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by austinz 12y ago
Parent was replying to a comment by a now-banned account, not to the article.
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by austinz 12y ago
Noncompete clauses are bullshit. We already have an extensive infrastructure in place to protect the intellectual property and trade secrets of companies, including NDAs and those clauses assigning ownership of anything you produce to your
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by austinz 12y ago
Swift provides high-level concurrency as well; it just does so via Grand Central Dispatch rather than any built-in language primitives. (While there are no intrinsic language features comparable to Go's channels, I was told that part o
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by austinz 12y ago
Swift doesn't have a designated base class like Java, C#, or Objective-C's NSObject. It seems, though, that there are a bunch of interop considerations which means that you might need your Swift classes to inherit from NSObject fo
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by austinz 12y ago
So Apple is willing to pay $125 million for Be, Gassée wants $200 million, Apple ends up buying NeXT for $429 million (at least $319 million in cash, according to the citations), and your conclusion is that Apple " couldn't afford
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by austinz 12y ago
Creator here. Glad people like it! I do have plans for slightly less useless projects in the future, but I did have a couple of reasons for building this particular project: - I wanted to try out Swift and see how it felt in practice to bui
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Show HN: 2048 in Swift(github.com)
92 points by austinz 12y ago|34 comments
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by austinz 12y ago
Lots of people are having a hard time understanding the difference between dynamic typing and static typing with type inference.
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by austinz 12y ago
Wikipedia claims that SpriteKit uses the Box2D engine internally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box2D
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by austinz 12y ago
SpriteKit was released last year with iOS 7. It's a pretty much self-contained 2D game engine like Cocos2D, including stuff like physics simulation. iOS 8 is going to ship with SceneKit, which is similar but for simple 3D games.
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by austinz 12y ago
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#History , that's actually almost exactly how it came to be. (Apple even experimented with changing the syntax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by austinz 12y ago
I am thoroughly disillusioned with open offices. Headphones are a paper-thin barrier against being interrupted while in the midst of thinking; a good, solid, closed door might do the job better.
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SpaceX to unveil Dragon V2 manned space taxi tomorrow(arstechnica.com)
8 points by austinz 12y ago|1 comments
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by austinz 12y ago
I think there's more to demographic destiny than constantly growing populations. For example, the 'demographic dividend' is a double-edged sword, resulting in economic growth if enough jobs can be created or the potential for
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by austinz 12y ago
Given how much some urban planners have denounced parking lots as being detrimental to cities, I wonder if there is potential for legislation to mandate that any new lot larger than a certain size must be equipped with some corresponding ac
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by austinz 12y ago
> Despite writing at the turn of the last century, H.P. Lovecraft’s Cosmicism is something with which no major narrative of humanity’s journey through the stars has dealt. Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep tackled this very subj
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by austinz 12y ago
So how is the drilling actually conducted? Is there basically a miles-long, rapidly-spinning, articulated shaft with a drill bit at the bottom and a motor at the surface? What sorts of weird and wonderful engineering challenges do you run i
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by austinz 12y ago
Exports include services as well as tangible goods.
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by austinz 12y ago
A "young really bright scientist/engineer putting in 120/hr weeks at a stretch" is a recipe for mental illness, low-quality output, and burnout.
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by austinz 12y ago
I fit your criteria. I really enjoyed this class; I felt like there was a good balance between Scala-specific features and conventions, and a more general overview of the functional programming way of thinking. The programming assignments w
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by austinz 12y ago
Sorry, I missed my mouse target and clicked the wrong button, downvoting you.
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by austinz 12y ago
Fascinating story. Lenovo's rise to prominence reminds me of Haier, especially the presence of a charismatic, ambitious leadership figure not content to settle for just the domestic market. But why are there raccoons all over the artic
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by austinz 12y ago
This is great, and I've bookmarked it for reference while reading LYAH. Thanks for writing it. For anyone who needs a refresher on DFA, Stanford's CS143 compilers class course materials are up on Coursera ( https://www.c
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by austinz 12y ago
> China will really rise to world prominence when its common people enjoy free and fair elections, a free press, and good educational opportunity all over the country. If you somehow knew that a hypothetical China in 2040 with all these
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by austinz 12y ago
I wonder what sort of technologies are popular in China. Heard rumors that there was a thriving golang community there, but that's literally the extent of my knowledge.
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by austinz 12y ago
Not to mention the consumer-grade GPU market that preceded GPGPU and a lot of the modern scientific uses for commodity/commodity-like hardware.
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Lisp 1 Programmer's Manual (1960) [pdf](history.siam.org)
43 points by austinz 12y ago|13 comments
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> will probably continue But will it, and why? This is little more than an article of faith. Computers are getting faster according to a given model, a model whose underlying technological process is reaching fundamental (scientific, not
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by austinz 12y ago
1. Moore's Law is not an ironclad law, it's an observation about improvements in integrated circuit transistor density. Given that there are not that many node shrinks remaining before we hit the fundamental limits of our current
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by austinz 12y ago
Reading it again, that makes sense.

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