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Alphasite_··on El Capitan and Homebrew
Feel free to disable sip, or just unprotect the folders you don't want protected (although the latter would get wiped out after updates).
Alphasite_··on My gamedever wishlist for Rust
I wouldn't say Swift's type system is particularly simple, I rather like it, but it does have a lot of complexities.
Alphasite_··on Google Said to Be Under U.S. Antitrust Scrutiny Over Android
ITs open source in the same way OSX and iOS are open source (although more open, i will admit) the core is open, but a very large proportion of the key services are closed and difficult to replace.
Alphasite_··on C++ Core Guidelines
Wouldn't this be an argument of rising auto type conversions?
Alphasite_··on 400 days of Go
Yes, but at that point, aren't they just text based IDEs?
Alphasite_··on 400 days of Go
Relying on the accuracy of a VIM mode implies that the best way to do with VIM does is to do exactly what VIM does, when there may be better, but less familiar ones.
Alphasite_··on System XVI: A replacement for systemd
Its only the IPC layer...
Alphasite_··on 16GB Is a Bad User Experience
Honestly, that at least has improved significantly.
Alphasite_··on CIL (.NET bytecode) to WebAssembly compiler
Neither C nor C++ is often thrown up as the gold standard for type systems nor expressiveness.
Alphasite_··on Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads
Yes. If you have the app installed infuriatingly persistent, less so if you dont. Not having the app installed means you have to deal with the terrible youtube web player (which doesn't even use native fullscreen!).
Alphasite_··on OS X Command Line Utilities
I found home-brew much more problematic and more significantly much slower when i last used it (a few years back now).
Alphasite_··on How security flaws work: the buffer overflow
Swift is another new language with it. Its getting to be the norm now.
Alphasite_··on The MUD Connector
14 million I believe.
Alphasite_··on A Eulogy for Objective-C
That seems the opposite, very few things need those dynamic features and those that do can be special cased, which makes Objc the more pure but equally more academic language to me.
Alphasite_··on Safari is more energy-efficient than Chrome and Firefox on OS X
Either way someone looses out, bookmarks were so handy.
Alphasite_··on Safari is more energy-efficient than Chrome and Firefox on OS X
It's also been less of a memory hog than the equivilent chrome set up for me.
Alphasite_··on Go GC: Latency Problem Solved [pdf]
I never said it was.
Alphasite_··on Microsoft Edge and Web Components
Falling behind was never IEs worst 'feature'. Standards compliance, security and speed were much bigger issues.
Alphasite_··on Why isn't 'American' a Language?
It's not that simple, as far as I know Hindi and Urdu are effectively the same language when spoken, with some small divergences but use a different character set. How would regard that?
Alphasite_··on Jshell: The Java Shell (REPL)
Because you're sacrificing consistancy and type safety for object to avoid increasing the syntax which feels like optimising for the wrong metric.
Alphasite_··on New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies
Well no, it could be argued that it is a free market of sorts.
Alphasite_··on LLVM merges SafeStack
No, bit odd is too low level for this and I believe it's only used for iOS apps ATM.
Alphasite_··on London, it’s over, and it’s not me, it’s you
That's a london thing, it's (approximately) only a pound or two in a lot of other places.
Alphasite_··on Why Don't Software Developers Use Static Analysis Tools to Find Bugs?
I don't know about code contracts, but IntelliJ does have an equivilent, if less advanced version of these as well, using Java annotations. Although it's mostly used for nullability/taint detection ATM.
Alphasite_··on To Apple, Love Taylor
There is a counterpoint to this whole thing, apple doesn't have a free tier, which is to the artists benefit.
Alphasite_··on What's new in Xcode 7
VAT pretty much covers it completely, sans vat its £66.
Alphasite_··on “Swift will be open source later this year”
Lawsuits tend to put a dampener on things, so there is that.
Alphasite_··on “Swift will be open source later this year”
That was on hold for legal reasons.
Alphasite_··on Why Has Apple Spawned So Few Startups?
Last I checked they had 50k total staff and a big chunk of that would be in sales.
Alphasite_··on A year with Go
Yeah. But you don't have to, you're literally complaint that the user has options. It's not like Go doesn't have a GC either.
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