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CodeWithCoffee

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About CodeWithCoffee

Programming Thomas, iOS and Android developer

http://programmingthomas.com

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    Comment #11398115

    You can download Xamarin Studio for OS X or Visual Studio with Xamarin here https://www.xamarin.com/download

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    Comment #11134434

    A quick check of the stories on the front page suggests this is the case; editorial content and news covering yesterday's events is all /19 (today) whereas today's news and online …

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    Comment #9752670

    > Only numeric variables are supported (no strings, no matrices) Basic.hpp defines LET as: #define LET double [1] Perhaps this would allow for a broader range of types, seen as C++…

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    Comment #9626603

    Link to the documentary for those in the UK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074rxx/horizon-199519...

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    Comment #9223996

    App Store link, for anyone that's interested: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/lisping/id512138518?mt=8

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    Comment #8893812

    Their about page lists the licenses for several native iOS libraries (AFNetworking, etc) which suggests it is mostly native.

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    Comment #8701593

    Over the years it seems there have been a fair few 'Hacker News for X' (see https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/hacker%20ne... ). Presumably each time people implement…

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    Comment #8671820

    OP: There's a typo in the title for ReadKit: > ReadKit RRS reader (should read RSS).

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    Comment #8626105

    What's more, you can't get the current properties of the interface objects (e.g. the position on screen, or text content). You can only write to them: https://developer.apple.com/l…

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    Comment #8615402

    > Also you can use smart pointers to do automatic garbage collection. Not quite. Smart pointers do automatic reference counting, which doesn't use a garbage collector.

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    Comment #8473230

    For iOS developers that want to use the new PDF image catalogs in Xcode 6 (which automatically generate the @1x, @2x and @3x images so you don't have to add them individually) I ha…

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    Comment #8021618

    Steve Jobs blogged on Apple's main site https://www.apple.com/hotnews/ , including the famous Thoughts on Flash article https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ .

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    Comment #7895842

    Objective-C uses Automatic Reference Counting (Garbage Collection has been deprecated - and ARC works a lot better than the GC implementation), and as Swift had to uses Objective-C…

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    Comment #7852991

    Furthermore, Apple did bring up a slide during the Platform State of the Uniform (slide 56 in the PDF) saying source compatibility wouldn't be guaranteed (but that converters would…

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    Comment #7720327

    The old Apple headphones were average (for their price), but overall the newer EarPods are much, much better.

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    Comment #7523727

    This is a lot better than the conference selling out in 2 minutes like last year.

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    Comment #7503700

    Apple also uses a similar strategy with the iPhone. The iPhone 4 and 5 both made major form changes (retina display and screen shape) whereas the 4S and 5S were focussed on refinem…

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    Comment #7325940

    A lot of old articles (some as early as 2011) have been popping up in the popular list on BBC News. In the past this had been due to it suddenly being shared on social networks alt…

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    Comment #7292179

    Or one participant may not be European.

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    Comment #7281882

    These standards don't just cover 'word documents', they also cover other Office types for spreadsheets and presentations. HTML+CSS is a terrible idea for a spreadsheet standard.

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    Comment #7251048

    To answer other commenter's questions about the color, my perception is that it has to be the same color as the page background. This gives the illusion that the image is behind a …

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    Comment #7196016

    This article summarise one of the techniques that has been used recently: http://www.tuaw.com/2014/01/10/the-strange-shady-world-of-1-... .

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    Comment #6995393

    The article linked suggesting that Moore's law will become redundant this year ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014#cite_note-2 ) was published in 2009. Is this still thought to be …

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    Comment #6990131

    Although nothing was actually shown in the video - it dismissed several seconds after 'Send' was tapped. With this design, where the whole message thread is shown, I think it would…