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Ask Apple, who hide it from you in Xcode and riddle it with human-unreadable generated IDs and noise elements, in addition to needless reshuffling of elements after editing which o…

Idempotency is a good example of a trivia term that would be unreasonable to expect most recent CS graduates to know. Not to say that it's not a valuable property for a service or …

I'm a little confused as it looks like an image in the article labels a string literal as being a comment. Am I misunderstanding something?

so..not Go :P

They're promoting this as a new dev environment for .NET Core, but there's still ZERO tooling for Razor. I tried starting a simple example project and the .cshtml files didn't even…

It seems like the "ASCII puke" concrete syntax for regex patterns doesn't scale that well. Regular expressions have binary operators, parenthesization, named groups, lookaheads, et…

I don't see why there can't be React-like libraries written and used in languages that compile to native. I'm not expecting to have JSX but I should be able to write component clas…

I'm pretty sure this is why the Apple online store needs to be taken down for them to add new products.

Do you mean Visual Studio?

The file changing just from being looked at is one of the basic reasons that IB is bad. Apple made a grievous mistake in designing UI markup that is intended to be hidden from deve…

It's absurd to have to beg the wealthiest software company in the world for what should be considered really basic stuff. Xcode is consistently unstable, slow, missing simple essen…

Every tool for its job. If you have serious dynamic behavior and you try to handroll it yourself, you risk either low maintainability and bugs in your bespoken optimized DOM manipu…

Haven't had the chance to try it myself but I have read quite a bit and I like what I see, particularly the high quality error messages in the compiler. However, I think I'd have a…

I know what you mean with regard to event handlers being passed down to children and children of children and so on and the complexity that can bring. I haven't used redux, but I u…

One of the biggest reasons I favor React is that it's much easier to add a templating language to a programming language (i.e. JSX) than the other way around. Every construct for m…

Server is responding pretty slowly (maybe not used to this much traffic?) so here's a Google cache for it: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lxQe4zC...

They should start paying Tim Cook in dongles.

Get rid of most of the padding and headgear so the players don't feel like they have the ability to take such hard hits--because as far as their brains go, they don't have that abi…

The wait for the new MacBook Pro is agonizing but I am convinced it will sell like hotcakes when it finally comes out.

Do you have any examples you care to share of Swift that needs cleaning up?

Beyond being a little more explicit about the generator semantics, it's just noisier . "Self.Iterator.Element" is a lot of noise compared to "T". At the moment, I feel these sequen…

Honestly, comparing the choice of mucking with code signing on OS X and having to deploy, run, and debug my app through Docker, I would just learn to sign code. I do think it's wei…

This is great. Seems less cumbersome than TypeScript's user defined type guards for distinguishing cases of a union. The sentinel value concept is something you could at least stea…

Thanks for elaborating on the distinction. User defined type guards can get you some of the way there to distinguishing "int | int", but you don't get it for free-- the reality of …

I strongly disagree about TypeScript-- I think it's a huge boon to productivity. TypeScript has has union types i.e. "number | string" which are similar to algebraic data types. Ty…