Watching North Korea fail, and do so repeatedly is really funny. What is not funny is their determination.
Last week I watched The Propaganda Game on Netflix. It was an interesting eye opener of what North Koreans think of themselves and the rest of the world. Especially interesting was the Spanish guy who effectively emigrated to NK and was spouting the NK political line.
Trump's proposal to have Japan and South Korea go nuclear is the right response to this.
OK remind me again. Which day of the week is it that you are saying that Trump thinks a nuclear Japan is good? I've lost track of which side of the topic he is currently on.
I took a look. It took me a while to figure it out. It's:
1. An online store to sell a vanity press version of a kids book 2. An attempt to make FB for kids by pitching it as "the world is a scary place, so lets talk about it"
So, I'm not able to maintain my Swift 2.2 code anymore just because Swift 3.0 or 4.0 is out? Strange, I had assumed my old Swift 2.2 compiler just runs as usually.
Well Xcode 7 only came with a Swift 2 compiler, so you could not maintain Swift 1 code with that version. I assume that once Swift 3 is officially out that Xcode will pull a similar trick regarding Swift 2.x
However Apple does supply migration tools that the "person" you are replying too is seeming to totally ignore.
I was around 18 years ago. That is my point: why would you use a language that is in flux and a single corporate entity can control or drop on their whim?
Oh please enlighten me then. What is this magical language that you would have me develop in?
And no: things don't have to change every 4 months.
As stated previously by me and several other people, Apple stated at the outset that Swift would go through syntactical changes until it settled down. But it appears that you think a language needs to spring from the bosom of its creator in a perfect yet fixed, state.
But go ahead and waste your time "learning" Swift, Rust, ObjC, etc if you want.
I guess the fact that 18 years >> 4 months is lost on you.
Obviously you weren't around 18 years ago, otherwise you wouldn't be comparing Apples to Oranges. New languages in their infancy are always in a state of flux.
Oh well, enjoy Swift until Apple gets bored with it and discontinues it and replaces it with something "better".
Swift 2.2 was released in MARCH 16, 2016, and is already obsolete. Ridiculous.
Hardly obsolete. No-one is saying you now can't still write Swift in 2.2 or even 1. Swift is not included in iOS and is instead bundled with the App that uses it. You just need to use the tooling version that supports your desired Swift version.
Too bad if you put time into learning Swift 2.0. That knowledge is now obsolete. And when Swift 4.0 comes out, your Swift 3.0 knowledge will be obsolete. My advice to young programmers: avoid languages owned by corporations. They have time and money to waste. You don't.
LOL I take it that you have never looked at C++, an ISO standardized language. Code written in C++98 and C++14 almost appear to be written in different languages.
And actually one of the advantages of a corporate controlled language is you totally avoid the "Designed by committee approach" to things.
why would you do this? to artificially inflate battery life or make it slimmer, not worth it, this is a stupid move.
Physically headphone jack extends a long way into the phone - more than you would expect. So its a logical step if you want to add to battery life and make things slimmer.
I'd like to say that it is a great step to alienate your customers, but Apple has left a pile of things lying by the roadside as it kept speeding on (EG DVD drives, floppy disk drives, ADB etc to name a few).
I'd also say that Apple has totally lost the plot if it moves to a 3 year cycle for phone hardware. All it takes is one brand new hardware interface to pop up at the wrong time and Apple is screwed for several years.
As a kid, I used to record music off FM radio, through the headphone jack to either cassette or reel-to-reel (gawd I'm old). Then the 80s came along and "tapes are killing music."
If you lived through that period and were paying attention you'd also remember the Private copying Levy applied to various types of media.
Some new comers make a big deal of the LDS church influence in life in Utah and this because many people are LDS and live their religion, that is where the influence lies.
And yet I spoke to people who are LDS and moved from other states who complained about the LDS born and raised in UT.
I'm not saying that in general LDS aren't nice and friendly people face to face, but the LDS church (as practiced in UT) has some very negative practices.
Slashdot Mirror
which lets members rent desks in an open office
Couldn't you just go to the library and get a desk and computer for free?
Even more so .. there are groups dedicated to giving away shared workspaces so that people can collaborate and form new ideas: Gangplank
But I hand't heard they made pizza. I just though there were a cardboard tile store.
Is a self referential acronym Hipster?
No .. but calling out as feature is IMHO
What is it with all this "it's spelt this way, but pronounced that way" stuff?
Just give it a not-so-clever name nobody cares.
Hipsters. As indicated by them taking the effort to call out "Pun in name" as being a distinguishing feature.
Watching North Korea fail, and do so repeatedly is really funny. What is not funny is their determination.
Last week I watched The Propaganda Game on Netflix. It was an interesting eye opener of what North Koreans think of themselves and the rest of the world. Especially interesting was the Spanish guy who effectively emigrated to NK and was spouting the NK political line.
Trump's proposal to have Japan and South Korea go nuclear is the right response to this.
OK remind me again. Which day of the week is it that you are saying that Trump thinks a nuclear Japan is good? I've lost track of which side of the topic he is currently on.
We also *really* don't want to be lectured to about piracy when we're watching a legally purchased DVD
Don't forget that abomination that is region coding. Why the fuck can't I watch a DVD at home that I bought while on vacation in another country?
(and yes I do know about the *nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink* region unlocking of the DVD player manufacturers)
Seriously, tell me WTF this companydoes:
I took a look. It took me a while to figure it out. It's:
1. An online store to sell a vanity press version of a kids book
2. An attempt to make FB for kids by pitching it as "the world is a scary place, so lets talk about it"
So this language is so "open" that it's only usable within Xcode? It sounds like a small world propritary deal.
And 5 seconds on google finds Introduction to Open source Swift on Linux
So, I'm not able to maintain my Swift 2.2 code anymore just because Swift 3.0 or 4.0 is out?
Strange, I had assumed my old Swift 2.2 compiler just runs as usually.
Well Xcode 7 only came with a Swift 2 compiler, so you could not maintain Swift 1 code with that version. I assume that once Swift 3 is officially out that Xcode will pull a similar trick regarding Swift 2.x
However Apple does supply migration tools that the "person" you are replying too is seeming to totally ignore.
C# and the .Net framework is probably one of the best development environments out there.
Add to that the quality of Visual Studio compare to other IDEs. Case in point Xcode can't refactor Swift.
I was around 18 years ago. That is my point: why would you use a language that is in flux and a single corporate entity can control or drop on their whim?
Oh please enlighten me then. What is this magical language that you would have me develop in?
And no: things don't have to change every 4 months.
As stated previously by me and several other people, Apple stated at the outset that Swift would go through syntactical changes until it settled down. But it appears that you think a language needs to spring from the bosom of its creator in a perfect yet fixed, state.
But go ahead and waste your time "learning" Swift, Rust, ObjC, etc if you want.
Knowledge is never wasted.
I guess the fact that 18 years >> 4 months is lost on you.
Obviously you weren't around 18 years ago, otherwise you wouldn't be comparing Apples to Oranges. New languages in their infancy are always in a state of flux.
Oh well, enjoy Swift until Apple gets bored with it and discontinues it and replaces it with something "better".
What, things change? Say it ain't so.
Sure but C++98 was 18 YEARS ago. Swift 2.2 was released 4 MONTHS AGO. What a joke.
Is that you Donald?
And as I mentioned above there have been breaking changes in C++
C++ advances and still maintains backward compatibility. It does matter. If you learned C++ 10 years ago, that knowledge still applies today.
There have been breaking changes in C++ in the past.
Swift 2.2 was released in MARCH 16, 2016, and is already obsolete. Ridiculous.
Hardly obsolete. No-one is saying you now can't still write Swift in 2.2 or even 1. Swift is not included in iOS and is instead bundled with the App that uses it. You just need to use the tooling version that supports your desired Swift version.
Too bad if you put time into learning Swift 2.0. That knowledge is now obsolete. And when Swift 4.0 comes out, your Swift 3.0 knowledge will be obsolete. My advice to young programmers: avoid languages owned by corporations. They have time and money to waste. You don't.
LOL I take it that you have never looked at C++, an ISO standardized language. Code written in C++98 and C++14 almost appear to be written in different languages.
And actually one of the advantages of a corporate controlled language is you totally avoid the "Designed by committee approach" to things.
25% of mobile Apps are crap, and proof of that only becomes obvious when they are used for the first time.
Does that include
I don't want these ##%^&(*&@ windows 10 updates
why would you do this? to artificially inflate battery life or make it slimmer, not worth it, this is a stupid move.
Physically headphone jack extends a long way into the phone - more than you would expect. So its a logical step if you want to add to battery life and make things slimmer.
I'd like to say that it is a great step to alienate your customers, but Apple has left a pile of things lying by the roadside as it kept speeding on (EG DVD drives, floppy disk drives, ADB etc to name a few).
I'd also say that Apple has totally lost the plot if it moves to a 3 year cycle for phone hardware. All it takes is one brand new hardware interface to pop up at the wrong time and Apple is screwed for several years.
As a kid, I used to record music off FM radio, through the headphone jack to either cassette or reel-to-reel (gawd I'm old). Then the 80s came along and "tapes are killing music."
If you lived through that period and were paying attention you'd also remember the Private copying Levy applied to various types of media.
I suspect the Facebook app, or third party apps, of skimming phone contacts and uploading them to Facebook.
If so then this is just plain evil on FB's part.
OTOH with my original RAZR V3 I am safe from FB scanning my phone contacts.
Have you learned nothing from this technology? Centers are obsolete. It'll be a network.
Except that while technology may change, human nature remains the same.
The "Everything is distributed" trend discounts the value of random face to face encounters in the office.
Some new comers make a big deal of the LDS church influence in life in Utah and this because many people are LDS and live their religion, that is where the influence lies.
And yet I spoke to people who are LDS and moved from other states who complained about the LDS born and raised in UT.
I'm not saying that in general LDS aren't nice and friendly people face to face, but the LDS church (as practiced in UT) has some very negative practices.
SLC is actually pretty liberal.
I know .. I saw things in SLC that I couldn't believe existed there.
The rest of Utah is just so conservative it balances out. Outside of SLC, most of the people in Silicon Valley would probably go crazy.
Well I didn't go crazy .. but I certainly raised an eyebrow on many occasions.