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I got this same question from 2 other companies.

Has Objective-C been deprecated? I was under the assumption it's still fully supported. It obviously won't see the same level of updates, but it's also been around for a longer period of time to mature.

I honestly like Objective-C and prefer it, but I have been using Swift mostly for the iOS projects I have done in recent year or 2. Mostly out of curiosity though.

Where I went to school, they didn't teach programming at all. First day, first class, if I remember correctly, the teacher walks up in front of the class and says something like, "Computer science is the design and implementation of algorithms..." and finishes with saying they won't teach us any programming. The assignments must be implemented in C and run on campus computers. There are optional, zero credit labs to get help learning to program or get help with homework held by the TA's.

I went to one lab, the lab computers and all campus computers were running Slackware with Afterstep. I was a Window Maker and Red Hat user at the time, I was impressed and thought it was neat.

Of course this is from memory and 18 years ago almost to the day, but that's the gist of it. Anyway, I felt like I learned a ton and loved it every bit. I went to a few of the CS club meetings and got the impression basically every one had already had internships with Intel, IBM, or Microsoft. This was my freshmen year and was basically in awe.

I live downtown Minneapolis and live near Nicollet Mall [0]. Which only allows pedestrians and busses. It's quite nice. They put out chairs for people to sit on and at times have things like a connect four and corn hole games. There is a regular farmers market that happens also.

I love how safe it feels. It's almost like a giant side walk. I'm always surprised that the chairs don't get stolen. I walk down it multiple times a day usually (unless I take the Skyway because of weather).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicollet_Mall

Can confirm and the upside is that cost of living is still manageable.

I get the impression people want to place blame on something, anything, except themselves. Everything from specific foods, diets and genetics, but it ultimately comes down to consuming too much energy over time, longer term. It's accepted as fact and they can't do anything about it because of genetics or because they can't or won't eat specific foods or can't get to the gym (go outside?).

We are surrounded by food. It's everywhere, but we really don't need that much of it (you can get a days worth of your energy in a single meal or drink with how processed and condensed our food has become). Yet, people act and suggest it as if it's the only thing to do. Go to almost any subreddit about a city or state. You'll see dozens upon dozens of posts asking what there is to do when moving or visiting.

Almost all the replies are go eat here, go eat there, try eating this while your here. Then way down at the bottom, lower voted replies, will be often actual activities that don't involve eating, it's no wonder we are all so fat with constant and consistent advice like this. Not to mention how much lazier we keep getting.

Hunger is very psychological too. People are just used to eating a certain amount at certain times every day. Change that pattern and you'll feel different, mentally and physically. Most people of health can go a day or few without eating and it won't have any negative affects. It will suck, yes, but no you won't starve or die. Missing lunch at work and waiting a few hours until you get home will not have detrimental affects. Skipping breakfast and waiting to eat until your noon/lunch/whatever break won't hurt. It might even help if it allows you to get extra sleep.

On another note, diet, health, and nutrition related posts to Hacker News seem to always be N=1 replies or bring out toxic debate. People, especially the Hacker News types, seem to have a very passionate opinion on the topic(s).

I had the first 17" Powerbook G4. I miss it so much. My favorite laptop ever. Even better than my Thinkpad 600e and 600x.

My thought too. The 4k streams still don't look as nice as most if not all of the Blu-ray I have.

I have the adapter and both my headphones work with the adapter and controls fine. One is a Sony MDR-1R (v1) and the other is a Beoplay H6.

What I have found by working with junior developers are our company is that I end up learning, reflecting, and growing myself, my skills, and am able to better express myself and my ideas as well.

I also get good questions that I may or may not know the answer too. So, I feel not only am I teaching someone who has much less experience, but I end up learning things myself and new ideas or thoughts and ideas I never had before.

Seems like a win-win to me. Plus, it's super fun having co-workers who are hungry and curious and to work on for-fun side projects with once in a while.

I've been digging ncdu recently, which is basically a du replacement: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

Most of the time when I see a Medium link I refuse to read it. The website is awful. The comment system/discussions are awful. The content is mostly awful. Why should I listen/read from some random on Medium? What is your background? How are you an expert that I should read and take advice from? It seems like a bunch of random people trying to make it blogging again, like in the first Dotcom bubble. Medium feels like Twitter long reads. Maybe it's just me though.

I've done 6 months or so before without visiting. At first it's habitual. Find another source of content you like to consume to replace it and/or your will power will need to be that much stronger. Find something else you are excited for and look forward to. After a while you'll forget to even bother checking. Your 12 months might turn into 18, 24, or just weekly or once daily as part of a ritual when you wake up or something. It's not hard. Just think, what life was like before Hacker News.

Safari Reading List. No need to keep tabs open and it's seamlessly synced and available on all my (iOS) devices. The bad thing about this is that's only on Apple devices and it's one of those things keeping me part of their ecosystem.

I feel it greatly depends on what subreddits you follow. I find that limiting it to only a few (at a time) and those aren't toxic (socially, work related, or effect you emotionally) aren't bad and actually are about one of the only places to stay up to date and learn.

I do the same. The only reason for me keeping Hacker News and Reddit is that I often find more up to date information and more information then say Stack Overflow (e.g. site:reddit.com/r/golang <search terms>). Otherwise, I would unsubscribe and put them in `/etc/hosts` file.

I also don't read the news (who's the president? Kidding...), at least in the typical sense. My colleagues seemed to really be shocked when I told them that, but when I inquired why they could not give me a good reason. I only remember them saying to discuss current events. I figured if it's big enough deal and important enough I would hear about from other sources.

I read Ars Technica, Hacker News, and I am subscribed to a few Subreddits (Games, AnimeDubs, Vita, Nintendo, GameDev and related, but that's it). I have a multireddit for Programming, Startups, and Netflix/Amazon Prime movies/shows for when I need to put the computer down.

> They belong in the bike lane (which should exist in the first place), and their speed should be capped in areas of dense foot traffic.

I live downtown Minneapolis and have been almost hit by scooters multiple times. They are everywhere. I have no problem with them, but please follow the rules. I've had people on the scooters yell at me to get out of the way both oncoming and from behind.

I don't drink the sugar or caloric versions, only the diet, but Diet Pepsi taste makes me almost ill. Diet Coke however is fine and I actually like it. The taste difference to me of these 2 are substantial. I don't know about the caloric versions though.

Yes, after you pass online screens and pair/coding exercises.

Similar for me with Nest/Google. Got invited to an onsite and my recruiter went dark. This was after the screw ups with scheduling the for the multiple phone screens and online coding tests. What ended up happening was that I never got to the onsite because after I was invited and asked for times days and what city I would be flying out of for tickets I never got another reply and I tried to contact the recruiter multiple times after. Got nothing.

You are tempting me to pick up my 1 of 2 favorite laptops (or both) of ever that I owned: The 12 and 17 inch Aluminum Powerbook G4. Makes me wonder what kind of mods I can do to it now?

Agreed. On the first day of class at my university the professor repeated over and over that computer science was the design and implementation of algorithms. They would not teach us programming. There was an optional 3 hour weekly lab for 0 credit that the TA's would be doing to help with homework and teach C. The homework was required to be submitted in C. Every computer on campus ran Slackware with Afterstep desktop. They taught everyone to use Emacs during the optional labs also. It was sublime.

I listen to 4:

[0] Giant Bombcast and Beastcast (Premium)

[1] Colin's Last Stand (Side Quest, KnockBack, Sacred Symbols, and Fireside Chats)

[2] Retronauts

[3] 8-4 Play

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[0] https://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/

[1] https://www.patreon.com/colinslaststand

[2] https://archive.org/details/Retronauts1-100

[3] http://8-4.jp

Removing the headphone jack, but allowing the option to use a dongle, I can live with. What really drives me nuts is all these (expensive) wireless headphones and earbuds, but the batteries are not replaceable. After a year or few they basically become useless because the batteries end up degrading and lasting only a fraction of when they were new.

I lived in Austin and had AT&T and Google Fiber at times. The service, speed, and reliability was exactly the same as was the price. It's amazing what some competition will do. I now live in Minneapolis and actually have 10 Gbps up/down and the option for 1 Gbps up/down for half the price of Google/AT&T in Austin ($35/month), but no Google Fiber (US Internet is the provider here).

I think the best and most exciting projects to contribute to are the ones you actually use and want to help make better.

develop branch [0] is very active and the community is quite active and plentiful in real time on Gitter [1] (it's mostly friendly and helpful, so don't be shy).

[0] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/develop

[1] https://gitter.im/syl20bnr/spacemacs

I have some similar thoughts. I like Objective-C and C and always thought of Objective-C as an improved upon iteration of C. The C/C++ integration is one of my favorite parts.

Also, if Swift is so much better and is supposed to be safer to use why are apps much slower and buggier than I ever remember? My iOS devices went from instant in iPhone 1.0 to pathetic and almost not useable at times on an iPhone 6 Plus, which would still be an awesome phone for my uses (using it as an iPod essentially and the occasional call) except it's slow and buggy. Even answering the phone is no longer instant. I could have sworn I remember when Jobs introduced the iPhone he was bragging how instant everything was. What would he say now and why are apps much less stable if Swift is supposedly that much of a benefit and greater than Objective-C

> Am I the only person who thinks this is luxury? > https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2711....

I've lived in plenty of apartments that are like this and from experience, looks are extremely deceiving. Especially when it comes to apartments. They look nice most of the time, but feel and look cheap up close. To the point I've felt disappointed and ripped off if I wasn't able to see a place in person.

I read all these comments around the internet stating "you" read SICP. Does that mean you worked all the problems? I'm currently reading through SICP (after a CS degree and 12 professional years experience if that really means anything) and it takes a long time, a lot of work, and it is hard.

Reading these comments I feel like an idiot. When you say you read it did you do all and I mean ALL the problems? I find the reading part and thinking I understand well the content to be quite easy and comprehendible though. I love it for that and I feel like I am getting a great deal out of it.