jonhendry

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by jonhendry 12y ago
That article would be more credible if it didn't give two examples of dual-core tablets (Dell and Motorola) that shipped "in volume" that actually flopped. Which raises the question of just what kind of volume they were shipp
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by jonhendry 12y ago
I dunno, but you could always call the C libraries from Objective-C, and call the Objective-C from Swift.
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by jonhendry 12y ago
Less ambiguity, allowing the compiler to optimize more?
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by jonhendry 12y ago
"(And as for Java, it was my understanding that Apple had hobbled it by refusing to release updates on a timely basis.)" That's a different, later issue. Early on in the life of OS X, Apple offered a Java interface to the Coc
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by jonhendry 12y ago
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
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by jonhendry 12y ago
I learned Objective-C before I learned C, back in the early 90s. Before that I'd learned Basic and Pascal. Objective-C clicked with my brain pretty easily.
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by jonhendry 12y ago
Some of the new docs I've seen let you select Objective-C, Swift, or both.
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by jonhendry 12y ago
You can mix Objective-C and Swift code in a project, so it would be easy to progressively port code one class at a time. Porting NSView subclasses first would give you a win, because if you use Swift the classes can draw themselves at desig
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by jonhendry 12y ago
Probably because they wanted one that integrated well with their existing frameworks, and which really took advantage of their investment in LLVM.
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by jonhendry 12y ago
That's how I always felt. I liked the clear differentiation between C function calls and method calls on objects.
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by jonhendry 13y ago
Firstly, your link says nothing about customer deposits, it's about bank derivative holdings. Which aren't insured by FDIC. But, yes, because it's pretty unlikely that all banks will fail at once, it's not necessary for
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by jonhendry 13y ago
"It's sad times we live in when creating culture is labeled "labor", "work" and so forth." It's sad when idle consumers come to believe they are entitled to the product of another's labor for fre
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by jonhendry 13y ago
"The price of a good programming book is about £20. " If only we had a global computer network by which you could find a much cheaper used copy. Or even a free loaner copy.
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by jonhendry 13y ago
You seem to have confused "wants" with "needs".
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by jonhendry 13y ago
Unless I'm mistaken (I may be) GOG is primarily in the business of selling old games, which is why the publishers are willing to forgo DRM on the titles. Publishers of new games (especially expensively developed new games) are more lik
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by jonhendry 13y ago
"unabashedly post in this disgusting manner," What, "mildly critical of Google"? Dude, get some perspective. Are you 12?
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by jonhendry 13y ago
Twist: The target and hit man are both sentient bitcoins.
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by jonhendry 13y ago
Note that the scenario they're talking about is where Assange were himself hidden in a bag labeled as if it were a diplomatic bag. People smuggling under such false pretenses is probably at least arguable in court as a violation of the
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by jonhendry 13y ago
Someone create a site, TechCracker, where you can identify websites and tech companies staffed and/or run by white bigots.
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by jonhendry 13y ago
The economics of producing child porn and the economics of producing actual physical drugs are wildly different, so I'm not sure how that's even relevant. You can make child porn with point-and-shoot camera, a memory card, and any
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by jonhendry 13y ago
"Paying for CP (and thereby directly contributing, economically, to its production)?" You can contribute to its production without paying money. It's like people cracking copy-protected software for status, rather than for mo
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by jonhendry 13y ago
"the most insane and awful aspect of Western society bar none." I assure you it's not limited to "Western society", at all.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
"Now she can go write a book, while this guy lost his job." He can write a book too. And he has free time now to do so.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
True, however, the vast majority of rapes of women are by men, and the vast majority of rapes of men are by men. It's not like the issue of men being raped is predominantly due to women, whereas the issue of women being raped is predomina
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by jonhendry 14y ago
You've never heard of a double entendre? How many terrible jokes have been made along the lines of "I'd like to put my hard drive in her RAM slot". Jokes like that were old and corny 20 years ago. HINT: though it uses the terms "hard drive"
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Samsung execs: "Americans love Mad Men, Two And A Half Men, and reality shows. Turn them into a product announcement presentation."
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by jonhendry 14y ago
"but there appear to be sufficient statistics to back up Gupta's assertions:" One of Gruber's points is that Apple never had the most market share in smartphones. So they haven't lost anything in that respect. But Apple had, and still hav
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Might be sort of like a non-compete period. Instead of being contractually bound to not compete for a period after leaving a company, which isn't always enforceable, pay the person enough to stick around for a while, perhaps with limited ac
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by jonhendry 14y ago
"GCC suffers from layering problems and leaky abstractions: the back end walks front-end ASTs to generate debug info, the front ends generate back-end data structures, and the entire compiler depends on global data structures set up by the
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Yes, if you use the Terminal and cd to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer, you'll see drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 25 14:52 Documentation drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 Jan 29 13:33 Library drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel

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