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Would there also be interest paid for time lost in traffic? New York roads are tight and always busy, something the public transit system is supposed to workaround.

Could you provide a link to your library?

There are many legitimate uses of calling methods and functions using reflection. Expecting to hit all of them in a short review process is comically optimistic for anything but the simplistic of apps.

Your suggestion of enforcing this also makes no sense from performance or privacy standpoint.

I don't know why this is downvoted. This is standard practice by many people who travel, especially if traveling with the whole family.

Is it the best tool in the world? No. Is it the only actual tool to communicate bugs and enhancement requests to Apple? Almost. We've all used issue tracking software to add to backlog ("Open a Jira and I'll take a look when I have time"). Doesn't mean it's not being looked at.

That bus entails both good and bad, and everyone should be familiar with the risks of developing in a language in this state.

Personally, I wouldn't take any job application that only lists "Swift developer" seriously. Anyone serious enough about iOS development should know that you always need both. Also, not a big fan of telling people what technology to use forcefully.

There are a lot more challenges than just ABI and 32 bit. Swift is not dynamic, lacks many of the features the ObjC runtime provides - so most of Apple's frameworks cannot actually be implemented in the same way with Swift. Basic stuff like KVC, KVO, responder chain, etc. go out of the window. And many of Apple engineers are not convinced throwing these technologies out of the window for some imaginary benefit from Swift is the right direction.

Can't refute any of the article's arguments? Go ad hominem instead!

This is a reddit-style comment, not HN.

One really has nothing to do with the other in this case.

Don't forget "authorities can't snoop your mails and will take us to court because we can't decrypt it."

"Illegal" is not a correct word. It infringes on Apple's EULA, and is at most copyright infringement.

You can. Just edit the files on NTFS, and access them from the mount folder from the CLI. The article is about editing the subsystem files themselves.

Please let me know how editing goes for you on Blender on a semi advanced video project. These types of comments are the worst. It's on the same level as "Yes, GIMP is an alternative to Photoshop because it has brush and layers".

The tiniest of examples: try to enable "advanced" typography features in a document, such as ligatures, small caps, proportional figures, mathematical equations – without having to convert your document into TeX.

No to condescend, but that just means that what you do most likely only has to do with programming. If you attempt to branch out into other fields of activities, Linux software is just not capable enough. Try to edit a photo beyond the basic capabilities of Gimp. Try to author a video project. Try to master audio. Try to design and edit documents beyond the most basic capabilities of LibreOffice. Attempt spreadsheet workflows.

It's just not there. But yes, if you want to run Python, GCC or Ruby from the commandline, Linux is very capable of giving you a faster experience.

It is never black and white. Moving to Linux would only be feasible when the vast software library is available on Linux, including, but not limited to, productivity, games, media playback, drivers (hardware support). In the mean time, scripts like these fill holes that should not be there in Windows.

I do agree that people executing this script should not only rely on "it's open source, so smart people will look at it and find issues", but actually research and fully understand what is going on.

While this is a fun project, the ultimate conclusion here should be: if you feel uncomfortable in you job or browsing the internet near your boss, it's time to move to a different job. I understand this is not a privilege possible by everyone, those that can should exercise it.

These are no "lies", just misunderstanding on the part of those that believe the untruths. Those that have basic understanding of C know most of the things listed in the article.

This will be relevant in 2025 as well.

Just a side note - opening this article on mobile opened no less than two popups. I really hope this is not the future of web.

On an iPhone 7 Plus, the maps on citybik.es looks terribly pixilated. I am getting a feel that either openstreetmaps does not properly support retina tiles, or no one actually bothers to use them. Not sure which is worse.

Am I the only one not getting retina tiles? On an iPhone 7 Plus, the map on leaflets.com looks terrible.

It's a compromise between security and usability, like always. And it is good for most cases. When higher security is needed, developer can choose to override and implement a different mechanism.

In fact, that is indeed the default protection level, which is strong enough for a default setting.

It's called Monodevelop, and it would have taken you 5 seconds to find using Google.

This reminds me, in art style, the output of the video game Another World. With some tweaking, it should be possible to make very similar results.

Another feature iOS has is the subtle parallax motion effect, driven by the gyroscope. I think this effect also helps perception of UI layers.

Chrome has experimental support through a flag. However, the Apple pages are broken with the flag enabled.

Windows 98 perhaps. 2000 if generous.

No PC… :-(