In the final episode of Fatal Error, Chris and Soroush go through some follow-up, then recap the news from WWDC.
Tweets & photos from the live show at WWDC:
69. (null)
This week, Chris and Soroush talk about null, the billion dollar mistake. They talk about its past, its present and maybe even its future. Nice!
enum Brain {
case small
case medium
case large
case galaxy
case universe
}- Liskov Substitution Principle
- Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
- Python on Google App Engine
- PEP 484: Type Hints
- The Definitive Reference To Why Maybe Is Better Than Null
- That One Optional Property
- The algebra (and calculus!) of algebraic data types
- Point-Free episode 4: Algebraic Data Types
- Optional definition
- SubEthaEdit
Episode 70 will be a live show at WWDC
In recent episodes, we've alluded to a possible Very Special 70th Episode.
Everything came together for that episode, and we're happy to announce that we're gonna do a live show at WWDC. We're spending the last of our Patreon money to fly ourselves out there, and we've booked a small venue for the show.
Because WWDC is wall to wall with podcasts (Monday is ATP, Tuesday is The Talk Show, and Wednesday is the Relay festival), we're going to do our show late Tuesday evening after The Talk Show.
We have 40 spots available. It's free for anyone who's subscribed to our Patreon (at the $5+ level) as of June 1.
If you want to come, subscribe to our Patreon, leave a comment on this Patreon post, and we'll put you on the list. If it turns out you can't come, reply to your own comment on that post and we'll free up your spot.
Teaser: 68. Negotiating
This week, Chris and Soroush talk about something engineers are stereotypically bad at: negotiating.
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67. The Whatever Planet From The Sun
Soroush and Chris share some sad news, talk about Soroush's first official Swift Evolution proposal, and a post about giving presentations by Dave DeLong.
- Soroush’s pitch: `count(where:)` on Sequence
- E66: Sequence and Collection and Iterator, Oh My
- Harlan Haskins & Robert Widmann - Becoming An Effective Contributor to Swift
- How to Read the Swift Standard Library Source
- Soroush’s Swift PR
- Soroush’s Swift Evolution proposal PR
- Swift Unwrapped: 56: SE-206 Hashable Enhancements
- Chris Lattner’s comment on Soroush’s pitch
- E60: Soroush in the Standard Library
- Soroush’s Lazy dropLast implementation
- Dave DeLong: You should give that presentation
- Productivity Strategies: Exploration vs Exploitation
- Multi-armed bandit experiments
Teaser: 66. Sequence and Collection and Iterator, Oh My
Soroush and Chris talk about Sequences, Collections, and Swift Evolution drama.
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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"
- 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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