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My high school claim to fame was a VB.NET application I wrote during class that would connect directly to my server to download flash games since online flash games were constant c…

It allows them to keep the walled garden intact. A 3rd party app marketplace would need to install apps to the device and would require a different permissions model to anything av…

This seems likely to be the case. Perhaps there is a way to design a test such that it measures how quickly one can become capable in some informal "programming language" designed …

This sounds right on in my experience, though I would say a truly good UX designer should know the usability of what they're designing in Figma and understand those limitations eno…

If they're really doing this (and I don't particularly doubt it) someone should script up a little bot to search for domain names that are likely to trigger the mechanism. Find wor…

He's our fastest business analyst but sometimes on a hot day he'll just keep repeating "Syntax Error"... Very cool work, I continue to be blown away by what GPT-3 can achieve.

Slack's iOS app is written in Obj-C and Swift[1]. I think the author's suggestion was that the macOS desktop app built with Electron will become obsolete because the superior iOS v…

The day I can pay 10 cents to read an article through various sources will be the day I start paying to read online articles.

I'm interested in why you consider Messages a social network? To me, Messages is an iteration on MMS, analogous to the transition from SMS to MMS. Messages can only be used by Appl…

On iOS it takes a single TouchID auth and a few message prompts to sign up for a recurring subscription - you won't ever be asked for payment again. I'm certain Android is similarl…

It seems more like there was an unusual spike that wore off quickly [1]. Still, an order of magnitude fewer viewers than LoL [2]. [1] http://sullygnome.com/temp/bd061c88-c4f9-4f70-…

Xamarin provides a bunch of generic controls that act as bridges to their corresponding platforms. It has enough flexibility that you can build the UI code from scratch for each pl…