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by cballard 11y ago
> "he doesn't work too hard" This is desirable. It's not surprising that this person is a "Founder/CEO" and her definition of "A+" is "working hard". But she'll give you some
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by cballard 11y ago
Ugh, but the Boy Scouts are homophobic and the Girl Scouts are progressive and awesome . It would be better if this was the other way around. I'd love for the Girl Scouts to become the "Scouts" and the Boy Scouts to die off.
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by cballard 11y ago
So, this basically kills the ecosystem, right? Has anyone reverse-engineered and documented their client API?
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by cballard 11y ago
I think that at lot of these pollute the global scope unnecessarily or incorrectly, and many of them are semantically incorrect. It's also a massive framework that doesn't address a specific concern. It would be better packaged as
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by cballard 11y ago
Those almost universally look bad, because you can't tailor them. That's fine for the sort of people that rent tuxedos, because they don't care - they need a tuxedo because a dress code calls for it, but they aren't int
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by cballard 11y ago
Why? If it's at-will, they can fire him at any time regardless.
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by cballard 11y ago
I disagree with 3, a subset is not "less than" the superset. Sets are equatable, but they're not comparable. A named function or a different operator would be preferable.
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by cballard 11y ago
If you are in the US, what is the difference between the "3 month probation period" and the rest of their employment, since you can fire them at any time anyways ?
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by cballard 11y ago
"was"? What happened to Coffeescript, is it dead now?
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by cballard 11y ago
Apple? NeXT, I suppose?
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by cballard 11y ago
No - staying primarily to avoid the "job hopper" label, and to finish documentation coverage so that I can avoid burning bridges as much as possible - I am solely responsible for the portion of the product that I work on, no one e
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by cballard 11y ago
This, albeit without the mess, is my current office setup. I can't quit as I've only been here 8 months, so I'm waiting to complete a full year. Sort of hoping the company just runs out of money so that I can have a free out.
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by cballard 11y ago
This prevents you from getting _why'd, so it's pretty reasonable.
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by cballard 11y ago
Ah, "had Christmas", to me, implies being on Christmas, i.e. "we had Christmas at Aunt A and Uncle B's last year".
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by cballard 11y ago
> The first really great company I worked at was explicit about being family-oriented; they'd bring everyone's family to the office and cook dinners, had Christmas at the founders house, that sort of thing. This sounds horrid.
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by cballard 11y ago
No, I get that it's legal. But there's no... border. In the map link I posted, you wouldn't be able to tell half of the satellite view was Belgium without Google telling you that's the case. How do you close that down, e
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by cballard 11y ago
How, physically? Do borders really... exist in the Schengen Zone? Like, how do they shut this down? https://www.google.com/maps/place/France/@49.5467828,5.43629...
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by cballard 11y ago
A monad in Swift terms is essentially just a container type with an initializer that lets you put something in it, and implements flatMap. In Haskell, the equivalents are return and >>=. You can do more with it in Haskell because Mona
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by cballard 11y ago
Just use Optional<T>! This is what it's for! There's some saying about Java "design patterns" that can just be replaced with closures. There should probably be another for for ADTs.
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by cballard 11y ago
Install OS X in VirtualBox?
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by cballard 11y ago
What API is this using? The download is a binary blob :/
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by cballard 11y ago
I don't want to hear "the world's top creators", I want to hear a few people in a basement with instruments and a MacBook.
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by cballard 11y ago
I don't "check" my email, it comes over push notifications. So it doesn't discriminate between personal/work emails.
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by cballard 11y ago
If you do, do the police arrest you (I assume no)? What happens?
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by cballard 11y ago
A solution to this would be to disallow mutable value types. Then, all methods would _have_ to return a new instance. The compiler implementation could use mutability behind the scenes for efficiency, while the language exclusively allowed
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by cballard 11y ago
That is not a Swift method, it's an Objective-C method on NSString, which Swift String can be silently converted to.
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by cballard 11y ago
Yeah, I feel like all of the NSString-based APIs should have been deprecated by now?
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by cballard 11y ago
> I think that having different conceptual kinds of strings be distinct types would eliminate a lot of bugs. I'm not aware of any language or standard library that does this, though. Foundation seems like the obvious one? NSURL vs.
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by cballard 11y ago
I don't think I could deal with losing Swift's type system and working in JavaScript, plus the whole Optional vs null issue.
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by cballard 11y ago
> You could think of them as static variables in a singleton class. So... global variables?

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