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I know that when they designed Swift they could have just used the ECMA C# standard— and saved a ton of money on language design by using a language designed by people who know how to design a language and that is 20 years mature. I have a tiny little iOS app written in Swift. Every time I have to update it to comply with the store. I have to edit some of the code because they’re still working out the swift language.
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jlongo wrote: when they designed Swift they could have just used the ECMA C# standard— and saved a ton of money on language design by using a language designed by people who know how to design a language and that is 20 years mature
As a C#-Forever developer I totally get what you are saying.
I know that Swift has to interact with the underlying NS (NextStep) classes / objects and I think they had to do a lot of work there so all the extra work probably became one of those, "well, let's just roll our own" kind of situations.
Also, (the most difficult thing about learning Swift) is the fact that there is so much declarative code (versus imperative-type coding that is done in other languages) and I think that is something the Swift creators were also trying to achieve -- but it makes the language like magic for me a lot and magic is hard to learn, because you just have to accept it that it does it.
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For the past week I've had Covid brain fog along with the other usual symptoms including diminished senses of taste and smell.
Anyway...
It tended to grate, when yesterday's Wordle solution wasn't crate.
I tried to orate and some thought I prate.
But I never got irate.
I'll show myself the door. 
modified 5-Jul-23 12:40pm.
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It took me about a month to get my taste back, and it still is not 100%.
I recommend taking Zinc supplements as I have learned that COVID can deplete and inhibit your ability to absorb zinc.
Zinc is a key component to smell. Smell being key to taste. It helps.
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I didn't get it either 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Hear the inner dust (5)
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Earth ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Tomorrow all yours!
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Oi @KornfeldEliyahuPeter ! where's the CCC
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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5 minutes...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Wordle 746 3/6
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨
⬛🟩🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 746 5/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 746 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
🟨🟨⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 746 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 746 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟨🟩🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 746 5/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟩🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 746 4/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨
⬛🟨🟩🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Wordle 746 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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[^]
that song (1942 movie, "Yankee Doodle Dandy," Jimmy Cagney as vaudevillian George M. Cohan) seemed right for singing around 4PM my time (GMT+7) when the USA, from coast to coast, was solidly in the 4th.
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" ... no surprise that Yankee Doodle Dandy was hugely popular upon it’s release in late May/early June 1942. Filming had begun before the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States was still trying to stay out of the world war, but it’s not like filmmakers didn’t know war might be coming and that a patriotic picture might be a good bet. Still, the timing could not have been better for the newfound patriotic fervor of audiences, for star James Cagney’s career, and, ultimately, for the time left before subject George M. Cohen’s death."
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"And the performance of Mr. Cagney as the one and original Song-and-Dance Man is an unbelievably faithful characterization and a piece of playing that glows with energy.True, Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph, the script-writers, have taken some liberties with Mr. Cohan's life. They have juggled facts rather freely to construct a neat, dramatic story line, and they have let slip a few anachronisms which the wise ones will gleefully spot. But, as the late Sigmund Lubin once put it, they're yours at no extra cost. And, of course, Mr. Cohan had the last word. He said okay, let them go."
i only thought/imagined, later, why that unpremeditated choice popped up:
it's a civil war song; imho, i see America as now as close, politically, culturally, to the polarization, and, violent potential, of that terrible time ?
perversity: the song makes fun of the British (macaroni = fop, superficial, materialistic), already suffering 3 years of WWII at enormous cost, not the nazis ... the real enemy ?
American corporate-occupied-mallburgerland mass-media culture today as vaudeville ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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#Worldle #529 4/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟨⬜↘️
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜↙️
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜⬇️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
convergent no map used
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Hi All,
I have just walked past a proper  moment. A teams meeting between 5 people sat in the office, two next to each other. I know Teams meetings are the norm now but come on a meeting room ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) , biscuits & white board is how I have always designed my most successful products that way. I suppose the only thing could be record of the meeting from the look of it wasn't being recorded... "Working from home" carried into the office?
Glenn
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The new norm of laziness if all are in the same office.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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A very long time ago there was a story about a manager and an engineer both working on a Saturday. They kept emailing back and forth until the engineer just got up and walked 20 feet into the manager's office.
Yeah, the Teams thing is getting absurd.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I believe that it was in 1983 (maybe 1984) when a co-worker down the corridor sent me an email, asking if we should go to the movies that night. When I asked why he didn't come to my office to ask, he didn't see the point: Using email, he could ask me without leaving his desk.
That was 40 years ago. Maybe we shouldn't complain about kids today being lazy.
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