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Landon is a really nice guy, by the way. He is the author of PLCrashReporter library and helped us out making it work with MonoTouch.

Thanks for sharing this.

I started doing freelance work when I just turned 17 and learned just the opposite thing: “It's up to you to tell the story.” I was able to turn my age into advantage, and the contrast between my obvi…

I'm so used to reading PG as Paul Graham I forgot I actually read PG Wodehouse earlier.

>they are one-upping themselves with every release This! Also, I wonder what it's like to be 14 today and watch this. Anonymous would certainly make a strong impression on me if I was ten years yo…

"SO should admit the shortcoming and ban all security questions (other than pen-testing)." You can comment on answers and even suggest your own.

Yeah that was weird but you can argue it has become a kind of DSL for DOM manipulation. Yes I know it's not a language per se but because many questions request answer specifically in jQuery and not…

Dumbledore's Army comes to my mind.

I'm so glad none of the bad judgements I made ever came back to haunt me. I'm sure we all sometimes make bad judgements. I distinctly remember doing very stupid things when I was a teenager. When I wa…

The comment is in Russian. Many Ukrainians speak Russian as primary language.

You're spot on about Apple relying on NeXT technologies in OS X / iOS renaissance. I too was surprised this wasn't really mentioned in the book.

Can you please elaborate on (2) and (3)? I've had about 5 or 6 trips, and although some of them had bad moments (I get paranoid about unusual sensations with heart or breathing which are just exaggera…

This is a really great guide. Many good points there. You should definitely read it if you plan on trying anything.

Reading this reminded me of a post by Miguel de Icaza: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Nov-07.html Basically, Miguel argues that Walter Isaacson failed, as did many who tried to describe Steve …

I did not know that! Thanks for sharing this.

TL;DR: Reactive Programming ≈ Sequence Comprehensions + Futures. This looks pretty similar to a .NET library called Rx (Reactive Extensions). We're using it in a MonoTouch iOS app and I found it to so…

Yeah but your day is not something that differs you from the most people, something that many people don't accept, something that you probably have been humiliated for. You're not a “faggot” in high s…

Well, at the very least their parents don't know. And it's not like all parents accept this easily.

If I were gay, and if I came out once, I wouldn't feel comfortable inventing a wife for the sake of a conversation with a cab driver, every single time.

>it struck me just how lucky i am to work with decent programmers. where this kind of thing is considered quality work, not "showing off". My rule of thumb is I can write “clever” code if I make s…

Um, MySpace isn't dead. Not anymore, anyway. From what I've seen inside, it seems very promising.[0] [0]: http://new.myspace.com

I like how Miguel de Icaza put it[0]: >"Reality Distortion Field" is a modern day cop out. A tool used by men that lack the intellectual curiosity to explain the world, and can deploy at will to e…

I fail to see how Wozniak is underrated. On the opposite, the media likes to pick up whatever he says about today's technology and portray him as the real genius overshadowed by “marketer” Jobs, altho…

“programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more.” _why

I like MonoTouch so far but I must admit these are all valid points. There are more downsides Xamarin doesn't like to advertise, like problems with AOT compiler you can't anticipate until they bite yo…

>One big problem with non-native code is that example code is almost always written in native code, and can be hard/impossible to get new features working once you try to translate across the lang…

If you have read the article, you would have known Xamarin products expose native iOS and Android APIs. MonoTouch apps feel exactly the same as UIKit apps because they are UIKit apps. From my pers…

I'm 20 now, I dropped out of the university a year ago and I never regretted it. I started programming at the age of twelve. Here's what I think was most important: - learning to search the web crazy …

Ouch. We implemented a JS font loader a-la Google Web Fonts because we thought we can't load fonts in UIWebView other than via @font-face.