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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? on Sunday June 02, 2024 @07:17PM (#40557896)
I am from China and I always thought I am very good at math, because I can get good grades at national Olympiad level math competitions. After I came to America, I realized that I got good grades in China because I internalized the math concepts by doing large amounts of problem sets and it was actually a very slow learning process. In college mathematics courses, I realized that some of my American classmates can grasp new concepts and mental models ways faster than me, without doing much problem sets. We have just been learning math in very different ways.
Re:It’s time to kill the web app on Saturday September 23, 2017 @08:06PM (#15322484)
As an iOS developer, I would say state of web development is not true for iOS. Sure it is slowly evolved to the current state but the framework much more thought out than their web counter part.
Re:Show HN: A WebAssembly game demo on Thursday May 25, 2017 @03:23AM (#14415848)
Did you ever try to decompile your iOS or Android app to learn from them. As a mobile developer, I never learn things this way.
Re:Facebook Must Really Suck At Machine Learning on Friday November 18, 2016 @07:50PM (#12991287)
I think there is also a incentive problem. Internally, from what I know, the performance of a team is always driven much how much metric it can drive, how much incremental revenue it can generate, how much more engagement this feature will drive, etc. The number of contents taken down doesn't seem like a sexy metric, so I assume no team wants to take this unsexy task.

Ask HN: iOS engineers, what are your most helpful coding practices

iOS engineers, we all know that iOS code can get pretty messy, crashy, buggy and almost impossible to debug. What are some of the coding practices that you used that have helped your app to more well written? I will consolidate your suggestions into an github page. Some of things that I can think of are 1) Switch statement should always be exhaustive. 2) Avoid state as much as possible 3)...

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I feel that this is almost an Tautology, I can also say "Polygamy reduces major social problems of monogamist cultures" and it is also true because the two are exclusive to each other.