The Elephant at WWDC • Hacker News Board

Re: The Elephant at WWDC

#211

Post by aliasEli » Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 10:07 PM UTC

giantrobot wrote: post #140

From my perspective, I was in SWE at Apple for over a decade, their documentation started going downhill as iOS development ramped up. By the time they got to the yearly release cycle for macOS and iOS documentation was an afterthought. Most was generated with doxygen from inline docstrings. The reason I think the quality and quantity dropped was the internal schedules barely (or don't) leave enough time for the engi…

It is not Apple that has these problems. In the last years I have been doing some Android development and the documentation is pretty horrible.

Re: The Elephant at WWDC

#212

Post by cratermoon » Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 11:37 PM UTC

kccqzy wrote: post #174

cratermoon wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off topic: I didn't know the Rust mascot was named Ferris. That's a lovely play on words.

I thought Ferris was named after ferrous oxide, which is the old name for Fe(II) oxide. But chemically, rust consists of Fe(III) oxide, or ferric oxide. So perhaps a more appropriate name would be Ferrick?

A little artistic license is better than foolish pedantry.

Re: The Elephant at WWDC

#213

Post by auggierose » Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 2:45 PM UTC

hamiltont wrote: post #202

auggierose wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just tried to order the Levin books macOS/iOS books (wasn't even aware of them), but they don't ship to the UK ... Must be security restricted ...

WOuld not be surprised - he's reported piracy issues in past. FYI I've ordered all books by emailing directly to an email on the website. He replies with "send paypal to xx if you want digital only, send xxx if you want me to mail you a hardcopy". clunky relative to an amazon order but it gets the job done

Oh, very cool, didn't know that digital only was an option!