Aqua_Geek

Wow! That is an impressive setup!

I’d be interested in hearing what other devs are using for iOS builds. All the options I’ve tried have been pretty terrible.

> I don't understand the unique selling point here at all, maybe someone can elaborate?

Mini PCI Express slot?

I’ve done the same and completely agree that it’s a lot harder than already being there.

There are things like COBRA (http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq-consumer-cobra.html) that help to bridge the gap in coverage.

Your new job usually offers healthcare to replace your old. True, the coverage can be different - sometimes greatly so. It’s one of the factors you take into account when deciding to change jobs.

As much as I’d love if they got it down that far, is the vehicle significantly cheaper for them to manufacture such that they could sell it at that price (vs the $70k+ for the Model S)?

I thought it was that they are now taking reservations, but it seems they have been doing that for a while now (over 6,000 reservations have already been made).

I couldn’t agree more.

One thing I’ve been doing lately to mitigate #2 and #3 is to use the repository pattern. Models become POCOs and the repositories worry about translating to and from SQLite/Core Data/etc. Is it perfect? Nope. But it does provide a lot of flexibility, and I sleep better at night knowing that I can swap out the data store much more easily should I need to.

I read it as it would last beyond one year, unlike the normal free tier, but I’d like some clarification as well.

Edit: Re-reading it (particularly the “AWS Promotional Credit” section at the bottom) leads me to believe that the free tier is exactly the same as the regular free tier and it expires 12 months from sign-up.

It’s not the code changes or downtime you have to worry about — it’s convincing all of your customers to enter their billing details again (if you can’t get the vaulted cards transferred).

> […] I know there is no way it would be successful.

Here’s an interesting article on a new airline that seems to be doing pretty well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23959197.

Granted, it’s a very different kind of airline that Flohr is creating.

I worry that PayPal might change the “Take your vaulted cards to another processor” policy…

If they do, it’s going to cause a lot of headaches for customers.

I was glad to see Apple make the changes to MapKit necessary to make this happen and am double glad to see MapBox taking advantage of it!

> In the immediate future, this will make zero difference for consumers. Applications that ship today will continue to be compiled as 32-bit, so that they can run on all the other iOS devices as well.

Actually, applications that ship today (well, in a week) can be fat binaries, compiled for both 32- and 64-bit. Apps should see a performance boost from this, though in most cases it's probably negligible.

They’re masking new features with ”creative” variable/method names.

Supposedly the data is encrypted, stored in the A7, and never leaves the phone.

I would like to think it'll soon be slowly replaced by something more sophisticated.

Personally, I'd love to have control over who can contact me and by what means - basically, grant access to specific pieces of my contact information to specific third parties where I can revoke access at any time and they get any updates I make instantly.

Where do you work that psychometric tests are required of candidates? It's the first I've heard of something like this (outside of various gov't/military jobs).

From the site:

> We know you live and die by keyboard shortcuts. We do too. On the CODE keyboard, up to six keys can be pressed at once, which is known as 6-Key USB Rollover.

(http://codekeyboards.com)

It doesn't seem very accurate in Munich, either, particularly WRT housing — all the 1BR flats we saw were north of 1,200€/mo.

Sadly, I don't think Apple enforces these guidelines very much — the top three (by number of apps) developers in the iOS App Store are [1]:

* Libriance Inc (2,100 apps): http://itunes.apple.com/artist/libriance-inc/id336845065?uo=...

* NTT Solmare (1,600 apps): http://itunes.apple.com/artist/ntt-solmare/id291585690?uo=5

* Tobit.Software (1,300 apps): http://itunes.apple.com/artist/tobit.software/id284971906?uo...

A lot of the apps for each of these companies are very similar or are basic web clips.

1 — Source: iTunes Enterprise Partner Feed dump from a month or so ago.

Although there are definitely logistical problems with this approach, I've had a couple of jobs now where I wish I would have been able to "try it out" for a couple of weeks. Having done so, I never would have accepted the offer (saving me a lot of frustration and a couple of large relocations).

Mine looks like an anchor:

https://identicons.github.com/aquageek.png

Or puts it in a rocket.

My iPhone 4 does not have this, so it looks like it's a 4s-and-above thing.

Do you mean dismissViewControllerAnimated? According to the docs, calling it on self should still work:

    The presenting view controller is responsible for dismissing the view
    controller it presented. If you call this method on the presented view
    controller itself, it automatically forwards the message to the
    presenting view controller.

IIRC, your email only comes back from the API if you've entered something into the "Email (will be public)" field in your profile. They also allow you to use a separate email for Gravatar.

> My biggest problem, though, is with the button design. The two red buttons on the marketing modules create the strongest CTA. The strong CTA should instead be on the "Create Account" button.

Completely agree. We lost that battle, sadly.

If you haven't done any design/development for iPad, it is a very different experience from that of the iPhone. I think Jack does a pretty good job of explaining that difference here. You really can't approach it with the mindset of "Just scale everything up!"

> When I go the ‘My Trips’ tab I’m hit with marketing modules telling me about fare specials and the glory of the Delta Sky Club. These have nothing to do with My Trips.

Although I agree that it feels like they originated in the marketing department, I don't agree that they have nothing to do with My Trips. If you don't have any trips, you would need to book one to interact with that section of the app. Fare specials serve as a call-to-action to do that. Also, note that these modules change based on the logged in user.

There are far better examples of "filling space for the sake of filling space" in the store.

Disclosure: I know the team that worked on the app; I worked on its iPhone counterpart.

> And imagine if Amazon had to shut down their whole site when they updated one product like the Apple Store Online.

Most of that is just hype machine on Apple's part. I doubt there is a technical reason to do so.