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by hetman 12y ago
It doesn't even have namespaces. ARC basically made "struct" obsolete (goodbye easy literal data instatiatons), and it doesn't have a lot of the things programmers have come to expect even in compiled languages these day
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by hetman 12y ago
Comparing one 80's language to another 80's language hardly demonstrates how great it is in 2014 ;)
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by hetman 12y ago
Also true of WebKit. I don't think it makes sense to draw conclusions about a project which started as a closed in house affair, based on projects which were based on open source ones, as parent has.
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by hetman 12y ago
Which is only the beginning of a full mapping since the method is actually a descriptor. The method lookup has to go through a bunch of rules that mean we get the correct descriptor behaviour in a given context.
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by hetman 12y ago
Because that conclusion would be nonsensical, that leaves the alternative that "Ayn Rand and God" are an entirely separate part of the sentence. At least for me, removing the Oxford comma made it much clearer that Ayn Rand was not
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by hetman 12y ago
Some sentences are down right unreadable without the Oxford comma, and others make perfect sense. I agree with the author that it's not always so cut and dry; we're not communicating with a computer after all ;) Excellent point ab
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by hetman 12y ago
The contents of the book seem to be available here: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta... Also some other useful stuff: https://developer.apple.com/library/prere
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by hetman 12y ago
No need to get upset if you make a comment that doesn't actually contribute anything to the discussion.
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by hetman 12y ago
Sending tones in band actually works reasonably well on mobile networks. It's not 100% reliable which is why alternate signaling is used, especially when the signal quality is low.
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by hetman 12y ago
It's must be easy to tell others what they must sacrifice. Or did you take this stance your self and quit your job on moral grounds?
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by hetman 12y ago
Aside from the fact this is not strictly legal, my experience has been that this is more effort than it's worth. And if you have any hardware that's a bit non-standard, you can forget about it.
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by hetman 12y ago
The Macbook Air has had a pretty embarrassing screen resolution for some time now. There's also a dearth of peripheral connectivity for more advanced setups. That's even assuming I want an ultrabook and not something else entirely
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by hetman 12y ago
Apple makes it hard to run OS X on anything but Apple hardware. For anyone that doesn't want to be bound to Apple hardware, this is not really even a real option.
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by hetman 12y ago
Never mind the plethora of games which are Windows only.
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by hetman 12y ago
The other thing worth looking at is the MinGW project. It's pretty easy to get started with the mingw-get package manager (there's an installer you can find here: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started ). O
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by hetman 12y ago
I doubt they would care if they weren't worried it could actually disadvantage their employment prospects. The tech community is full of fads and it's hard to know which will catch on (regardless of whether they reflect reality or
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by hetman 12y ago
There's a great comment about this on reddit (I'll quote the relevant part below): http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/259yt8/indoeuro... "This is essentially the conclusion of bi
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by hetman 12y ago
This is a part of what's wrong with modern western culture. Statements must be filtered not by truth, but by how comfortable they make us feel. If someone is made to feel like they're not special, they become instantly offended. I
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by hetman 12y ago
Basically criticism that could be applied to most practical languages out there. Of course, functional ideas are still very useful for writing clean code in those languages, provided the limitations are understood. I wish the article had be
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by hetman 13y ago
Eich's reponse to the concerns: https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/
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by hetman 13y ago
And has he been directing Mozilla in a way that would reduce equality for all its users? Is this even remotely likely?
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by hetman 13y ago
This may not be as sexy/novel as the previous design, but it looks supremely more functional. I'm glad to see them using empirical results from testing rather than trying to push some grand vision on the hapless gamers.
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by hetman 13y ago
There's a bit of similarity to Polish here. While a lot of other languages in the region (including ones that are closely related) use the plural "you" as a formal address, this sounds quite unrefined in Polish (or like a Sov
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by hetman 13y ago
Sounds like you're really fishing for a reason to hate it if that's all you can come up with. Swearing for dramatic effect doesn't sure up an argument as much as you think it does.
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by hetman 13y ago
Not a lot of of this makes sense. First, stability. Are you comparing Linux to a ten year old version of Windows? The modern Windows kernel is just as stable as Linux. Sadly, the same can't be said for third party drivers written by An
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by hetman 13y ago
I just don't understand what the fuss is about. I'm primarily a Windows user (but I run Linux on some of my devices as well). I'm also tend to be quite particular about my UIs getting things right. Saying all that, I've
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by hetman 13y ago
Indeed. Perhaps a reasonable compromise would be to have the permission apply to only the tab for which the user allowed it, and only as long as the tab remains pointed to that same domain. No inheriting permissions across child windows and
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by hetman 13y ago
The difference between software development and computer science is the difference between being able to assemble a car from spare parts, and being able to design the pieces like a new engine or gear box. The two skill sets don't overl
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by hetman 13y ago
CS doesn't make you rote learn solutions to individual problems. It teaches you how to reason about entire classes of problems.
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by hetman 13y ago
But Modus Ponens is the axiom here. Without it, boolean logic is just rearranging arbitrary symbols on a page. Axioms like it are necessary to link those symbols to reality in some way.

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