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That article would be more credible if it didn't give two examples of dual-core tablets (Dell and Motorola) that shipped "in volume" that actually flopped. Which raises the questio…

I dunno, but you could always call the C libraries from Objective-C, and call the Objective-C from Swift.

Less ambiguity, allowing the compiler to optimize more?

"(And as for Java, it was my understanding that Apple had hobbled it by refusing to release updates on a timely basis.)" That's a different, later issue. Early on in the life of OS…

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...

I learned Objective-C before I learned C, back in the early 90s. Before that I'd learned Basic and Pascal. Objective-C clicked with my brain pretty easily.

Some of the new docs I've seen let you select Objective-C, Swift, or both.

You can mix Objective-C and Swift code in a project, so it would be easy to progressively port code one class at a time. Porting NSView subclasses first would give you a win, becau…

Probably because they wanted one that integrated well with their existing frameworks, and which really took advantage of their investment in LLVM.

That's how I always felt. I liked the clear differentiation between C function calls and method calls on objects.

Firstly, your link says nothing about customer deposits, it's about bank derivative holdings. Which aren't insured by FDIC. But, yes, because it's pretty unlikely that all banks wi…

"It's sad times we live in when creating culture is labeled "labor", "work" and so forth." It's sad when idle consumers come to believe they are entitled to the product of another'…

"The price of a good programming book is about £20. " If only we had a global computer network by which you could find a much cheaper used copy. Or even a free loaner copy.

You seem to have confused "wants" with "needs".

Unless I'm mistaken (I may be) GOG is primarily in the business of selling old games, which is why the publishers are willing to forgo DRM on the titles. Publishers of new games (e…

"unabashedly post in this disgusting manner," What, "mildly critical of Google"? Dude, get some perspective. Are you 12?

Twist: The target and hit man are both sentient bitcoins.

Note that the scenario they're talking about is where Assange were himself hidden in a bag labeled as if it were a diplomatic bag. People smuggling under such false pretenses is pr…

Someone create a site, TechCracker, where you can identify websites and tech companies staffed and/or run by white bigots.

The economics of producing child porn and the economics of producing actual physical drugs are wildly different, so I'm not sure how that's even relevant. You can make child porn w…

"Paying for CP (and thereby directly contributing, economically, to its production)?" You can contribute to its production without paying money. It's like people cracking copy-prot…

"the most insane and awful aspect of Western society bar none." I assure you it's not limited to "Western society", at all.

"Now she can go write a book, while this guy lost his job." He can write a book too. And he has free time now to do so.

True, however, the vast majority of rapes of women are by men, and the vast majority of rapes of men are by men. It's not like the issue of men being raped is predominantly due to …

You've never heard of a double entendre? How many terrible jokes have been made along the lines of "I'd like to put my hard drive in her RAM slot". Jokes like that were old and cor…