ChrisMarshallNY

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   by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

   Sounds like what is needed, is humility, and maybe folks that know how to do it, making the information more accessible. That’s not always something folks want to do. Information is valuable.
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   by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

   > I don't understand why Apple has chosen to tie Safari updates to OS updates The main reason is because of WebKit, which is a built-in OS SDK. If they update WebKit, then Safari also needs to be updated, to satisfy the new links,
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   by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

   In the case of Xcode, I use it, but carefully. The new "intelligent" autocomplete is annoying AF. In some cases, it's great. Gives me a suggested function call that exactly meets my needs. In other cases, not so much. Here&#x
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   by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

   That happens all the time. The lawyers make money, which is why they do it. Not just lawyers, either. I suspect a great many of us were ordered to work on projects that we knew were “dead man walking” disasters, because our bosses ordered
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   by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

   I used to have a Samsung 27” HDTV CRT. I think I brought it, in the late ‘90s. Back then, LCD/plasma monitors of similar size, cost thousands (my, how times have changed). Big, heavy honker, and suffered from chronic fringing, around t
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   by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

   I lived in Downtown Baltimore, from 1980-83. It was always a fairly gritty, blue-collar town, but crack moved in around ‘83, and that’s when it became The Wire . Before, I could walk through some of the toughest neighborhoods in town, and
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   by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

   You have to see real crack addiction in action. It’s not over-hyped at all. It’s just that not everyone gets addicted to it. People get hung up on physical addiction, but the mental obsession is the real destroyer. Most folks aren’t wired f
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   by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

   You have to see real compulsive gambling in action. The comparison is not so far off (but still over the top).
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   by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

   Humans are slow, weak, eminently munchable. Lions, tigers, bears, etc., can really chow down on humans. The issue with humans, though, is they gang up, real good. Eat one (that others care about), and twenty come after you with belt-fed mac
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    Isn't that how RenTech got started? From what I understand, that fund still does huge gains, and can't get too big.
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    Good work! As noted, it probably won't change anything, but scammers are a lot more sophisticated, these days, than they used to be.
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    I’ve found the best way to write software that lasts, is to be “boring.” Avoid the buzzwords, stick to the language basics. Do things by hand. Defintely avoid dependencies. I’ve written libraries in C, that were still in use, 25 years lat
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    Yeah. The Interface Builder/Storyboard Editor is a slow-ass bug farm, but it works. They are still maintaining and improving it. Apple may be pushing SwiftUI, but they aren’t stupid enough to kill off UIKit/AppKit. I’ll lay odds t
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    How does this work with linking? I would assume that both versions publish the same API, so does Rust add a mangling to the link reference? One of the things that made DLL Hell so bad, was that you would have no idea that you were calling a
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    The issue is probably the same as with COM. COM introduced versioned “packages,” inside of the library, but that meant that library providers needed to package up multiple versions, as part of their CD system. In practice, a lot of orgs jus
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    No, Recovery fellowship. Similar. Churches provide many of the same benefits. For most of my friends that attend churches, the congregation is more important to them, than the pastor.
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    We’ve been doing this for over 20 years. But the “glue” that keeps us together, is the organization we’re all members of.
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    Every Friday night, a bunch of us friends (usually men) get together, and have dinner at some local joint. We actually interact with each other at other times, during the week, but the Friday dinner is kind of special. I'm fortunate to
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    > I’ve personally been burned on Python by the last bullet point where one of the dependencies required version 3.14 or less of module such and such, and another dependency needed 3.15 or higher. This is what people used to call “DLL H
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    I use the last few lines, whenever I'm nearing the end of a coding binge, but don't have the application up to snuff, yet.
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    As with everything, "it depends." It's entirely possible to have unique branding, yet maintain consistency with standard Apple UX. Just takes flexibility and compromise. Many designers aren't so good at that. On a relate
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    I generally use storyboards, but I do need to occasionally do programmatic stuff. That's a pain, but I can make it work.
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    Here's an example from a couple of weeks ago: I wrote a small SwiftUI app, to display simple bar charts of data from our social app. Number of active users, vs. ones that haven't signed in, user acceptance/rejection rates, et
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    Those of us "of a certain age," know that Apple used to have the best documentation in the industry. Many of the folks that wrote the docs, had more credentials than the ones writing the code.
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    I feel that SwiftUI still has a ways to go. I like the ideas and philosophy, but the execution is still a work in progress. First, they really need to beef up the docs. Next, they need to stop punishing people for "leaving the lane.&
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    You also had Kaleidoscope[0]. That had some crazy themes[1]. [0] https://www.macintoshrepository.org/1706-kaleidoscope [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20191021204432/https://twitter.c..
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    Point taken. But I feel that the root cause is attitude and encouragement. Sort of “the wolf you feed” kind of thing. That’s not really something that can be addressed by technology or even education. That’s the kind of thing that we handle
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    Come on, you know me better than that. In this case, the comment fit the conversation. The original comment was a short, pithy, and rather sarcastic one that was, nonetheless, correct. They pointed out that we need to write higher-Quality s
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    Same here. My first programming job was a "crossover" from a hardware technician job. It both got me into software, and introduced me to the title of "Engineer." (I was originally a Technician, then, an Electrical Engine
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    by ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

    That reminds me of this[0]. It's a segment of BBC's Planet Earth , where a pack of Cape Hunting Dogs are filmed, hunting. It's almost military precision. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRS4XrKRFMA