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Know someone at apple.

This is equivalent to the semicolons in javascript debate. Pointless bike-shedding. You save 4 characters, big deal.

Exactly!!!! So much of objc programming is about maintaining internal state. Dot syntax and automatically synthesized properties just obfuscates whats actually going on.

IMO you should always be accessing the ivar directly unless you have a specific reason not to.

You've misread my comments and are trying to make them into something they're not. I wasn't calling you out for criticizing Go or trying to discuss its shortcomings. I was calling you out for being a dick to Enneff. I think my original comment was fairly clear about this.

Anyways this is a pointless argument. I'm sure youre a great guy in person.

> Should I just accept the same kind of answer we've had for 4 years on the Go webpage, and move on?

Yes. Clearly its time to find another language that better suits your needs and is managed more to your liking.

He has all the right to say whatever he wants and believe whatever he wants. Doesn't mean he should be rude.

Aren't you just kinda being a dick here? A go developer has directly responded to you multiple times, saying that this is a topic that they're actively researching. And you just keep replying with skepticism asking for actual proof.

No one owes you anything here. I hope you don't behave this way with other open source projects.

Your comments appear to be critiquing the existence of the notation itself. I'm not sure what you expect the alternative to be. Words are used to communicate concepts.

Knowing the complexity of algorithms is important, correct? How would you go about teaching something like that to a student? Limit yourself to generic terms like linear vs exponential? Would that student have as nuanced an understanding of the subject compared to if he or she learned Big-O notation?

I don't think Messages.app converts emoticons into graphical smileys on the recipient's side. It's that the sender's text is autocorrected into emojis (which can be cancelled out of).

I'm just counter nitpicking at this point which isn't much better.

> That native delivers a superior UI doesn't mean it delivers a superior UX.

Sure, it doesn't necessitate a superior UX, but it certainly has an effect on UX. Here 'programminggeek' has tried building apps using native and using web technologies and has found that, for him at least, native provides a better UX. Are you saying thats not possible? That the choice between native and web is absolutely not a UX one but a UI one?

If UX encompasses UI, how is saying that he wants 'the best possible user experience' incorrect? UI performance and bugginess has an effect on user experience.

What is your point here? This is a blog post celebrating the 4th anniversary of a programming language. Shame on them for being proud of what they created because other languages had a harder time?

I don't believe any of the default iOS 7 apps use gradients like that.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5330/9023342228_8341c60043_b.j...

You haven't addressed any of inclinedPlane's criticism of Brett's talk. Rather your entire comment seems to be variations on "There are people who irrationally dislike new technology."

I'd like an invite! thanks.

Because accounting and law has an fairly even split between men and women then every other field (where physical differences don't come into play) "should" have similar representations too? Are male hairdressers trying twice as hard as their female counterparts to get to the same place? There is nothing about styling and cutting hair that should make it more appealing to women versus men. And yet we see huge imbalances there.

Aesthetics in the sense of an clean syntax, or minimizing language warts. Not choice of delimiters or a lack of parenthesis in certain constructs. There are literally thousands of choices the language designers made that are more important that the criticisms you brought up.

Turn by turn directions.

> Do not assume there is a correlation between depression and suicide. The connection is actually very weak, far weaker than most people assume.

Do you have a source for this? I've been searching for a bit, but can't find anything that indicates depression is very weakly related to suicide.

The same reason, a normal person might decline $5 but accept $50 out of a pool of $100. 5% seems more unfair than 50%.

Why is buy.com a generic domain and therefore unbrandable but blogger.com brandable?

Both are words in common usage and very relevant to their respective fields.

This is just a No True Scotsman argument. You've been given at least a dozen examples but none of them are "dominating" enough for you.

Blogger, Dropbox, XVideos.

You're right. The Dell is better.

Also,

MBP: 2880x1800 Dell: 1920x1080

Youre mixing up the fractions.

64gb mba, 48gb free ~ 3/4ths

64gb surface, 23gb free ~ 1/3rd

> If you accept that the "actual" space is going to be less than the "advertised" space how do you gauge the risk when you buy?

It's not even something I consider, because I've generally assumed that disk capacities are relatively comparable between manufacturers. So I base it on my current space and whether or not I need more.

I don't think its unreasonable to expect that a consumer should be able to look at the specifications for 2 different products and come away with a decent idea of their capabilities. Or at the very least, not be completely misled.

> seek out the available space number

Do you yourself personally do this? Do you actively seek out the available disk space when purchasing a new laptop? I think you are fooling yourself if you think even 2% of people do this when buying a new computer. Namely because its rarely if ever in spec sheet.

> My point is that everyone who has bought something with storage has experienced the "comes with X amount of storage (note Y is available for users)" verbiage.

Yeah, not seeing any such number on Apple's or Google's store. How many phones, computers, ipods, laptops, etc have you bought?

> Meh. You're talking about 10 years ago.

Hmmm? Apple still sells iPods. And I wouldn't be surprised if Apple still took the lion's share of the profit in that market. They sold 12.7 million of them last quarter (including Touches). Surely if consumer hardware headed towards commoditization in the fashion you describe, someone would have released a quality 16GB MP3 player for far less than $150 and been able to push Apple out of the market.