作为一个程序员，你为什么不写独立软件（如 OS X 或 iOS）而去为企业打工？

Nov 8, 2013: One of the Worst Days of My Lifepermalink

It took a full 7 days. But A Dark Room was finally in the App Store. I downloaded the release version of the game on my iPhone 5 and was able to play it. It was an unreal feeling given how much work was put in. I know Michael tweeted about the release. I was hoping that many people would tweet about the iOS version. It was 6 months since the Hacker News post of A Dark Room. Everyone who upvoted the game probably have forgotten about it by now. But maybe it would go viral like the web version did.

The first reply to Michael’s tweet came in. I was sick to my stomach: “The game just crashes, I have an iPhone 5s”. I screamed at the top of my lungs, broke down, literally fell to my knees and cried. No one wants to see that on their release day. No one should ever have that happen to them. I tried my wife’s iPhone 5s and it was crashing there too. I texted my friend Eric Sowell and the game was also crashing for him. At that moment I wished I never spent all that time building it.

I pulled myself together and put a debug build of A Dark Room on my wife’s iPhone. It crashed immediately with a runtime exception (the error itself is a blur now, but I remember it having to do with compilation flags). My assumption at this point was it had something to do with 64 bit architecture of the new iOS devices.

I drove (sped) to the Apple Store in the Parks at Willow Bend Mall, and bought an iPad Air to test out my theory. I sat at the food court, took the iPad out. I loaded up the developer certs and deployed a debug build of the app. It crashed there too. I ended up explicitly setting the compilation flag to armv7 for all libraries I was referencing. This fixed the debug build.

I repackaged the app and via iTunes Connect, requested an emergency release of the app. Apple got back to me and approved the emergency release. I pushed up version 1.1 of the app. Then I just had to wait… nothing really I could do. I was taking part in a NodeJS competition at the time. So that helped keep my mind off of it.

I ended up explicitly setting the compilation flag to armv7 for all libraries I was referencing. This fixed the debug build.

I still have no idea why setting the compilation flag to armv7 worked. But I’m not about to change that now. To this day, it’s still extremely stressful deploying to the App Store. I have no idea if the instant crash will come back. I can’t recreate it using the simulators either.

• Jun 29, 2013: Picking the Development Environment
• Jul 7, 2013: A Week Later. First Playtest by a Non-Gamer
• Jul 8, 2013: Realization That I was Growing as a Developer
• Jul 11, 2013: Realization That I Enjoy Helping Others Break Down Barriers
• Jul 12, 2013: The First Road Block in Developing A Dark Room
• Jul 21, 2013: I Want to Stab Cocoa UI In the Face
• Jul 26, 2013: Making the iOS Version My Own
• Jul 28, 2013: Creativity is a Drug
• Jul 30, 2013: Back to Battle the Dusty Path
• Aug 1, 2013: Reflecting on the .Net Ecosystem - The Microsoft Manifesto
• Aug 2, 2013: Had to Take Another Break
• Aug 13, 2013: Another Realization That I Was Becoming a Better Developer
• Aug 25, 2013: Taking a Break to Scratch a NodeJS Itch
• Sep 18, 2013: My First “Not .Net” Presentation
• Sep 19, 2013: .Net OSS is DOA
• Sep 25, 2013: I’m Done Debating With Expert .Net Developers and Dealing With the .Net Mono Culture

• Aug 11, 2014: One Million Downloads in Seven Days

Jan 1, 2014: First Check From Applepermalink

First check comes in. The grand totals for the month of November:

• Revenue: $478.27
• Downloads: 403
• Reviews: 5 five-star reviews, 1 one-star review
• RPG Rank: 567th at its low point, 27th at its height
• Overall Rank: 1479th for two days (metrics below the 1500th placement aren’t kept in AppAnnie)

DateDownloads (UK)RPG Rank (UK)Overall Rank (UK)

3/30595911

• 因为够简单，并且 Swift 等的出现证明了 Apple 想让编程变成越来越简单的东西
  

• 因为 Apple 是邪恶的而且是反技术的

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