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chunkyguy

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About chunkyguy

I make apps and games. https://whackylabs.com

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    Comment #48159224

    Like last year at a cafe in a small town somewhere in Greece. You make it sound like indoor smoking in public places is a thing of a past.

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    Comment #48082019

    I'm not upgrading to Tahoe my personal macbook because of the audio crackling issue that I have on my work macbook https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256143303

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    Comment #47600133

    > You treat your code as a means to an end to make a product for a user. This sounds more like a product owner not a developer

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    Comment #47332492

    You need to understand the context. The quote in Gita was to motivate the best warrior of the time at the battlefront facing opponents who were mainly his cousins and uncles. In th…

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    Comment #45359381

    If there is HTML in the list then why not JSON?

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    Comment #45042898

    > This introduces performance issues larger than the typical ones associated with vtable lookups. Don't know about other programming languages but with Objective-C due to IMP cachi…

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    Comment #44597954

    This is so true. I switch from iPhone 5s to iPhone SE to iPhone 13 mini. After my current phone dies I don't know what phone would I get next.

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    Comment #42366825

    C has many syntactic sugar and [] operator is one of them. -> is another popular one.

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    Comment #42155559

    > After a formal investigation in 1907, psychologist Oskar Pfungst demonstrated that the horse was not actually performing these mental tasks, but was watching the reactions of his…

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    Comment #41957309

    > The tooling idea is particularly appropriate for JavaScript since many developers actually code in TypeScript and rely on compilers such as Babel, Webpack or the TypeScript compi…

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    Comment #41499749

    Can you not simply use a feature flag that you control remotely to toggle the app between fake and real modes? You just need to toggle the flag on when submitting for review

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    Comment #41088401

    this sounds like a good explanation: > University of Göttingen had more academic freedom than generations past. They were promised intellectual autonomy and freedom from close reli…

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    Comment #40101165

    There's also `clang -rewrite-objc` that "Rewrite Objective-C source to C++" which does the same trick of mapping objc code to `objc_msgSend` https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangComman…

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    Comment #40056303

    Here you go https://whackylabs.com/swift/cpp/languages/2021/01/03/cpp-fo...

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    Comment #40056203

    > While it does cost $99 to get in the store, the app can be used by millions for no additional cost. Hosting fees for a web app will grow along with the user base. Even without us…

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    Comment #39052949

    Piracy isn't a new buzzword but ever since Apple made it a selling point everyone is hopping on the train. Also when it comes to privacy there's a thin line between collecting data…

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    Comment #39010331

    Also real security issues should be tackled on the os level. If the app sandboxing is actually robust then I don't see what is the problem.

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    Comment #38965251

    > Thirteen. Instagram had thirteen employees when acquired by Facebook. But then Instagram was mostly just a simple photo editor app without the social graph complexity. Sure you c…

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    Comment #38965082

    Apple Stock Falls In Minutes After 'Vision Pro' Announcement" https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/apple-wwdc-2023/card/ap... Also Microsoft is still selling HoloLens but for selec…

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    Comment #38942429

    This is the best way for having a objc and c++ in same project.

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    Comment #38058360

    As a kid I was more confused between Sweden and Sudan

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    Comment #37560648

    I miss no access control for speaker. There is global default. I turn on speakers for one music app and at next launch another social media app plays their ads on full volume.

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    Comment #37514723

    The best freelancing jobs I got were from my network. Mostly people who were contacted by someone for a gig and they referred my name.

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    Comment #37514645

    Best choice.

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    Comment #37514630

    Swift, Kotlin, C#, Javascript