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You can certainly guarantee you'll never have Alexa assistant inside the nest (like echobee for example)


I work on Amazon Prime Photos iOS app. It's currently 60mb in size, and a good chunk of that is the Swift runtime.

Even the main Amazon shopping app is less than 100mb.


I'll bite. In what ways can you use up 100MByte with a fancy reimplementation of an online shop? That should be enough for a text to speech engine, or a 3d engine with quite a few assets.

I am being deliberately ignorant, having no idea what functionality one might add, but I'm actually genuinely curious. All that I see is a small databse and a lot of assets that are being downloaded on the fly.


I don't know the division of work between the app and server but don't forget that the app includes some level of voice recognition, and has not just a bar-code scanner but enough of a computer vision system that I can pretty reliably look up products simply by taking a picture of them.


I believe it does have a text to speech engine......the Android app has one.


>Even the main Amazon shopping app is less than 100mb.

109 on my device, not sure why it needs over 100 for a menu/search and checkout function that relies entirely on external data.

Also another commenter said Alexa was 78 when it's 124 for me and does even less than the shopping app.


Those apps are standouts but generally Amazon iOS apps are appalling. Alexa is 78MB of pure UX hell.


Wait. Do you have to include the runtime with the app? That seems backwards.


As someone who drinks Bulletproof coffee (ala Brain Octane oil), how does this fit in? Is the concentrated coconut oil in brain octane oil also just as bad? Or is the fact that its very concentrated mean it contains less of the negative qualities?

I feel like what this article is saying is that, just guzzling oil isn't good for you, which is obvious, but in small doses, is it ok?


From the article: 100% MCTs may increase your metabolic rate, but traditional coconut oil only contains about 15% MCTs and isn't good for your health in any quantity.


ah, thanks


From what I understand, the MCT oil in Brain Octane oil is essentially just the medium-chain triglycerides from coconut oil. All of the other saturated fats and so on are removed in the process, Asprey and many others give this as the reason to use MCT oil over coconut oil. It's really just a very pure form of the kind of fat the body likes, and can most easily use.


Glad you mentioned Bulletproof. Asprey said once in one of his many videos that Coconut Oil doesn't work when combined with coffee because it contains bad saturated fats which you want to avoid. It does however contain MCT, but not in the ratio you want, hence his Octane oil products which only provide the good fats that you need.


How convenient for him that only his exact products will produce the desired effect.


when you say "concentrated oil", what do you mean?


I think he means that the non-mct fats have been removed, so compared to standard coconut oil for mct, it's "concentrated".


I'm guessing they had a really low sample size, especially for some of the lower languages (objc/java). Most of the salary per langauge breakdowns i've seen rank mobile skills (android/iOS) nearly highest.


2 very green bananas


I really like the idea of these 0 lines of code websites, but mostly for more static sites. As you can tell with this site, it's already suffering from lag in a bunch of places, which might be hard to fix. Disclaimer: I have never used bubble.is, but similar products


As far as I can tell, the login doesn't actually do anything...I think all this kid is claiming is that he made the login page I guess


A lot of people are signing up though. Doens't work for you?


Ah, you should specify that you need to make an account. For some reason I was thinking this might somehow attempt to do SSO and grab your actual twitter data


Lemme just give my actual Twitter login details to some guy I've never heard of.


You can just type anything. Obviously we don't have access to twitter's db


Yeah, I realize that.


Its called OAuth


yes, but we're not building a client for twitter. it's a clone :)


Did he re-write a swift compiler?? Or is there a way in swift to compile a string?


Looking at the screen dumps of the iOS app, I am not convinced that this app evaluates any Swift code at all.

Also, as far as I know, Swift on iOS doesn't have anything eval()-like [On the Mac, there is a REPL (https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=20)]

I would think the easiest way to evaluate Swift code 'on' a iOS device would be to send it to a Mac, but as said, I don't think this app evaluates Swift code.


No, it's more of a tutorial really, with interactive bits (as far as I've gotten). You don't get to freely-write any swift code.

(Again, at least not as far as I've gotten).


How is this better than Google maps, which is also available on both platforms?


TL;DR: is for more demanding app requirements. For end-user apps: offline maps support. Google Maps has it as app (and not everywhere), we provide SDK where it works globally. For more demanding needs you can add 3D objects to map, use it for HUD navigation (Google terms prohibit it), use completely own/custom base map etc. See https://www.nutiteq.com/nutiteq-sdk/comparison/ for more more differences and similarities


Great thanks. You may want to include a diff of the gmaps features on the site, for clairity


I agree completely, the crashes are the #1 problem. In fact its almost unbelievable that such a buggy app could be passed through the app store process (I'm sure Facebook gets very special treatment with app store reviews, though).

One big issue I've noticed is that the app is borderline unusable on older devices (iphone 4). This may explain the huge number of people who are reporting these issues, which certainly happen less on newer devices. I've noticed what looks like a small UI hickup on my 5s will crash the iphone 4.


Yeah, that could be it, since I don't think I've ever had a Facebook crash on my iPhone 6.


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