Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019 • Hacker News Board

Re: Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019

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Post by int_19h » Sat, Jan 05, 2019, 1:57 AM UTC

bpye wrote: post #128

kartickv wrote: post #123

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For cellular on laptops and tablets to become standard, the networks should stop charging us extra for another device. I wish I could just be charged for each gigabyte of data without regard to which device is using it, just like Google Drive storage is available to all your devices without a per-device fee. As long as there's a separate fee, most people wouldn't want it.

Google Fi gives you a second SIM for free which is nice. Doesn't help me at the moment though, every carrier in Canada seems to add an extra fee for a second SIM even when I just want it to share the same plan.

It's even better - Fi gives up to 5 extra data sims for free. This made all the difference for me, personally - they go everywhere there is a slot for one.

Re: Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019

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Post by jlarocco » Sat, Jan 05, 2019, 2:06 AM UTC

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #65

jlarocco wrote: post #37

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Can you explain the appeal? As a long time iPhone and iPad owner, I find iOS intolerable and it gets worse with every release. Coding on an iPad would be like trying to prepare a 5 course dinner on a kid's Fisher Price kitchen or building an intricate model with Duplo Lego bricks. Maybe possible, but a terrible experience. So what am I missing?

I am genuinely baffled by "iOS gets worse with every release." If you wanted to argue that iOS's approach to multi-pane displays, application switching, and file management, should be better than it is now, sure, absolutely. But when I consider the improvements in the past few years -- the dock, split view, drag and drop, file providers, Shortcuts -- I confess I'm not thinking, "Man, I long for all the power and util…

I don't write mobile apps, so I have no idea about the coding environment, but the last several upgrades have consistently annoyed me. It seems there's a lot of change for the sake of change; more things tied into iCloud and other Apple services; upgrade prompts that prompt over and over and over and over again; etc..

And then there are several annoying bugs they don't fix, like having to reboot my phone after tethering my laptop (a Macbook) before I can tether again.

Re: Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019

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Post by LyndsySimon » Sat, Jan 05, 2019, 2:19 AM UTC

a-ve wrote: post #106

This seems like an exercise in masochism. Why would you want to code on an OS targeted for smartphones and without any native compiler support? To those who want LTE connectivity, I don't think you know there's a device called the Thinkpad X1 with this functionality built in. Or is it that coding on tablets is considered "hip" these days?

I code on my iPad quite a bit. It’s not “native”, though; I use a Digital Ocean VM that I connect to over MOSH.

It feels no different from using my MBP at a desk, really, and it’s handy to have it when I’m out running errands and such.

Re: Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019

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Post by kraftman » Sat, Jan 05, 2019, 4:42 AM UTC

Thriptic wrote: post #108

hessproject wrote: post #81

This is the reason I ditched the iPad for a Surface. Windows isn't my preferred environment but the ability to run my normal tools (IDEs, command line tools, etc) really was a game changer. iPad Pro is great for creative workflows, but it's a shame it leaves programmers in the dust. It would be really great even to see something like XCode come to iOS

Surface supports Ubuntu 18 out of the box pretty well for regular use. The caveats are the touch screen doesn't work, I had to make a one line fix to get WiFi to stop failing randomly, and setting up luks at install time can't be done without an external keyboard because the type cover isn't recognized at boot until a one line fix is made, but that's it! I've used it as my daily setup for several months without issue…

on a surface book touch and pen work but battery doesnt, and theres no auto rotate

Re: Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019

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Post by vetinari » Sat, Jan 05, 2019, 4:09 PM UTC

bubblethink wrote: post #173

vetinari wrote: post #168

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Depends on what do you do with the computer. Some of my colleagues need location out in the field for GIS/WFM purposes.

I mean your cell phone's location from which you would otherwise tether the connection would be close enough. I guess no one has written an app to convey that information. The other use case of gps could be a good source of time if you have no network connectivity.

In theory yes, but nobody has bothered to write it. It is much easier to sell it as hardware, than software.

Re: Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019

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Post by kkarakk » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 10:10 AM UTC

ulzeraj wrote: post #186

kkarakk wrote: post #156

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just buy a 20k mAh battery and you're off to the races, nowadays these can charge your phone and laptop at the same time(usb c PD enabled) if you say you don't WANT to carry another thing then your assertion fails - either you need a full working environ on the go or you don't. tethering with a mobile phone and laptop provides a mobile work environ with no drawbacks at all

What if the person traveling wants to use a SIM card from his country of origin in order to receive important calls but don't want to incur incredible expensive data roaming costs and decides to use a local prepaid sim on the iPad to achieve that? Just... stop arriving to those definitive conclusions when there are a couple of variables involved.

then you'd do the sensible thing and buy a multisim phone in the first place - like samsung sells?