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by zoul 11y ago
In what universe / on what drugs is it possible to crank out more than eight hours of decent programming per day? Even eight hours a day would be too much for me.
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by zoul 11y ago
I consider both points a feature. I think the Xcode project of the dependency should be a black box, I just want to get the resulting framework to add to my workspace.
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by zoul 11y ago
Another reason I consider https://github.com/Carthage/Carthage a better solution of the dependency management problem.
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by zoul 11y ago
While I admire the amount of thinking that went and still goes into C++, for me the question is opposite: why ever C++? It seems to me that trying to improve a language by ecosystem or convention will always be worse than using a language a
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by zoul 11y ago
Would you have an example for someone who doesn’t know anything about higher-kinded types?
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by zoul 11y ago
The more advanced a type system is, the more it depends on what you do with it when designing an API. A well designed API in a language with a rich, expressive type system can make higher-level guarantees. On the opposite side of the spectr
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by zoul 11y ago
Don’t the modern Android phones with Trusted Execution Environment do about the same?
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by zoul 11y ago
Maybe once you are fully enlightened the practice stops being something frightful?
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by zoul 11y ago
I just don’t understand why there aren’t more languages using automatic reference counting as featured in modern Objective-C and Swift. ARC has very low overhead and predictable performance profile (no GC waking up to choke your app for hun
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by zoul 11y ago
At least on iOS it doesn’t, unless you gave it the permission yourself.
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by zoul 11y ago
To clarify, I don’t currently use Lambda at all. But generally speaking, any service that doesn’t require me to maintain a server is a plus (Beanstalk and Heroku included).
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by zoul 11y ago
For me as a mostly one-man show, yes, having a server to manage is a pain. Investing some extra time into a “serverless” solution is greatly preferable to managing a server. And if not anything else, with a server you always have at least e
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by zoul 11y ago
Then, it seems to me, you are not complaining about programming languages, but some higher-level tools. In production, the “static guarantees and beautiful abstractions” you write about do not become useless. They are just not meant to dire
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by zoul 11y ago
Doesn’t an expressive and strong type system, as an example, help you reason about software systems?
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by zoul 11y ago
I like that approach, but there’s no abundance of such cross-platform stacks either. And then you have to convert parts of the model to fit the views, and sometimes you want to use non-view technologies only available on a certain platform
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by zoul 11y ago
I mean I can easily install an app to try it out, then uninstall and be reasonably sure it’s completely gone, without changing the rest of the system by incompetence or ignorance. That’s still pretty good. If the developer wants to harm you
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by zoul 11y ago
Because there’s no environment that would give you native-like experience on multiple platforms without extra work. And developers have limited resources, even in 2015.
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by zoul 11y ago
Yes, it’s required. Only some apps are exempt from sandboxing because they existed before sandboxing was introduced. You can also reach out of the sandbox through some user actions, for example opening a file using the system file picker gi
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by zoul 11y ago
I would say the ratio of boys to girls at the moment of conception is practically always 1:1?
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by zoul 11y ago
I wonder how it copes with calcium scaling?
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by zoul 11y ago
Not in all languages. For example, Go and Swift don’t require it.
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by zoul 12y ago
Life moves on, but Thunderbolt is such a new interface to be obsoleted.
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by zoul 12y ago
iPad is the first computing device in history that I can suggest to my non-computer-savvy friends and know they will be able to use it, without the software getting screwed up in a few months. With the iPhone and iPad, Apple has (pardon the
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by zoul 12y ago
That’s simply crazy. Are you a programmer? I, as a programmer, spend my days trying to express things as clearly as possible. Programming, as a whole field, is trying hard all the time to come up with safer and simpler ways to express preci
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by zoul 12y ago
I believe the word “woman” is also inherently sexist and should be replaced by “wohuman”?
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by zoul 12y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but isn't this essentially a tight(er) coupling between the client and the server, something we have been trying to avoid with REST and, especially, HATEOAS? What happened to API “discoverability”? As I understood
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by zoul 12y ago
I would probably hate you for not writing plain “!=-1” instead.
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by zoul 12y ago
What’s superbly dumb is that we can’t use the storage and the clients interchangeably. The storage is almost always tied to the clients. I so wish I could just start the photo app of my choice and simply pointed it to my single paid cloud
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by zoul 12y ago
I have an old iPhone 4. I bought it when it was released four years ago and the latest supported iOS version is 7.1.2, released this summer. That’s four years of support, which is quite decent IMHO.
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by zoul 12y ago
Keep until discontinued?

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