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Tessellation debuted in Metal in 2016, so yeah, relatively shortly after the first release on iOS (2014) and macOS (2015).

Regrettably, the video and audio quality are quite poor, and the slides contain few clues as to the content. A previously posted article by Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/a…

I think you and your GP are right on. I edited a short-lived podcast and regularly spent 1.5 hours producing and editing each 25 minute show. Even if you're using good equipment an…

"Looks like serif"? Did you mean to say it looks like a proportional-width font?

It feels more like one side of an IM conversation than an essay, what with the missing periods and stilted spacing

"This tries to find visually distinct colors that humans will be able to distinguish." Which are also vomitously ugly. There's a reason graphic designers don't rely purely on algor…

Strikes me as somewhat similar to MyNyte.

I felt a sharp pang of nostalgia seeing the cover of "Write Your Own Adventure Programs". That book, and similar titles, were already old by the time I came across ragged copies of…

Neither is more correct than the other (in this context) without further qualification. He means linear pixel density, you mean area pixel density or total number of pixels (the la…

The reason for the one-on-one format is that I want to get a feel for where different people are in their learning. Already, I've heard from total newbies, people with programming …

The response to this has been literally overwhelming, but I'm really excited to talk with everyone who has signed up. If you're still interested, there are several slots on Tuesday…

No strings attached. I have been developing iOS apps professionally for about two years. I have done a very limited amount of training for new iOS developers, and I want to improve…

TL;DR: "Skilled and experienced practitioners are able to find elegant solutions to problems both because they are able to consider a broad range of possible solutions and because …

I played this game as an intern at Microsoft in the summer of 2006 and subsequently introduced it to many students in the computer engineering department at the University of Flori…

REAMDE by Neal Stephenson Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick edited by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem

The purpose is probably to make the home screen symmetrical. Moving the two rightmost columns of app icons two pixels to the right achieves this. Note that previously the outer mar…

Your final statement only holds if (a) all environments in which people live are equally rich in opportunity/resources or (b) there are sufficient environments with adequate opport…

I acquired this book when it was published in 2008, and I firmly believe my CS education would have been better for having had it several years before that. It's a very well-constr…