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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Unrelated: Sword and Shield still have the Rotomdex, except it's a smartphone rather than a 3DS. In French, Rotom is called Motisma; the Rotomdex is called a Motismart (as in, smartphone). Pretty neat, I thought.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
This is not a useful response. If you're going to make an assertion, don't run behind false pretences and logical fallacies to defend yourself from a cogent argument.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
You're parroting old news. The different engine is for UIWebView which is now deprecated in favour of WKWebView which uses Safari's Nitro engine. Websites saved to the home screen use UIWebView's engine — but that's not
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
I don't understand this comment. Could you unroll it for me? After all, AMP is despised by the tech community — but ultimately still used by publishers because Google's more-or-less holding them to ransom. Apple's not holding
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
> Hyperbolic tldr; Don't be old and crotchety. Join us, lead us, or die. I know it was hyperbole but this sort of attitude is what got a generation of technologists and end-users to blindly accept oversharing their personal data, ha
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Swift has no GC, just ARC (automatic refcounting).
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Edge is based on Blink, not WebKit. Remember that Blink was forked from WebKit six years ago. In web time, that might as well be a century, given the leaps that have been made in web tech in browsers.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Could you give a concrete example of how the walrus operator is worse for the language? I know you've admitted that this is a rant but without anything to back it up, it isn't much interesting to read. As for the switch statement,
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
This isn't relevant to the thread, nor to what the Firefox dev was asking for.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Yeah but, again, we're talking about an initializer. An initializer doesn't need an example other than on the language's documentation page for initializers. The comparison given was totally unfair, as pointed out by another
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
There's no need for examples because initializing objects/structs is such a basic feature of both languages that Apple supports, it should be taken as read that the reader knows how to do it. CIColor.init(red: 0.0, green: 1.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Actually, I was referring to this bit: > but managed to screw it up by not restoring the app from a minimized state when you switch to it. "Screw up" is interesting wording. The implication is that macOS has a fault in it becau
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
It's been called Delete on Macs since day 1. What you call the 'Delete' key, Mac users call 'Forward Delete'.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
All I read is "blah blah blah it's not exactly the same as Windows".
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Several products already exist for this purpose, including Duet Display, one of the Splashtop products (can't remember which). I'm sure there are others. It made reading this article a bit off-putting because they seem to imagine
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
I don't see that implication. I mean, the article is basically Google taking credit for going back to user interface design principles that Apple pioneered 12 years ago; whether Apple got its kudos back then has no bearing on whether G
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Apple mightn't be your friend, it's true, but it's not as though they're blocking the web app version of this which has been available to any device from day 1. I'm not stating this to defend Apple, whose decision I
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Except when they might put you in nip by crossing their laterals. Then it's very serious business.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Ah, wonderful; what could be a balanced critique of the actions of a given individual is written in the style of maniacal ravings the like of which would be scribbled with a Sharpie on to pieces of cardboard and plastered across someone&#x2
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Yes, the new Music app is literally just iTunes with the podcasts, audiobooks, and such taken out. It still retains all the Music-related scriptability. At a glance, the new Podcasts app isn't scriptable but the TV app is.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification! Either way, the scripting capability is still very much a part of the system.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
No, it's very much still San Francisco. Are you sure it's not a browser plugin issue, or perhaps something changed in Catalina that causes the browser not to display the font the same way as in previous versions? If you're us
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
- Scripting isn't gone. The OSA services are still there; Python isn't installed by default but that's all. - Services isn't gone. - Yeah, that's fairly annoying. I think Skype has tear-off-able windows but that mig
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Yeah, but they're all separate from any other preference pane. Everybody gets the same framework to create completely independent prefpanes, not hijack Apple's existing ones. There are no hooks, for example, to modify the Displays
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
> the arrogance is incredible Every time I see a developer completely fail to understand what notarisation is and how it works then proceed to say that their faulty understanding was the last straw and that they'll stop developing f
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
That's pretty much what I said.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Don't apologise for this; your dissection, even if only a comment, was a tremendously enjoyable read. Well done for putting in the effort to research this!
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
The last line reads needlessly dismissively. Someone, quite rightly, making an observation that the user interface/experience could do a little work is not analogous to someone suggesting the app should become the victim of poorly thou
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
For those who were wondering about seeing this in Swift. You probably weren't, and I'm aware I could've leaned a bit harder on things that were built-in, but I was basically trying to meet in the middle between representing t
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Google's also moving towards adding 3D topography to their maps so I don't quite see what your point is. This isn't an Apple vs Google thing; they're both doing the same things, they just seem to have different prioritie

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