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by zapzupnz 6y ago
You can take or leave a Twitter question. It sits there waiting to be answered. It isn't in a rush. You either ignore a ringing phone or tersely tell the person who called that you're busy. Not quite the same dynamic.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
I'm not sure what Brexit has to do with this. The European Medicines Agency's criticism is entirely legitimate; they're criticising the emergency approval procedure to rush a vaccine into widespread application rather than no
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Indeed. On reddit, everything needs to be a joke. That's what gets upvoted. On HN, everything needs to show some depth and insight. That's what gets upvoted. If HN readers want to read an endless stream of jokes, they will go to r
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
From the HN guidelines: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. > Comments should get more tho
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
I suggest that you substantiate your opinion as per the community guidelines, explaining your position and backing it up with data as much as possible — your comment seems to be getting rapidly downvoted because your account is new but your
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
I'm surprised by the failure of imagination of HN readers. Nine times out of ten, HN readers are complaining about the limitations of the iPad; out of the woodwork come those who complain about those who complain. To my mind, Becky is
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
I don't believe the author was suggesting that the iPad become a Mac. Steve Jobs drew an analogy to cars and trucks. iPads are like cars; smooth easy rides. Macs are like trucks; much more versatile but a bit trickier to use. Nobody wa
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> I'd like to be able to run programs and apps on my machine that are not Apple-approved. I thought you could anyway. You would right-click the app in Finder and choose Open — from then on, it would continue to open. Or is that a di
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> The only anti-consumer behavior in your situation came from Epic who knowingly violated the rules as a PR stunt. Exactly. Never forget, it was Epic who threw their users under the bus, not Apple. Epic expected you to be a soldier in th
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Docker has already addressed that, and a link was posted about it yesterday in HN.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> maybe you should check what you think of other cultures, before getting offended for a software using the name GIMP I have no idea what that has to do with my comment, I didn't say anything about that. But even so, how does one of
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
I’m down voting because of that very reason, yes. And the needless edits to complain about the down votes; this isn’t reddit.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Yes, they’re talking about how the GNOME one is poorly designed, not the macOS one.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
The question uses the word 'preferable'; it very explicitly contrasts a limited set of options. Perhaps neither are okay but that's not what is being asked.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
It's not recent at all. That's how I first used Discord back in 2015.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Well, you wouldn't run the computer at a 1:1 resolution, it would be a logical lower resolution displayed at a higher resolution. For a 4K display, everything would show at the size it would be on a 2K display — but actually rendering
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
The principle of free speech in American law is government-granted to begin with. Why did it surprise people that it comes with limits?
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Bit of a vague cop out answer, to me. If there’s been any evidence that Apple would crack down on other languages and frameworks, sure, but as the exact contrary has proven to be the case, there doesn’t seem to be any legitimate case for co
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
I've seen plenty of people getting all upset that they think Swift 5.3 is still as broken as Swift 1 or 2 back when they last tried it. There are also those, some in this thread, who are proclaiming their high level language of choice
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
In the 12 years since the App Store, we've seen a plethora of languages become available for iOS. Swift has existed for half that time, and even in the past 6 years, we've seen more languages, more frameworks, and a LOT more non-C
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
It's Microsoft. They came up with Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox One X, and now Xbox Series X. WSL is a drop in the bucket of stupid naming schemes.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Or more likely because Rust was developed to support Windows 7 before it was deprecated; Swift never targeted Windows 7. Swift was open sourced in 2015, the year when Windows 7's mainstream support ended; at that time, Swift only targe
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> I'm not so sure convincing developers was the reason for that, though. It was for Finder. During one of the WWDCs or MacWorlds (I don't recall which), Jobs specifically mentioned that Finder was written in Carbon as a way to
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
And yet they didn't solicit anything. Posts on the Swift forums show that Saleem, known as compnerd, took on the task of porting to Windows himself, completely unprovoked — when he began to have something to show, the Swift developer c
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
I'd be surprised if it could. Mainstream support for Windows 7 ended years ago, extended support ended this year. If the Swift community (or more accurately, the one guy in charge of the Windows port) bothers to support executables run
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
It has been running on Linux since the first day it was made available as an open source project. It specifically targeted the current and current-1 versions of Ubuntu, but now it also targets Fedora Core and a few other distros contain off
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
And given their swift (pun intended) release schedule and fast user uptake of major releases, this is usually not too much of a hassle.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
And then later modified by complaints and feedback by the community. SwiftUI is still in its early stages but its earliest releases changed quite a bit. Some of the documentation still hasn't been updated to reflect those changes.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> I call it out as weird because take SwiftUI for example, the main excuse Apple engineers gave for why SwiftUI itself is closed-source is because a lot of important code lives inside of UIKit/AppKit. Huh?! SwiftUI is just a closed
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
If you've heard of it, sure. If you know of it, sure. If you know it's better than the competing options available for Windows, sure.

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