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uhura

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    Comment #45141051

    This kind of stance cannot be made without properly setting the context for the software. It is very clear that different software backgrounds have different needs a different deve…

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    Comment #45093904

    I’ve been having those discussions with friends for the last 3 or 4 years. The downside of having local infra is pretty much having someone that has the experience to do it right. …

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    Comment #42901158

    I believe that this long game of Swift being "good for everything" but "better for Apple platforms" will be detrimental to the language. This does not help the language nor seems t…

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    Comment #37775306

    The article reflects well many aspects of western life experience and might be poorly applicable in other contexts. The text shows signals of it when associating certain kinds of r…

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    Comment #37759607

    I believe the general strategy for this kind of product is to drive CX conversion. Amazon usually offers auto repurchase too, so if you are going to buy once and Amazon is cheaper,…

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    Comment #37436737

    I don't get the " Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software " conclusion. Rust is all about lifetimes and the borrow checker. Async code (a la C#) w…

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    Comment #36774013

    But then, how could you guarantee type safety? This yield is not an object, it is handling the execution context to another stack.

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    Comment #36768585

    I would prefer to add a `yield` param to functions so it can better interact with the current type system. This means that for a function to yield, it needs to have the so called `…

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    Comment #35683598

    Check the “introduction” paper about the family of OS [1], it provides a good introduction to get the how and why. My two cents is that composing applications at the FS level is mo…

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    Comment #34685319

    This might not be a popular opinion but it was what worked for me: - Research a little about PostScript and the display version. - NextStep Developer Documentation [1] - Apple olde…

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    Comment #34030940

    The comment mentions original iPhone screens. They were 3.5" and we hold phones differently because of the sub 4" displays. The idea back then was maybe to separate the confirm act…

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    Comment #33933465

    This kind of article develops a dangerous line of reasoning. The failure of Plan9 is not about what went wrong or right. It is about how the market evolved and made decisions, whic…

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    Comment #33475722

    Old WWDC content has a lot of value. They cover a lot of core technologies that Apple has no interest in covering and documenting again (because they deprecated and are removing ol…