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With webhooks, consumers get to asynchronously respond to updates from a provider. If no data has changed, a provider will not send any updates. With SCROLL, consumers are responsi…

As yegge mentioned, there might be more appetite for trying out this idea now because there are many engineers who are currently unemployed. Offering them short co-op could be bene…

What’s your use case for this?

As a next step, it could be cool to write unit tests against these screenshots that look for words like you mentioned. That way if a screenshot is updated and a test breaks you wil…

One example where I think the law does make sense is for website URL paths. Over time the paths may change, and this can break existing links. IMO websites should continue to accep…

It would be much snappier, and would trivially support common native features like being able to open messages in new windows.

Why would column-oriented databases be mentioned? My understanding is that these are typically used for OLAP, but the article seems to talk only about OLTP.

The performance of both the website and the iOS app is also not great. On the iOS app, I frequently see frames dropped and scrolling is sometimes blocked for up to a second or more…

Well the executable binaries inside IPAs are encrypted, but the IPA bundles themselves are typically unencrypted. You should be able to see unencrypted assets inside of them

Fair point, I had not considered needing to read and understand code you didn't write yourself. Especially in a corporate setting, not understanding a keyword you see in a PR could…

> 3. get rid of roughly 150 of the 200 keywords there are I don't understand this point. Could you explain? The new keywords enable new language features (ex: async/await, any, act…

What are the languages with similar or better ergonomics?

> It's not fast. Not disagreeing with you, but here’s an article from Akamai about how using WASM can minimize cold startup time for serverless functions. https://www.akamai.com/bl…

Yes. This page has several ways to get older macOS versions: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102662 , but the earliest macOS version you can use on Apple Silicon is macOS 11. If yo…

Holy shit, it’s still being actively developed and maintained https://github.com/cappuccino/cappuccino

My suggestion is no - first have them do it the hard way. This will help them build the skills to do manual memory management where defer is not available. Once they do learn about…

Prefer structs over classes != only use structs. There are plenty of valid reasons to use classes in Swift. For example if you want to have shared state you will need to use a clas…

With the library you’re able to use stripe without thinking about web hooks. The library is named based on what it enables a user to do, not how it works internally.

Yeah customers are market validation, not merely the existence of competition. If your competitors have customers, I think that is a sign of market validation. If they do not, then…

IMO the page is concise and well written. I wouldn’t call it very elaborate. Maybe the page could have been shorter, but not my much.

I think the most common set up is to have your application server and DB on different hosts. That way you can scale each independently.

You listed 8 types, and this is because there are 3 axes that each have 2 values - Mutable or not - Typed or Raw - Single object, or Buffer Given one kind of pointer, you can conve…

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It’s probably frameworks + localized assets. With dynamically linked frameworks you bear the cost of the entire framework (and its dependencies) even if you just use a few function…