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by adamlett 10y ago
someone who loves their work so much would see their app close before scrapping the custom font to lower expenses in an effort to salvage the app. I don't think that's strange at all. The look and feel of an app -- especially a
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by adamlett 10y ago
There is no such thing as a "type safe language". Type safe is a subjective value judgment.
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perhaps more than the LSP, this should be a textbook illustration of why representations of mutable objects in a program should not be named after entities in the domain whose essential identity is associated with one or more attributes th
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by adamlett 10y ago
Well yes, that pretty much my point. The original interface as you defined it is either unreliable if you interpret it literally (and allow fixed-aspect-ratio or even fixed-size rectangles) or completely pointless if you interpret it &quot
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by adamlett 10y ago
As a client of an interface you shouldn't make assumptions which are not guaranteed by the interface in the first place. Sure. But as an author of an interface you should strive to make your interface easier to use correctly. It&#x27
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by adamlett 10y ago
You may quibble, but what I presented is more or less the textbook example that is often used to illustrate the LSP. I would argue that it is reasonable for any client of the Rectangle interface to make the assumption the setting the heig
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by adamlett 10y ago
In Go you might have an interface Rectangle" : type Rectangle interface { SetHeight(int) SetWidth(int) GetHeight() int GetWidth() int } Then you could conceivably have a type Square which
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by adamlett 10y ago
Who is PG?
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by adamlett 10y ago
That's a silly argument. All money has already been taxed many times over. If you hire a plumber, she has to pay taxes on the amount you pay her, even though you've already been taxed once. Why should it be any different with gi
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by adamlett 10y ago
Look at inheritance as a payment for providing happiness and support. In that case, shouldn't inheritance be taxed as income? I don't understand people who have problems with other people giving their money to those they love
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by adamlett 10y ago
The difference is that Lenovo and Acer sell to US market whereas Xiaomi does not. This means that they have something to loose. Xiaomi will be in big trouble if they ever try to break into a market outside of China (and other places with we
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by adamlett 10y ago
Market share can be a misleading metric. There may be many more Android phones sold at any given moment, but a majority of them are very low-end phones that have a short life-span. In contrast, most iPhones get used for a long time. If they
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by adamlett 10y ago
A 2-year-old can navigate an iPad because a touch screen requires less motor control than a mouse . That's certainly a large part of it, but I don't see how that detracts from my point. The touch interface is as much software as
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by adamlett 10y ago
Yes. As I wrote.
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There is an old macintosh print ad in the article stating something like: "A computer that everyone can use will get used by everyone". It immediately made me think of iOS. No matter how good you think the UI paradigm of the mac w
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by adamlett 10y ago
You are missing the forest for the trees. You are ignoring that Bill Gates had to come from an extraordinarily privileged position to even be able to incur such a large opportunity cost. Most people don't have the opportunity to not
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by adamlett 10y ago
a typical post-modern project of 20-200. With such member sizes consensus is rarely practical, political correctness and CoC discussions are taking over development, ABI and API's are driven by design and not by functionality and long
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by adamlett 10y ago
During WWI, soldiers who developed PTSD were accused of being simply cowards, and by many not considered "real" invalids. Who were they to complain when other soldiers were losing limbs? And now here you are, saying people who hav
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by adamlett 10y ago
None of it, according to TFA.
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by adamlett 10y ago
The new subscriptions pay model with the 15% cut after one year. In my opinion Apple doesn't deserve any cut of the recurring money since they don't have to do anything to earn it. Maybe it isn't a benefit to developers, in
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by adamlett 10y ago
Firstly, that's a hack. Secondly, even 48 hours is not nearly enough to evaluate complex productivity software. You might argue that the App Store doesn't have any software of that caliber, to which I would say that this could be
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by adamlett 10y ago
How do you evaluate the equivalent of say Photoshop or IntelliJ IDEA in 2 hours? Especially if you're new to that category of software?
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by adamlett 10y ago
They are also increasingly common in Copenhagen. Both regular style bikes and three-wheeled cargo bikes.
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by adamlett 10y ago
That kind of thinking is caused by living in a system where so many questionable lawsuits are brought before a court that you get used to the idea that what ultimately matters is the quality of each party's legal team. What you are for
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by adamlett 10y ago
The way that problem is solved is to grant the judge power to determine what amount is reasonable given the stakes of the case. You obviously don't get to hire 100 lawyers and claim that all of them are necessary for your defense. Real
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by adamlett 10y ago
You really can't imagine? What if for example the losing party in a law suit was automatically forced to pay the legal expenses of the winning party? That is actually how it works many places outside of the US. It's quite effectiv
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by adamlett 10y ago
Shareholders get nervous when companies hold too much cash, because they fear that management will blow it on stupid acquisitions. This ultimately hurts the value of the company. Management is usually granted stock and/or stock options
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by adamlett 10y ago
Do you usually find that you enjoy reading articles in Mac World to the end?
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I agree that gender bias is a problem, I just disagree that more discrimination is the way to fix it. I believe that some discrimination applied intelligently is often less bad than no solution at all. If better solutions can be found, th
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by adamlett 11y ago
What do you propose we do with those professions where we can't have blind auditions? Pull a number out of a hat and enforce those quota? I propose we agree to acknowledge that unconscious sexist bias exists and that it works against

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