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This is one of the cool things about NextSteps' Foundation classes (now Cocoa) where they have explicit immutable collection interfaces.

My favourite line from this is: “Any integer between -2 billion and 2 billion is seldom a good representation of anything.” I think that's something Ada got really right.

>Or that 65,000 lines in a source file isn't enough? I would hope that was from auto generated code somehow..?!!

I would disagree, a sensible limit that cannot overwhelm the machine even if a multi threaded server is processing its maximum number of emails, should be enforced. The correct res…

iPads have found many niche uses, e.g. in retail, and for people on the road who use only a few apps (e.g. sales or health professionals) iPads are also great educational tools whe…

>anyway, i find windows 10 to be the superior os. Why would you compare iOS to Windows 10? The better comparison would be Mac OS X (Microsoft I noticed couldn't wait to get to 10, …

I would say nowadays, from a scale-up perspective we've never had it better. Multi-core CPUs are cheaper than ever, and terabytes of RAM are not uncommon. The only problem is that …

In your haste to get everything back up and running again, don't forget to change the database credentials or you'll be back in the same boat again :)

Seems to be largely written in C and Objective C, with Gnustep providing the Foundation Kit. Objective C I've found to be a great and productive language for writing GUI based apps…

Which would actually work nicely with a fibres library, so you can yield while you're waiting for the io to complete.

Well, clippy didn't last long (although I miss the cat a bit), but the clippy jokes seem to have lasted forever.

I'm struggling to see how to add songs to a playlist for my iPod - ok its old (2007 ipod nano), but I love it, so I guess I'll struggle on. Saying that, lots of people complained a…

Which then raises the question, how does - if at all - Ubuntu make money for Canonical?

One format that doesn't seem to get much attention nowadays is RTF ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format ), but there's no reason it shouldn't be readable for years to c…

The thing also booted up faster than you could blink. Of course that might have changed if they added more system services, but from POST screen to a usable desktop was easily unde…

>Epically focused leadership. Just to support that, I remember hearing a story told by Larry Elison (they were apparently neighbours for a while), where he would pop over to see St…

On a slightly related note, I have to say I love the whole folklore website. It adds a really human face to the fascinating developments in IT at that time, and a lot of that I thi…

It's hard to be nice and fluffy in a market where there's a lot of competition, but there's degrees. When you deliberately attempt to sabotage other people's software that has to r…

I had a Mac Performa from the OS 7 days, and Inside Macintosh from the same time - but with the C API from what I remember, and used Metrowerks CodeWarrior as the development IDE. …

WinHlp32.exe "All Windows help information is available online. The Windows Help Viewer is no longer supported in Windows 10" Wow, that's the end of an era. I suppose that also mea…

MS also attempting to use its monopoly position on the desktop to damage a competitor, there's no heroes in this fight. I say attempting because, thank goodness, MS no longer has t…

>who had an effect that writing lost a lot of overcomplication I hope you're not referring to NewSpeak from 1984 which was an invention by the party to limit people's expression so…

I can't imagine why anybody would see RUP as a bad process to follow. Things I like about it are: 1. It's focus on the User and the business case. In the RUP documents you have to …