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wattson12

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    Comment #16737372

    Location: Cardiff, Wales + Newcastle, Australia Remote: Yes (preferred, have been full time remote for a few years) Willing to relocate: No (though willing to occasionally travel) …

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    Comment #14551704

    I see the horizontal loading, and it is also very slow (30 seconds + in some cases)

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    Comment #14298656

    In their own blog post they specifically mention that ( https://content.citymapper.com/news/1800/introducing-the-cit... ) > London is actually not that badly served, but other citi…

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    Comment #14266305

    looks like the "original" versions have much more sugar: http://slimfast.com/original/#shakes

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    Comment #10034005

    you could (depending on the app) write and submit an app without ever running it on a device. Obviously not recommended though

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    Comment #9373006

    I've been an iOS developer for about 5 years, and I do all my UI in code (one exception: the watch app we have is using storyboards). Storyboards are fine but I find them slow once…

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    Comment #9327226

    his videos are only blocked until they air on HBO in the US, so in a day or so they should be available in the UK

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    Comment #9151150

    I can't remember the last time I signed for something. These days (UK / Australia) its annoying when I can't just hold my wallet against the reader and have to enter my PIN

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    Comment #9099781

    I just bought a 2 bed terrace in zone 4 for 280k, its not cheap but there are some places that are a lot more affordable (especially if you don't mind going south of the river)

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    Comment #9044337

    A lot of keyboard places will send you a sampler, with a few keys of different types: http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/wasd-6-key-cherry-mx-...

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    Comment #8464623

    you can scroll that view sort of horizontally

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    Comment #8285526

    assuming they are not already on a visa. I can legally work in London (on a sponsored visa) but have no right to work in the EU

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    Comment #8075105

    definitely wrong, i've submitted > 10 apps and updates without a single storyboard There is a third party IDE: AppCode by jetbrains which does most of what you need (and apparently…

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    Comment #7669230

    No worries, I understood where you're coming from. I partly agree with you: I switched to git at the command line from tower because I wanted to script some features (and understan…

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    Comment #7669021

    I think the point here isn't that command line tools are more powerful in general, its that building a GUI gives that access to more users who aren't as comfortable with the comman…

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    Comment #7608422

    Yes in class methods self is the Class object, so the Class is used as the locking token: > The object passed to the @synchronized directive is a unique identifier used to distingu…

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    Comment #7404371

    wasd have a mac keyboard layout in their v2 designer now

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    Comment #7392609

    In my experience anything that Xcode promises to just work, just doesn't but yes they have at least improved provisioning. The original point was that there are steps to go through…

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    Comment #7392492

    (ignoring the creating the developer account) - create certificate(s) - create provisioning profile(s) - hit refresh in Xcode and hope it pulls in the profiles you want to use (may…

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    Comment #7332577

    most of apples sample code is pretty poor design for large projects, the biggest example I think is core data stack in the app delegate

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    Comment #7332572

    > than the thousands of Android devices this probably explains why android would have it but not iOS, originally iOS only had 1 screen size and didn't need it (though it still woul…

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    Comment #7332567

    Agreed, I've been using https://github.com/dkduck/FLKAutoLayout to simplify the constraint creation

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    Comment #7215126

    these are great for code, for design inspiration check out - http://pttrns.com - http://capptivate.co

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    Comment #7019655

    it works for a lot of cases, e.g. buy a book and get other books recommended, not so well for rarer purchases like laptops or phones.