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Not on Apple platforms. The article links a "gtk and qt trend at Stackoverflow". Adding swiftui and uikit to that trend: http://sotagtrends.com/?tags=gtk+qt+swiftui+uikit&relative=…

By learning only the most important rules, and then enable the compilers undefined behaviour sanitizer(1) during development, making mistakes, and fixing them. (1) https://clang.ll…

You can remote debug webviews (from Safari on a Mac), but only web views in apps signed with a development provisioning profile (1). So to debug web content in iOS Chrome you would…

> And these days all the documentation that Apple produces is in form of brief mentions in WWDC videos. Aaaarrggh! There's actually a very detailed guide that explains both how to …

> You're just sending messages, so you can send a message over the wire and it would be as simple to the developer as sending it locally If you are expecting a reply, or some side-…

“might cause”, yes. But at least with Postgres that only happens if you add a default value to the new column. You can add the default value in your application instead, just like …

Second that, what's wrong with NTT? 250mbit fiber for a fraction of what it would cost in the US. IPv6 ready. Basically no down time in 5 years. Very polite service staff. Sure, if…

What about building a service, perhaps a web browser plugin, that overlays a trust-worthiness score + contextual information, over text (bonus for images) on the web? If a user pos…

Even if that would be true (that US supported that coup), would the democratically elected Mohamed Morsi have promoted science education in Egypt? The Muslim Brotherhood's history …

It seems so, a key part of that quote is "working in". https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=d2tF-L00-X8C&pg=PA216&lp... "My late friend, the distinguished Pakistani physicist Abdus …

Abdus Salam belonged to a school/sect of Islam that encourages open debate and promotes a scientific interpretation of the Quran. "Salam was an Ahmadi Muslim, who saw his religion …

Well, macOS 10.15 has a user-space network stack. 11.0 can run on ARM as well on x86. So there are a bunch of things going on under the hood

Previously on HN: Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280239 A PostgreSQL response to Uber [pdf]: https://news.ycomb…

I think this is less about wanting to protect criminals, and more about US sovereignty at all costs. And clearly upholding this sovereignty was one of Trumps election promises. Und…

To me, a non-US citizen, it seems that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is being quite reasonable here. ICC wants to investigate US military personnel that, allegedly, commit…

UDP on AT&T and other carriers is just fine, but you need to do NAT hole punching or proxy the UDP packets. See my comment to the grandparent.

UDP is fine. We have apps on the App Store that use UDP. This is likely a NAT related issue. That is not going to be an issue just for App Store review, but also for tons of other …

Yes, but they only store data in China for Chinese customers (as per the registered region of the Apple ID). [1] [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351

There is Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML). Amazon Polly and Google text-to-speech supports it, although the best neural-model based voices only support a small subset.

> why is it up to me to do weird math to figure out if I actually have enough $$$ to pay for what I'd like to have. Well, one reason is: to make you aware of the tax burden (and ju…

Scott Meyers has retired from C++ (his own blog post: http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/12/good-to-go.html?m=1 ) so the next C++ bible has to come from somewhere else. Maybe he …

Second this, you get two free Technical Support Incident requests per year as a registered developer, and you can purchase additional ones. We regularly file such requests and have…

Under the GDPR, that Microsoft Data Protection Officer will have 30 days to respond to you. If they don't respond, you can complain to the supervisory authority (in the case of UK …

> Does anyone honestly think this: [ 'H:|[view1(==view2)]-10-[view2]|' 'V:|[view1,view2]|' ] is readable? This is not Auto layout, it is just an alternative string-based API to exp…