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871.
by gress 12y ago
Exactly, so these just so stories are just that.
872.
by gress 12y ago
How would you determine whether the cause of them not dying was 'the shape of their foot', and not any of thousands of other features you could arbitrarily pick, such as 'the balance of their skeleton', or 'their ga
873.
by gress 12y ago
No. Swift doesn't have traits. It has protocols but these can't currently contain implementation. Implementation is currently strictly based on single inheritance with open classes (through extension).
874.
by gress 12y ago
What kind of work doesn't involve solving problems?
875.
by gress 12y ago
Who has fixed it and how?
876.
by gress 12y ago
What you're saying here seems to be taking about poor evaluators, rather than anything to do with the method of evaluation. How does self-aggrandizement, for example, result from evaluating how people have solved problems?
877.
by gress 12y ago
You evaluate a programmer on the coding problems they solve that contribute to the business. There is nothing so clear for teachers other than their class performance on standardized tests, but standardized tests measure only a very limited
878.
by gress 12y ago
Well then specify the means, and make it a real example.
879.
by gress 12y ago
There are lots of other things you can do to resist capitalist oppression - e.g. Unionize, or create other kinds of social support. A strawman isn't very useful. I'm sorry you've chosen to be accusatory instead of reasonable
880.
by gress 12y ago
You are conflating agency and privilege. In the case of resisting oppression, the available actions are unchanged, but the consequences are different.
881.
by gress 12y ago
Your example of the autocrat who has a magical means to alter everyone's behavior is totally artificial and has no corollary in the real world, and therefore isn't relevant to the real world concept of agency.
882.
by gress 12y ago
Agency is not zero sum. That's why you couldn't use it to make your argument and had to switch to using the word 'freedom' to construct a straw man.
883.
by gress 12y ago
Agency is not a zero sum game. We don't have to reduce the agency of 'privileged' people. We just have to resist oppressive behavior.
884.
by gress 12y ago
Have happily paid for the desktop version, I'd love to pay again (seriously) for an iOS version!
885.
by gress 12y ago
Yeah - the central point is that there aren't really caveats about Swift being simpler than objective-c. It's not perfect, but Objective-C has a much greater number of rough edges so is strictly harder for new users.
886.
by gress 12y ago
I think you're wrong about both of these. Yes, it's true that you need to inherit from NSObject in some cases, but Cocoa is complex anyway, and this is not added complexity, so it's not different from objective-c in this reg
887.
by gress 12y ago
It is one of the reasons stated by Apple at today's WWDC session.
888.
by gress 12y ago
I agree, and frankly I think Bret Victor in particular hasn't until recently referenced his influences enough.
889.
by gress 12y ago
Because they made some impressive demos to reintroduce the concepts at a time when the audience is ready for them.
890.
by gress 12y ago
I stand corrected, and your argument holds, however there is a great deal of objective-c code out there, so it will take a long time to go away.
891.
by gress 12y ago
A load of colleges (e.g. Stanford) already teach iOS development. Swift and playgrounds will automatically chance how this is taught.
892.
by gress 12y ago
Feel free to do 10x the amount of work everyone else does.
893.
by gress 12y ago
You are misunderstanding - this isn't about which is better. Almost all new application code will be written in Swif, but swift doesn't bridge between C and the Swift/obj-c runtime, so Objective-C will continue to be require
894.
by gress 12y ago
I think this is false. Things that are simple in Objective-C will be simpler in Swift, with better feedback from the compiler. Things that are complex in objective-c will also be simpler and more robust in swift. There is a kind of compl
895.
by gress 12y ago
Let is fine for defining constants, but it should also be used whenever possible for two reasons: 1. It gives you additional safety against accidental reassignment. 2. It gives the compiler a major optimization hint since the value is not
896.
by gress 12y ago
The point is that the selection of defendant is what this is all about. Amazon could equally well be subject to an antitrust case.
897.
by gress 12y ago
Your faith in the impartiality of legal processes is most refreshing.
898.
by gress 12y ago
Wrong - Amazon was behind it: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/12/amazons_bogus_anti_apple_cru...
899.
by gress 12y ago
There is zero transparency into this investigation or it's results.
900.
by gress 12y ago
A monopolist facing competition from a competent new entrant will use whatever methods are available to keep their position.

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