is starting to take steps backwards in it's own application/software design. I'm very anxious and hopeful for Microsoft to progress in this arena and give Apple some competition.

Ramblings like this are a premier example of what is wrong with engineers today. If you are afraid to learn or use tools outside of ruby, you are not a true engineer. The world does not revolve around ruby.

Get some real iOS development under your belt before you make these broad assumptions.

That list is now in my .plan

I think it takes a bit more deep analysis of what your skills & qualifications are along with what ideas you would have for either an app or game. Are you already an iOS dev?

I obviously can't say for sure how it works as I'm just an end user, but I can say you tell the device you are going to sleep and when you wake up. In between, it is obviously sensing your movement using the accelerometer, etc. My guess would be if you fidget around while you sleep this would be considered a light sleep.

From what I have seen thus far there is no export capability for the data. There's an outstanding question on the jawbone forums with no response http://forums.jawbone.com/t5/Product-Support/Can-we-export-o...

another facebook-only login... seriously guys, enough of this.

This has an uncanny similarity to Color, even that custom tab bar has the same exact icon placement. To me this looks more like a new version of Color with tight facebook integration... or perhaps FB got Color to to the dev for this while they are floundering right now.

I also find it odd that FB would spin out a separate app when all along they've been going for a unified experience in the iPhone app.

Nice tutorial summarizing this useful action. The ASIHTTPRequest lib is also good to note here as the ASINetworkQueue NSOperationQueue subclass allows for tracking progress of the entire queue in addition to a few other useful delegate methods

http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/How-to-use#about_ASINe...

another strength is this looks to be actively maintained

you just changed one of the consistent features of all os x applications, how to close applications and close windows/tabs of applications.

for some reason i always use the finger motion/press of thumb on left ⌘-key + index finger on q key to quit things and i've never experienced the ⌘q ⌘w issue.

Perhaps all artists of any sort should abandon all forms of media except the most recent technologies. Who needs oil paints, or working with woods, metals, etc. Let's go purely digital so everything can be absolutely perfect.

The reality is everyone thinks they are a photographer these days because everyone has a camera in their pocket. Most people take awful, horrid photos, and tools such as hipstamatic and instagram can make even bad photos visually pleasing. If it makes the user happy, it's fine by me. It's their phone/camera and their life.

I have to add the obligatory representation for my home city of PIT here, given IMHO we have one hell of an excellent startup community. We've got various VC firms, incubators such as Alphalab, CMU throwing in its support, not to mention the fact that you can live here affordably with quite a nice lifestyle.

Once you're out of the valley the startup scene definitely changes, with a tad more focus on actual monetization :)

Their API woes lead to problems with other components they offer. Their original iphone sdk component was one of the more polished freely available objective c components out there. Their updated version using that relies on the updated API's is a step backwards in functionality, ease of use and documentation.