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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Plenty of developers do things for their own use without even thinking about releasing.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Wolfram Engine is like command-line Mathematica. Which means you get access to the full functionality that Mathematica offers, just without the GUI notebook interface. See: https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-12&
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Wolfram Alpha is, I think, a subset geared at being an internet search engine / answer-provider? Wolfram Engine can apparently access the full set of Mathematica features, just without the Mathematica GUI. https://www.wolfra
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Seems like a great way to take advantage of this would be to use Mathematica (and its GUI) on a Raspberry Pi to explore and figure out how to do what you want to do, but then actually run it in Wolfram Engine on a more powerful computer.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
"Even much of Apple’s development software is open-source." Not at the GUI level. Xcode and Instruments make use of open source toolchains underneath, but aren't open source themselves, nor are the Apple frameworks they'
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Those are bridge/tunnel tolls, which are a lot higher than Garden State Parkway tolls, which might mean higher pay. (No, it isn't very logical, but I can certainly see toll collectors at a $1 toll booth making less than toll colle
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
"Whatever is done to the platform, it must accommodate the strategy of capture of developer mindset." Only if the company has a clue.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Honestly I don't know who owns developer relations/tech docs. Could be Craig. Could be Phil Schiller, who has owned the app stores since 2015. That might explain why developer.apple.com has turned into more of an information-lite
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
PDFs used to be available. Usually at the top right of the page there'd be a link to get it as a PDF.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
I spent the 90s working on NeXTSTEP software, and I think the current doc situation at Apple is crap and is an ill omen of where Apple is going.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
I would plop down and read the fat volumes of the NeXTSTEP General Reference.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
But will that continue to be the case as headerless Swift takes over?
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
"What has happened is that documentation elsewhere has improved. " No, what has happened is that Apple is acting almost as though third party development itself is going to be deprecated at WWDC this year. They always had issues a
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
I feel like maybe hyperlinks in developer docs were a bad idea. Writing technical documentation as if it would be published in thousand page tomes (because it would also be published that way) may have encouraged better writing and organiza
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Give them a break, they're a small, resource-constrained company.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
It's a third party technical book, not an Apple document. No reason to expect it to be reissued because of a later Apple marketing decision.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
NSView has been flippable since the NeXT days.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Maybe installing new machines from new vendors wasn't considered worthwhile given that most people use the electronic passes and they want to encourage more of that.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Does anyone know if the default cut/copy/paste key equivalents in Windows Terminal are ctrl-x/ctrl-c/ctrl-v like everything else in Windows, or is it still that weird system from CMD.EXE which is an abomination unto Nugg
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
So what makes you think the union was responsible for this change? The exact change lanes were removed because the change collection hardware is old and parts are becoming scarce: https://www.nj.com/traffic/2018/10
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Or perhaps people buying real estate in Florida tend to be Republican.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
"The 3rd world also releases a lot less air pollution than the west." Probably true in terms of overall quantity, but in terms of pollution or carbon emitted per watt of energy (or joule, or whatever) produced the 3rd world is p
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Before people start eating extreme low protein diets, that should be "Blocking a protein".
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Which Windows?
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
The color on the parking garage helps. Compare this monster in New Haven. https://nrsys.com/site/wp-content/uploads/temple_street.jpg
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
"nobody complaining about the ballooning price." Very few people would have been in a position to complain about the ballooning price.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Nobody minds brutalist architecture when it's used for a fortified airplane hangar.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
If the buildings are valued enough, and the society can afford it, they are often rebuilt.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
On the other hand, they probably aren't still being used, either. Nor are they likely to be civic focal points like a city hall.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Progress isn't going to be held up by a couple of acres remaining idle because nobody wants to pay the remediation costs. Your notion of progress is weak.

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