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(Author of the blog post here) Thank you for the kind words about Advanced Swift, Chris. I'm glad you liked it.

I did not know about this, thanks for telling me. I updated the article with this information.

Thank you!

For what it’s worth, Xcode 6 allows you to provide a single PDF file per asset. Xcode will then render the PDF into bitmaps at all required sizes _at build time_ and include the rendered images in your app bundle. Of course, you will probably have to make a new build when new devices come out.

It’s not resolution independence, but it has the potential to make asset production much less painful. I don’t know if this approach also work for app icons or only for things like button and toolbar images.

Agreed about monetization. Ideally, this should be a community thing like Wikipedia but that’s probably unrealistic.

I really think it would be an amazing resource. There would be so much great content that the site would potentially rank really high on Google for a variety of search terms, too (again, like Wikipedia).

Author of the blog post here. I had this idea to start a site for crowdsourced podcast transcripts (or indeed any audio content) but never did it. I’d still love to see such a site because I agree that there is so much valuable content.

But transcription is just a huge amount of work and I’m not sure how well you could automate it with the help of software.

I asked FastMail support about their US data center a few weeks ago, suggesting they offer an alternative. This was their reply:

"We DO plan to set up a non-US data centre, and are making progress towards this. However it is expensive and time-consuming, and we're not ready to offer this as an extra yet. We will definitely make it known when such an option becomes available."

> I have no idea what he means by "other parts of Europe".

Iceland perhaps?

I like it. A nice use case would be a quiz, for example. "What place does this map show?"

Why would Yahoo buy Quora? They already have Yahoo Answers.