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Counterpoint: I've never used Docker at all (I'm a Mac/iOS dev), and was able to get GitHub actions set up and doing what I needed it to in ~30 minutes. Its general similarity to other CI/CD solutions, TravisCI being the
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I agree. Even more directly, Instagram's early icons were pretty clearly inspired by Polaroid, with one of them even a straight up illustration of a specific Polaroid camera. See the second icon here: https://images.squaresp
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Yes! Swift 5.3 is planned to introduce official Windows support, led by Saleem Abdulrasool who has done a bunch of work on it. https://swift.org/blog/5-3-release-process/
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Sony has owned Lemmings since the early 90s. They have actually released Lemmings games somewhat regularly for their consoles. Most recently, in 2018, they did a version for iOS and Android: https://apps.apple.com/us/ap
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DNA tests are a relatively new part of Ancestry’s business. I don’t have info about what percentage of their revenue they make up, but it’s certainly not a foregone conclusion that their the most important part of their revenue model. The o
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Yep. Oddly, if you click Cancel on every dialog, it does successfully run. But that's a complete dealbreaker.
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Also anecdotal, but I've owned ~every iPhone since the launch-day original iPhone. I still own every single one, and they all still work like the day I bought them. My iPhone 5 was replaced the day after I bought it due to a few dead p
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I love your reply here. My experience mirrors yours in many ways. I also got my license right after I turned 15 (in 1999), followed by my general, advanced, and extra (20 WPM!) within a few months. It led me into EE (focused on RF) in colle
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I have travelled lots of other places too. I’m lucky to be able to travel maybe more than the average American. I like going to Disneyland. That doesn’t mean it’s the only place I go or that I don’t also like traveling to other places in t
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It's not called a "machinetosh". It's Macintosh, or Mac for short. Named after the McIntosh variety of apple ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_(apple) ). "Windows is used way more than [Ma
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I'll bite. I think "fanatic" is too strong a word, but I enjoy going to Disneyland, and have occasionally bought an annual pass despite living a day or two drive from Disneyland. I've also made a point to visit other Dis
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I assume you meant that the other way around? Sports fans are the definition of tribal.
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Apple's hiring is not that standardized. Each team has their own process. There are some common themes, but they definitely don't all use the same tests. I've interviewed with a few teams there over the years (have ultimate
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Apple’s documentation for all sorts of things is in a sorry state lately. That includes mass “retiring” of perfectly good documentation for non-deprecated things with no replacement. I wouldn’t take missing or hard-to-find documentation for
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The first 64-bit Macs came out 16 years ago. The first 64-bit Intel Macs came out 13 years ago. The 32-bit to 64-bit transition on the Mac has not been an abrupt one.
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OP didn't say otherwise.
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Because design is extremely and uniquely important to Apple’s success compared to its competitors. It’s why you know who Jony Ive is and have no idea who is responsible for mechanical engineering at Apple. (I say this as an engineer myself.
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This is mostly great, and I wish I could visit the exhibit. But the headline is just wrong. Frog Design did not design the original Mac. Jerry Manock did. Frog Design created the Snow White design language first used on the Mac with the Mac
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Yeah, they've been pretty deliberate about moving away from 'i' names lately. In macOS Catalina, even iTunes will be gone, replaced by Music.app. iMessage -> Messages, iBooks -> Books, etc. iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, iMa
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Objective-C 2.0 was part of 10.5 in 2007. It’s not directly tied to 64-bit support. You’re thinking of features that require the “modern runtime” which is only available on 64-bit Mac. Those features came after ObjC 2.0.
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Chatter on Twitter from people at Panic indicates that you program it in Lua. Seems like C might also be an option. There’s definitely going to be an SDK.
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New for the entire US (some areas/cities already had it). Not sure about this article, but another article about the announcement that I read mentions that the UK has already had free one day delivery for a while.
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I agree with you. I was a huge fan of Minidisc, and even had an MD-related business in the early 2000s. However, as others have said, it was really only (relatively) unsuccessful in the US. It was hugely successful in Japan, and only faded
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No, it’s not, or at least not as fast as the current churn in frontend JS dev. I started doing Cocoa dev on the Mac in 2005. There have been changes to be sure, the biggest being the introduction of Swift I’m 2014. But I’m still using AppKi
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How Many Apps Use Swift in 2019?(blog.andrewmadsen.com)
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A large portion of millennials grew up in the 80s and 90s (myself included). It makes sense that we’d recognize music from our youth more than pop music from our 30s.
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Previous has been around a while already, and works well. It emulates "Black Hardware" (Cube, I think.), and will run even very early versions of NeXTstep. You should give it a try!
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Yeah. Worth noting too that libdispatch has been open source since it was released 10 years ago. I compiled and used it on Linux before Swift was out.
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Yeah, this is ridiculous. Apple has been selling actual products that work and that billions of people happily use for 43 years. Hard to compare that with a company that never released anything that actually worked the way they claimed, and
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No, that's not a feature built in to the Objective-C runtime (which as you say is not a VM). There is of course support for serializing/deserializing objects in Objective-C Foundation in the form of NSCoding. Disclaimer: I don&#x2

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