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greensamuelmon Looking at the Performance of Refterm

Goodness. This feels like the author didn’t watch the video. Not sure there’s much criticism here to even respond to.

I watched Casey’s presentation and I think his prototype does an excellent job of dispelling some standard excuses for why this stuff isn’t faster.

greensamuelmon YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

United States v. Swartz?

greensamuelmon Why many developers still prefer Objective-C to Swift

The real point that I think this article misses is framework development. Swift still has not achieved ABI compatibility. If you are using an iOS device, very likely framework code I have written in the past few years is running inside one of the many apps you have installed.

This is simply not feasible to do unless you are willing to open source your code base. I have been shipping closed source binary frameworks written in Objective-C for seven years. None of the companies I work for are willing to maintain binary releases for each version of Swift AND Xcode. It's simply too much.

I'd love to use Swift, but at this point it would only be a maintenance nightmare for my team and I to maintain.

greensamuelmon Mixpanel Lays Off 18 Employees

The P isn't capitalized. It's Mixpanel.

greensamuelmon Show HN: Game development collaboration platform. Make games together

I really have no idea what your platform does. Can you explain at all what you actually do for people?

Why is your product better than GitHub? Are your tools something that engineers can use from the command line while my artist friends can use the web?