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by diskzero 5y ago
I have a rather complex application that is a mix of C++, ObjC and Swift. I humbly consider myself an expert in all three languages and worked on AppKit while employed at Apple. Perhaps Swift is slightly more accessible when you begin devel
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by diskzero 5y ago
The shorthands mystify me as well. I have taught a few courses using Swift and the shorthand notation, as well as implicit variables like oldValue and newValue in setters, are confusing. You can try to ignore them, but eventually a student
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by diskzero 5y ago
He states that they do not oppose vaccines and believe they are beneficial for many people. They oppose vaccine mandates. He also states his wife has a long-term progressive disease in addition to being pregnant and don't believe getti
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by diskzero 5y ago
Yes, Google is taking the heat now, but you could probably also find situations where Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and others has been in similar positions.
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by diskzero 5y ago
I understand your view about petitioning to change the law. For an employee of a company such as Google, is their only recourse, when disagreeing with a position their company holds, to quit? The employees of companies like Google generate
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by diskzero 5y ago
Can you help me understand what you mean by a viable cloud? As for what I would expect Google to do if I were a Google employee, I would not want them doing business in countries with a history of abuses. We can try to parse what abuse mean
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by diskzero 5y ago
Dave has been working on Drummer [1], a browser-hosted outliner. I haven't used it, but I am glad he is still at it. [1] http://drummer.scripting.com/
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by diskzero 5y ago
Those covers are great! They remind me of the Choose Your Own Adventure book covers from the 80s. I don't know what what style to call those illustrations other than awesome!!!
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by diskzero 5y ago
Not sure why I assumed going to McGill would mean you are Canadian. My mistake!
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by diskzero 5y ago
Impunity? But seriously, I am far removed from the San Francisco news cycle. Has Mayor Breed been overly vocal or cruel to those who have differing views on masking? Does this seem as tone deaf as Newsom dining at the French Laundry?
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by diskzero 5y ago
- Can you identify a need in yourself, as if working on/with a third party client? - Can you build something that person is more likely to like? - Is this relevant in any given long-term scope for you? That will look more like a susta
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by diskzero 5y ago
If you follow American media, you will actually see accusations against Facebook, Apple, Google, etc. "censoring" content all the time. Have they gone as far in America as what the article indicates; removal of applications in Rus
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by diskzero 5y ago
This is interesting. It is like an oppositional amicus curiae. If you don't agree with a law, you will file suit as an advocate of the law to test the validity of the law. Does the US legal system allow this? I know it is easy to file
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by diskzero 5y ago
I noticed that and was slightly surprised. Does anyone know if there is a special visa carve-out for non-degreed Canadians?
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This is really interesting observation. Much like the author, I also dropped out partway through a degree to do startups. Boy was I surprised when I (US citizen) was stopped by Canadian immigration and asked to show my degree when I was arr
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by diskzero 5y ago
It never hurts to ask. It also never hurts to learn the appropriate way to phrase questions that are genuine. For some reason, a pattern develops in some people where they think there is value is just asking why all the time. It is best to
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by diskzero 5y ago
Some people find joy and satisfaction in developing systems. I don't have total insight on their plans, so I am not going to ask "What is the point?" I prefer never to ask "What is the point" to anyone unless someho
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by diskzero 5y ago
I agree with the ease of use, but I won't author or read Medium articles anymore. I am sure Medium feels that it is providing a valuable service by providing a platform for authors to monetize their content. I would prefer to pay an au
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by diskzero 5y ago
OPML could be part of a solution for authoring blogs that then can publish using RSS. It is an interchange format for outline with attributed text.
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by diskzero 5y ago
RSS is too personal, too much outside the flow. I have no idea about "too personal" mean, but the only reason you would consider RSS "outside of the flow" is due to the concerted effort by Google, Twitter, Facebook and
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by diskzero 5y ago
I am an extremely boring pilot; I read the flight manuals for the aircraft I am piloting, follow the checklists, read the NOTAMs, chart my course while paying attention to the weather and practice situational awareness. Anything involving &
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by diskzero 5y ago
Ah yes. Good point. We wrote a lot of custom software, internal to DreamWorks (or PDI in my case) with no intention of commercializing them. Some of the tools did end up getting used by other studios, but that wasn't an intended goal.
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We used it at DreamWorks Animation, but also had our own various 2D bitmap editing tools. I can think of a few reasons it fell out of favor in the 3D animated film space. Any process that required artists to come in after a render was compl
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by diskzero 5y ago
We can "look at" a variety of factors and I am pretty sure that is what the poster meant. Not so much their physical appearance, but the overall visibility of their results. Cycling, for example, is an endurance sport, and gains u
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I raced as a Category 1 USCF racer and worked on increasing a lot of thresholds as I climbed up the ranks. I would get my VO2 max tested every year and saw some improvements based on training, but I hit a limit. Other teammates also hit lim
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by diskzero 5y ago
Ah, the Timex Sinclair 1000! I would fantasize about having one while looking at magazines ads. You could buy the kit, build it and learn so much about computing, all for $99.95 US! Sure, the 1K of RAM was a bit limiting, but you could save
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by diskzero 5y ago
Good question. Is it an open source project that originated at Facebook? On the topic of open source, would it be possible to construct a license that removes the ability of bad actors to use it? Of course, a bad actor could use it against
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Having a desire to increase your income is fine. For some, it is their primary motivation, for others it is a result of being recognized for producing valuable results. Each person has their own moral code; for some, even working for Google
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by diskzero 5y ago
People like to use the term treason a lot, but as it is defined under Article III, Section 3 of the US Constitution, their actions are not treasonous. If you can prove otherwise, I am all for it though! Specifically, the were charged with:
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by diskzero 5y ago
Right. In the case of the studio tools, artists could extend the application but not touch the core. Much like Ardour, having to build the application from source was more complex and who wants to make their users do that?

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