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by tolmasky 12y ago
But this data is actually useless without context. I actually have no clue if 500 calls since August is a lot -- to be honest my first reaction was that it sounded low compared to my (completely possibly incorrect) notion of how many uber r
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by tolmasky 12y ago
It seems to me that this article is conflating two issues that aren't necessarily related in a kind of strange way: First, the understandable misfortune of the naming conflict, which appears to go beyond just the calling issue (for exa
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A Formula for the Number of Days in Each Month(cmcenroe.me)
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Perfect is the enemy of good. What you're describing happens just as frequently in regulated markets (the police works fine for a certain sector of this country and not so great for another...), its just that regulated markets offer th
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by tolmasky 12y ago
That's kind of the point right: with Uber, there was a solution that didn't involve making anything illegal. Customers were allowed to easily express unhappiness with their ride, and Uber is able to provide customers better servic
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by tolmasky 12y ago
I agree that you have to draw the line somewhere, but I believe the is-a/has-a dichotomy more accurately separates the different modes of thinking. To me the structure of a Go program is completely indistinguishable from one in C++ (pr
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Sure, but with that wide a definition its really hard for a programming language not to be object oriented. C can be just as object oriented with structs, unless you consider bob.talk() to be just completely conceptually different from talk
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by tolmasky 12y ago
I'm not sure why immutability is being lumped into OOP alternatives, seems orthogonal (to me). You can have immutable AND mutable versions of OOP after all. Similarly, you can have immutable and mutable composability. To me the main is
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by tolmasky 12y ago
I kind of stopped understanding this explanation of inheritance (when I switched to composition of course ;) ). When I look at the world I see a universe of composition, we get molecules by composing atoms, atoms from composing protons, n
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by tolmasky 12y ago
I suppose its true that the private sector doesn't have the traditional governmental incentives of religious persecution, exploitation of indigenous people, proselytization, and banishment of undesirables to encourage them to seek out
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> Does this setup significant improve battery performance? Not for your phone.
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Much like countries, it doesn't necessarily make sense to treat companies like people when it comes to reputation. You shouldn't hold a grudge against a country forever, many of the people inside of it may have disagreed with its
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by tolmasky 12y ago
There are certainly classes of mobile apps that need the guarantees of lower/deterministic memory usage. In my experience, that is not the common app being written however. These concerns seem largely like fantasies not backed up by an
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by tolmasky 12y ago
I absolutely agree with this point. I think there might be incredible potential in just getting the different existing tools playing nicer together. When I was working in gaming I was blown away that the native formats the game engines used
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> I have been teaching programming to designers and artists for nearly a decade, and I find the largest concern for learners to be not with the conceptual hurdles involved in writing a program, but with obscure and confusing syntax requ
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by tolmasky 12y ago
I highly recommend taking a look at react's immutability helper update[0] for these kinds of operations. Keeps your data structure persistent and intelligently re-uses internal objects when possible. 0. http://facebook.githu
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Doesn't it matter in the way functions compose however? Definitely not my area of expertise, but similar to the classic N^2 iteration trap (for(i=0;i<strlen(str);++i) ...) you could see something like that happening by multiplying l
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by tolmasky 12y ago
I'm curious if anyone who has read (or is familiar with the data structures described in) Purely Functional Data Structures[0] can weigh in on how this persistent vector compares to say, the real time deque which is described to have
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by tolmasky 12y ago
The article is a pretty clearly a plea to third party developers, not Apple, asking them to not force him to use iCloud as the only syncing option. Turning off iCloud, and disabling sync altogether is not really a "fix" (hobsons&#
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by tolmasky 12y ago
The period between 2000 and 2003 is kind of hard to draw any conclusions from or the classify as "not having quality problems". That period started with quality problems and saw Apple scrambling to make Mac OS X a reasonable OS
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> No. Shorter release cycles don't imply loss of quality. I claim the opposite in fact. Rolling releases are much better for quality. You're releasing smaller more focused features and battle-testing them in the field. The ju
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by tolmasky 12y ago
What's funny is that Apple seems to have found the anti-sweetspot for its release cycles. For example, for an app like Safari, it would make so much more sense to release very frequently (ala Chrome/Firefox) separate from the year
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Continuity is really interesting since it really highlights just how far we've gotten from the original promise of seamless integration between Apple products. For starters, its taken years to get to this feature (with incredibly confu
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by tolmasky 12y ago
I'd just like to point out that this is likely not to get better with this (arbitrary) decision to release a new OS every year. It used to be that we'd have a new release roughly every 2 years (from 2003 - 2011). This meant: 1. it
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Its just as bad if not worse from a customer perspective. The Mac App Store is basically the antithesis of what Apple is theoretically about ("the details") while at the same time highlighting everything Apple is bad at (ahem hem
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Impressive performance on mobile (safari).
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Ok, let's start with you knowing phd level biochemistry ;)
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by tolmasky 12y ago
A story about the initial introduction of computers to the lab my dad worked at, with no particular concrete conclusion: My father is a microbiologist. When he started his postdoc at OHSU, they actually had a information artist guy in the
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by tolmasky 12y ago
That sounds pretty ethically terrifying. Car related death and injury is something we put up with today because it is a "necessity" for the way we run our society. With the advent of driverless cars, politically keeping humans in
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by tolmasky 12y ago
He should instead just have said "Have you tried iMessage?? Its a disaster, we couldn't pull messages out of there even if we wanted to. Be thankful anything shows up on the screen at all!"

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