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adajos

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About adajos

Minneapolis-based iOS developer

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    Comment #11042724

    I'm going to endorse them for "Creating Value for Shareholders."

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    Comment #11041139

    If only Programmer B had avoided that initial choice to preserve the broken abstraction rather than abandoning it then and there. He must have been practicing Deadline Driven Devel…

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    Comment #10991315

    Thanks, I had no idea!

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    Comment #10988497

    Hope the dynamic/static dispatch issues around protocol extensions get sorted out--the current state is pretty lousy.

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    Comment #10988371

    It would be nice to have something in our arsenal against dengue fever. I will be interested to see how effective this is.

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    Comment #10980866

    Excellent point. And this calibrating is a key point as you lose weight--once you drop a significant amount you've got to revise your calorie intake down a commensurate amount. Est…

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    Comment #10980846

    Exactly right. It's all about the BMR and while calorie-counting alone won't get you ideal nutrition it is absolutely enough to control weight. I counted my calories with MyFitness…

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    Comment #10980797

    This is pretty sad Apple.

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    Comment #10973887

    Very interesting. Startup idea: stool sample testing and custom diet design via a mobile app. I call "not it" for the stool testing part. I'll work on the mobile app instead.

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    Comment #10964858

    Seems like this should be easily fixable by making it the app developer's decision via CoreLocation. If the app developer in turn wants to allow the user to modify that setting, th…

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    Comment #10964845

    I am an Apple fan and iOS developer, but I completely agree.

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    Comment #10953300

    Reach is exactly right. Also good for audience building. That said, I agree with most of the complaints about Medium as well.

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    Comment #10938250

    Great post and tips, thanks for sharing them with us.

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    Comment #10931577

    Oh man, I'm going to be using that "Views, loadable from XIB" tip now.

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    Comment #10926532

    This is the best explanation I've seen anywhere about why you sometimes need to provide the parameter name for the first parameter in a func and when you don't.

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    Comment #10926517

    I can't imagine that it's possible for me to inhibit subvocalization. It seems intrinsic to the way I read.

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    Comment #10926494

    I use the Sync Solver app to push my FitBit data into HealthKit. http://syncsolver.com/ I have both an Apple Watch and a FitBit Surge. The Apple Watch is the better smart watch, bu…