65. Times That Do Not Exist

• Your Calendrical Fallacy Is...
• iOS 11.2.6 DateFormatter.date returns nil for cities that observe Brasília Summer Time
• Pub quiz question,"How many time zones are there"
  • I was still explaining to my fellow pub attendees about the complexities of time zones by the time the answer came around
• Where is the extra 75 seconds coming from?
• I think a great interview question is“how do you compute the length of a string?” If the candidate responds by asking“what do you mean by‘length’ and what do you mean by‘string’?” they pass—  @txsector
• Big-O Notation
• Ole Begemann: Strings in Swift 4(explains how family emoji are composed of person emoji + joiners)
• Ligatures in Unicode(Wikipedia)
• Accidentally Quadratic
• Soroush: Safety in Swift
• Spoiler: Soroush’s Word Ladder Solution

Backspacing emoji composed of multiple codepoints in Google Docs:

Teaser: 64. AI Apoptosis

This week, Chris and Soroush review what inheritance in OOP is good for … and the problems it brings with it. Also: an update on the lights in Soroush’s bathroom.

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63. Two People Who Like Type Systems

This week, after a brief detour into the subject of pizza, Soroush and Chris discuss how they’d go about the broad goal of “improving an app.”

• Artichoke Basille’s Pizza
• New York's Artichoke Basille Pizza: Why The Controversy?
• Ann Arbor vs Detroit
• Ypsilanti, MI
• Detroit-style pizza
• Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport
• Villanova, PA
• Code audit - Wikipedia
• SwiftLint
• SwiftFormat
• Swift Enums Are 'Sum' Types. That Makes Them Very Interesting
• Yak Shaving Defined
• Bikeshedding

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Teaser: 62. Convergent Swift Evolution

This week, Chris and Soroush discuss Soroush’s efforts to implement BigDecimal in Swift, recap Teki Con, and take a detour into evolutionary biology.

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61. Hypothetical Testing Tricks

This week, Soroush and Chris get ready for Dynamic Callable and Dynamic Member Lookup by thinking through how you could use them to mock objects for testing. Plus: more Booleans, national parks, and chat about testing in general.

• #Pragma Conference 2017 - Soroush Khanlou - You Deserve Nice Things
• Teki Con
• SE-0199: Adding toggle to Bool
• Episode 59: Why did they even hire Chris??
• Mutating and Nonmutating Functions
• Google Image Search: Gates of the Arctic National Park
• Dynamic Callable & Dynamic Member Lookup
• Martin Fowler: Mocks Aren't Stubs
• Roy Williams: Tautology Tests
• @whatjasdevreads on Twitter
• Gist by Soroush: How to generate a hex string for push notifications

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