afternooner
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11 years ago
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on: Is Go an Object-Oriented Language?
Yea, I liked the idea of what go was waning to do. They wanted classes and objects without the classes and inheritance, but all they've done is replace that headache with an interface headache.
afternooner
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11 years ago
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on: Swift impressions
Okay, can someone who understands this explain it a little better. My understanding is that ARC (or automatic reference counting) wasn't garbage collection because there isn't any garbage collection. I had thought that ARC was a compiler optimization that would analyze your code and add the deconstructor code while compiling based off some possible usage graph or whatnot. ARC therefore is not garbage collection. Yes, it's memory management, but to link the two as the same is wholly inaccurate. Please chime in to let me know how wrong I am.
afternooner
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11 years ago
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on: Swift Language Highlights: An Objective-C Developer’s Perspective
On containers, while it's entirely possible to constrain the type, it's also possible to use AnyObject
var example = Dictionary<Int,AnyObject>()
I'll miss the duck typing, but having bought my house off C# work, I can work with this.
afternooner
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11 years ago
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on: Code that will only execute once
I could argue that if you work for the DOD, it's entirely possible that all your code will only execute once. Sadly, I do work for a government agency, but my code only runs once because of mismanagement... :(
afternooner
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11 years ago
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on: Judge: NSA doesn’t have to keep all data as part of key surveillance lawsuit
Oceania here we come.
afternooner
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11 years ago
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on: Pro-Tesla electric car bill advances in NJ Assembly
Question for those who understand this, why can the government force a middle man to exist in the first place? It seem to a layman to violate several other rights.
afternooner
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11 years ago
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on: Pro-Tesla electric car bill advances in NJ Assembly
Why can the government force a middle man to exist in the first place, that doesn't seem in line with capitalism at all?
afternooner
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11 years ago
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on: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
What I'm more amused by is the level of scepticism over an self contained eco-system. In order for any eco-system, either contained or not contained, there has to be much greater tolerances to extreme conditions that we generally acknowledge. In truth, outside of absolute extremes where organic life is simply impossible because or either denaturing or absolute destruction of organic material, life will exist. It's also entirely possible that this bottle now contains bacteria, fungi, or other organisms that are much more efficient at breaking down the organic material left by the dying plant mater.
afternooner
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11 years ago
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on: Xanadu: we have a working deliverable
Why can I not do this with my git commits? If you're trying to track down a blame on a security bug, this would be an amazing way to expose that.
afternooner
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11 years ago
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on: Chris Lattner on Swift
Name a letter or a word and there is some project out there that had it before. If you come to grips with this now, your adult life will be much easier.
afternooner
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12 years ago
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on: RubyMotion 3.0 Sneak Peek: Android Support
Enterprise and government comes with a lot of baggage that no sane developer would ever try to take on. You are manifesting your priorities on them, and that simply may not be the case. The $200 price point is likely that high in order to keep the client base low. I'm not saying you're wrong, but Apple itself barely supports enterprise with most of their enterprise management bits being third party. A laptop without a docking station??? Crazy, they might as well not sell computers...
Source: Work for government, not entirely sane, have had Apple reps brought in to discuss in house dev, written in house application, ruby, C#, C, Obj-C, JS, C++ developer in order of preference.
afternooner
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12 years ago
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on: RubyMotion 3.0 Sneak Peek: Android Support
Um, because I don't know if it's a good thing. How hard is that for you to understand. Seriously, did you read my comment before deciding to lay on the snark.
afternooner
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12 years ago
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on: RubyMotion 3.0 Sneak Peek: Android Support
I agree, and the 30 day trial isn't enough. It would be side projects, so I may get to hack on it for a day and maybe a night or two. I can write Obj-C, and Java, they just aren't as intuitive or enjoyable to me. And lets face it, $200 is just too much to spend when RubyMotion may not exist for version 4, and then I have an entire application that needs to be ported into Obj-C and Java... And a promise of open sourcing it doesn't help, because there may be no maintainers. IronRuby, now that C# has dynamics, would be awesome. But it hasn't been updated in 3 years. I'd even drop $100 sight unseen. But $200... Noooope.
afternooner
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12 years ago
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on: RubyMotion 3.0 Sneak Peek: Android Support
It could be a bad sign, or it could speak to priorities, and your priorities are not their priorities it seems. Personally, I accept all pull requests that are solid, written to my standards, fix or extend a feature that is a priority, are accompanied with unit tests, and do not impact or impinge on another feature or future feature. I do not however accept all pull requests. Part of this is that if there is no demand and it's a single individuals edge case, then I'll very heavily scrutinize the patch. If I don't agree, don't understand exactly what every line is doing, or do not feel it will be used by a significant portion of the user base then I won't pull it. Because moving forward, I will have to maintain it, and that isn't free. And if people don't like that, they can fork it.
afternooner
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12 years ago
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on: Rap Genius Co-Founder Moghadam Fired
Wiser men than I will choose to not name-call, though I live to no such standard. If you are a male and feel your rights are being impinged, you're as much of a loser as you are delusional. Get your head out of your ass and stop being a little bitch.
afternooner
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12 years ago
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on: Rap Genius Co-Founder Moghadam Fired
No, I've read the propaganda, it's illogical at best. Just seems to be a surge in butthurt little boys running around.
afternooner
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12 years ago
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on: Rap Genius Co-Founder Moghadam Fired
It's not an unreasonable point, but I feel like this is different. Either way, we'll have to see how this turns out.
afternooner
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12 years ago
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on: Privacy Badger
I don't see the tl;dr as you do, but if that's the perception of most people, then I am in error.
afternooner
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12 years ago
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on: Rap Genius Co-Founder Moghadam Fired
afternooner
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12 years ago
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on: Rap Genius Co-Founder Moghadam Fired
I'm sorry, I don't understand your meaning.
