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I use colemak as well. I find it way more rare than you might think that you have to type in QWERTY. There are probably couple of times a year I need to, and I can always get away with some quick hunt n' peck in those rare cases.
Among many other reasons referenced by others, the users who would be willing to fork over a subscription fee to access twitter are exactly the demographic that twitter needs in order to keep its advertising attractive to marketers. A successful subscription option for a service like twitter would greatly diminish the value of their advertising inventory.
Faster, probably, but 2x+ Faster like in PowerPC > Intel very unlikely. Which is why there’s much less likely to be enough performance budget for effective emulation.
Ok I'm all for a good app store rejection story but this sounds pretty suspect: “any app designed to help people use their phones less is unacceptable for distribution in the App Store.”
It's way more likely because there isn't a public API for changing the application icon on iOS (at least until 10.3 https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uiapplication/28...)
...and even when once there is a public API. It is certainly against app store rules to infringe on the trademarks of popular social network companies for what you use as your icon.
"Up to $650". You plug in your exact model and get a value thats <= $650 based on resale value, similar to value to just selling to a service like Gazelle. Smart marketing though.
Most of the time when people have negative response to something they refrain from leaving an internet comment, thats why everyone loves internet comments /s
My resolution isn't a specific project, but more of a general commitment to spending regular time on side projects.
I've very recently been enjoying using pomodoro[1] cycles to track my productivity at work and I'd like to translate the same behavior to my side projects and commit to getting 4 cycles done per week (~2 hours), and tracking that information to keep myself accountable.
I'm pretty naive on this topic, but wouldn't adding an artificial delay only create more opportunities for arbitrage vs other exchanges?
91% could also pretty misleading because not all vulnerabilities are equal. It's easy to let 9 potential segfaults or memory corruption issues get disclosed if you get to hold on to the 1 iOS Zero Day/Shellshock type attack/etc...
Mildly interesting (at least in chrome on os x) if you open a new tab on top of it the web audio api stops playing but doesn't seem to stop the timer in the animation leading to a jump and some interesting audio for a beat when you open the tab back up.
Video Recap/Compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHY8Rdxn_2o
Still in private testing, more info http://answercam.me/
The two plus two poker forums [1] are one of the best resources for learning about poker, especially so for online poker but live poker as well.
Though if Apple removed its cut it would likely be even less incentivized to fix thing like app store review times/app store discovery, as those teams would suddenly become pure cost centers.
It's not just about Taylor Swift having way more pull than any developer, she was also presenting Apple with a problem simple enough that it could literally be solved by throwing money at it.
As Rob Napier pointed out in a great blog post [1]: The app store sustainability problem is definitely not the sort of problem you can just throw money at, and thus can't be responded to by Apple with the same way.
Even in this article it is immediately apparent there is no consensus among the affected as to what the real problem is: Is it lack of free trials? Paid upgrades? Review times?
Not so sure URL schemes are that high on the chopping block. Using custom URL schemes is a suggested practice for Today extensions to launch their containing app with contextual information[1]
[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Founda...:
One common reason is that it is a requirement to do the fast app switching Facebook auth, which is why you see many URL schemes in that list in the form of fb[facebook app id][optional suffix]://
This is so that after auth the Facebook app has a URL to fast app switch back to and handle the authentication result.
This trailer is really not helping my personal goal of keeping my expectations low for this movie.
Given that they raised $40mm[1] earlier this year not sure they really fit in this list.
[1] http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/03/imgur-the-startup-that-doe...
"Research and development at the start-up, which employed just 55 people at the time it was sold, totaled $77 million"
I'm super-confused by this, can anyone explain what sorts of expenses would be this high and labeled as R&D costs for a company like WhatsApp?
Showing the CPU+Battery utilization graph for a sample app is a pretty dubious way to demonstrate the performance impacts of swizzling sendAction:to:from:forEvent:
It may indeed be a negligible impact as they claim, but using the Time Profiler instrument they could show exactly how much time is spent in the main queue on their swizzled code which would be a much better indication of whether or not the performance impact is negligible than eyeballing a cpu utilization graph.
It's possible, there is a company called Valencell (http://www.valencell.com) that has been working on this for a few years. There a few products using that technology that are out already, not sure how good they are right now, but promising technology for sure.
A website that allows maintainers of open-source projects to flag/create tickets where it would be helpful for others to help out.
I personally want to make more OSS contributions, but often I find it hard to find projects where I can contribute meaningfully. Meaning specifically that they are projects that have problems that match my expertise, are actively maintained (my patches will be appreciated), and have unresolved tickets where assistance would be useful (they are looking for outside help).
I imagine there are at-least some OSS maintainers who would like to recruit more contributors as well, and a site that would help match both would be beneficial for everyone.
Someone has implemented a similar process in an iOS app called Velocity (http://velocityapp.com). I downloaded it a few weeks ago and have tried it off and on, I have trouble for the use case of reading feeds (it integrates mostly with rss feeds I think) in that I tend to do that reading in distraction-prone environments but it might work better for other mediums
Apple does at least allow download of the last compatible version for iOS apps.
Unfortunately this also puts developers in a really tough spot if they have a large number of iPad (or other users of obsolete devices) as they are unable to ship updates to that obsolete version and they are forced to either disable this download completely abandoning the customers or have it available and be unable to make any bugfixes or other updates
In most if not all the annotations on this doc I'm experiencing a bug where annotations are displaying with each paragraph being duplicated (screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/1f013G353E3T)