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by josephlord 11y ago
I think the language and in particular the type system matters a lot. So making big changes in the absence of tests in a Swift or even the somewhat more loosely typed Objective C is less scary than in Ruby and Javascript application.
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by josephlord 11y ago
But the Commission largely works on behalf of the Council of Ministers where the UK Government (Conservative) have the vote. Also if the UK leaves Europe the UK could sign up all on its own (although possibly on even worse terms).
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by josephlord 11y ago
Regarding MPs being monitored you need to pay some more attention. As we know everyone has been monitored recently and there is plenty of targeted monitoring of left wing MPs during the 60's and 70's. The software development team
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by josephlord 11y ago
>>"And authorities can exploit a high-profile event, like a terrorist attack, to do just that." [the OP] // >The EFF always seem to go just that little bit too far and make their arguments silly. Do they really
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by josephlord 11y ago
Teletext is the only exception to the general rule that TV based information services (interactive TV) don't get popular adoption. However it has to be remembered that in its day it was the ONLY live information service people had acce
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by josephlord 11y ago
This is another aspect of survivor bias. How many of the superb startups that are led by white men would be obviously superb if they hadn't received funding? How many of their founders would have been put off even trying without the ro
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by josephlord 11y ago
Surely undefined behaviour in a language specification is by definition implementation defined? Now the definition could vary between doing something that seems obviously correct, crashing or even deleting every file on your disk but whatev
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by josephlord 11y ago
If you are using an old version there are generally known security holes so while the snappier performance might be desirable I don't think it is a good trade off.
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by josephlord 11y ago
I'm sure there will be some great brands coming but when they are ready they will spend money and really develop brands. While they are selling literally no-name or no-history brand names that are churned rapidly there is almost no cos
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by josephlord 11y ago
Reasonable points about democracy but as Churchill said: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." > This is what's going to happen sooner or late
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by josephlord 11y ago
No reforms in the world will allow Greece to meet the current liabilities, even the IMF says so. The bigger the surplus the Government runs (to pay back the creditors) the more the economy will shrink and the further more they will miss the
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by josephlord 11y ago
At the time Windows had more than 95% (pulling percentage out of thin air but I think it is realistic) of the desktop operating system market. Apple is less than half of the mobile market. This doesn't mean I agree with the limitations
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by josephlord 11y ago
Apple is not an open company (by a long stretch) but they do make serious contributions to open software in many areas. Webkit, LLVM and related tools are particularly notable. In the case of other software they make fairly perfunctory sour
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by josephlord 11y ago
You don't have to focus on the in Swift part with what the new protocol extensions. The first section is a good general discussion of the downsides of Object Oriented Programming (Class oriented really) and a simple illustration of an
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Protocol Oriented Programming (in Swift) – WWDC(developer.apple.com)
7 points by josephlord 11y ago|3 comments
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by josephlord 11y ago
I don't like ads but I don't block them. What I really hate and like to minimise is cross site tracking/profiling so I use NoScript and don't allow common analytics and ad serving scripts to run. I'm really looking
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by josephlord 11y ago
I'm more concerned with the case of someone overriding a method deliberately but without being aware of all the consequences.
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by josephlord 11y ago
If you put a dynamically dispatched function call in the middle of a tight loop you will slow it down significantly. As I say in the talk in most code it just doesn't matter. It is all relative. A function call is fast relative to a co
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by josephlord 11y ago
Speaker here. Nothing particular although ObjC lacks any language based features to control inheritance. The concern is that if a method has a particular effect on state (possibly even private internal state) that you expect to take place t
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by josephlord 11y ago
Speaker here, a little late to the conversation though. Let me know if there are any particular questions, I'll read through everything later and respond.
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by josephlord 12y ago
Be aware that you can't family share in-app purchases (even persistant upgrade type purchases).
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by josephlord 12y ago
for "respect" read "respent"
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by josephlord 12y ago
All banks create money out of thin air when they make loans not just central banks. And your arithmetic doesn't quite work either at the very least if you assume that money actually gets respect with a certain speed. http://
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by josephlord 12y ago
Atheism is not a doctrine any more than not believing in Santa Claus or the tooth fairy is a doctrine. It is possible that there are doctrines within atheism but atheism itself is not one. I'm not bothered about the term free thinker a
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by josephlord 12y ago
See recent Lenovo issue. It isn't a user problem but an ecosystem problem starting with the OEMs and the general discovery and distribution of software.
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Swift 1.2 Performance Update – Swift is fast now(blog.human-friendly.com)
1 points by josephlord 12y ago|0 comments
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by josephlord 12y ago
I do agree with you that it can be picked apart but it is very hard to do with simple rules. Society does have problems with it in many areas but most noticeably to me around the intersections of race, religion and politics. Can criticising
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by josephlord 12y ago
And they can be banned with a real cost to the owner. The decision about whether or not particular things cross the ban line is separate from the design of a system that imposes a real impact when the ban occurs. Also in the context of hara
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by josephlord 12y ago
She is clearly receiving harassment and is prepared to publish it, why the hell wouldn't they bring her into it? And if you think she gets too much exposure why did you mention her? I'm only aware of her because of the harassment
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by josephlord 12y ago
The "relentless" part is critical for whether insults (or even just continued asking of questions or repeating points) are harassment. Especially if the insult isn't profane - e.g. "idiot". To what extent is it OK t

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