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IIRC, something about opportunity cost or maintenance burden.

The choice to port to RN wasn't technical at all. Tobi (the CEO) prefers RN philosophically. No technical argument opposed to RN--which is super easy to come up with, along several…

Former Shopify iOS dev here. I pushed SO HARD to get dark mode to be a thing we would do. It's table stakes, IMO, in 2020 and beyond, to support it. We'd get roasted on Twitter, Li…

Loblaws sold their interest in PC Financial last year sometime. CIBC took it over.

Couldn't agree more. I priced Macbook Pro 15" plus adapters in CDN $ and got sticker shock.

Extra space and ergonomics to keep coding into my seventies is why I use an external keyboard. I'm in my thirties currently. Maybe by the time I'm 70 I'll be talking to my computer…

That resize to mobile form factor at the end of the gif! Made me watch it twice. I'll be checking Antetype out for that alone.

> 1. Joel saying "I didn't understand that question" and then moving on might have been succinct and practical, but it was just not a good reflection of him. He's presenting in the…

They specifically made comparisons to the A8 chip (in the 6 and 6+) during the event and emphasized the speed increase. Apple knows their true problem is getting old iPhone users t…

When I switched to Mac from Windows about 5 years ago (because I decided to be an iOS developer), this is the biggest thing I noticed. There was zero feedback, or a just a quick be…

This is normal. I'm feeling it right now with what I want to do. In my heart and mind, I _know_ I can do it, but then the doubts and fears rush in. I totally understand the feeling…

I don't quite have that feeling watching this show (I can relate to it, but I'm not in the Valley; the show is hilarious), but shows like Catastrophe or movies like This is 40 hit …

Amen. I couldn't agree more with this. A lot of comments in the thread are commenting that the developer should be able to slice up PSDs, but why not go further and be responsible …

> The server should always be the source of truth. It should always enforce all the consistency rules. Database schemas can be a critical tool here as well. Amen. And I'm a client …

> I think people often confuse "simple" with "pretty". Oh man, this. Even richer is confusing usable with pretty. I guess nowadays people say "user experience" instead of usability…

It's fine _if you're not audited_. In Ottawa. We got audited for FY 2013. It was brutal. Took the entire FY 2014 to get our claim. We got it in full because of me explaining everyt…

I use a lot of Jetbrains' IDEs and have for years: ReSharpe, dotCover, etc., WebStorm, PHPStorm. I also have Rubymine but probably won't need it after the license expires. I use th…

Great idea! Has great promise! I've had a similar idea, but for my kids. Arranging xmas with the grandparents is an administrative burden. It would be great to say, "Go here." Some…

Is there somewhere I can go to check if my Macbook is one of those? I have to start buttering up my boss if I need a new one. (Xcode updates sure force upgrades. I was just fine wi…

Same. Winamp is the only player I use. The feature that sets it apart: I set a playlist, and _the playlist stays around_ until I change it, no need to explicitly save anything and …

This is epic if it works as advertised. I was thinking recently that the dev tooling story is pretty bad for mobile apps, compared to desktop apps or server side. I find iOS apps p…

Speaking as a Windows user who uses a Mac for dev on iOS: you will be frustrated by Mac OS, at least initially. I've been using Mac OS daily for over a year and I still find Window…