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by dinkblam 3y ago
> Regardless, verbosity's cost is heavier while reading than writing (as you say, due to autocomplete). can you elaborate? the verbosity is good while reading, because you know what it does even if you don't know the API in you
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by dinkblam 3y ago
have you ever had a look at any Objective-C codebase? Objective-C is a high-level language and there usually is no memory manipulation. just because the possibility exists (via dropping down to the C part of it) doesn't mean it is done
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by dinkblam 3y ago
> Swift also has a number of functional methods (map, reduce, etc) that are really nice for this. writing functional extensions for base classes in ObjC takes like an hour and every seasoned ObjC programmer has those extensions in his to
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by dinkblam 3y ago
why would a verbose name (like stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:withString:) not be better than something short but completely meaningless and obscure like /strtol/? we have autocompletion these days...
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by dinkblam 3y ago
could not agree more with the author here. Swift certainly is a nice, impressive, modern language but it seems like Apple created a language they want themselves to rewrite OS frameworks with millions of lines of code. i could also see it a
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by dinkblam 3y ago
would have been interesting to compare with non-mobile, i.e. landline calls. my hunch would be that talking over the telephone is stressful and causes the high blood pressure and it doesn't matter that the device is mobile. as-is the a
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by dinkblam 3y ago
thieves using Android can just install the "air tag anti tracking" app for Android.
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by dinkblam 3y ago
i am unsure how AirTags can be recommended by anyone in any situation to prevent theft. their "anti-tracking" features make them completely useless in any situation where theft is involved (or theft happens after loosing the item)
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by dinkblam 4y ago
Symmetry [ https://www.symmetrymagazine.org ] is quite similar to Quanta.
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by dinkblam 4y ago
does anyone know of a complete system or player to automatically generate subtitles based on speech recognition (apart from YouTube)? there are a lot of older series/movies with where the speech is hard to discern but no subtitles are
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by dinkblam 4y ago
thanks for following up with more detailed numbers here. > Ferrari shipped ... Lamborghini shipped both of these also make SUVs now, which account for the majority of their sales. i was only referring to their real sports car offerings.
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by dinkblam 4y ago
Flexibits recently launched a new contact app for macOS called Cardhop. While the UI still shifts a little too far to the 'flat trend' for my liking, they thankfully hired the very talented David Lanham to design the
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by dinkblam 4y ago
lets look at the numbers: around 65 million new cars are sold per year. toyota/vw do 10m each year each. sales of super sports cars (ferrari, mclaren, lamborghini) combined are less than 20k units per year. so, only one in 3.000 cars i
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by dinkblam 4y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Europe | Remote Only we are looking for a senior macOS software developer with strong experience in Objective-C, Cocoa and Xcode to bring our highly-praised desktop app to the next level. Content: writing Objective-C co
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by dinkblam 4y ago
shamelessly off-topic but if anyone here is already good at Objective-C development for macOS and looking for remote work, please drop us a line at: jobs@corecode.io
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by dinkblam 4y ago
just screenshots from the server backend showing that the customer has actually used the product he has purchased as well as written confirmation that we never received a request for a refund > saying the opposite of the complaint, and s
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by dinkblam 4y ago
> Except you will lose every chargeback we were winning at least 50% of our chargebacks by providing evidence. > Easier to just lifeban every customer true. funny how an instrument that is supposed to combat fraud (by companies), is n
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by dinkblam 4y ago
no reason is given in the article, but the usual reason to avoid paypal is because their fees are like 3 times higher than alternative payment processors.
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by dinkblam 4y ago
seems this will negatively impact British car makers like Aston Martin and Lotus who had partnerships with Britishvolt: https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-britishcars/lotus-partne... https://www.piston
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by dinkblam 4y ago
you cannot file VAT for foreign countries with your "your local government tax agency". you need to talk to foreign governments in weird languages. even registering with them can be a year-long nightmare. thats why i said its &quo
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by dinkblam 4y ago
not sure i can agree about being feature-complete. they have "some help with taxation calculation" but won't help you with filing and remitting VAT for all those weird countries that require you to collect, file and remit VAT
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by dinkblam 4y ago
> Why do people still use Stripe? because Paddle is even worse, they nearly killed our business out of ill-will, stupidity and incompetence. so far Stripe works a lot better. one thing that seems essential is having (at least) two paymen
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by dinkblam 4y ago
no big issue because surely he must have 96M more. no one would ever store all of his wealth in one single asset - and especially if its a very risky asset that isn't backed by any real value. or would he?
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by dinkblam 4y ago
> not based on TeX nor emacs i'd could also see the name implying connection to Mexican food or Macintosh computers.
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by dinkblam 4y ago
> while it's actually somewhere between 10 and 20, with the rest being a big void. are you joking? 2 hours a day is nothing. > actually doing 40 hours a week you are productive as hell. i've easily topped 100 hours a week fo
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by dinkblam 4y ago
The author claims we do "keep shifting the bar", but that simply isn't true. The same criteria for A(G)I still applies for 70 years now. The Turing Test has not been passed by GPT-3 or any other system yet.
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by dinkblam 4y ago
me and 10 billion women
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by dinkblam 4y ago
Sorry, but awful advice. Being afraid of saying "No" and feeling compelled to say "Yes" all the time and trying to make everyone except yourself happy is the worst way to life your life. Been there, done that, won't
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by dinkblam 4y ago
Avast was caught stealing data from their users a while back: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells... so calling them 'a famous and trustworthy IT company' is quite a thing.
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by dinkblam 4y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Europe | Remote Only we are looking for a senior macOS software developer with strong experience in Objective-C, Cocoa and Xcode to bring our highly-praised desktop app to the next level. Content: writing Objective-C co

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