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> And yet, we do no such thing when it comes to home and property security, financial security or medical records security. So, why when it comes to a phone which clearly has less overall value tha…

For such a simple application (pane with 20 controls and a GO button, 2k lines of code), I think Lazarus (or Delphi) are fantastic solutions. Either of these two would give you Windows, Mac, and Linux…

Your accountant, financial services provider, etc. would probably have good references.

> Now, they're expecting you to be satisfied with them monopolizing the security controls and monitoring on your phone. What is the alternative, though? That each user figures out for themselv…

Haha. Alan Kay wrote: "At Utah sometime after Nov 66 when, influenced by Sketchpad, Simula, the design for the ARPAnet, the Burroughs B5000, and my background in Biology and Mathematics, I though…

Clarification: I meant using those environments for other languages, like people do with emacs, which is what I inferred the person I responded to was asking.

I have not seen Squeak (or other Smalltalk environments, e.g. Pharo) being used like and IDE, which is what I infer you mean by "developer... emacs replacement". It certainly seems possible …

One thing to realize is that different companies have different level criteria, so a senior software engineer at one company doesn't mean a different company would consider you a senior software …

"it's not about having the right answer; it's about getting (to) the right answer"

"New levels of performance (extending JavaScriptCore, the engine)." I excitedly thought this project might include a new JavaScript VM, not extending an existing one.

> It's politics, usually, keeping the factories and highways away. I don’t see how this changes the fact some locations are more desirable than others. > More fundamentally, the notion that…

> People need lots of things. The principal constraints on real estate are political. (The entire concept of real estate is a social construct.) Not physical space. Even if (the amount of) physical…

"When entire countries fail to confront serious challenges, it doesn't end well. "

> First, UAE hasn't signed that declaration. Do we hold UAE accountable to a declaration they never signed just because we've signed it and hold it a "North Star"? Yes, we shoul…

Educating someone requires expertise. Being exposed to different education styles is far better than just having one teacher (the parent). There's no way for a parent to have sufficient breadth a…

> coordinated response are you saying companies are coordinating their layoffs?