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therockhead

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Father, Husband, Coder. From Galway, Ireland.

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github.com 4y ago

Flutter on macOS – Blinking cursor should use less CPU

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www.gamedeveloper.com 4y ago

Capcom to increase base salary of staff in Japan by 30 percent

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www.bloomberg.com 5y ago

BT's $700M Job to Rip-and-Replace Huawei 5G Begins Here

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

The First Room Temperature Superconductor

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brandur.org 6y ago

Actix Web: Optimization Amongst Optimizations

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youtu.be 6y ago

Lincoln Labs endorses Rust for spacecraft software development

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www.reddit.com 7y ago

Rust now, on average, outperforms C++ in the Benchmarks Game by 3%

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github.com 7y ago

Scenic – a client application framework written in Elixir/Erlang

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forums.developer.apple.com 8y ago

Core Spotlight still broken on macOS 10.13

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daringfireball.net 9y ago

Diseconomies of scale

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ericasadun.com 10y ago

Another take on guard

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developer.apple.com 10y ago

Xcode 7 is out

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github.com 11y ago

Xcode 7 beta 1 with Swift 2.0 fixed 89 % of all Swift crashing bugs

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www.siliconrepublic.com 11y ago

Ireland gets tough on trolls – up to five years and fines of €75k

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pragprog.com 11y ago

Metaprogramming Elixir: Write Less Code, Get More Done (and Have Fun)

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

Cisco’s New Project Squared Collaboration Tool

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www.gamasutra.com 13y ago

Android vs iOS Game Myths

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clojure-android.blogspot.com 14y ago

Clojure on Android blog

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love2d.org 14y ago

Create 2D games in Lua and LÖVE.

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www.erlang-factory.com 15y ago

Erlang and First-Person Shooters in online games [pdf]

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kirkwylie.blogspot.com 15y ago

Scala considered harmful for large projects?

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The two day old account is an obvious hint but I got to be honest, the content didn't look suspicious on first read. I know you touched on it above, but what do you think triggered your AI generated thought ?

GPT-5 12 months ago

Who’s left to buy the stuff they make if no one has a job ?

I need to think about this a bit more, but I think I would love a thread feature in ChatGPT, so that it has the context up to the point of creation but doesn’t affect the main conversation. It would help in two ways, it keeps the main topic from getting poisoned , and allow me to minimise text clutter when i go off on tangents during the conversation.

Hyperspace 1 year ago

I wonder why they haven't tried to back port SwiftUI improvements/versions to the older OSs. Seems like this should have been possible.

Hyperspace 1 year ago

It's been a while since I last looked at SwiftUI on mac, Is it really still that bad ?

Hyperspace 1 year ago

I assume it’s because it’s from John Siracusa, a long-time Mac enthusiast, blogger, and podcaster. If you listen to him on ATP, it’s hard not to like him, and anything he does is bound to get more than the usual upvotes on HN.

My two adolescent children each own second-hand iPhones, which they rely on daily as their most priced possessions. It's intriguing to note their complete disinterest in newer models or upgrades. They regard their iPhones in a manner akin to my perspective on a dishwasher: indispensable, yet no desire for a change as long as they serve their purpose.

It’s not that useful for phone apps.

If you’re building a large complex app that needs to be shared across multiple platforms, C++ is a common choice. Not talking about games here, think Office, Facebook, Zoom, WebEx etc. It easy to see Rust replacing C++ in that stack.

But as Rust is so much nicer that C++, I could see it becoming popular for smaller projects that want to share common logic, with a native UI on top.

Automerge 2.0 3 years ago

Is advised to use CRDTs for an offline app that syncs to a central server, such as a todo app like Apple's Reminders or Todoist? Can simpler methods suffice ?

I disagree. If you want common code between all platforms (iOS/Android/Windows/macOS) your choices are pretty limited. Right now I work on a large codebase where C++ is used to solve the code sharing issue, but would much prefer it to be Rust.

If you default to Arc everywhere, aren’t you essentially just implementing a slow GC?

Like I posted earlier, you don't do this everywhere, just some sporadic use where it makes life a lot easier. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.

In async web frameworks you very rarely need explicit lifetimes, because the workload is mostly isolated - a handler gets an input from the request

Was going to post the same comment. Most of my hobbyist Rust programming has been via the Actix Webframework and I only run into the most trivial of borrow checker issues. I guess my projects are not complex or interesting enough :).