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It is not naive to be positive, it is naive to be a defeatist. When we believe that the worst possible outcome, is the most likely outcome, we ignore everything that life has ever tried to teach us: that shadows exist, but they are not permanent; that we are capable of more than we think; that people fundamentally care about one another;  that our worst enemies are often our own minds; that when we think we are being buried, we are more than likely taking root, and preparing to bloom ...

If your life has handed you a season of uncertainty, please take heart in knowing that you can be completely mindful of your present reality, while still intent on seeing the good, pursuing the good, and becoming the good. This does not make you naive. This makes you an empowered being ...

Court injunction halts Maple Finance’s launch of competing syrupBTC product. Core Foundation secures legal victory, blocking Maple’s alleged breach. Dispute centers around Maple’s misuse of Core’s confidential information. Core Foundation has secured a significant legal victory against Maple Finance, as the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands issued an injunction against the finance entity. The…

Many iOS apps are built upon table views that need to be updated on-demand. This article presents a rather simple solution to the problem:

Update the scroll view, continuously, but only when the user is not touching it, so the scrolling and bouncing is not obstructed (and broken) by the updates.

I originally tried a makeshift solution, a couple of years ago, including a UILongPressGestureRecognizer, an ad-hoc dispatch queue, and a couple of lines calling dispatch_suspend() and dispatch_resume(). It was bad.

The new way is simple — do the work thru another layer of indirection:

[self doSomethingWithNetworkDataWithBlock: ^ (id results) { CFRunLoopPerformBlock(CFRunLoopGetMain(), kCFRunLoopDefaultMode, ^ { // All the actual fun happens here. }); }];

For more information, take a look at the Threading Programming Guide. What needs to be told, has been excellently told in the piece.