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Suppose you maintain a highly scaled service. Suppose it has a bug. Finding and fixing 3 lines of code that caused a problem that was costing the company money by the hour/minute c…

This should be re-titled. It is inaccurate. It implies that some notable percentage of MacOS/iOS is published. Nothing of the sort is true. They publish a tiny minority of those sy…

I wouldn't work for those scumbags again even if they paid me $300k / yr.

YAML is garbage. Everyone knows. If you have a choice of anything else, use any of the many extended JSON versions. Everyone says the same stuff every time this comes up. None of t…

JSON parsing isn't as hard as this very detailed article makes it out to be. I've written JSON parsers in Perl, C, and Go. My parsers pass all of the checks mentioned except for th…

Yes you can. I've been running the Xcode 13 beta since it came out, and the newly released Xcode 13 RC also works without issue on my Intel machine.

Thank you. Glancing through the Nim documentation it doesn't appear to support goto. Searching online reveals one can hack something into the underlying instruction set, but it loo…

My JSON parser ( github.com/nanoscopic/ujsonin ) has these things: 0. Looks essentially the same as JSON 1. Core data types, and customizable data types can be added easily. 2. Arr…

While Apple is very restrictive and controlling, they aren't as controlling as many imply about running your own/custom apps on phones. You can sign up for a free developer account…

The article is very thin on details, but I don't think dismissing the idea that we are headed for disaster is the proper response. During peak covid wfh period, there has been a cl…

I'd like to know this as well. My guess is that you may have to install it on your device before it gets dropped from the Apple store. Definitely have a cloud backup of your device…

Having worked on the systems that make Amazon.com function previously, all I can say is: Awesome! Burn baby burn.

The main problem that remains with emulation and virtualization is that there are few legal ways to acquire ROMs. It is possible to purchase hardware to pull images from cartridges…

I've been threatened by the FBI and demanded to confess who my underworld contacts are. I told them to go fuck themselves. They were not happy about that. They tried to frame me by…

I tried to start a union for software engineers at Amazon 4 years ago. I created the "union-interest" internal email list. I met with a surprising amount of resistance from Amazon …

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This reads like sheer madness. Madness condemning madness. "We are calling for the abolishment of the Free Software Foundation" Signed: [owners of big companies] Yeah... I'm sure b…

I understand how this will seem to be a screwy thing to say, but it is a reality and is something any parent deals with when their child grows old enough. Once puberty hits childre…

I agree that hentai manga can be very disgusting. Rape scenes involving children is a theme that is commonly available. Having set foot in a doujinshi shop in Akihabara ( down a ra…