Any app can do that on any device. If you don't want software on a mobile device to have access to the 'net, don't install it. It's not an inherent insecurity to have network access.
(On iOS 7, you can disable access over cellular on a per-app basis to cut down your data usage.)
The GP to which you replied is a near-sighted bigot. If he lived in the South, he'd be prime KKK material. For all I know, he's a(n honorary) member in actuality.
Anyone who thinks a few keystrokes is less efficient than piecing together a Unix pipeline that will totally mess up your code is a complete idiot and really isn't worth a second thought.
IDEs do a lot to make creating software more efficient. Mere typing is trivial, and doesn't generally take the majority of the time. If you can't learn an IDE well enough to appreciate it, you are either a complete idiot or you are writing such trivial software that no one cares about it. Or, possibly, you are using a language for which no (good) IDE exists, but you didn't try that argument, so I'm guessing A or B.
There is no logic in ensuring adequate resources for future generations. If I'm not alive to benefit, it doesn't matter what happens after I die. If you are an atheist, or otherwise do not believe in an after-life of any kind, this is even more true.
If a Palestinian is anyone who lived in Palestine before it became Israel, then there are thousands of Palestinian Jews living in Israel today. Even more so if you count descendants (as the Arabs in the West Bank do).
I agree with the anon poster. You are an idiot. A computer scientist better be able to write a QS in their sleep, but a programmer better know how to find a suitable implementation already written. If I were hiring a programmer (rather than being one), I'd look for people that know what needs doing and how to find code that already does that job. In your typical app, there's very little custom algorithm work. The vast majority is simply tying pieces together to generate the desired outcome.
You are an incredible idiot. He doesn't want to put his family through the trial and the incredible debt incurred by legal costs. It's fairly obviously to anyone with even the slightest bit of reading comprehension.
I would never give a phone to a four year old, but the idea that they don't understand it is ridiculous. My 2 year old knows exactly what a phone is for (my wife and I have identical dumb-phones), and she knows several uses to which an iPad can be put. I imagine that at 4 she will be rather competent at using both.
Most OS X and iOS programmers have been using llvm/clang for the past year or so, on both x86 and ARM. Xcode 5 (GM seed available now) only supports clang. GCC is officially out for Apple development.
The LLVM toolchain, especially clang, is also way better than gcc for Objective-C code. I think the ease of modification is the true reason that Apple prefers it over gcc.
Take a look at Objective-C's blocks and how they are typically used. Pass a block to a method that runs async on another thread and calls your block when it's done. Sure, you could write a hundred one-off little functions to pass off to different requests, but it's simpler and easier to follow blocks. Why? Because you (can) define the block inline to the method call which will call it. Now you can look at the call site and the code that it will execute on completion, all in one place.
It is not incorrect, technically, or otherwise. "mph" is an initialism, and not meant to represent a unit in-and-of-itself. You, however, are incorrect, both technically and otherwise.
You are what is known as an ignoramus. Or a total idiot. Possibly both!
"kph" is an acronym (in the vernacular), or to be pedantic, an initialism. It stands for km per hour, which is a measure of speed which utilizes an SI unit.
But you knew that, which really makes you an incredible piece of shit.
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I hate natural scrolling too, but that's because I still use a mouse. Most Mac users are using touchpads (laptops), where it is more natural. And you can turn it off.
The Israel/Arab conflict is not resolvable in any way that resembles a humane solution. The Arabs want the entire Arabian Peninsula to be free of Jews. The only solution they will accept is Holocaust II.
Of course Apple has private APIs, and of course their apps use them! What kind of idiot are you? Can you write an app to list and allow you to join WiFi networks? Can your app manipulate privacy settings? Can your app run (not just remain dormant) in the background? Apple's apps can do all of those things. Do you think Apple's apps are twiddling IO ports? Or just maybe they have APIs to do all that stuff! Who would have guessed?
Bottom line is that apps are rejected for using private APIs, but those APIs exist for someone to use. Guess who that someone is.
Both the iOS and Android apps are written by Google. They are free to do whatever they want. Any 3rd-party that wants to display videos in their app has to use the HTML5 (or Flash) player. I don't see why MS should be treated differently.
I presume that MS reserves the right for first-party apps on Windows Phone to use private APIs to implement features no other app can have. Apple certainly does this. Similarly, Google is not bound to using Dalvik for UI if they don't want to.
You are a retarded piece of shit. Anyone who travels over a bridge cares how sound it is. The exception would be children and the like who simply don't know enough to care.
If Windows doesn't "just work" for you, your level of competence with regards to computers is well below zero.
X Window and the apps that run on it still have inconsistent and annoying copy+paste behavior and no standardization of keyboard shortcuts. It requires the mouse more than OS X simply because it's too annoying to memorize different shortcuts for every piece of software.
In grand/. tradition, I am only commenting on the summary, as I have not read the article.
Talent is a great thing to have, but anyone sufficiently skilled to do the job is good enough. It doesn't matter how (easily) they got the skill. On the other hand, someone with talent, but no focus to apply it, is worthless. A super-star programmer who only writes good code is probably not going to be great when things go bad. Unless he only deals with his own code, he has to know how to read bad code, how to debug it and how to fix it without introducing even more bugs. That could also be a talent, but it's not the same talent.
TL/DR: Talent can get you skill, but a lack of skill makes one worthless for the job at hand.
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Any app can do that on any device. If you don't want software on a mobile device to have access to the 'net, don't install it. It's not an inherent insecurity to have network access.
(On iOS 7, you can disable access over cellular on a per-app basis to cut down your data usage.)
The app my company develops is dropping iOS support in the next version. iOS is different enough to make UI improvements a pain to keep compatible.
The GP to which you replied is a near-sighted bigot. If he lived in the South, he'd be prime KKK material. For all I know, he's a(n honorary) member in actuality.
Anyone who thinks a few keystrokes is less efficient than piecing together a Unix pipeline that will totally mess up your code is a complete idiot and really isn't worth a second thought.
IDEs do a lot to make creating software more efficient. Mere typing is trivial, and doesn't generally take the majority of the time. If you can't learn an IDE well enough to appreciate it, you are either a complete idiot or you are writing such trivial software that no one cares about it. Or, possibly, you are using a language for which no (good) IDE exists, but you didn't try that argument, so I'm guessing A or B.
There is no logic in ensuring adequate resources for future generations. If I'm not alive to benefit, it doesn't matter what happens after I die. If you are an atheist, or otherwise do not believe in an after-life of any kind, this is even more true.
If a Palestinian is anyone who lived in Palestine before it became Israel, then there are thousands of Palestinian Jews living in Israel today. Even more so if you count descendants (as the Arabs in the West Bank do).
Getting a job at some place better paying than McDonalds.
I agree with the anon poster. You are an idiot. A computer scientist better be able to write a QS in their sleep, but a programmer better know how to find a suitable implementation already written. If I were hiring a programmer (rather than being one), I'd look for people that know what needs doing and how to find code that already does that job. In your typical app, there's very little custom algorithm work. The vast majority is simply tying pieces together to generate the desired outcome.
You are an incredible idiot. He doesn't want to put his family through the trial and the incredible debt incurred by legal costs. It's fairly obviously to anyone with even the slightest bit of reading comprehension.
I would never give a phone to a four year old, but the idea that they don't understand it is ridiculous. My 2 year old knows exactly what a phone is for (my wife and I have identical dumb-phones), and she knows several uses to which an iPad can be put. I imagine that at 4 she will be rather competent at using both.
You are an idiot and a moron. iOS (back when it was iPhoneOS) has had multitasking and task switching from day one.
Most OS X and iOS programmers have been using llvm/clang for the past year or so, on both x86 and ARM. Xcode 5 (GM seed available now) only supports clang. GCC is officially out for Apple development.
The LLVM toolchain, especially clang, is also way better than gcc for Objective-C code. I think the ease of modification is the true reason that Apple prefers it over gcc.
Take a look at Objective-C's blocks and how they are typically used. Pass a block to a method that runs async on another thread and calls your block when it's done. Sure, you could write a hundred one-off little functions to pass off to different requests, but it's simpler and easier to follow blocks. Why? Because you (can) define the block inline to the method call which will call it. Now you can look at the call site and the code that it will execute on completion, all in one place.
It is not incorrect, technically, or otherwise. "mph" is an initialism, and not meant to represent a unit in-and-of-itself. You, however, are incorrect, both technically and otherwise.
You are what is known as an ignoramus. Or a total idiot. Possibly both!
"kph" is an acronym (in the vernacular), or to be pedantic, an initialism. It stands for km per hour, which is a measure of speed which utilizes an SI unit.
But you knew that, which really makes you an incredible piece of shit.
I hate natural scrolling too, but that's because I still use a mouse. Most Mac users are using touchpads (laptops), where it is more natural. And you can turn it off.
Um, no. The Talmud doesn't say that. You should probably stop reading Neo-Nazi and Jihadist websites.
The Israel/Arab conflict is not resolvable in any way that resembles a humane solution. The Arabs want the entire Arabian Peninsula to be free of Jews. The only solution they will accept is Holocaust II.
Of course Apple has private APIs, and of course their apps use them! What kind of idiot are you? Can you write an app to list and allow you to join WiFi networks? Can your app manipulate privacy settings? Can your app run (not just remain dormant) in the background? Apple's apps can do all of those things. Do you think Apple's apps are twiddling IO ports? Or just maybe they have APIs to do all that stuff! Who would have guessed?
Bottom line is that apps are rejected for using private APIs, but those APIs exist for someone to use. Guess who that someone is.
Both the iOS and Android apps are written by Google. They are free to do whatever they want. Any 3rd-party that wants to display videos in their app has to use the HTML5 (or Flash) player. I don't see why MS should be treated differently.
I presume that MS reserves the right for first-party apps on Windows Phone to use private APIs to implement features no other app can have. Apple certainly does this. Similarly, Google is not bound to using Dalvik for UI if they don't want to.
You are a retarded piece of shit. Anyone who travels over a bridge cares how sound it is. The exception would be children and the like who simply don't know enough to care.
And neither of those are executable by hardware. Virtual machines are just more software and do not count for this discussion.
If Windows doesn't "just work" for you, your level of competence with regards to computers is well below zero.
X Window and the apps that run on it still have inconsistent and annoying copy+paste behavior and no standardization of keyboard shortcuts. It requires the mouse more than OS X simply because it's too annoying to memorize different shortcuts for every piece of software.
In grand /. tradition, I am only commenting on the summary, as I have not read the article.
Talent is a great thing to have, but anyone sufficiently skilled to do the job is good enough. It doesn't matter how (easily) they got the skill. On the other hand, someone with talent, but no focus to apply it, is worthless. A super-star programmer who only writes good code is probably not going to be great when things go bad. Unless he only deals with his own code, he has to know how to read bad code, how to debug it and how to fix it without introducing even more bugs. That could also be a talent, but it's not the same talent.
TL/DR: Talent can get you skill, but a lack of skill makes one worthless for the job at hand.