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Really? Did my toggling on an 8e that ran as a controller for a COM (Computer Output Microfilm) "printer". Not saying that I could write code directly in octal... but I was pretty …

Things happen. But what I often tell people is that I'd probably be sitting in front of a computer anyway. Might as well get paid for it.

So honest question. I presume you spent months on those LC questions. Do you feel that they were beneficial in terms of making you a better developer, or did you simply learn a bun…

I've been playing... (I mean, I've been) working with computers for decades. My basic philosophy is that I'd probably be sitting in front of the silly thing anyway. Might as well b…

Weather changes. It's when enough weather changes that the overall climate changes where we begin to have issues.

Try reading for comprehension. The parent said, "You lucking out in which country you’re born in..." You were lucky in that YOU were born in the US. Your parents could have lived i…

Yeah, let's exclude the numbers for those over 70. Not like they're actually people or anything...

Then again, you can eliminate a lot of that boilerplate. I have a demo app up where I generate UIViews using resultBuillder such that you get a very SwiftUI-like experience using U…

"Vendors accepting cryptocurrency can always choose their own level of risk by deciding how many blocks to wait before accepting a transaction. This allows them to "wait out" tempo…

Uhh... because I can see what was captured? If I'm overly concerned that a given callback might be held somewhere for all time I'll simply capture a weak reference and be done with…

Umm... but isn't the refcounting GC more deterministic? If I create a chain of 10 object and then release the head, I run through 10 allocations and then 10 release cycles on those…

"No doubt straight up ARC with refcounting bumps on every function call,etc..." Yeah, but in Swift you don't do that. From what I'm told, the compiler's static analysis has gotten …

"it may not be the GC that's to blame, or not entirely: it's all the bloated crap they are pulling into the image" Again, you keep waving your hands in the air and saying if you do…

Uh... I can solve entire batches of problems by just saying, "don't do that and you're good." Unfortunately, real-world constraints always seem to get in the way...

"They're giving you 30 days' notice to show that you're still maintaining the app, and then it stays up." Which would have been more than enough time... if the app had in fact been…

I agree with interpol. There are always new info.plist privacy settings and the like that apps need to support. As I recall there were also some relatively recent TLS and https sec…

Especially for people who can't be bothered to develop native applications.

Yeah, but we shouldn't have a double standard. If we could get an AI to reduce the number of deaths in half it would still be worthwhile. Besides, non-fatal ACCIDENTS per mile are …

This is the main problem today. Good journalism costs money, and that money can come from ads, but that's usually not enough to pay the freight. Hence paywalls. Or... it can be fre…

I'm with aoleinik. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away, I had a stand-alone blog that--to put it bluntly--no one visited. Today I put the same type of content on Medium and…

Writes an individual who strongly suggests Hugo and who just happens to create Hugo themes.

Dark patterns are tricks, like making you click on something that you thought did one thing but does something else. Asking you to sign in/up is hardly a dark pattern. And I've yet…

Started writing on Medium a year or so ago, mostly on Swift, RxSwift, SwiftUI, Combine, dependency injection, iOS application architecture, and so on. Will probably make $5-6K this…

Probably the fact that while you listed your preferences you and most everyone else wouldn't bother to pay. Primarily since it would mean making a credit card transaction to an unk…

Took a quick look. If you want my take, your basic tutorials are, well... too basic. They describe fundamental language principles in a well-established programming language for wh…