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by emp 11y ago
True, however this all started with a complaint by Unilever, the maker of Hellmann’s mayonnaise. They dropped their complaint when it was discovered that their mayo did not meet the criteria either. Also according to Unilever, "&quot
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by emp 11y ago
Don't forget raising animals for meat, growing food to feed animals, and growing food for export to feed animals. This accounts for more water than almonds that seem to always be the scapegoat.
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by emp 11y ago
The Space Shuttle should be so lucky - 8086 (though I read 80386 for a cockpit upgrade). First flight 1981, predating the 486 (1989). It's interesting, NASA was raiding all sorts of old machinery to keep in stock of 8086s.
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by emp 11y ago
If RIM's developer tools now are an indication of what they were like back when Apple released XCode for iOS, I am not surprised how things turned out. I had to do the tiniest of an app as a starting point for someone else recently. Ho
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by emp 12y ago
ACID on a single "record". I am glad they document this openly, so many other DBs try to make it seem like they support ACID transactions in general. From my understanding with FoundationDB, you did something of the form of &quo
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by emp 12y ago
Foundationdb has ACID transactions over the entire db, over the cluster and over multiple keys. And fast. I've looked over so many open sources alternatives, and they claim ACID but it's a deception based on some narrow interpret
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by emp 12y ago
It's impossible to just read about Smalltalk and poke around a bit, and think one knows. The language itself is a tiny part of things, and one needs to really get immersed in the environment to really appreciate things. Maybe you know
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by emp 12y ago
FYI there is a small typo under "Secure & Reliable" - "you" should be "your". Spelling/grammar mistakes make a negative impression on me, especially on a landing page with a TLD where English is the fi
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by emp 12y ago
Do people really speak this way? I would never refer to "Chik'n" verbally. But when seen on the box it does hint at what kind of texture/flavour one might expect. I wish there was an easy alternative as to not be reminde
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by emp 12y ago
Java/Swing is slow is a myth due to badly written applications. Jetbrains does it right. My main machine is a little 11" MacBook and I use AppCode/IntelliJ all day long without performance issues. I use XCode for Interface Bu
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by emp 12y ago
Jetbrains is working on a C/C++ IDE (CLion), so I would expect this functionality to flow over. I spend most of my time in AppCode and IntelliJ, and core functions from other projects flows between their IDEs regularly.
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by emp 12y ago
Is there a API search engine where one can enter sample inputs and outputs, and get a list of methods that return the outputs for the given inputs? Smalltalk has a search function like this - very handy instead of trying to guess method nam
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by emp 12y ago
He is also a glider pilot. I always hope when I am flying that the pilots fly gliders or Pitts Specials.
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by emp 12y ago
Playground however is just a place for playing with snippets of code. And experiment and learn environment. If you have a bug in a running app, it's just not possible to recreate the problem except for the simplest of apps.
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by emp 12y ago
I often hear how using how using less mainstream and more difficult to learn (as in requires some mind warping if coming from more mainstream language) languages acts as a filter that will leave more capable programmers to choose from, even
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by emp 12y ago
There is also the component of being sad and not knowing why, while you work on what you think is interesting and important. I remember reading how Feynman was unhappy with his work and then chose a seemingly useless but fun and interesting
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by emp 12y ago
True, though then we are waiting and hoping for features. Another example of some runtime fun: my debug build swizzles interceptors for common UI lifecycle and action methods (viewDidLoad, didMoveToParentViewController:, sendAction:to:forEv
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by emp 12y ago
But it does allow for programmers to add their own ideas. I have a traits implementation where I can inject entire behaviours in a line of code. I am not sure if this could be done in Swift (haven't had time to research properly).
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by emp 12y ago
Using Injection for XCode gives you live coding close to a Smalltalk system. So you live code on your actual app, super nice for tuning core image filters, or any thing where small iterations are needed between compiles. I literally save ho
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by emp 12y ago
"Message passing" probably is common due to Objective-C having been inspired by Smalltalk.
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by emp 12y ago
When sketching concepts, line weight is created in various ways and used to bring a sketch to life, conveying information such as 3d depth, important areas, material strength, motion, mood, as well as the designer's particular style. I
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by emp 12y ago
I forgot about that, thank you.
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by emp 12y ago
Thanks - I felt I should type 1983, but if felt wrong! I still had my Apple ][ back then.
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by emp 12y ago
And Swift seems to resemble another Apple language Dylan, which was based on Scheme/Lisp. All languages since the are in trouble! I really like that it is incorporating good parts of many, more terse languages. Nothing wrong with selec
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by emp 12y ago
I am pretty sure you can sign up without paying - but your code will be limited to running on the simulator. The $99 is to build for device, and submit to the store.
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by emp 12y ago
It's not for the hell of it. [ ] does not mean method call, it is the syntax for a message send. Objective-C is a super set of C, adding an Smalltalk like object system to C. The delimiters say "I am sending a message", which
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by emp 12y ago
I agree, though I often use CLI tools due to many GUI tools have let me down. When something goes wrong with git at the command line, there is nothing hidden. That being said, it's a matter of trust - perhaps time to revisit some too
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by emp 13y ago
I can't wait to start using the Chronon plugin. Every breakpoint hit is like a puzzle to be solved, the clues being the current state, and knowledge of the current context. Traveling back in time to observe the conditions leading t
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by emp 13y ago
The problem is the rate things get filtered back to Java. I started using Groovy when I kept waiting and waiting for new language features. In 2003.
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by emp 13y ago
When I saw the headline the first thing I thought was April Fools had arrived early in the form of a Forth IDE. It is an appropriate name however. After dabbling in Forth for fun, I became very aware how fleeting and unnecessary local varia

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