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A masters will be a faster, more expensive path.

Without a CS degree of some sort you're going to need to prove you can code. Dabbling helps but you'll need to show work experience.

Getting work experience without a CS degree likely means taking jobs that aren't otherwise appealing.

Contracting or freelance can be a way to get that experience since the bar for proof is often lower, especially when working in non-technical industries.

But those are jobs, and they pay money.

If you have the financial means and can attend a reputable school, I'd recommend getting the masters, or even a bachelors.

Having that degree, and learning what they teach you in a CS program, will help you get a much better job and will help you perform in that job earlier than learning as you go.

You're going to need to make the call if you can afford the short term financial hit/investment.

My guess is the former since there aren't any 32 bit Apple platforms anymore.

Exposing a c function from an objective-c file, and then calling into our swift code from there is what we've been doing since before this feature was enabled. That of course also requires the Objective C runtime, but we haven't changed to @_cdecl mainly because I'm more worried about the behavior changing than I am about anyone trying to run our swift code on Linux.

Assigning a block to a c function pointer is an interesting alternative, I thought we tried something like that but I can't remember now.

Hopefully @_cdecl will become a documented and supported feature.

it's certainly great news that studios can make money producing high quality content.

But this isn't Netflix producing high quality content while the studios lose out. It's Netflix paying the studios for quality content.

Old media is still producing the content. Netflix doesn't own lots, or cameras, or catering trucks. This is predominantly a change to financing and a change to what type of shows get produced. It's not a change to who produces them.

What's interesting to me is that while Netflix is often the primary financier, the traditional studios are still the ones producing the content.

If Netflix has found a worldwide market for content, that's good news for the studios they're hiring to produce that content.

I'm curious if the additional revenue from Netflix, and presumably Amazon, Hulu, and a nervous HBO will be enough to offset the declining revenue from broadcast TV.

It was happening well before the tech boom. Venice was the last stretch of cheap sand in 200 miles, it was going to gentrify with or without Google or snap or any particular industry.

The retail explosion of Abbot Kinney, for example, predates any tech presence. Venice became cool (and safe) and then the tech companies moved in, along with everyone else.

Back in the '90s some government agency released a redacted report where someone had gone in and drawn black boxes in the PDF file, but the full text was of course still in the underlying data and people were able to get at it relatively easily.

EDIT: apparently this has happened repeatedly, according to a quick google search.

No doubt some sort of knee jerk process was put in place to ensure that any digital release of redacted documents must be scans of a physically redacted source.

Sort of like an analog memory hole.

There are slaughterhouses on multiple islands, and I can't find anything that states building a new one would be illegal.

At least on Kauai you can often find local beef, pork, and chicken, though it's still more expensive than meat from the mainland.

Likely because buying the rights to broadcast sports is expensive, free-associating talking heads are cheap, and subscriber revenue is down.

It's a vicious cycle.

I'm sure they are well aware that they're behind on the transition to streaming but are stuck with long term existing contracts that don't give them the rights they need.

The leagues want to go direct when they go streaming. Why would they need ESPN as an aggregator?

It's not like Netflix or HBO where you turn it on to browse, you're there to watch a specific game.

They're really screwed.

Yeah, figured as much. Look forward to that.