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Ireland springs to mind, and in fact has strong ties to Indigenous nations in the Americas for their similar struggles

This is a great point, and I’m curious to hear what would be better alternatives. Like obviously there’s something great about having online connections with other people, but how …

hi, author here :) happy to answer any questions! it was extremely fun to write a little browser, highly recommend it

I’m actually not proposing shutting down any website that allows uploaded content, just large / public sites that require this sort of moderation. Not every site gets this stuff up…

I think there’s a difference that depends on scale and privacy. If your network is private (or something more akin to p2p / messaging) this is much less of an issue, especially if …

In my opinion this is an argument in favour of shutting Facebook (and every other large social network) down. This sort of work is damaging and abusive, and nobody should have to e…

See also Mark Miller’s excellent blog post on the same topic, which really turned on a few lightbulbs for me: https://tekkie.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/sicp-what-is-meant-b...

I think this line of reasoning is victim blaming. It’s not the author’s fault that Instagram works the way it works. I think she’s entitled to want them to do a better job.

Yeah, it’s too prevalent. We best not talk about it.

>I think most people grow up missing their actual potential as thinkers because the environment they grow up in does not understand these issues and their tradeoffs.... This is the…

Great article although I think it’s worth mentioning the pattern of checking the iOS system version for method availability (e.g., `if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] fl…

The one thing I wish Objective C (or other languages, too, unless I’m missing some [totally possible]) is that the abstractions of metaprogramming are often hard to follow. You get…

Sean, I’ve read some of your research and it’s great! I agree completely. Hell, even the concept of “to create software means some set of sequential steps” is presuming quite a bit…

Author here: Funnily enough, I have! I wrote the Super Debugger which uses F-Script ( http://shopify.github.io/superdb/ ) Please note though this is not at all what I’m describing …

Author here: you are correct.

Author here: Objective C is far and away mostly used for creating user-facing software. I want a better way to do that. That’s what the essay is about.

Author here. Please try not to get too caught up on the interpreted part. It’s far less important to what I’m trying to get across here in the essay. Yes, implementation matters, b…

No not really. Ruby is a fine text language but it offers no benefits or advantages like what I described in the article, safe maybe a REPL. But we can have that already with the S…

Heh, which is similar to what I drew up a year ago, and even linked to https://github.com/jbrennan/ObjectiveNext/blob/master/langua... :)

Author here. Good point, they are not mutually exclusive. I do think however it's not in Apple's culture to significantly move away from C/ObjC any time soon. For the time being, t…

> Every talk is for an audience, and it's the speaker's responsibility to say what the audience needs to hear. > >Wait, what? I don't think he means what you're inferring. I don't …

Author of SuperDB here. I think you should be able to embed most of SuperDB itself directly in Spark Inspector. I'm not sure how you're doing runtime inspection, but SuperDB alread…

It's true some artists can already work with interactive media through code, but I think his greater point might be that we're selling every other artist short if they've got to ex…