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Switching context requires brainpower, which I'd rather use to make my code better.

I'm doing the stanford lectures on iphone development these days and XCode seems to be the IDE of choice. Mildly put, XCode feels rather unfinished. Is anyone here having a better/less painful alternative and managed to build real world apps for the iphone without using apple's IDE?

May I ask how long it roughly took you to get started and what was your prior experience with objective C?

(Thanks for the recommendation, just bought the apress iphone dev book)

Besides of this course from MIT and the one at Stanford (http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php), what other sources are you using to get into iphone development?

It's extremely sad to see how much investigation effort is done nowadays behind stories. More stories is not always better.

This article makes me think back of my first venture I started with a friend of mine during university. We developed a j2me app which compressed the sms and allowed you to write roughly 400 characters within one sms while still only paying for one. Learned a lot on the way and will always think back of it as being my most exciting "course" at uni (In fact I'm thinking on how to revive it these days, but still very unsure).

This for example links to http://news.ycombinator.com

http://➡.ws/z

Sometimes it's not the fact that you have to sign up but the way registration is done.

"people will just pick their normal username and mash a laughably simple password into the appropriate box"

It's not as easy as it sounds.

1) My username might be taken 2) Often, I have to go to my email and activate the account. 3) Entering and remembering a password is not as simple as it sounds. New York Times is a good example on how not to do it: http://twitter.com/vpdn/status/1620213111 4) Most of the time I don't see why I have to sign up.

before:

self.callSomething()

after:

# self.callSomething() /* Don't remove (donated) */

:-)

I think this is a great example on innovation.

"When you adopt, you'll get: an official adoption page, a cute image of your line of code (watch it grow over the year), badges for your blog or website, and your name will be listed in the 'about' box in every copy of Miro (more than 5 million a year and growing)."

I also want a t-shirt with my line of code please :)

This is a good point. We just lack the data to make any predictions whether going the "road less traveled by" leads to success (whatever that means) and assume that "all the difference" equals good (whereas it's rather neutral).

[1] Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken (http://www.bartleby.com/119/1.html)

My question was answered within 5minutes. It's sick!

Maybe that's the reason why they're not doing it. Cost of satisfied customer vs. cost to make him happy. Don't be evil left google and is now at Friendfeed anyways :)

This is maybe related to the study which shows you can reprogram your biological clock by not eating?

http://www.livescience.com/health/080522-food-clock.html

Awesome Talk! Really enjoyed it. Feel so dumb now :)

Have you accomplished anything reading this book?

Worst of all the only way to share the document with someone is to send him the link to sribd, indirectly promoting them. It's not that I want to, but it's too painful to source the "original" source of that file once it's inside of scribd. The fact that they force you to sign up to download the document sure helps to build up the wall too.

Seems like the platform is viral as such. Not viral as in alpha geek, but viral as in HIV.

I wonder whether there will be also https support. That was one main reason why cachefly didn't work for me.