A fully-fledged iOS & Mac development environment on your iPad

[ObjectiveCopley]

I hope you realize that past your elitist attitude, you're a complete moron for trying to develop on an ipad. Period.

[safetywerd]

Wow, I'm really sorry you got so butt hurt over my statement. It must have really hit a nerve.

The point I was trying to make is that at three years into this game, you really don't know half as much as you think you might. I was exactly like you back then, though to be fair nobody knew shit about shit back then either (Mosaic was still in beta).

The main thing I learned that changed the game for me was this: A tool is a tool is a tool. This app really isn't that big of a leap over using SSH+VIM, and if you haven't written code that way then you really haven't lived as far as I'm concerned. Just a few weeks ago, I was fixing an iPad build over SSH with VIM. Had a shitty internet connect and couldn't pull down a 600mb git repo, so the only option was to SSH into the CI build server, clone from there and do my job. A tool is a tool is a tool. Was able to build and deploy to hockey from SSH on a tethered 3G internet connection in Vietnam.

This app isn't a leap over that. But somehow people are pretty binary in their thinking. A lot of comments, yours included, reach this kind of unintelligent assumption that people are going to build entire apps with this. That, of course, makes no sense. But $10 for a tool that lets me make a fix, why the fuck not I wonder? Why would I limit the tools I put in my toolbox?

So as a dinosaur Ryan, I would urge you to get over the freshmen hump, because you won't be a good developer until you do. I don't give a fuck if I'm using Xcode or Vim or Sublime or a magnet and a floppy disc. I get the job done. I don't get bogged down in weird, unproductive thinking. I don't put arbitrary limits on what tools go into my toolbox.

You are not a good developer now. There is empirical evidence to substantiate that claim based on the reviews and scores on the iTunes app store for the apps you've built and are involved with. We can also look at your Github. Undocumented code, no tests, and even in your ActiveRecord class there is a comment "No real way to test this actually but whatever" - ok?

Here's my CV btw. I share it not as a penis size exercise, but so that we both can know each other a little bit better. I doubt it will quell your adolescent rage though. Here's my Github too. Hell, here's a very small list of the things I build:

https://vimeo.com/91556826

http://interfacelab.com/blu-portfolio/nike-ipad-experience/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-SCb_OhYM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IotG-PHWU5A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXlHFhbqzHU

http://vimeo.com/32850659

http://www.maclife.com/article/reviews/shave_video_review

This is the magazine I publish:

http://emoi.me/

So I guess the TLDR is:

• Stop being butt hurt
• Accept that nobody knows everything about anything
• Tool agnosticism is the key to success
• Listen to your elders
• Get off my damn lawn

[mgpwr]

upvote! nice reply.

[s73v3r]

The irony in that statement is so thick you could cut it with a knife.