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Based on my skimming of the Swift documentation, Dylan is a much nicer language (both in its original form and in its modern OpenDylan incarnation). That said, Swift just needs to improve on Objective C, which does not set the bar high.
For Go to be great for systems programming, the unsafe package needs a few more primitives and better control over the GC.
Your whole statement assumes advertising is "the business of deception and manipulation", and you've not proven that at all. Maybe you take it as a given, but I don't. Sure, advertising can be manipulative and deceptive, but it can also be instructive and helpful.
My issue is with the phrasing. There's no such concept as "30% smarter than average", because there are no (known) intelligence units that could increase by 30%. Intelligence is measured relative to other people; we don't have any cardinal numbers for it. As such, saying "30% smarter than average" makes exactly as much sense as saying "fg wnthmsz ijwklwe uagp whajqlx".
Having lived in South Africa, you will also know that South Africa houses an indigenous white population that has settled in the country ~ 400 years ago, roughly the same time that Europeans settled in America, and also the same time that the black tribes also migrated and arrived in South Africa (Zulu's, Xhosa's, Sotho's etc.)

But now for some reason "African" refers to only black people, and white Africans are priviledged and not worthy of mention. Would you follow that same logic for Americans?

*For technical correctness the Khoi-San settled in South Africa ~2000 years ago, but is a minority population in South Africa.
I assume you mean the old, pre-4.7 design[1]? Interestingly, Oxygen itself ditched those for a less glossy design that had always reminded me of the (now old!) OSX icons. Not really sure what to make of that.

[1] http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/oxygen-icons.org/oxygen/2...

[2] http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Wemowf_4MrE/TjsIa4wrZeI/AAAAAAAAA1...
Really? It's my understanding that those with the least amount of money have the greatest need for healthcare. How is Apple with its premium product going to help those that cannot afford their products?

A cheap Android device could be used to help monitor the health of an elderly relative, however do you really perceive people leaving the latest iPhone with their dementia stricken parent?

Are expectant mothers going to be happy with having wireless transmissions constantly next to their unborn child (regardless of safety records)?

Are nurses going to have sterilised iPads for for the ward, where fluids are abound?

Health monitors haven't taken off because people do not care enough to want constant monitoring.
Location: Vancouver, Canada. Remote/Local/Relocate on West Coast, Full Time

Stack: C#/WPF, Objective-C, Java, Python, C++.
Platforms: iOS, Android, Mac, Windows.
Additional Languages: French, Japanese.

Resume: E-mail my username @ gmail.com

Contact: As above

Overview: CS grad as of August at top CS school, contracting in Bay Area late June / early July so available for interviews at that time. This is my 2nd degree, I am a mature new grad in my early 30s with a deep and diverse resume straddling audio engineering, music and audio software, HCI/interactivity software, AAA game development, and graphics/animation research including VR. I work obsessively at things I am most interested in, so if I am interested in your company's product, you can count on me for great ROI. I have worked +5 years in research labs over both of my degrees, won engineering competitions and am developing a new file standard.

In academia I have developed several technologies I am planning to one day base a start-up from, that extend from music education/audio production software, through real-time gestural interaction environments, to 3D audio for virtual reality libraries, but I prefer to bootstrap these in my spare time while working full-time for a company whose product I firmly believe in. I am looking for any position that can combine my domain and programming experience.
Currently in San Francisco, Would remote from Houston, TX or Relocate to Austin, TX, Full Time.

Stack: Objective C, Rails, Backbone, D3, Javascript.

Website: www.rismay.com

Contact: cmonterroza@wrkstrm.me

I am passionate about location based apps and the quantified self movement. I would like to work on freeing personal data from the silos they are currently kept in and eliminating the need for manual input.

I got started by programming a prototype for an ambient location platform. As a result, I am fluent with the majority of CoreLocation and MapKit. However, I have spent the last two years learning about general Objective C programming. Recently, I picked up Ruby and Javascript. Coincidently, they are perfect languages to have learned prior to the Swift announcement by Apple (aside from actually knowing Swift).
I hope so. Another stab on C's back.
Great initiative. In Amsterdam we can arrange visa quite quick and easy, i'll post our jobs and spread the words.
I don't see why their mobile page should be different when iOS 8 is reelased. It's the same problem I have with their desktop site actually. The quick answer box at the top of search results that thinks it knows what I want takes up way too much space.
Open GL ES is not going away, just a more performant option is available. Also, Metal is supported by at least two of the most popular engines (Unity and UE4), so they should handle most of the cross-platform work, provided you are using one of those.
AirDrop is a end-user feature above all else provided by the OS. It's not true that it would have required developers to support a temporary solution.

My understanding is that on OS X AirDrop was wi-fi only but on iOS it used a combination of wi-fi and Bluetooth.
I think the style of defining functions is similar to Go. Not a carbon copy, but it "feels" Go-ish.
Although there's a lot of boilerplate to get CoreData working I've always found it really good to work with. My guess would be that this iCloud developer stuff builds on top of CoreData so I wouldn't expect much to change unfortunately.
World's 1st Crowd-Sourced 3D Printed QR Code Delivery Ticket System
Same project, not mixed in files.
Myspace has been in it's current form for years, title is misleading.
I was expecting some kind of augmented reality app I could use on the beach to see what's beyond the horizon.
That is not quite right.

The Java/Objective-C bridge existed in the early days as they weren't sure if developers would pick Objective-C, so they decided to bet on two horses.

As Objective-C eventually won the hearts of Mac OS X developers, the bridge was deprecated and a few years later the full Java support.
Actually, the article describes a SEP as an actual problem in need of recognition. No matter how much HN becomes redditified, it's still not a real issue, and only affects those who care about it.

So no, it's really just your problem. :P

I hope I didn't just contribute to the problem.
San Francisco and Chicago these days.
I doubt OS X contains much if any code that Apple doesn't have the source to. This isn't so much speculation as common sense.

Apple as a company is the very embodiment of control. Ever since Jobs took the reigns back they have held the entire production pipeline of their products in an iron grip. I wouldn't imagine software, especially driver code that has such a massive impact on user experience to be any different.

GPU vendors allow game engine developers of a reasonable size access to the source of their drivers, why do you think that a company much more powerful (and actually a customer) would be denied the same access?

The implication they probably (re)wrote most if it themselves wouldn't surprise me much either. They have already shown that low level engineering is neither beneath them or beyond their capability. They produced their own ARM chips well ahead of the other vendors (even beating out veterans in that space like Qualcomm) and have continued to show they want to control everything except maybe the fab.

So lets be honest, the only thing that is likely to be true is they have access to everything and probably influence development of PowerVR hardware significantly.
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Belfort, France (would remote, no relocation possible :/)

Part time would be best, or contract.

Stack : Play Framework (Java), Flask/Django (Python), Backbone.js, Javascript, Bootstrap

Website: http://cnicodeme.com https://github.com/cnicodeme

Resume : http://careers.stackoverflow.com/cnicodeme

Contact : contact at cnicodeme.com

I love building web application and I love making them separated between frontend and backend (RESTFul servers). I already built some services in this way, like http://getinvoicy.com (demo@getinvoicy.com / demo) (It's in an early version), and the whole 2lead.in package (https://github.com/2leadin).

I'm at ease with Java and Python for the backend even though I did more than 10 years of PHP before and that I'm generally enthusiast to learn new languages if required :)
The data is shared with everyone Apple's wants to (or wants to sell to). Simple as that: "If you don't pay for it, then you're the product" :-). The quote of our time and the force that drives the internet's free services.

ps. They will have to have servers in the EU too, if they want European clients. EU law states that medical record data of an EU citizen can only be stored in the EU-located server.
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The entire site eventually got acquired for $57 million and those reviews probably helped. :)
Currently located in Vancouver, B.C. Open to remote/relocation, currently looking for part-time/contract, available for full-time in January 2015

Stack: HTML, CSS (SASS|LESS), PHP (CakePHP, SlimPHP, etc), JavaScript (jQuery|AngularJS|BackboneJS), Databases (MySQL|MongoDB|Oracle|MSSQL), Git/SVN/Perforce, Java, C++

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9fto5ypl4x9ryyw/Jay%20Huang%20-%20...

Contact: hn [at] [fullname].org

Experienced full stack web developer, looking for any web development related position (preferably front-end). I previously co-founded Windows7Center.com and Windows8Center.com (2008~2011), which ended up being the second biggest online community dedicated to Windows 7 at the time.

Two of the posts on my blog [1] have also made it into the top 5 and top 3 here respectively.

After putting college on hold to work for 2 years, I've returned to finish my diploma. I'm currently off for the summer and am looking for part-time/contract work, hopefully with an awesome company/team that I can work with full-time once I graduate in December.

[1] http://jayhuang.org/blog
Btw, do SSDs make any significant difference for desktops nowadays? I mean, I power up my PC once in a day. Also, as I'm aware it doesn't really help much with compilation performance. I'm asking this from dev-centric PoV.
When I think of privacy, I don't think too much of the NSA. Rather, I am much more concerned about Google storing every search I do to show me more relevant ads, because, hey, I'm not comfortable with being sold to advertisers.

Now, if I was really paranoid about NSA or wanted to hide stuff, I would use much more radical measures - say: using linux Tails, only browsing with Tor, and possibly from a public network whenever possible (in order to use a different IP each time).

For me, DDG is a decent middle ground. I suppose the NSA could track my search history if they really wanted to, but meanwhile it's a bit harder for them and I am less targeted by advertisement.
I'm pretty sure maps uses data from a few sources, one being how fast android devices are moving near there.
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To get more devs to pay.
You're getting downvoted because your comments add nothing to the discussion and have nothing to do with the article that has been posted.
And the risk of Mozilla switching to Bing by default is the reason that Google is so eager to pony up that $300 million every year. Thanks to Microsoft, Mozilla is the one with leverage in this relationship.
Whether you believe it or not, companies like Facebook, Google, Dropbox etc. have so much lose by deceiving the user than Apple or Microsoft and so much to gain from the good will of the user that they will weigh doing good more than bad to keep their business running.
I am looking forward to see if Graal[1] replaces Hotspot in Java 9, thus replacing the amount of C/C++ code in the reference implementation.

[1] Oracle's JIT implemented in Java, from the meta-circular JVM Maxime
Hello world program in esoteric languages
Talis Hardware Hack
Well, most implementations of Ada, Oberon and Modula-2 compilers among many others were boostraped, no C code in sight.
I've had a bit different luck. A few have paid for flights and hotel, some included a honorarium of some sort but most were paid on my own dime outside the free pass.

Two of my recent good friends are fellow speakers I met at conferences abroad. I met them abroad first but they live about 40 miles from me in the States. A couple days abroad felt like we were condensing months of friendship.
I'm a perfectionist, irritated by mediocrity.
I don't understand why all the succer overpowered social networks like friendster and myspace still try to foster their own walled garden.

Why don't they put their effort behind a social network protocol that works across their platforms?

That way we could some day have a decentralized social network ecosystem that works just like email. I can choose a social network provider and still interact with other persons regardless on which platform they are.

The networks would then compete featurewise.
It's not a "let's promote Google" thing. It's a "let's show the authorities that they cannot block every site" thing. For most people, Tor does not work in China.
> Apple had hobbled it by refusing to release updates on a timely basis.

I can see how they could get tired of being forced to ship almost-monthly updates just to support an extra language with very limited adoption. If you have to make that sort of effort, you'll probably do it for your native tools only (like Microsoft does with .Net). Besides, Java apps on OSX looked better than Java apps on Windows, but they were still recognizably different from Obj-C ones.

I wish somebody would write an OS in Python 3...
A is for Apple™...
> If I recall history correctly, Google was the first to monetize SERPs with ads.

You don't. All major SE that predated Google did so, from AltaVista to Yahoo... I used to maintain a CGI-based wrapper for a bunch of SE (these 2 plus "USE IT!", Lycos, Infoseek, WWWW, anyone remember them?) in the mid-/late 90's that removed the annoying ads from search results.

Google was the first SE with text based ads though, from what I remember.
That was the worst part for my: Nothing happened afterwards! The infected colleague even worked remotely when she (it was a female colleague) was sick. Probably in fear for her position.

The whole story was very WTF-worthy and obviously, I don't work with them any longer.
Combined with these clauses, You clearly can't use virtual currencies to purchase in-app items, but you possibly could use them to buy real-world items and also other virtual currencies?

11.2
Apps utilizing a system other than the In-App Purchase API (IAP) to purchase content, functionality, or services in an App will be rejected
11.3
Apps using IAP to purchase physical goods or goods and services used outside of the App will be rejected
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7827524.
C is dead on Windows and I hope Microsoft does not change its mind.

C is almost dead on Android, with its minimal exposure on the NDK and I hope Google does not change its mind about it.

C is now being killed on MacOS X and I look forward to Swift's success.

So this leaves out the embedded industry (slowly moving to Ada and Java on IoT) and the hardcore UNIX guys.
For those interested, the translucent effect can be disabled in Accessibility flagging "reduce transparency".
Thanks for this kabouseng. As a white South African whose ancestors arrived ~300 years ago, I was wondering how much longer before I was allowed to identify as "African".

It's not like I have anywhere else to call home.
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CSS or scripted animations
The fact that this has static typing is a huge difference to "just improving" ruby/python. That approach couldn't come close to getting the same early-error-catching dev experience, and performance. And amongst static languages, Apple wasn't likely to recommend C++ as simple, were they? And Rust/D are also quite low level, nor do they have the Objective-C legacy to consider. So really, you're probably left with C# (or maybe Java), and those are so old and large (esp. the libraries) by now that they're unlikely to naturally port to Apple's environment.

Frankly, a bit of a clean up every decade or two is not exactly often, right?
It just depends on the 'linux side of things' group your talking about. My T420s runs a full featured GNOME desktop on Arch at 5.5w idle, 7w browsing, 10w loaded. 136 watt hours total battery capacity with three batteries.

"Hours" is a really poor way to gauge these things, because while it may seem practically applicable , we're really comparing apples and oranges.

My T420 before my T420s had a battery run-time of 15 hours. I could fail to mention that it had a slice battery and an ultrabay on top of the primary battery and tell everyone that the particular model and OS ran for 15 hours straight, but that would be disingenuous. If I was a marketer I could run the processor at lower voltages, dim the screen unread-ably, turn WiFi off, etc etc until I got whatever numbers I wanted.

As i'm not a marketer, I also feel as if the claims people make about Apple's hardware being better at power management are also somewhat dishonest.

They are a company that has ultimate say in their hardware platform and software ecosystem. No other computer company locks down production that much in an effort to increase the individual experience of each consumer. That lock-down allows for an amount of control that would be unrealistic to expect from the FLOSS community, as they have little power or say in production and ultimately must code to support a wider range of people rather than a narrow set of known hardware packages that are available.

My point : optimizing narrowly for a single platform is much easier than the opposite; a more fair comparison of battery life would be watts-per-hour usage during a standardized testing/benchmarking suite of some sort, along with the watt hours of battery capacity(although historically handset manufacturers have sidestepped that issue by having the software recognize when it's being benchmarked..). "Hours of use" could be practical if it wasn't arbitrarily inflated or deflated by uncommon usage profile testing and specialty optimizations for the sake of marketing a bigger number.

It's not impossible to get good numbers out of a Linux build, it's just fairly difficult for someone unfamiliar with the system (and sometimes impossible without doing the work yourself with certain hardware stacks). There exists a whole subspecies of Linux users that are somewhat akin to hypermillers who turn this kind of dilemma into a game and compete for lowest wattage.
Hamburger not on the menu? The rise of overflow scroll
> Has the DDG user experience suffered? If so, how?

Perhaps not for the most common case (just typing in search terms and viewing results). But it does break some important things, the most annoying one for me is that you cannot link to the JavaScript-infested result pages like the expanded image search results. How do you send someone the result of an image search ("images foo" does not even work all the time and it's not the expanded view)?
> Apart from the UI polish

It sounds like you underestimate how hard it is to have "UI polish" implemented just right so that it feels seamless and natural instead of a hack (because honestly we do love to hack but ultimately prefer our prototypes to be implemented first-party, e.g I've been using JACK to stream audio in sync on various devices for years but AirPlay is so much more simple and natural)
Yeah, that's all good. But why call people who understand that programming environments should not be opaque (and not violate elementary laws of design by obscuring readings of system's state) "livecoding nerds"? Really, why? :)
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Created a simple interface for communicating between generic objects. Mainly as an exercise to teach myself OO JavaScript, and design patterns. Looking for criticism and feature requests.
Yes.

Even if you still need large storage capacity having the primary drive be an SSD will yield noticeable improvements.
> We have to be realistic. C is never going away. C++ is never going away.

Not in the coming years, but it eventually will become a legacy language like RPG is, confined to old boxes running on long term maintenance contracts.

All is needed are a few mainstream OS where those languages are no longer part of the standard SDK. Like for example Microsoft just did with C as of Windows 8. Even their latest C99 compatibility changes were only done as they are required by C++11/14, nothing else.

> I feel like the vast majority of the new programming languages coming out these days were conceived to make programming more pleasurable for the programmer.

This was already possible with Lisp, Smaltalk, Mesa/Cedar, Modula-2, back when C was created, but then AT&T had better relationship with universities than Xerox PARC and ETHZ did.
It is also important to deface the authorities and their partners' illegal, human rights-violated surveillance. Since Google yields to NSA (more or less), it is much better to replace it with so far innocent one... Let's show the coerced IT company that they should not assist the authorities with wrongdoing.
I have read through the entire text on that page and I still have not found the answer to the question "What makes iOS 8 the world’s most advanced mobile operating system?".
We changed it. (The submitted title was "Myspace is back".)
Another commenter claims Denmark (Greenland) also owns a latitude.
1000 commits on, neovim project still going strong
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Except I know lots of people who use plan9 for their day to day work. Including watching youtube videos and doing word processing.
I think the trademark office needs some reform as well. As I understand the process of an application first involves a search to check that the term hasn't been trademarked before or that very similar trademarks don't exist - not to check whether the term has been used before. The trademark is then "published for opposition" in the weekly trademark office Gazette, at which point anyone who believes they may incur damages from the trademark being granted (people selling "I love π." t-shirts) should contact the trademark office. In this case, the application can be seen on page 893 [0].

If I am selling something do I have to hire someone to check this every week to ensure someone doesn't file a trademark for any terms I have used? There is also the same thing for patents.

[0] http://www.uspto.gov/web/trademarks/tmog/20131112_OG.pdf
Dyson reveals early Google Glass-alike prototype
... and in many other languages way before scala.