cballard

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1. 151.▲
   by cballard 11y ago

   The arcane keywords are really terrible design, IMO. Normal users shouldn't have to remember this sort of a thing. It's a regression past burying everything in a hamburger menu.
2. 152.▲
   by cballard 11y ago

   > This would be problematic for any programming language, though. C?
3. 153.▲
   by cballard 11y ago

   Ah, the copy ("Magician", somehow they're going to conjure up Tina Fey for $100?) made me think it was a joke.
4. 154.▲
   by cballard 11y ago

   Is this a parody?
5. 155.▲
   by cballard 11y ago

   This appears to be a peculiarity of the OpenGL headers - GL_ARRAY_BUFFER is just a #define: #define GL_ARRAY_BUFFER 0x8892 Instead of a proper constant. Therefore, Swift interprets it as an integer, which is fairly reasonable. GLEn
6. 156.▲
   by cballard 11y ago

   Layout done in code: - Is type-safe, which is verified at compile-time. - Will break at compile-time if a breaking change is made. - Can be null-safe, without having to use Optional for everything. - Can do things iteratively. - Can use con
7. 157.▲
   by cballard 11y ago

   On one hand, you're completely right, on the other, I wish I could block all GIFs from Slack (or just not get notified about them). That kind of thing doesn't help me get work done, which is what I'm at work to do - not to sh
8. 158.▲
   by cballard 11y ago

   You're not supposed to tip Uber drivers, that was one of the main selling points of Uber. The fares are higher than yellow cabs to compensate for that.
9. 159.▲
   by cballard 11y ago

   > what can the baker do to keep you employed? Pay more, offer better benefits, and give more PTO.
10. 160.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    Swift does not allow code blocks after an if statement without curly brackets, so this is not an issue.
11. 161.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    Thanks!
12. 162.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    What is the point of the sigature? Mine never look even close to the same. Is this a serious security mechanism? If you're not going to do chip and PIN (and you should ), why not just chip and nothing?
13. 163.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    Is there any explanation for the lack of types in error handling anywhere? The compiler should be able to easily infer those and require that you handle them correctly.
14. 164.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    Twitter's employees are presumably all at-will, so they could get rid of any of them immediately, if they wanted to. It's probably harder to hire them in first place though, instead of just hiring an agency.
15. 165.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    Ads and general horribleness that is the Twitter UI, although that's an argument for using Tweetbot, not the bad official Twitter apps.
16. 166.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    People are not the product. Advertising is, and it's sold somewhere and served from somewhere.
17. 167.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    That's still pretty good for a company you thought was (somewhat?) dysfunctional!
18. 168.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    If you like video games, you might like climbing more than lifting - unlike lifting, the numbers are mostly made up and don't really matter, the only thing that counts is solving problems. More like a strategy game than lifting, which
19. 169.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    Did you give them a ton of advance warning when you left? http://www.onlyonceblog.com/2013/09/how-to-quit-your-job
20. 170.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    Uh, what happens if you walk out the door and hail a cab? How do they stop you?
21. 171.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    This should also be targeted at the people that run technology companies: - You're playing music? Huh? - You have a dog in the office? What? Yip yip yip yip.
22. 172.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    You don't really need to pay for a book. If you're experienced with C# it'll be pretty easy to pick up. But, if you really want one, the definitive choice is "The Swift Programming Language", which is free: https:&
23. 173.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    I didn't know uTorrent was a company! I haven't used Windows in forever, so I've been using Transmission for a long time, but I feel like that's the equivalent of foobar2000 being a company or something.
24. 174.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    I wonder why they're writing a new KVO library, given that KVO is very awkward in Swift. Something like ReactiveCocoa's PropertyType/MutablePropertyType is a much safer approach.
25. 175.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    No, that's not an acceptable solution. Spammers should be banned. But I actually wasn't strong enough: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#pus... By section 5.6, Lyft should be
26. 176.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    If you're an engineer, Steve Jobs worked to illegally and systematically suppress your wages. Yeah, the iPhone is great, but I'll judge him on that instead.
27. 177.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    I wish Apple would actually ban APNS spammers. Yelp does it too ("Yelp Weekly" or something).
28. 178.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    What is strange about the top right corner of the window? Almost all search bars are located there in OS X applications.
29. 179.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    This seems unnecessarily angry. I suppose that this person wants to keep his data forever, but many people just don't care that much about their social media photos and the like. I'd love it if Facebook and Twitter had a rolling d
30. 180.▲
    by cballard 11y ago

    Right - but this subthread is saying that JavaScript is enough and everyone should write JavaScript and not complain.