hmlongco

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by hmlongco 4y ago
Really? Did my toggling on an 8e that ran as a controller for a COM (Computer Output Microfilm) "printer". Not saying that I could write code directly in octal... but I was pretty darn close. Of course, it helps when your assembly
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by hmlongco 4y ago
Things happen. But what I often tell people is that I'd probably be sitting in front of a computer anyway. Might as well get paid for it.
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by hmlongco 4y ago
So honest question. I presume you spent months on those LC questions. Do you feel that they were beneficial in terms of making you a better developer, or did you simply learn a bunch of solutions to puzzles that have no bearing on real worl
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by hmlongco 4y ago
I've been playing... (I mean, I've been) working with computers for decades. My basic philosophy is that I'd probably be sitting in front of the silly thing anyway. Might as well be paid for it.
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by hmlongco 4y ago
Weather changes. It's when enough weather changes that the overall climate changes where we begin to have issues.
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by hmlongco 4y ago
Try reading for comprehension. The parent said, "You lucking out in which country you’re born in..." You were lucky in that YOU were born in the US. Your parents could have lived in India. Or China. Or Chad. Or the Ukraine. Just s
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by hmlongco 4y ago
Yeah, let's exclude the numbers for those over 70. Not like they're actually people or anything...
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by hmlongco 4y ago
Then again, you can eliminate a lot of that boilerplate. I have a demo app up where I generate UIViews using resultBuillder such that you get a very SwiftUI-like experience using UIKit views. https://github.com/hmlongco&#x2F
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by hmlongco 4y ago
"Vendors accepting cryptocurrency can always choose their own level of risk by deciding how many blocks to wait before accepting a transaction. This allows them to "wait out" temporary attacks." And introduces even more
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by hmlongco 4y ago
Uhh... because I can see what was captured? If I'm overly concerned that a given callback might be held somewhere for all time I'll simply capture a weak reference and be done with it.
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by hmlongco 4y ago
Umm... but isn't the refcounting GC more deterministic? If I create a chain of 10 object and then release the head, I run through 10 allocations and then 10 release cycles on those 10 objects. Period.
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by hmlongco 4y ago
"No doubt straight up ARC with refcounting bumps on every function call,etc..." Yeah, but in Swift you don't do that. From what I'm told, the compiler's static analysis has gotten a lot smarter in determining when a
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by hmlongco 4y ago
"it may not be the GC that's to blame, or not entirely: it's all the bloated crap they are pulling into the image" Again, you keep waving your hands in the air and saying if you don't do that, you'll be fine.
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by hmlongco 4y ago
Uh... I can solve entire batches of problems by just saying, "don't do that and you're good." Unfortunately, real-world constraints always seem to get in the way...
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by hmlongco 4y ago
"They're giving you 30 days' notice to show that you're still maintaining the app, and then it stays up." Which would have been more than enough time... if the app had in fact been maintained. And which doesn't
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by hmlongco 4y ago
I agree with interpol. There are always new info.plist privacy settings and the like that apps need to support. As I recall there were also some relatively recent TLS and https security requirements. Then there are things like dark mode sup
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by hmlongco 4y ago
Especially for people who can't be bothered to develop native applications.
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by hmlongco 5y ago
Yeah, but we shouldn't have a double standard. If we could get an AI to reduce the number of deaths in half it would still be worthwhile. Besides, non-fatal ACCIDENTS per mile are much more common, and we should be able to determine if
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by hmlongco 5y ago
This is the main problem today. Good journalism costs money, and that money can come from ads, but that's usually not enough to pay the freight. Hence paywalls. Or... it can be free. But it also costs money to run a site. Especially if
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by hmlongco 5y ago
I'm with aoleinik. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away, I had a stand-alone blog that--to put it bluntly--no one visited. Today I put the same type of content on Medium and get thousands of readers on almost each and every arti
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by hmlongco 5y ago
Writes an individual who strongly suggests Hugo and who just happens to create Hugo themes.
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by hmlongco 6y ago
Dark patterns are tricks, like making you click on something that you thought did one thing but does something else. Asking you to sign in/up is hardly a dark pattern. And I've yet to see Medium "fill the screen" with an
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by hmlongco 6y ago
Started writing on Medium a year or so ago, mostly on Swift, RxSwift, SwiftUI, Combine, dependency injection, iOS application architecture, and so on. Will probably make $5-6K this year, which is a heck of lot more I ever made trying to mon
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by hmlongco 6y ago
Probably the fact that while you listed your preferences you and most everyone else wouldn't bother to pay. Primarily since it would mean making a credit card transaction to an unknown site. Your options are clearly biased towards the
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by hmlongco 6y ago
Took a quick look. If you want my take, your basic tutorials are, well... too basic. They describe fundamental language principles in a well-established programming language for which there's already a wealth of material available. Fra
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by hmlongco 6y ago
What's your solution? Like it or not, websites cost money to run. The more popular they are, the more money it takes. So... what? Spend your own money? Ads? Paywalls? Sell t-shirts? Try Patreon and hope enough people throw a dollar or
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by hmlongco 6y ago
So you read some articles, and apparently find them useful... except for that fact that Medium would like you to... create an account???? OMG! The horror of it all. ;)
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by hmlongco 6y ago
So... it's a "dark pattern" to give you access to some articles for free and then, should you like them and want to read more, ask you to pay for them? IDK, but that seems pretty straightforward to me.
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by hmlongco 7y ago
Conventional wisdom holds that we’ll see ARM-based Macs first on the low end… but what happens if high-end Macs running advanced Neural Engine chips are the real target?
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Mac on ARM Will Power Future AI/ML Development(heartbeat.fritz.ai)
2 points by hmlongco 7y ago|1 comments

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