NAH, the warning is merely initiated by the extended attributed. The information in it comes from elsewhere (presumably the database).
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No: conventional wisdom just says that no higher level programming language is consistently faster than C AND/OR better to reason about with regards to memory consumption and runtime behaviour.
(Conventional wisdom also adds fortran, forth, Ada and C++ in the same "speedy" category).
Conventional wisdom adds that micro-benchmarks of some BS outlier examples (Java where the JIT can take advantage of some known condition to do something clever, etc) do not matter in real life programs, which are far more complex.
Conventional wisdom also adds that C to be speedier it doesn't even have to be highly optimized or carefully crafted by some C programming wizard or anything. Merely avoiding gross mistakes (like using an algorithm of the wrong complexity for the job) will do.
Conventional wisdom concludes that writing in your high level language in an unconventional (non idiomatic) way to get to "as fast a C" speeds is bullshit too, because it doesn't represent idiomatic (and far more common) high level language use.
"Lifting more that your back can handle" is the very definition for fighting for freedom.
If everybody played it safe, and only went as far as they could comfortably tolerate, they would have been no freedom.
For one, web developers debug too. Javascript, PHP, Ruby, whatever.
Second, you can very much debug in Sublime (whatever that means). Do you mean something like an integrated debugger, like say XCode/VS have?
A lot of developers use external tools for that, like gdb et al, depending on the language.
Tons of developers of any kind use sublime, from C to Go.
The overwhelming majority of developers edits in a GUI editor though, be it in Visual Studio, XCode, IntelliJ, Eclipse or Vim / Emacs / TextMate / ST2 etc.
>You can wait till 22nd century, but as long as your definition of 21st century isn't the same as developers definition, not much is going to happen.
I don't have to wait. Plenty of other developers live in your "22th century" and offer nice and functional native editors already.
>BTW what century are terminals?
Mid-20th century.
I don't mind the terminal (I use one everyday and have done so since the day's Sun OS was SUN's offering), but it's also another technology stuck in the past.
Not because of the textual nature etc. Because most of the components are crappy old time things, from terminal emulators to userland unix commands, etc.
Bad support for millions of colors, bad support for Unicode, no support for a structured type (e.g JSON), ad-hoc implementations for lots of things given in the desktop. Where's a proper autocompletion in the shell that behaves like in a native app? Where's spell checking with wiggle lines?
Only ZSH and Fish tried a few things to take us further, but still very short of what a desktop could be.
I mean tmux/screen borking the scroll buffer? Is this 2013?
As long as you (or anyone else) doesn't write any new cooler diffs (though part of what you ask already exists), what they "should do" doesn't matter and doesn't change the fact at all.
Actually it reminds me of the "sufficiently smart compiler": http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompiler
Are you of the "anything goes" thinking? I for one, find that attitude TOO extreme. I don't wish to accept (or even tolerate) "anything" just because someone else finds it OK.
(And I'm saying it as a long time Vim user, from the Sun O.S/fvwm days of lore as well as a heavy Eclipse user in the early to mid '00s).
When those free/open-source editors come into the 21th century with regards to native integration/UI I might reconsider.
And hundreds of millions, nay billions, have no access to electricity or running water in the third world. Most of them have no access to food or doctors either.
Android playing with low margins has so far just resulted in it wining a huge share of the demographic that doesn't buy many apps and don't much care for smartphones anyway.
The App Store can probably be more profitable than Android apps even with 1/10 the users -- as long as those are the right users.
Not sure. It's been thirty years since the "desktop PC" market and Apple still commands the majority of the profits from personal computers sold.
(Lots of techies and tinkerers also choose Android for it being more "open", but those are an insignificant minority that doesn't mean anything money wise).
It's funny, but you also have to admire the optimism. If it only was accompanied with more persistence.
It was never a "viable way of making a living" in the sense you describe. Who told you you can "release an app every 3-5 months and make 60k/year at least"?
For one, a proper apps takes a lot more time.
Second, no app is guaranteed to make anything at all.
Especially if it's coming from someone that hasn't made released any other iPhone app, doesn't know the market and doesn't know Objective-C! The App Store is like any other market: it takes effort, determination, hard work and/or luck.
And you devised all this plan (and even paid to start a company) without even testing the waters with a single app? Perhaps seeing something in the range of 2K a year for your first app (as many developers do, and most even less) would have spared you all this trouble.
Seems to me like you had this idea that the App Store was like a money printing service, where you just churn out some apps and roll in the dough, and in the first sign of trouble (and BS trouble at that, like the DUNS requirement) you demand the free money you were promised...
Plus, it helps keep out the less motivated.
This seems more like wishful thinking (and underestimating the effort and polish needed) than a serious business decision.
>I reached a point where I'm no longer interested in building apps for the app store, apple asks too much and give us too little.
It asks for: a Mac to work (lots of people have one already) on, a $99/year iOS developer account and 30% of your sales.
With that you get: an quite capable IDE for free, a top-notch SDK, tons of documentation, access to a market of 100+ million devices and one-click credit card accounts that is KNOWN to sell billions of apps.
Seems like a bargain. Heck, companies used to sell a developer license for their SDK at the price of a high-end Mac itself -- and without providing access to any market or a free IDE. A lot still do.
What exactly have you provided to feel so entitled? A half-finished app, built while "learning Objective-C"?
And yet tons of other developers and companies seem to do just fine in the App Store, without juvenile crap like this.
A rant like this coming from people that have been seriously screw by Apple, I would understand. But you don't even have the app made yet by your own admission.
You have a half-finished app, that "you learned Objective-C while building it".
And somehow it's the DUNS that slows down your path to world domination and profit?
Why do you need a DUNS in the first place? An individual doesn't need one, and a company knows better than to blame another company for something a THIRD company handles and that even the government makes a requirement to do business with you.
At least the guy had lots of fun and free time doing his thing for while it latest. I don't see any backfiring.
Oh, the humanity!
As long as he delivers what you paid for (and doesn't disclose information you deemed confidential), it should be OK for you.
Then your Kindle is not a full featured reading device. The Kindle's opted to imitate a black and white textual book (the e-paper thing), when future ebooks can are will be much more than that.
Sounds like an outlier that proves his rule. How many more companies make far more money each with proprietary products in that domain? Mathematica, Maple, Matlab, SPSS, ...
Cheap cop-out. The most widespread prediction was that the iPad would be expensive in the "around $999" region.
2) That's nonsense. The only thing the iPad had was its screen, otherwise it was already inferior when it launched.
Now, that's nonsense, if I ever read one.
For over a year there was no competition to the iPad worth mentioning. Point to anything if you have. Prepare to be ridiculed. Android wasn't even ready for tablets back then.
Indeed, with 2 caveat:
1) Pundits DID predict a $999 price for the iPad.
2) At $499 not only it REALLY was a bargain, but competitors had a hard time for 2-3 years to offer anything as powerful for the same money. Competiting tablets were in the $699 - $899 range.
Then those are symptoms of a larger personal/societal wrong, and talking to a therapist is just a band-aid applied ad-hoc.
You mean exactly what happened with CDBaby, the site the author of TFA created, which became a highly successful business?
Is that a bad thing?
As for the lax security thing, we have seen this too many times in supposedly big and respected web services to be particularly fearful of a newcomer. (Not to mention that the same risks to users that happen by accident by some newb programmer, can also happen by intent, by malicious companies putting up fake businesses and such. People should be vigilant in any case).
There are a couple of answers I can give here:
1) When the company grows large enough, it will hire people and fix this. If it's small, it cannot do damage to many people anyway.
2) The most important services (credit cards and such) are in most cases delegated to third parties anyway (Paypal, Stripe, etc).
Ah, sure, we agree, there are real depressions.
I just wanted to point out that the absurd numbers of depressions one heres (up to 20-30% of the population) are based non on clinical conditions but on a personal life and/or society out of balance, and are fixable by fixing those, instead of treating the person.