There was a blog post this week (can't remember where I found the link now) that details common problems and how you'd approach them in both Obj-C and Swift. I haven't finished reading it yet but it's pretty clear that the author is sticking with Obj-C for the time being. Worth a read.
http://owensd.io/2014/09/24/sw...
I don't use a pump but the ones I've seen over here in the UK contain the insulin in cartridge form and attach to the patient's belt, with a delivery tube going to the belly. If I was wearing a pump and got an email demanding cash to save having a massive insulin dose delivered, what's to stop me physically removing the insulin delivery tube from my belly so the insulin can't be delivered, then using regular injections instead?
The fact they can be hacked is bad news bears and should be corrected but I think your hostage situation is a bit imaginary.
Totally agree. However, don't make the same mistake I did by getting a puppy (especially a Hungarian Vizsla puppy). Trying to work while crate training a puppy is just asking for trouble.
I walk the dog in the park in the morning and there's the same group of people there every morning so it's good socialisation for the pup and myself. During the day, I take a 15 minute break every couple of hours to let the dog outside, make a coffee, etc. I also walk her for 20 or 30 minutes at lunch which is usually the time I figure out most coding problems, then do the same in the evening. As Kirk says, if it wasn't for the dog I'd be glued to my office chair.
Exactly. I've just taken a new job working from home (along with a pay cut) because I wasn't allowed to telecommute in my old one. A third of my take-home pay used to go on just getting to and from work. The money working from home saves me more than makes up for the pay cut and I'll still be better off at the end of the month.
The downside is that, despite being a programmer, I'm quite a social creature and will need to find a new hobby where I can be with people to fill the social void left by not working in an office. Plus I'll have to have to try and define clear work/personal boundaries so probably have a dedicated office solely for work.
It's a huge lifestyle change but hopefully it'll pay off. I just love where I live, don't want to commute any more and have a permanent (with sick and holiday pay) job working from home. I'll do whatever I can to make sure it works!
I'd suggest Processing. It's great for putting apps together quickly, has all the basic 2D tools you'll need, plus support for fancy-pants 3D stuff if you want it later. Great community and docs, too. Works on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Being type 1 (insulin dependant) diabetic, the idea of having a new pancreas 'printed' is pretty appealing. I asked a doctor why they can't be transplanted like other organs and he said that it's because they're too fragile and would likely be damaged during the transplant process. It'd be great if printing a new one would work.
The UK isn't a country. It's a sovereign state or (if you really want to bring the word 'country' into it) an island country. Yes... I looked at Wikipedia to find the proper names. Learned a thing or two while I was there!
A fast lens is handy but won't always produce good shots. Because the depth of field is so incredibly narrow if the auto-focus is even slightly off you can completely miss a shot. Then there's the fact that most (budget to mid-range) lenses aren't tremendously sharp when used wide open - especially at the corners.
Low noise at high ISO is far more helpful. You're still at the mercy of the camera's auto-focus but you'd be able to stop the lens down, increase the ISO without risk of noise, and have a greater margin for error.
I have a 35mm f/2 on my Canon XSi and it's gloriously sharp between f/4 and f/8, all the way to the corners. If the auto-focus is a little off, I've got a greater depth of field and can get usable images. Unless I'm in good light, auto-focus at f/2 is a lottery.
Give me low noise images at ISO 3200 and above on a camera which doesn't cost £2k and I'll be a happy camper.
I can't imagine a guy with 500G of personal files. It must take a month just to read the titles of his various files.
Off-topic but I thought I'd share how easy it is to accumulate 500G of personal data very quickly as I'm well on my way there: Digital photography. If you're a serious amateur and shoot in RAW format with a 14MP or so digital SLR, each photo can be around 15meg.
I can take between 250 and 400 photos on a night out with friends, still having a blast at the time, and these all add up very quickly. Throw in photos of family, holidays and such-like and you're running into hundreds of gigs of photos very quickly; I've got just over 200G of photos after having my camera for around 10 months. Software like Lightroom, iPhoto or Aperture makes organising and searching them very quick and easy, too.
The only things I'd be mortified about losing are my photos. It'd be a pain in the ass but code can be rewritten (probably quicker second time round, too). Mail is stored on the server. I can't ever again recreate the moment I pressed the shutter on the tens of thousands of photos I have, and I still haven't found a reliable way to back them all up frequently either.
When I grow up, I want to be Joel Spolsky - the man is a legend. Back on topic, he wrote an article the other day about how lacking some university courses are and raises some good points about how they could be improved. Sorry if it scares the OP a little.
Some of this appeals to me, some just confuses me.
For example, being diabetic, I'd love to be able to record data on my blood glucose, blood pressure, weight, injection sites and so on using a web app. I could pull of graphs and generate a report to take with me to my clinic checkups, saving me the hassle of taking paper versions or trauling through the memory in my glucose meter. However, even if they did go into the detail I wanted, I wouldn't trust Microsoft with the data, and the web app would probably be a pile of buggy crap anyway.
The most crazy thing though is that they want hospitals to push test results to the patient's record on HealthVault. This is such a bad application of technology. It's fabricating a solution to a non-existant problem. If your result warrented discussion with your consultant, the hospital would push the result to your profile on HealthVault anyway, then you'd get a call to organise a date to go into the hospital for a chat. If not, you don't hear anything from them - if you really want to know, you pop into the hospital as they rightfully won't give the information out over the phone. There's no problem with this. Pushing results to HealthVault is completely unnecessary.
You're right in that Apple can't backport some new features like video and suchlike to older iPods. The problem is that they've intentionally gimped the OS on the iPod Touch, removing features that are in the iPhone and would feel right at home on the Touch given the WiFi connection.
For example, there's no Mail app on the Touch. No swanky widgets like stocks and weather. They've removed the facility to add a new appointment to the calendar. There's probably stacks more like this but they're the main ones that spring to mind. Why do this? Likely so people will pony up the cash for the iPhone instead of just buying the Touch.
It's be much, much nicer if they just used the same OS on each device but with the Touch lacking only the features that simply couldn't run on it (voice calls, SMS, voicemail). If they did that, and increased the storage to about 40 gig or so, I'd be happy to hand money over for one. Until then, I'll stick with my 20 gig 3G iPod.
Not sure if it's already been posted, neither do I know if it's available in the US, but I just saw this on the BBC News website and thought it might be of interest:
Firms snub 'mobile for elderly'
iTunes now has tabs on the iPod page. System Preferences has tabs on several of the preference panes too. Pages also has tabs on the inspecter. These are the ones that spring to mind straight away; there's undoubtably more. Perhaps the whole of the System Preferences app could actually be defined as being one large tab, with each preference pane being an individual tab. Who knows?
The article only talks about the iTMS; there's no mention of how competing services are doing. It could be a fall in sales that's specific to iTMS, but it could also be that people are stopping buying DRM'd music altogether.
As other people have said, it could be that revenue received from purchasing tracks by credit card on the iTMS has gone down by 65%/month, but purchasing of iTunes gift vouchers has gone up 5000%. Unless Apple releases figures, there's no way of knowing what's going on.
It also seems that if they fail to make a promised date for a new product, they act on it. Remember when Steve Jobs first announced the G5 (or shortly after)? He said they would be shipping 3GHz processors within a year (I think it was). IBM couldn't deliver on time, and Steve apologised at another one of his keynotes.
Later on (I don't think it was the same keynote), he announced the move to Intel. Was this because IBM couldn't keep up with what Apple wanted? More than likely.
Sorry for the vague information... better go get another fully-caffeinated coffee.
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There was a blog post this week (can't remember where I found the link now) that details common problems and how you'd approach them in both Obj-C and Swift. I haven't finished reading it yet but it's pretty clear that the author is sticking with Obj-C for the time being. Worth a read. http://owensd.io/2014/09/24/sw...
I don't use a pump but the ones I've seen over here in the UK contain the insulin in cartridge form and attach to the patient's belt, with a delivery tube going to the belly. If I was wearing a pump and got an email demanding cash to save having a massive insulin dose delivered, what's to stop me physically removing the insulin delivery tube from my belly so the insulin can't be delivered, then using regular injections instead?
The fact they can be hacked is bad news bears and should be corrected but I think your hostage situation is a bit imaginary.
Totally agree. However, don't make the same mistake I did by getting a puppy (especially a Hungarian Vizsla puppy). Trying to work while crate training a puppy is just asking for trouble.
I walk the dog in the park in the morning and there's the same group of people there every morning so it's good socialisation for the pup and myself. During the day, I take a 15 minute break every couple of hours to let the dog outside, make a coffee, etc. I also walk her for 20 or 30 minutes at lunch which is usually the time I figure out most coding problems, then do the same in the evening. As Kirk says, if it wasn't for the dog I'd be glued to my office chair.
Here's a good interview with a chap who talks about how be became a data visualisation freelancer. He talks about some of the challenges of working from home so might be worth a watch: http://fellinlovewithdata.com/interviews/data-visualization-freelancin
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Exactly. I've just taken a new job working from home (along with a pay cut) because I wasn't allowed to telecommute in my old one. A third of my take-home pay used to go on just getting to and from work. The money working from home saves me more than makes up for the pay cut and I'll still be better off at the end of the month.
The downside is that, despite being a programmer, I'm quite a social creature and will need to find a new hobby where I can be with people to fill the social void left by not working in an office. Plus I'll have to have to try and define clear work/personal boundaries so probably have a dedicated office solely for work.
It's a huge lifestyle change but hopefully it'll pay off. I just love where I live, don't want to commute any more and have a permanent (with sick and holiday pay) job working from home. I'll do whatever I can to make sure it works!
There's (a bit) more information on the technique here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12612209
I'd suggest Processing. It's great for putting apps together quickly, has all the basic 2D tools you'll need, plus support for fancy-pants 3D stuff if you want it later. Great community and docs, too. Works on Windows, Linux and Mac.
http://www.processing.org/
Being type 1 (insulin dependant) diabetic, the idea of having a new pancreas 'printed' is pretty appealing. I asked a doctor why they can't be transplanted like other organs and he said that it's because they're too fragile and would likely be damaged during the transplant process. It'd be great if printing a new one would work.
One can dream...
The UK isn't a country. It's a sovereign state or (if you really want to bring the word 'country' into it) an island country. Yes... I looked at Wikipedia to find the proper names. Learned a thing or two while I was there!
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A fast lens is handy but won't always produce good shots. Because the depth of field is so incredibly narrow if the auto-focus is even slightly off you can completely miss a shot. Then there's the fact that most (budget to mid-range) lenses aren't tremendously sharp when used wide open - especially at the corners.
Low noise at high ISO is far more helpful. You're still at the mercy of the camera's auto-focus but you'd be able to stop the lens down, increase the ISO without risk of noise, and have a greater margin for error.
I have a 35mm f/2 on my Canon XSi and it's gloriously sharp between f/4 and f/8, all the way to the corners. If the auto-focus is a little off, I've got a greater depth of field and can get usable images. Unless I'm in good light, auto-focus at f/2 is a lottery.
Give me low noise images at ISO 3200 and above on a camera which doesn't cost £2k and I'll be a happy camper.
I can't imagine a guy with 500G of personal files. It must take a month just to read the titles of his various files.
Off-topic but I thought I'd share how easy it is to accumulate 500G of personal data very quickly as I'm well on my way there: Digital photography. If you're a serious amateur and shoot in RAW format with a 14MP or so digital SLR, each photo can be around 15meg.
I can take between 250 and 400 photos on a night out with friends, still having a blast at the time, and these all add up very quickly. Throw in photos of family, holidays and such-like and you're running into hundreds of gigs of photos very quickly; I've got just over 200G of photos after having my camera for around 10 months. Software like Lightroom, iPhoto or Aperture makes organising and searching them very quick and easy, too.
The only things I'd be mortified about losing are my photos. It'd be a pain in the ass but code can be rewritten (probably quicker second time round, too). Mail is stored on the server. I can't ever again recreate the moment I pressed the shutter on the tens of thousands of photos I have, and I still haven't found a reliable way to back them all up frequently either.
G.
Good aerial photos have a pixel resolution of 6 inches.
Do you mean 6 inches per pixel? This might impress you. I think it's 4cm per pixel but only available over central London for the time being.
...Joel on SoftwareWhen I grow up, I want to be Joel Spolsky - the man is a legend. Back on topic, he wrote an article the other day about how lacking some university courses are and raises some good points about how they could be improved. Sorry if it scares the OP a little.
You really have to give them full marks for creativity. They even made cardboard cutouts of girls!
Some of this appeals to me, some just confuses me.
For example, being diabetic, I'd love to be able to record data on my blood glucose, blood pressure, weight, injection sites and so on using a web app. I could pull of graphs and generate a report to take with me to my clinic checkups, saving me the hassle of taking paper versions or trauling through the memory in my glucose meter. However, even if they did go into the detail I wanted, I wouldn't trust Microsoft with the data, and the web app would probably be a pile of buggy crap anyway.
The most crazy thing though is that they want hospitals to push test results to the patient's record on HealthVault. This is such a bad application of technology. It's fabricating a solution to a non-existant problem. If your result warrented discussion with your consultant, the hospital would push the result to your profile on HealthVault anyway, then you'd get a call to organise a date to go into the hospital for a chat. If not, you don't hear anything from them - if you really want to know, you pop into the hospital as they rightfully won't give the information out over the phone. There's no problem with this. Pushing results to HealthVault is completely unnecessary.
Boggles the mind. It really does.
You're right in that Apple can't backport some new features like video and suchlike to older iPods. The problem is that they've intentionally gimped the OS on the iPod Touch, removing features that are in the iPhone and would feel right at home on the Touch given the WiFi connection.
For example, there's no Mail app on the Touch. No swanky widgets like stocks and weather. They've removed the facility to add a new appointment to the calendar. There's probably stacks more like this but they're the main ones that spring to mind. Why do this? Likely so people will pony up the cash for the iPhone instead of just buying the Touch.
It's be much, much nicer if they just used the same OS on each device but with the Touch lacking only the features that simply couldn't run on it (voice calls, SMS, voicemail). If they did that, and increased the storage to about 40 gig or so, I'd be happy to hand money over for one. Until then, I'll stick with my 20 gig 3G iPod.
Not sure if it's already been posted, neither do I know if it's available in the US, but I just saw this on the BBC News website and thought it might be of interest: Firms snub 'mobile for elderly'
iTunes now has tabs on the iPod page. System Preferences has tabs on several of the preference panes too. Pages also has tabs on the inspecter. These are the ones that spring to mind straight away; there's undoubtably more. Perhaps the whole of the System Preferences app could actually be defined as being one large tab, with each preference pane being an individual tab. Who knows?
The article only talks about the iTMS; there's no mention of how competing services are doing. It could be a fall in sales that's specific to iTMS, but it could also be that people are stopping buying DRM'd music altogether.
As other people have said, it could be that revenue received from purchasing tracks by credit card on the iTMS has gone down by 65%/month, but purchasing of iTunes gift vouchers has gone up 5000%. Unless Apple releases figures, there's no way of knowing what's going on.
It also seems that if they fail to make a promised date for a new product, they act on it. Remember when Steve Jobs first announced the G5 (or shortly after)? He said they would be shipping 3GHz processors within a year (I think it was). IBM couldn't deliver on time, and Steve apologised at another one of his keynotes. Later on (I don't think it was the same keynote), he announced the move to Intel. Was this because IBM couldn't keep up with what Apple wanted? More than likely. Sorry for the vague information... better go get another fully-caffeinated coffee.