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by octopus 12y ago
Open source or not, Swift will never be appealing for the world outside Apple's garden if it will be as intertwined with Cocoa as Objective-C currently is. It will be nice however to see how well Swift could be ported to Android.
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by octopus 12y ago
Yes, you need a Mac, especially if you want to be able to use Xcode and Swift. If you are short on money, you can try to buy a second hand iMac or a MacMini (just be sure it will support the next OS X version 10.10).
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by octopus 12y ago
This is probably the biggest announcement from a developer perspective. Swift looks like a language in which you can code as fast as you code in languages like Ruby or Python, while having the speed and performance of a language like Object
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by octopus 12y ago
Swift looks a lot like a scripting/dynamic programming language. For e.g. this is a complete Swift program: println("Hello") I think the idea was that Swift will be as easy to code as Python and faster than Objecti
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Re: Joshua Barczak's "OpenGL Is Broken" (timothylottes.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by octopus 12y ago|0 comments
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by octopus 12y ago
Agreed, RubyMotion is appealing if you prefer a fast development cycle. I tend to use C++ for most of my programming projects but every time I've used a more "dynamic" language (Python or JavaScript in my case) I was amazed a
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by octopus 12y ago
This is great news, it will boost the adoption of Ruby and RubyMotion in the huge Android market. Finally I have a reason to give RubyMotion a try. I'm curious how much productivity gain can one achieve with a language like Ruby once i
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by octopus 12y ago
If you tend to buy books in the $15-20 range doesn't make much sense to do an extensive search using a lot of sellers, but you can give Amazon.ca a try. I've found that it is cheaper to buy from Amazon than directly from a Canadi
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by octopus 12y ago
As long as the price is better it is not really important to me if I buy from an independent Abebooks or from an Amazon subsidiary.
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by octopus 12y ago
Except that you need to use Lua (and most Xamarin customers are C# shops) and you don't have any control on the build process of the app. I hate waiting for some cloud service to send me back a binary version of my app. A slightly bett
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by octopus 12y ago
You should always search for the best deal for your money. For e.g. I prefer to buy books from Amazon, but I always check Abebooks where sometime you find the international edition of the same book at 20% the price from Amazon (this doesn&#
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by octopus 12y ago
As a buyer all I care about is to find the product I want at the lowest possible price. I will let the publisher worry about how Amazon compete with them.
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by octopus 12y ago
Do you really think Ubuntu will destabilize their current LTS release by switching to Python3 and removing Python2 ? I don't know what Canonical will do for the next LTS release, but for the near future (read like 4 years) Python3 will
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by octopus 12y ago
Actually it is important which one is the default, most users will use what comes with the base install and this will slow the Python3 adoption at least for a few years.
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by octopus 12y ago
I was talking about major Linux distributions like in the first 3 or 4 (I don't want to dismiss Arch, but this more of an expert distribution than a major / popular one). Obviously, there are a lot of Linux distributions today
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by octopus 12y ago
No major Linux distribution uses Python 3 as the default Python today. All of them use Python 2. Yes, they have a half backed Python 3 alternative for "almost" all packages ... We can discuss more in 4 years when the next Ubuntu L
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by octopus 12y ago
You are missing the point here. While you can use any C98 libraries in C99 and C11, the same is not true for Python2 and Python3.
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A Western Kid Living in Communist Poland(jacquesmattheij.com)
118 points by octopus 12y ago|31 comments
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Compiling GCC [4.9.0] on OS X(solarianprogrammer.com)
3 points by octopus 12y ago|0 comments
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by octopus 12y ago
You can run GCC 4.9.0 side by side Clang just fine on OS X.
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by octopus 12y ago
For me, best approach to learn a new language is to read a book in parallel in both languages. I tend to use novels that were translated in both languages, this way I won't get into trouble with the way a particular writer uses the lan
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by octopus 12y ago
There is a difference between encouraging and actively marginalizing someone because he watches porn. I was born in Eastern Europe where nobody had a problem with you watching porn as long as you don't do this at work or in public spac
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by octopus 12y ago
Well, I just bought his Emacs tutorial to help him.
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by octopus 12y ago
Best thing someone can do for this guy is to help him fill his taxes declaration retroactively and create a fund for him to write an Emacs book for e.g. Seems quite competent writing about Emacs, so it should be right on his alley. Maybe so
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by octopus 12y ago
If you "buy" one of his tutorial I don't think you will get in trouble. Just don't donate or send him a check if you worry about IRS coming after you.
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by octopus 12y ago
facepalm because of him watching porn or because he uses same browser to log into his bank account (which is not a good idea) ?
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by octopus 12y ago
I think it is just US "puritan" culture. In general it is not a good idea to let a potential employer know that you are actively watching porn ... What you do in private is nobody's business, but if you do it publicly ... th
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by octopus 12y ago
True, supported by GCC, Clang and Visual Studio and probably other compilers ...
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by octopus 12y ago
Do you have any comparison charts between Firefox OS usage and iOS/Android in South America ?
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by octopus 12y ago
Maybe I'm wrong but Mint is still based on Ubuntu 13.10 and not on 14.04. Also, the bug was solved in 14.04 before the official launch date.

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