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by zoul 8y ago
There’s plenty of details: https://gist.github.com/lattner/31ed37682ef1576b16bca1432ea9... https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/ErrorHandlin...
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by zoul 8y ago
You might be interested in this: https://gist.github.com/lattner/31ed37682ef1576b16bca1432ea9... Speaking of reliable systems, introducing an actor model is a good opportunity and excuse to introduce a mechanism for h
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by zoul 8y ago
What would you do? If the ordinary array subscript produced an optional value, people would simply fall into the habit of force-unwrapping it, since the hassle of handling the spreading optionals would be too big. And throwing an unchecked
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by zoul 8y ago
For me, the big deal about generics is that they allow the type system to cover a much bigger part of my design. Without generics, any parametrized API will erase your types and then the compiler is blind. With generics the type information
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by zoul 8y ago
extension Collection { subscript (safe index: Index) -> Element? { return indices.contains(index) ? self[index] : nil } } And now you have the choice: array[i] // traps for invalid indices array[sa
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by zoul 8y ago
I love Objective-C, but calling it (close to) a modern language is a long stretch. The “generics” are a joke, for example. The whole type system is miles from what can be expressed (and guaranteed!) by a modern language. We got an immense a
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by zoul 8y ago
There is a world of difference between letting bugs easily happen a letting the programmer override error handling.
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by zoul 8y ago
a stove
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by zoul 8y ago
In the long run the scientific advancements from these companies is a much higher positive than the negatives they have in the present. That’s really the main question, isn’t it?
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by zoul 8y ago
Are you gifting the copyright as well as the right to use the logo? It’s not possible in every country for an author to waive his rights or gift the copyright. So I think it’s better to give a perpetual, open license that doesn’t restrict
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by zoul 8y ago
To nitpick, the “both error and data” can happen, for example when the connection drops in the middle of a large response. Probably doesn’t change anything, but it’s good to know, maybe so that you don’t trap on an unexpected combination.
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by zoul 8y ago
What I meant was that (a) companies are already spinning this as an advancement for the consumers and (b) consumers seem to be happy about it so far.
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by zoul 8y ago
…giving smaller players much more room to compete financially. I beg your pardon?
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by zoul 8y ago
…why shouldn't a vendor be allowed to charge more for tiered service? Right now all content producers are roughly in the same position: it’s equally easy/hard for them to get the same amounts of data to the consumer. Once you ma
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by zoul 8y ago
This is already happening here in the Czech Republic with some of the mobile carriers. They exclude some websites or services from the mobile data limit, spinning it exactly as you said: as a service to the subscriber. Looks like an obvious
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by zoul 8y ago
I think what the sentence says is that the Amazon factory pays well below the city average?
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by zoul 8y ago
Can we improve their working conditions first and get philosophical afterwards?
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by zoul 8y ago
I too have always found ARC to be the sweet spot, the only downside is still having to care about retain cycles.
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by zoul 8y ago
I could not care less about the colour scheme. But oh God please could we get stable, fast, reliable syntax highlighting and code completion, reliable refactoring, non-joke continuous integration support, collaborative editing, better testi
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by zoul 8y ago
Your battle for Dune begins… now…
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by zoul 8y ago
Sounds like an improvement.
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by zoul 8y ago
I'll come over to your computer and explain the same concepts in ten minutes that would take me an hour or two to write up and format in a manner that I would want to display publicly. That’s right, but multiplied by the number of pe
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by zoul 8y ago
I am a software engineer that loves to help others. Nothing to do with self-marketing, at least not intentionally, but a welcomed skill in the team. So the question makes sense to me.
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by zoul 8y ago
Is it? Wouldn’t it be better if the loans were not needed because the education would be paid by state? Doesn’t this actually cement the current situation?
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by zoul 8y ago
Swift’s syntax sugar for Optionals makes working with nullable types much more elegant, too.
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by zoul 8y ago
[I]t always feels like you have to keep the whole message-graph in mind It should be quite the contrary. When you design a piece of the app, the piece should have its state, messages and view code, so it should be perfectly possible to ig
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by zoul 8y ago
Can’t you just call out to the JS world using the ports feature?
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by zoul 8y ago
I really liked Elm a lot, but the issue for me was that composing components is a shit show. You have to add variants to the root Msg type for every single subpage and have it dispatch to the right update/view functions. Doesn’t that
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by zoul 8y ago
Where one sees dogmatism, other may see sticking to principles. Elm is not trying to be everything for everybody. I think that’s a feature. Accepting its strange, perhaps dogmatic ways made me a better programmer, even in other languages.
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by zoul 8y ago
There doesn’t appear to be an English translation, is there?

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