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by ken 6y ago
MongoDB has been doing this for 10 years. It's their modus operandi.
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by ken 6y ago
The title isn't quite accurate. This isn't about SwiftUI at all, or even Cocoa. It's simply how to launch a process with Foundation. While it's true the new property executableURL isn't documented, the old launchP
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Ask HN: Accurate Movies/Shows?
2 points by ken 6y ago|1 comments
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by ken 6y ago
That's a big if. From what I've read, SwiftUI isn't even a great Mac/iOS GUI framework yet. And Windows and Linux are drastically more different than those two.
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by ken 6y ago
Swift wasn't originally open-source, either.
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by ken 6y ago
Random numbers, at least, are now part of the standard library. As for the rest, it depends on what you consider "basic functionality". AppKit/UIKit is probably never going to be ported.
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by ken 6y ago
This is all awfully vague. Accordingly, all the comments are just talking past each other. What does "85% functional" mean? How exactly do you measure that? For that matter, what does "OOP" mean? PG published a note f
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by ken 6y ago
PDF diverged from Postscript years ago. Microsoft’s binary Excel format is not XML -- you’re thinking of its replacement. It was COM/OLE or some such.
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by ken 6y ago
> You took on exactly the responsibilities the article author said you'd have to take on. Yep, and having been there, I’m reporting: it’s not nearly as bad as this post makes it sound. I’ve written web apps, too, and (for example) C
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by ken 6y ago
I'm not as anti-JVM as I once was, though the recent licensing changes have left me confused and nervous. I read their licensing FAQ (again) and I still can't tell if I'm allowed to include recent versions of their JVM in my
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by ken 6y ago
I wrote my own CSV code. That's only about 10 issues, and I understand them all, and they're easy to handle, and to test (unlike, say, threading issues, or OS bugs that don't happen on my computer). That wasn't even clo
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by ken 6y ago
Are we talking "fast", or merely "fast for Python"?
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by ken 6y ago
It happens. XPM/PBM/XBM lost to TIFF (and later PNG). Postscript lost to PDF. OpenOffice.org XML couldn't displace Excel's Binary File Format. As much as I wish that beauty or usability was the primary indicator of ma
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by ken 6y ago
The final chapter of SICP builds a simple compiler.
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by ken 6y ago
But that's exactly the issue. Pick one subset, and it's 0. Pick a different subset, and it's 1. There is no rule which always makes sense.
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by ken 6y ago
C++ pow() is a function of doubles, not ints. You can't define it in terms of std::accumulate.
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by ken 6y ago
That’s what is usually called “top-down programming”, right?
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by ken 6y ago
> I wouldn't consider reference counted GC systems level appropriate. It _can_ be more deterministic, but not when it's tracing and collecting cycles (which a decent modern RC implementation must do) Swift has what you would ca
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by ken 6y ago
I read through the whole readme. I can’t figure out which part of this they think is the “breakthrough”.
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by ken 6y ago
This works for Google because they want you to only use Chrome. That's how Google engineers work. For the rest of us, it's a reminder of how increasingly troublesome it is that window managers are tied to the OS, and (on 2/3
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by ken 6y ago
I don't think "reset" was meant in the computer sense of "turn it off and on again". I think the implication is that our financial indicators have outrun the actual state of the economy. We're resetting in t
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by ken 6y ago
> Fred Brooks and Jerry Weinberg pretty much nailed down all the essential issues in IT project and personnel management more than 30 years ago; yet, amazingly, the problems haven’t all gone away! There is a profound lack of professional
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by ken 6y ago
Someday, you may not be able to connect to IPv4 systems. I’ve already lived through physical layer obsoletions, like 10b2. Time marches ever onward. If you want to preserve an old webpage, you should stick it behind a reverse proxy or som
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by ken 6y ago
My old Mac started crashing fairly regularly a couple months ago. Which are “the logs” one would look at to investigate this? I haven’t been able to get anyone to tell me anything specific.
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by ken 6y ago
Applications, or services? Zapier is just for services, right? The whole question sounds wrong to me. It’s like asking “Which two programs do you want to be able to pipe between?” All of them! If you’re defining “integration” in a way tha
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by ken 6y ago
You could make your documentation generator detect if any functions are completely missing documentation. Then in addition to printing "No overview available" in the docs, it could also flag a warning -- and in Release mode, an e
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by ken 6y ago
Worse: "We knew they didn't have the drivers' backs, but they don't have anyone's backs."
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by ken 6y ago
I don’t think it’s a major concern that Manhattan is going to migrate to the Finger Lakes, no.
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by ken 6y ago
The big question is: with that $17,000 they save, is it going into higher worker salaries, lower prices for consumers, or executive bonuses?
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by ken 6y ago
There are people bad at working in open floor plan offices, too. What did companies do? Stick with (only) open floor plans, i.e., select for those employees who can work in that environment. Absent some external force (like, say, legislati

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