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Ouch, this makes me glad I don't do iOS development anymore. XCode is such trash.

I only skimmed the page, but if you think CNN represents a left wing view you do not understand left wing politics. Ranking CNN along sides Jacocbin or Fox News alongside Breitbart…

I've had serious external display issues since they moved to Thunderbolt-3

Both what are true? Have you ever lived in Texas? Yes the like most urban areas they trend left and more ethnically diverse. Thus Texas is also trending left. I'm not sure what you…

Lord you bought this story hook line and sinker... > But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here. I like that... You hear this a…

I went with what they call the "Axial coordinates". I think the alternative, "Cube coordinates", causes a lot of issues and confusion when writing game logic.

This is cool. I recently wrote an A* pathfinding system for a hex based game. Choosing a good coordinate system 100% makes this easier.

Oops thanks

I feel like a lot of the things I've read from Paul Graham suffer from the survivor fallacy. The tech industry idolization of him is itself a form of survivor fallacy and its infat…

> Can I replace my Rails/Django/Flask already? Yup! Rust has mature and production ready frameworks > If you can't get the nuances why Rails/Django/Many other frameworks are a bett…

I love Rust and I love the direction its pushing. But these kinds of websites are awful. If you can't get the nuances why Rails/Django/Many other frameworks are a better solution f…

"Eat more vegetables → Eat an apple" I lol'd

As with all things it totally depends on the scale you're at. Redis is an extremely reliable service. I've never "lost" data with Redis.

Both Valve and Alphabet have shipped amazingly successful software. I think w/e they are doing works, that doesn't mean theres other ways that work 2.

Its cool they are using DP for some analytics. But its not quite the holy grail Apple and its fans has been selling it as. Because any analytics campaign using DP will always event…

Oh please you are going to tell me sexual abuse employees faced was "from entrenched interests". Get real...

Theres lots of reasons to use Go. Mine is the language is really stupid simple. Theres nothing fancy in the syntax, you can pick up a project you put down months ago and easily sta…

Yea, but the Swift compiler is extremely buggy. Plus its gotten buggier with each release.

I'm from the bay area. We created this problem. Each of the two bubbles I have lived through did this.

The fact my nation is as wealthy as it is but it does not want to invest in the health of its people is insanity to me. Health insurance is essentially a bet that someone's health …

Eventually someones going to create a XML based layout language to use to construct views in the Canvas, we could even call it HTML ;) I'm not a web developer either and I look for…

Oh yea LLVM and Clang are incredible pieces of software! He is truly a master.

I feel your sentiment. But I always thought getting browsers to adopt Dart was a crazy and impossible idea. I was actually glad when I heard they had abandoned that plan. Flutter c…

There are some web frameworks that are indevelopment. That does not mean Swift has gained any traction. Also having toyed around with one, the experience was not great. When writin…

I get your point, programming language communities all have a certain level of fan-boyism. However I find Swift's community to be particularly abhorrent. I stopped partcipating whe…