Disqus - Latest Comments for jawngee

Re: Swift - Understanding Reference Types

jawngee — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:31:52 -0000

In your UIVIewController example, it won't be deallocated. You are calling retain after an init, which automatically retains already.

Re: How playing “The Way Home” earns us revenue by mining Bitcoin

jawngee — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 04:39:14 -0000

Of course I hope this an April Fool's Day joke, thought it would be a pretty poorly conceived one from a PR perspective.

Re: How playing “The Way Home” earns us revenue by mining Bitcoin

jawngee — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 04:34:54 -0000

I think this is super unethical. Nowhere in the app description, or the app itself, is there a disclaimer that you are doing this. No opt-in or opt-out. You are stealing resources from your players without any disclosure whatsoever.

I posted this on HN too, but I think your app, good game or not, is no less a trojan because of your lack of upfront disclosure. I think what you are doing is pretty sleazy.

I think Apple approved it because they didn't catch it.

Re: The Story of Code Pilot

jawngee — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 01:25:00 -0000

Code Pilot does the recently opened files so switching back and forth is a breeze. Command+Shift+O came a long way in Xcode 5, but CodePilot is still superior, imho.

Re: “I hired a developer on Elance to build my first iPhone app, this was my experience”

jawngee — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:32:41 -0000

My day rate as an iOS dev is higher than that.

Re: Stay Classy, Objective-C: Introducing Native Subclasses for Parse Objects | Parse Blog

jawngee — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:39:36 -0000

This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Why not just do it right the first time and make PFObject, PFUser and PF* subclass-able from the get go? A protocol? Really? I love you guys more than one person should love any BaaS, but this is bad bad design.

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:23:38 -0000

Then yer iPad must be fubar'd. I wrote the post on an ipad. I'm writing these comments on it as well.

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:22:37 -0000

My point is, and was and forever will be, print designers shouldn't be designing this stuff to begin with.

Sorry if that offends you, but I was in the thick of it during the first dotcom bubble when print designers had the exact same mentality regarding the web. And it was a nightmare.

That's not to say you aren't one of those special multi-discipline guys that can do it all, but it's pretty rare.

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:19:52 -0000

Go for it.

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:19:42 -0000

Yet Popular Mechanics comes out a month later with a 40 meg magazine with - what looks like - more interactivity, plus updates itself when you're connected to the internet?

One of us is going to have a hard time defending ourselves when that hits the app store. My guess is that person will be you.

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:18:44 -0000

You're telling me Conde Nast couldn't license fonts? Specifically ones designed for WIRED?

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:17:49 -0000

I call bullshit.

They could have used PDF's with cached prerendering.

Popular Mechanics's magazine is 40 megs.

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:16:35 -0000

This shouldn't dissuade you from getting one - there are plenty of good reasons to own one. I've completely cut down on laptop usage at home because of it.

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:15:37 -0000

The problem with fully justified text is that it has been shown to be incredibly difficult for people with cognitive and learning disabilities to read. Dyslexics, in particular, have great difficulty reading justified text.

http://www.dyslexia-parent....
http://juicystudio.com/arti...
http://www.rnib.org.uk/prof...

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:08:53 -0000

What?

What part sounds like Adobe AIR?

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Sat, 29 May 2010 02:57:36 -0000

I wasn't really talking about the content as much as how it was constructed.

I enjoyed the ILM video quite a bit.

The 500MB thing is a real problem. Let's say a bunch of your other favorite magazines go with the same publishing methodology. 4 magazines combined would be 2 gigs of space per month. On my 16gig iPad, I only have about 8 gigs free, and that's mostly audio and games. It adds up.

And it doesn't even need to be that way to begin with. At the very least they could use PDF's as a base and layer custom elements such as images and text over the top - the space savings would be fairly large.

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:15:45 -0000

We are talking about writing a customized application that embeds WebKit, not building a site for use in Mobile Safari.

In the case of embedding WebKit into a CocoaTouch application, you can, indeed, use OpenType fonts. The code above demonstrates that.

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:15:24 -0000

We are talking about writing a customized application that embeds WebKit, not building a site for use in Mobile Safari.

In the case of embedding WebKit into a CocoaTouch application, you can, indeed, use OpenType fonts. The code above demonstrates that.

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:26:37 -0000

Yeah the problem is you are wrong here again. I went to college at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design - for graphic design. I worked with P. Scott Makela. My first professional job was print production and pre-press. I've designed typefaces (in college). I know typography - in a very professional sense.

What I'm saying is that good enough is good enough. The PopSci+ magazine uses html/text. And it looks fantastic. What I'm also saying is that the tradeoffs for perfection, when good enough will suffice, aren't worth that kind of price.

And you should be a little more forthcoming that you work for a magazine publisher.

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:45:16 -0000

Yeah, but I remember hearing similar lines coming from designers back during the first dotcom boom when I was working at a large internet agency.

The reality is the reader isn't going to notice the leading is slightly not perfect, or the kerning is a little out of wack. Instead, the designer/publisher/editor is taxing the user by increasing the size of the magazine which costs the user storage. Additionally, they (Wired) are potentially putting themselves out of reach of some consumers because the size of an issue isn't allowed to be downloaded by 3G (Apple/AT&T put a size restriction on 3G downloads).

Plus, it's just absurd. A designer's kerning desires are hardly worth a 1.5MB page.

Finally, the iPad can render PDF's you know, it's something like 4 CGPDF*() calls. So even if they didn't want to go the HTML5 route, they can still do PDF's with some optimized rendering in the viewer application where pages are pre-rendered in memory to bitmaps and then business as normal.

I mean c'mon it's freaking Adobe! Did they totally space PDF's?

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:23:12 -0000

Yes they are:

http://github.com/jawngee/i...

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:22:57 -0000

You're wrong:

http://github.com/jawngee/i...

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

jawngee — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:19:12 -0000

That's not true though. You can load custom fonts on the iPad and iPhone 4.0.

Re: Databases Should be Dynamically Typed

jawngee — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:45:35 -0000

This has to be one of the dumbest things I've read in forever and a day.

Goodbye optimized queries, optimized storage, optimized stored procs and hello shitloads of redundant client side code to validate input and enforce data integrity. Ever heard of DRY? Well this is the opposite of it.

What is the expected behavior of a SUM() aggregate when a column contains "Hello I'm stupid and don't think through shit" as a value? How am I suppose to group results by month part on a date column if it's not in any sort of format that the database can do anything with?

I'm starting to suspect that you NoSQL guys are either pulling a brilliant Andy Kaufman-esque joke on us all or you guys are lazy and dumb. I'm not sure which it is.

Re: Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day

jawngee — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:21:53 -0000

Most businesses can get away with the standard version which is free.