66. Sequence and Collection and Iterator, Oh My

In the final episode of Fatal Error, Chris and Soroush go through some follow-up, then recap the news from WWDC. 59. Why did they even hire Chris?? Swift Unwrapped Ghost Animoji has a tongue! (h/t @parrots) Platforms State of the Union CodeRunner Steve S Smith Marzipan Thread Jake Marsh on Intents UNNotificationContent.threadIdentifier One of many articles on SMS hijacking via SS7 (search the Web for “SS7 SMS Hijack” for more) YubiKey Social engineering SMS code Chromium Touch ID second factor (Tweet) Published after we recorded the episode: The Pixelbook’s power button can double as a U2F security key Thank you for your support! Tweets & photos from the live show at WWDC: From @_ivancr From @_jessetipton From @jbradforddillon From @freak4pc

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:From @_ivancrFrom @_jessetiptonFrom @jbradforddillonFrom @freak4pc

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 PrincipleNull References: The Billion Dollar MistakePython on Google App EnginePEP 484: Type HintsThe Definitive Reference To Why Maybe Is Better Than NullThat One Optional PropertyThe algebra (and calculus!) of algebraic data typesPoint-Free episode 4: Algebraic Data TypesOptional definitionSubEthaEdit

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about something engineers are stereotypically bad at: negotiating. In particular, we really recommend setting aside half an hour to read the first link in the show notes: Patrick McKenzie: Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued Stephanie Hurlburt: “Just a PSA, I know of many people (Exact #? Hm. Over a hundred?) who are programmers making high six figures a year. …”

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about something engineers are stereotypically bad at: negotiating.Get a new Fatal Error episode every week by becoming a supporter at patreon.com/fatalerror.

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 SequenceE66: Sequence and Collection and Iterator, Oh MyHarlan Haskins & Robert Widmann - Becoming An Effective Contributor to SwiftHow to Read the Swift Standard Library SourceSoroush’s Swift PRSoroush’s Swift Evolution proposal PRSwift Unwrapped: 56: SE-206 Hashable EnhancementsChris Lattner’s comment on Soroush’s pitchE60: Soroush in the Standard LibrarySoroush’s Lazy dropLast implementationDave DeLong: You should give that presentationProductivity Strategies: Exploration vs ExploitationMulti-armed bandit experiments

Soroush’s Sequence and Collection talk from Playgrounds last year [Pitch] Remove the single-pass requirement on Sequence Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator Ben cohen / @airspeedswift Ben’s thread on Twitter Dave Abraham’s Github repo  AnySequence / type erasers The Fencepost Problem Soroush’s Galaxy Brain meme sequence(first:next:) Nate Cook / @nnnnnnnn Soroush’s pull request for the count(where:)implementation Soroush’s pull request for the count(where:)proposal

Soroush and Chris talk about Sequences, Collections, and Swift Evolution drama.Get a new Fatal Error episode every week by becoming a supporter at patreon.com/fatalerror.

Your Calendrical Fallacy Is...iOS 11.2.6 DateFormatter.date returns nil for cities that observe Brasília Summer TimePub 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 aroundWhere 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 —  @txsectorBig-O NotationOle Begemann: Strings in Swift 4 (explains how family emoji are composed of person emoji + joiners)Ligatures in Unicode (Wikipedia)Accidentally QuadraticSoroush: Safety in SwiftSpoiler: Soroush’s Word Ladder SolutionBackspacing emoji composed of multiple codepoints in Google Docs:

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. Chris’s Alexa Aircraft Radar skill Apoptosis Episode 50: Internet of Things Wemo Mini Smart Plug Sylvania HomeKit Bulbs Philips Tap Switch Hue Labs Toggle Behavior Why inheritance never made any sense Chris: Cocoa’s mutable-subclass pattern is an antipattern Chris: Multiple Inheritance vs. Traits or Protocol Extensions Ruby Forwardable module (def_delegator and def_delegators) Objective-C forwardingTargetForSelector: Multiple Inheritance in C++ and the Diamond Problem The Ghost of Swift Bugs Future Slava Pestov’s Twitter thread