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  1. Re:consider garbage collection is garbage on Objective-C Use Falls Hard, Apple's Swift On the Rise (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    The Apple implementation of Swift isn't garbage collected. Once it's made open source, there is no reason why somebody else can't create a GC version.

  2. Re:consider garbage collection is garbage on Objective-C Use Falls Hard, Apple's Swift On the Rise (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    And in C you can often use object stacks/bump allocators for this stuff. (Which is one reason to roll-your-own data structures in C rather than use libraries--you can optimize all the properties of the data structure for _your_ particular case.

    Yes, how did that work out for the openssl guys?

  3. Re:Which is better? on Objective-C Use Falls Hard, Apple's Swift On the Rise (dice.com) · · Score: 2

    Swift.

    By default Swift objects do not have dynamic dispatch, so method invocations do not have to do the lookup that Objective-C does. However, if you are interacting heavily with Cocoa or Foundation which any UI application has to do, you lose that advantage. There's still some advantage because Swift's optimisation is better than with Clang.

    I wrote a 6502 emulation in C and Objective-C once in which all the performance critical stuff was done in pure C. My port into Swift ran at about a third of the speed which is pretty good I think considering all the safety checking that Swift does that C does not do. A pure Objective-C version would not get close.

  4. Re:Which is better? on Objective-C Use Falls Hard, Apple's Swift On the Rise (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Objective-C's garbage collection is the same as that in Swift.

    There is also a properly garbage collected memory model, but that is deprecated and will not be supported at all on the next version of OS X.

  5. If Assange didn't want to be harassed by our law enforcement agencies, he should not have broken the conditions of his bail.

  6. Re:Having trouble finding people? Really? on Linus: '2016 Will Be the Year of the ARM Laptop' (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly the five digit era yielded nOoBs without the ability to get a joke.

  7. Re:A remarkable number of people are idiots on A Remarkable Number of People Think 'The Martian' Is Based On a True Story (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone who knows anything about space exploration knows that no human has gone past the moon.

    Not even Major Tom?

  8. Re:ubiquity and Git on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    You mean Git is shit. Git is not the only distributed version control system and it's not the best. It's main contribution to software engineering is to turn the version control domain into a monoculture, stifling innovation, through the power of Linus's personality cult.

  9. Re:What kind of dumbass company... on Samsung Decides Not To Patch Kernel Vulnerabilities In Some S4 Smartphones · · Score: 2

    What kind of dumbass company is going to spend money porting a new version of an OS to an old platform, with no payday for doing so?

    Apple.

    Well, OK there must be a payday. Perhaps they see the fact that you can put the latest iOS onto a 4s as a selling point. i.e. if you splashed the cash for one in 2011 you would feel better knowing that, theoretically, you could still have the latest OS four years later even if unreality you replace it after two years.

  10. How do you get money out of an ATM without a PIN?

  11. Re:Apropos of nothing... on Uber Raided By Dutch Authorities, Seen As 'Criminal Organization' · · Score: 1

    Technically, Rosa Parks didn't break the law and even if he had, it would probably be ruled uncionstitutional today.

  12. Re:What the fuck is wrong with you guys on Uber Raided By Dutch Authorities, Seen As 'Criminal Organization' · · Score: 1

    4. Go to fucking prison

  13. Re:Without government... on Uber Raided By Dutch Authorities, Seen As 'Criminal Organization' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Uber cars ... don't try to cheat you at every step.

    Right....

    http://justanotherpointstravel...

  14. Re:Bloatware? on iPhone 6s's A9 Processor Racks Up Impressive Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    You can delete it.

    Oh wait, just tried it, and no you can't.

    You can ignore it though.

  15. Re:From TFA on iPhone 6s's A9 Processor Racks Up Impressive Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    It's not a bug it's a feature!

  16. Re:Visicalc was world-changing... on Recalc Or Die: Excel 1.0 Developers Celebrate Their Baby's 30th Birthday · · Score: 1

    You're upset that Excel treats something that looks like a number as a number instead of reading your mind.

    Put your serial numbers (which aren't really numbers, they are strings containing only digits) in quotes.

  17. Re:Planet Money covered the difference between US/ on Car Industry "Buried Report Showing US Car Safety Flaws Over Fears For TTIP Deal" · · Score: 1

    Try mounting the plates vertically so they don't hit the pedestrian end on. Makes them easier to read from a distance too.

  18. Re:In American cars' defense on Car Industry "Buried Report Showing US Car Safety Flaws Over Fears For TTIP Deal" · · Score: 1

    When a car manufacturer finds a way to cheat on the safety tests.

  19. Come to Europe and look at the cars. You will see very few American cars and the ones that you do see will generally be niche models. Now it could be that most US cars are unable to pass European safety standards or it could be that the perception in Europe is that American cars are crap badly made gas guzzling turds that won't go round corners.

  20. The USA has higher healthcare costs per capita for worse outcomes than almost any other developed nation.

  21. Re:Ironically this was caused by slow XCode downlo on Apple Cleaning Up App Store After Its First Major Attack · · Score: 1

    Xcode is signed. However, you can turn off Gatekeeper or temporarily override it while you run Xcode for the first time.

  22. Better Quality Results on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    I remember that Google loaded much faster over my dial up modem but mainly the quality of the porn^H^H^H^H tech results was better. Yes, better results for technical information, not porn, nothing whatever to do with porn.

  23. Re:Wait for it... on "Extremely Critical" OS X Keychain Vulnerability Steals Passwords Via SMS · · Score: 1

    Can you name any? I have several games on OS X and none of them require me to disable Gatekeeper.

  24. Re:Problem with the solution? on Why In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Still Slow and Expensive · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe he means "play the Sims" and debug something else.

  25. Re:Teach the Accountant Open Office Spreadsheets on Ask Slashdot: Technical Resources For Non-Technical Disciplines? · · Score: 1

    I think the main point is to know if the developers are bullshitting him.