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Re: L1-Course_Introduction

podunk — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:54:43 -0000

When one video ends, my web browser automatically advances to the next page and automatically starts playing the next video. Is there any way to stop this behavior?

Re: Recuring Dog Pictures

podunk — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 20:55:29 -0000

That's excellent to hear. I'll not worry about it until I get through that section.

Re: Recuring Dog Pictures

podunk — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:20:52 -0000

I have a question that is not strictly related to this lecture, but is about the "Man's Best Friend" app. I've noticed that there are some Storyboard warnings about "Ambiguous Layout" constraints on the labels. Will the course get into resolving those later? If not, do you know any handy URLs where I can read about how to resolve those?

Re: NSMutableArray

podunk — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:30:03 -0000

Suggested edits: "the simplier a class is" -> "the more simple a class is"

infinatley -> infinitely

Re: ADD SOME FLARE (UI ELEMENTS)

podunk — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:27:35 -0000

The St. Bernard.JPG image used in this video can be found in a zip file attached to the next video. (In case anybody else was wondering.)

Re: The Challenge

podunk — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:54:58 -0000

Are you sure you wanted to reveal the solutions here on the same page that you're presenting the challenges?

Re: Age of Laika Part 2

podunk — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:21:59 -0000

Yeah, I'm never sure how seriously to take the word "completely" when the very next word is "but". ;-) I think it's cool how Wikipedia legitimizes both ways of thinking about it. I now have an app here that provides both features. Thank you, fellow student, for the feature idea.

Re: Age of Laika Part 2

podunk — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:34:45 -0000

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. If Lorne Green were using this app, he would want to enter 14 earth years (human years are, after all, one trip around the sun) and he would expect the app to emit "98" so that he'd know what to say when the cameras started rolling.

Sure, the labels could be improved so as not to invite such confusion. But the math is correct and so is the app's output.

FWIW there is an entry in Wikipedia that acknowledges both definitions of this unusual unit of measurement. You're using the 1st bullet point. This app, myself, the Alpo commercial, and everyone I've ever met are using the 2nd bullet point. So…tomato/to-mah-to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Make Your Own Class

podunk — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:06:10 -0000

Did you say NSObject is the Genghis Kahn from which everything inherits? That was a nice touch.

Re: Age of Laika Part 2

podunk — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:54:15 -0000

Just to give another perspective, every time that I have encountered situations where dog-years are used in practice it is used the same as this app is using it.

In particular, a family is looking at their dog and wants to gain some intuition about why the family dog - who has only been with them for 10 years - is not as spry as a ten year old child, but instead acts geriatric. The number 1.428 does nothing to provide them with the intuition that they need. The number 70, on the other hand, paints a clear picture.

The best way to communicate the cultural weight behind the way this is used is this classic Alpo dog food commercial from the 80s starring Lorne Green. ("Danny is a 14 year old Alpo dog, that's like 98 to you and me").

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: Apple’s new 2 GHz A8 processor will leave the A7 in the dust

podunk — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:59:47 -0000

http://www.anandtech.com/sh...

(Search for the phrase "race to sleep")

Re: How the Snowden Saga will End :: Hacking, Distributed

podunk — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:16:09 -0000

Either is ok.

http://answers.yahoo.com/qu...

Re: Five Disappointments Of iOS 6 | Pocketnow

podunk — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:14:19 -0000

The A5 has hardware noise cancellation on it called earSmart by Audience that allows one to have effective noise cancellation at arms length.

Re: Howto: GNUStep on Ubuntu 10.4

podunk — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:31:11 -0000

Thank you for this post. This got me up & running today.

Re: I just called Fester to congratulate him on the look of his new stores

podunk — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:21:32 -0000

About the cheering, clapping, and high-fiving...what's even stranger is that this is yet another detail about Apple Store grand openings that Microsoft bothered to replicate: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Hillary in the House

podunk — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:19:39 -0000

I bet her opposition funded this video, and outsourced the effort to the makers of "Vista gotta get me some".

Re: Beastmaster, I have made you my bitch

podunk — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:22:18 -0000

You must be referring to the $150M 'investment' MS made in 1997 for non-voting shares of APPL. It was a patent cross-licensing agreement, and I think also a bribe to motivate Apple to bundle IE with MacOS 9.

MS sold those shares long ago, apparently.

Re: Beastmaster, I have made you my bitch

podunk — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:11:19 -0000

People prefer the PC guy because the other guy is the straight man who spends all his time consoling the hapless comedian. It's by design.

Re: Why do Mac fangirls all look like this?

podunk — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:16:01 -0000

Ah, Daphne Kalfon's classic song. Pie does my favorite cover.