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Kind of shocked they won't be offering a Kindle version. I was a big fan of the 1.5 edition.

I'd really like further explanation, too. If you're not properly indenting code in large projects — whatever the programming language is — I'd really hate working with you.

Great post, OP. Always love this type of HN content the most.

Absolutely. Good luck finding a place that cheap in SF.

Really interesting article, OP. I love coming across these type of links on HN — just seems like it happens less often these days.

    iOS 7 was clearly designed to show off what’s possible in 2013.

I absolutely agree with this point.

And, while I disagree with the post's main thesis — I believe the changes were in no way directed towards the web — it's a pretty entertaining take on the updates, OP.

Looks like Goodboy Digital made it: http://www.goodboydigital.com/

Have you checked out this section? https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

I normally never visit it, but it is available.

Such a great browser back in the day. It was absolutely my preferred browser of choice until Chromium came to the Mac.

I feel like ensembles are just so much easier to work with — and can be incredibly accurate given you take enough time to fine tune the parameters and provide the right features. Most ML problems that I deal with fit really well with Gradient Boosting, and it's awesome to be able to see the breakdown of how decision trees are voting.

I seriously doubt you've made a complex app if you're recommending Auto Layout.

Really curious about how much time it took to program this.

Using Requests and lxml is a better solution — except when you need many concurrent spiders, in which case you should be using Scrapy (you'd probably be looking for the Middleware discussed here, too: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/scrapy-users/WqMLnKbA43I/B3N...).

The ability to script with Lua is incredibly smart.

Really cool, OP. Looking forward to reading through this more thoroughly tomorrow, but I'm a big fan of these types of small side projects.

Kenneth's a badass. The libraries he puts out are incredibly helpful.

This is absolutely the right answer.

Interesting that you can't look at any of the articles without signing up. No thanks.

Tend to agree with this. There's some great stuff they've added for developers, but even non-technical users like my parents have complained about some bugs — not to mention how awful an experience Game Center is.

Nice price point. I thought about going ahead and trying to get these myself, but it's hard not to just hand over the $2 and call it done.

Also, really like the simplicity of the interface. Can tell you took some time making a tool a developer would want.

Agreed, it's the best solution currently available. I use it daily.

Really interesting idea. Could seriously see myself using this.

Nice teardown. Knew they were using a <canvas> tag, but didn't dive deep enough see how they were using Base64 and decoding the frames. Thanks for writing this up.

On a side note, Macon is actually a Code for America city this year (http://codeforamerica.org/2012-partners/macon/) and I'm one of three fellows working with the city. The speech superintendent Dallemand gave earlier this year detailing his plan was great (we spent all of February in Macon) — especially when you consider just how much scrutiny it's been under.

Speaking from the point-of-view of someone who already has a bachelor's degree, I have found it hard completing free online classes — the majority of the time I just scan through the lecture notes and assignments. On the other hand, my dad (who has two master's) has worked through almost a dozen MIT courses — and normally reads through the accompanying textbooks.

The one course I found truly useful was Stanford's iOS course (it really is one of the best iTunes U courses available). Other than that, I'm much more likely to watch a single lecture (think TED or Stanford's lecture series on YouTube) than a whole course.

Pretty incredible that you were able to withstand that on a $15 VPS. Nice job, man.

Yes, it did.

After reading both this and the iMore article, I really feel like Q4 this year is going to be like nothing we've ever seen. There won't be a reason for the average consumer not to get an iOS device. I think we're heading into a time where Apple's dominance will pass the threshold of what Microsoft had in the 90's.

And, if you consider a revamped TV is on the way in a couple years — man, we're talking about iOS in the living room, in your lap, and in your pocket. It's astonishing to think that the iPhone is only 5 years old at this point.

If he just started iOS programming today, what are the major missteps he'd tell his novice self to avoid? (I've read he's not that keen on nibs, etc.)

Dalton seems like a really smart guy, but I do agree. The post feels like nothing more than an App.net attention grab.