fleshweasel

Node isn't a JavaScript framework so much as a platform to run JavaScript on. Express is maybe more analogous to Swifton here.

Is "alternates" a euphemism for "code duplication?"

The title they chose implies that they're actually changing the APIs to take full advantage of Swift language features. Perhaps they should have named the article "We're renaming some classes and methods."

I'm enthused, but would suggest you don't put an entry in the user's history for every keystroke in the search box.

It seems like a lot of dynamically typed language programmers are catching on to Go and it's the best thing they've ever known. Generics are just not that hard. They are not the difference between a comprehensible codebase and an incomprehensible one. The only reason they're not in the language along with higher-order list manipulation among other things is because of the idiosyncrasies of Go's creator.

Do you also think that if you don't have kids in school, your taxes shouldn't pay for public education?

I have seen a few monad tutorials and found this series far more comprehensible than others-- it starts with the real-world monads many programmers use unknowingly and works back to the definition. http://ericlippert.com/2013/02/21/monads-part-one/

I am really happy that I took the time to teach myself Racket in supplement to (really more importantly than) my introductory programming classes in Java. I was way better equipped to design programs in a good way because of it.

Facebook has a reputation as a battery hog on iOS.

http://www.scottyloveless.com/blog/2014/the-ultimate-guide-t...

I just use the website now. Somehow it manages to offer chat as well as news feed without displacing me to another domain, or whatever is analogous to opening up an entirely separate app.

I just don't buy that spinning off messenger was good for customers, especially considering they have really failed to create a good experience all around.

aaand this is why I don't respond when friends ask me which PC laptop they should buy.

It's a little excessive to say that closed source means it can't possibly be secure or trustworthy. It implies open source is a silver bullet for security, which just isn't true.

I use 1Password and love it. I can tell after using other products that they have put a tremendous attention to detail into it. It is really easy to use and thoughtful in its design compared to the alternatives.

Can you see why people would be frustrated by Gates spending so much money to mandate a form of education for the commoners while providing his own children with something that he presumably considers to be much better? Consider especially that the Common Core is regarded by many as contrived and stifling while a more "free" curriculum allows children to put more of their efforts towards things they care about and have talents for.

I'm not trying to present a qualified opinion on why one approach is better than the other or even to describe them in much accuracy-- just trying to provide the perspective of those who are upset.

Looking cool in movies and in corporate and university lobbies is not enough. Microsoft really needs to cut the shit and start focusing on producing a product that's actually desirable to a wide market--something they've only gotten worse at in the last few years, outside of their programming languages.

What does this have to do with the observation that when a poor person gets towed, it can throw their whole life off the rails, and when a rich person gets towed, they don't even feel it? Do you think that because more poor people take public transit to work than rich people, that these stories don't matter?

On the other hand there's a large portion of android users that really aren't participants in its app economy. At this point the value the iOS market presents to developers equals Android and the cost and hassle of developing for iOS is significantly less. Android winds up being a haven for techies who want to run task managers and antivirus on their phones, people who religiously hate Apple and people who want to spend as little as possible on a smartphone.

I am amazed by the degree of vitriol that comes out when people observe that there are differing tendencies between boys and girls. I am amazed by the tendency of social scientists to ascribe everything about that to social construction. Observations like these do not mean that a particular human being will be a certain way. They do not mean that one group is better or worse than another.

"There's nothing important to write about today." Are you shitting me?

Reading the examples is a little clunky because I have to scroll up to the dictionary every time I see a word I don't remember from skimming the list. Which is often.

This kind of silly shit is much easier to say when you're a member of that racial or gender group that more people want to hire.

Some hilarious Windows apologists on the comments over there.

It's bad enough that it's so hard for users to communicate with tech companies like Google and Facebook and PayPal. When a company won't even communicate with their employees and contrives to assert that their employees aren't their employees, thereby denying accountability to their employees and to society, that's unconscionable.

It's terrible that some taxi drivers are homophobic but it really does not change where uber is accountable. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/uber-and-a-childs-d... They have an obligation to society to not send out uninsured drivers who are distracted with their phones. This is a very profitable company and they are very capable of doing at least the former. I'm not sure how the latter problem could be solved except perhaps to demand that drivers pull over to receive requests through the app or whatever. http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/04/leaked-uber-numbers-which-w... The CEO unironically had Ayn Rand as his Twitter picture. I don't need more evidence than that to know somebody's a douchebag.

"You might learn useless stuff. But learning is never itself useless." Great article. Thanks for posting.

It sounds like Uber's business model is essentially in sidestepping the consumer protections that exist for conventional private driver and taxi companies. It reminds me of how credit card companies and PayPal sidestep consumer protections created for banks.

Microsoft needs a CEO who's willing to focus, and that means killing the stupid ideas and making hard decisions on what they're trying to be and what they aren't trying to be. Windows 7 and Xbox 360 were both relatively successful products. It seems to me that Windows 8, Xbox One and other recent products have suffered from a lack of focus.

They're trying to segment such that their phones run one OS and their tablets and laptops run another. This is a really bad premise for a lot of reasons. The right processor architectures for laptops are not the same as the right processor architectures for tablets and phones. Windows 8's interface that tries to cater simultaneously to touch and mouse input is a confusing mess for users. They've decided to kill foundational elements of the UI for reasons that are simply boneheaded. It's obvious that an OS focused on touch input and mobile processor architectures and an OS focused on mouse/keyboard input and desktop architectures is a much better strategy.

As far as I can tell, Ballmer was a nut whose principal qualification was being Gates's college roommate. Hopefully we'll see Microsoft become more competitive in the consumer space with this change.

My serious business cryptocurrency names it after a silly internet picture

They oversimplified the patent, but surely you don't believe that the functionality to skip episodes of Internet audio content with a user command should be patentable.

you created your profile 666 days ago you demon

If you are getting that upset about the use of the word bro you have bigger problems

Maybe most of them couldn't dream of actually owning property.