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by swift 10y ago
Esc is the bad one in my view, but I never press it at all while using vim. This comes down to two factors: - I use "jk", typed quickly, to exit insert mode. Most vim users I know use either this or "jj". - I have reboun
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by swift 10y ago
I'm pretty sure it's literally impossible to silence the alarm from the built-in Clock app on iOS. Third party apps are subject to the usual notification settings, though.
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by swift 10y ago
On recent iPhones, waking up the phone just means picking it up. The swipe right is still an issue, though; it'd be nice if they could get rid of that. (Maybe default to the widgets view if there are no notifications?)
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by swift 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that C# AOT does not eliminate the need for a JIT in the runtime system. Just as one example, how could expression trees be implemented without one?
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by swift 10y ago
what's the role you expect g to have played? based on my own experience, how intelligent you are seems to have little or no correlation to whether you use or abuse drugs.
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by swift 10y ago
One advantage is that it improves the compiler's ability to optimize. Obviously that matters for some applications more than others.
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by swift 10y ago
I'd buy that if we were talking about the median, but the mean? It really is completely meaningless on its own.
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by swift 10y ago
Couldn't have said it better myself. Everyone should keep in mind that junkies are people too and the causes of their situation are virtually always much more complex than just a moral failing on their part.
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by swift 10y ago
for the what it's worth, i felt the same about gravity's rainbow. pynchon's writing is endlessly fascinating and if there's a section you don't like it's no big deal, because something drastically different is
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by swift 10y ago
it's true that reference counting is a type of GC, but i think it was clear what i meant.
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by swift 10y ago
yep. the fact that iOS apps typically don't use GC and that multitasking is much more restricted both reduce the amount of memory that iOS needs. (though more is always better!)
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by swift 10y ago
i'd be on board with two ports, i think, but one is a hard sell. i regularly want to plug things into my laptop while charging it. it's a shame, because they've almost sold me on the thing.
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by swift 10y ago
I genuinely thought this comment was sarcastic at first. I completely agree that Apple is highly focused on user experience and keeping you as a customer long term rather than making a quick buck, but I have to say, I hope I don't come
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by swift 10y ago
I really don't see it. People can still buy Bluetooth headphones from any company and there's no Apple tax on those. I realize a lot of people here have different experiences, but among my friends, virtually everyone has switched
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by swift 10y ago
The point has been made several times in this thread, but some of this may be a matter of what you expect water to taste like. I grew up in a small town where the water had a kind of "mineral-y" flavor to it, and tap water in mo
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by swift 10y ago
Possible, but it's worth noting that some people are sensitive to chlorine. Public swimming pools often give me a headache and make my nose run, while the people around me don't seem to have a problem. In fairness I haven't i
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by swift 10y ago
You're thinking of "MNG", which is a different PNG-related animation format than the simpler "animated PNG". MNG was removed, but animated PNG is still supported in Firefox and indeed is used in its UI.
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by swift 10y ago
Shipping new Firefox code that parses untrusted data from the network normally requires security view, and a new fuzzer for the data format in question is usually written. There's lots of process and infrastructure around this sort of
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by swift 10y ago
Yes, they do. They are struggling to reduce their dependence on it but have not seen much success.
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by swift 10y ago
"Wouldn't care to pay for these" means the same as "wouldn't like to pay for these": it means that they would not be interested in paying for them. I suspect you meant to use a phrase like "wouldn't m
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by swift 10y ago
The Mars Volta uses plenty of unconventional time signatures and scales and they've managed to get played on the radio and MTV, so there's at least one modern popular band that pulled it off. I wish it was more common.
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by swift 10y ago
There's nothing wrong with dreaming.
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by swift 10y ago
Reminds me of hg patch queues, which I've always found to be drastically more error prone than git's staging feature when trying to commit some but not all of the changes you've made, but I haven't tried gitless and it m
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by swift 10y ago
On some of the projects I've worked on, although I can easily run a subset of the tests as a sanity check, the full test suite takes hours to run and has to be run on several different platforms because there is a lot of platform-speci
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by swift 10y ago
I have to say you've really piqued my interest. What are some of the obscure things you're interested in?
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by swift 10y ago
I can sympathize with the frustration of losing a convenient keyboard shortcut like this, but I'm surprised that more people haven't switched to using touchpad gestures to navigate back and forth. Your hand is there anyway for scr
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by swift 10y ago
It is a genuinely poisonous idea, and one we should all seek to rid ourselves of, that other people do not really enjoy the things they seem to enjoy, but are instead involved in some kind of status pantomime that we like to call pretension
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by swift 10y ago
My money is that that guy will prove to be utterly on the wrong side of history, and in the long term serious crime will turn out to be mostly a medical problem.
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by swift 10y ago
I notice in your comments that you express concern about the development cost imposed by static typing, but then you later on state that you expect type errors to be caught by tests. Here's the thing: test coverage is crucial on any la
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by swift 10y ago
You could also view C++ templates as a kind of behavioral typing, although the experience of using them in that way is not very pleasant. Concepts should help clean that up when they finally arrive in the spec.

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