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by hhas01 7y ago
Nonsense on stilts. What matters is the “Why”s ; not the “How”s. Any other discussion is just implementation crap. OO is imperative; functional (caveat impure pollution) is declarative. The goal of declarative coding is to tell the machi
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by hhas01 7y ago
Potayto, pohtato… it’s all Polish to me. ;)
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by hhas01 7y ago
“Swift Playgrounds don't get you anywhere near the interactive, self-contained experience that users could create and share with HyperCard.” This. I remember trying Playgrounds when it came out, and it took only minutes to reveal itsel
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by hhas01 7y ago
“I agree with you, but I wonder what his answer to stuff like GUIs would be.” Couldn’t say exactly, but it’d probably look something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript :)
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by hhas01 7y ago
There is nothing “introductory” about Swift. It’s a C++ descendant with all the complexity and inconsistency to prove it. All the Playgrounds lipstick in the world doesn’t change the fact it’s a pig, and Tim Cook on stage telling edu custom
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by hhas01 7y ago
Nonsense. Making a good DSL is easy. I’ve built production DSLs that users adore. What’s hard is finding developers who know the domain and its users in the first place. You can’t solve a problem if you don’t understand the problem space. A
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by hhas01 7y ago
Spent the last few years developing my own end-user automation language for rendering templated artworks in Adobe Illustrator. Not written in AppleScript, mind (that language is a junker), but driving AI via the same Apple event interface t
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by hhas01 8y ago
This is business. Know your worth, do not undersell yourself, learn by others’ errors, and always—ALWAYS—get it in Writing.
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by hhas01 8y ago
"I am a developer, but it surprises me how many developers don’t get that." 99% of software developers are the absolute dumbest smart people you could ever meet. On the plus side: this makes them very simply to beat, even withou
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by hhas01 8y ago
Nah, Apple’s selling Swift to kids cos Tim Cook is a dingus who learned nothing of marketing while under Steve Jobs. Ol’ Steve would decide what consumer market he wanted to create, then beat all his engineers mercilessly to make the produc
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by hhas01 8y ago
Millions more sales for Siri’s competitors.
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by hhas01 8y ago
Nope. Already been tried ( https://github.com/JXA-Cookbook/JXA-Cookbook ) and failed. I can count on the fingers of one hand all the people on the planet who could’ve delievered the user documentation essential to drivin
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by hhas01 8y ago
+1 That Apple still can’t put 1 and 1 together shows just how utterly ignorant they are of the mind-bogglingly powerful product technology they’ve been sitting on for the last 25 years. The great irony is that unlike painfully tedious low-l
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by hhas01 8y ago
This. This. And Absolutely This. npm integration was an absolute must-have to ensure popular adoption; even I could see this straightaway. Alas, as last Apple bastion of Not Invented Here, the Mac Automation team insisted on rolling everyth
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by hhas01 8y ago
DOIs, I haz a few. In addition to creating high-end AE-driven automation systems for current and previous employers, I’m also responsible for: - appscript.sourceforge.net (Apple event support for Python, Ruby, ObjC; plus JavaScript OSA comp
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by hhas01 8y ago
… 3. And now back to good old Sal, cos after 20 years I still absolutely adore Mac Automation—and absolutely fume at what that twit’s done to it: “In October of 2016, he was let go from Apple after a nearly twenty-year stint at the compan
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by hhas01 8y ago
Here’s a little screed I tried posting in Disqust. Not great, but I don’t have time to rewrite it right now. ------------------------------------------ Evening Wired, Well, that story was a bit of a hot mess. Wrong title, buried lede (Workf
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by hhas01 8y ago
Title is wrong. William Cook and Warren Harris were the Apple programmers who created AppleScript: www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2006/ashopl.pdf Sal Soghoian was the Product Manager hired years after they left who ran
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by hhas01 10y ago
Can Linux command line do this? https://twitter.com/hhas01/status/793853777111646213 Message passing vs streams. Both powerful, valuable technologies, but optimized for different problem spaces IMO.
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by hhas01 10y ago
Please help us get SwiftAutomation into 10.13 by taking a moment to duplicate the two following Radar tickets (include their rdar:// numbers to help Radar maintainers determine they're dupes), and telling everyone you know to
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by hhas01 10y ago
They'd need to rewrite the AppleScript compiler and interpreter to support all that. It's pretty much a non-starter for building full modern tooling on top. There just aren't the hooks in either AppleScript or the OSA compone
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by hhas01 10y ago
Entire new language? You mean JavaScript for Automation in 2014? Or Scripting Bridge for Objective-C (and Python, Ruby, etc) in 2008 ? Protip: What matters is not the number of technologies in one's Product Management portfolio, but t