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Nothing informs the current state of the field more than how we got here! Learn the foundation of your field from people who lived it. The podcast [Debug](http://www.imore.com/debug) is Guy English (Creator of Napkin and other apps) along with Rene Ritchie interviewing people about the history of Cocoa and CocoaTouch

I found [this episode about AutoLayout and Key Ferry illuminating](http://www.imore.com/debug-33-ken-ferry-auto-layout-passbook...).

3> Go through early versions. Few systems START complex. Look at OLD books for EARLY versions of systems, and why old php made such silly choices is obvious (hint, they weren't that silly for what it was doing). Read books and commentary through the timeline. Understand the history of what's happening to the language, then you'll understand why you are where you are.

4> Go DOWN the stack. Understand the bottom of Objective C by reading [the open source implementation of Core Foundation and more](http://www.gnustep.org/). Also available elsewhere (and I think somewhere on Apple's Site still).

5> Do what you shouldn't! Don't ship it, but really use those implementation details to do something awesome and amazing. You'll learn tons about what's happening.

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Comment · 12 years ago

Right now you only have the choice of a transaction with chargeback guarentees and other credit card niceities.

With something like bitcoin as an option, you have the option to drop that fraud overage charge, when you aren't worried about the other party (like in a repeated business scenario, such as amazon, or for a tiny purchase, or other things of that nature).

Comment · 12 years ago

Harassment laws should be enforced on twitter as much as anywhere else.

"Generally, criminal harassment entails intentionally targeting someone else with behavior that is meant to alarm, annoy, torment or terrorize them. Not all petty annoyances constitute harassment. Instead, most state laws require that the behavior cause a credible threat to the person's safety or their family's safety. - See more at: http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/harassment.html...

"I'm going to rape/kill/etc you" should probably end up with you in front of a prosecutor in many states.

Comment · 12 years ago

MIT has pass fail for the first term. http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/first_term_freshman_yea...

Comment · 12 years ago

Yes, the types.

Strong types are far easier to optimize.

Comment · 12 years ago

These appear to be in line with unoptimized swift. mpweiher, can we have some gists of the proj or something for these numbers?

Comment · 12 years ago

>u. No, deleting your emails programatically because you haven't got around to reading them is not a good idea

Archiving them is. You can't have more attention than you have. If people try to get more attention then you can give, you have to triage. Backloads of email are huge piles of stress, and you realistically will almost never get to them

Once you've done the emails you've chosen to handle, use a mail client with some form reply to process some things which that's amenable to handling, and archive that which isn't important beyond that.

You should ALSO work directly to stop getting CCed on so many things and to communicate with fewer exchanges on more important topics. Get co-workers to not bury the lede, and to get items which need your decision or action to very prominently feature that in the title and first line of the message.

Comment · 12 years ago

Google didn't bring Clojure to Android, some 3rd party did, and slowly. Scala appear to have the same story I think? (Large startup lag?)

If you want functional on Android, I'm betting F# is the premiere method today performant enough to write real apps in.