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    hjr3 avatar hjr3 3 months ago | link | on: iOS app recommendation thread?

    I like https://darksky.net/app for the weather.

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      trousers avatar trousers 3 months ago | link

      I find WeatherLine to be pretty good too.

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      hjr3 avatar hjr3 5 years ago | link | on: NSLogger: A flexible, modern logging tool for iOS

      It is great to see more open source stuff for iOS.

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        steveklabnik avatar steveklabnik 5 years ago | link | on: The folly of “The folly of scientism”

        I don’t find this argument very convincing.

        It seems that the author’s primary complaint is that no alternative suggestion is provided. I don’t think that that’s relevant at all.

        Secondarily,

        ways that involve the three areas of ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology—he gives not a single example of a question that those disciplines have answered.

        Again, that’s not the point of this article, which is to critique scientism.

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          hjr3 avatar hjr3 5 years ago | link

          This harkens to the idea that one cannot complain unless they have a solution. I think it was good that Hughes did not provide a solution. If he did, this author would have been unable to restrain himself from focusing on the solution instead of addressing the criticisms Hughes has about scientism.

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          hjr3 avatar hjr3 5 years ago | link | on: The UNIX Philosophy and a Fear of Pixels

          My biggest problem with visual tools is that they do not understand my intent. Text-based programming is capturing my intent because I am telling the computer exactly what to do. With visual tools, a layer is trying to translate my clicking and positioning into code. This works great 80% of the time, but that 20% of the time where the tool cannot adequately capture my intent removes most of the benefit from using the tool in the first place.