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I'm going to endorse them for "Creating Value for Shareholders."


If only Programmer B had avoided that initial choice to preserve the broken abstraction rather than abandoning it then and there.

He must have been practicing Deadline Driven Development.


> He must have been practicing Deadline Driven Development.

or The Team Has A Hammer Development


Hope the dynamic/static dispatch issues around protocol extensions get sorted out--the current state is pretty lousy.


It would be nice to have something in our arsenal against dengue fever. I will be interested to see how effective this is.


Dengue vaccines are in last-stage trials and early deployment.


Thanks, I had no idea!


Excellent point. And this calibrating is a key point as you lose weight--once you drop a significant amount you've got to revise your calorie intake down a commensurate amount.

Estimation is good enough as long as you monitor your progress and tweak it if it's not getting you results.


Exactly right. It's all about the BMR and while calorie-counting alone won't get you ideal nutrition it is absolutely enough to control weight.

I counted my calories with MyFitnessPal last spring and dropped 25 pounds. Consistent, long-term caloric deficit is the answer, except no substitutes.


*accept


This is pretty sad Apple.


Very interesting.

Startup idea: stool sample testing and custom diet design via a mobile app.

I call "not it" for the stool testing part. I'll work on the mobile app instead.


They could create a probe that attaches via a lightning adapter for the stool sampling part.

You sound like a great candidate to be the team lead on that project.


You mean like Smart Pipe?

https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ


Seems like this should be easily fixable by making it the app developer's decision via CoreLocation.

If the app developer in turn wants to allow the user to modify that setting, then more power too them.


Seems like it is the developer's location, with the following note from the bottom of the link:

"(However, there's still the caveat that if any app triggers “Snap to Road”, all apps get “Snap to Road”.)"

which seems to be a poor implementation decision vs providing apps snapped or unsnapped location data based on their setting, but may be the result of some early-on ill-considered internal designs?


An indirect and undocumented decision, apparently, based on this somewhat confusing list of "activity types":

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreLo...


I am an Apple fan and iOS developer, but I completely agree.


Likewise, and Steve is just rolling in his grave. Apple used to be so meticulous about UI. Directly unrelated to the road snapping, but a shining example of this inconsistency: I open up the App Store, and tap on the 'hamburger' to get ... "Wish list"???!!


I have a theory that big, product driven companies benefit from having somebody up top who just keeps saying "No, it's not good enough, find a way to make it better."


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