Fatal Error

Fatal Error

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Fatal Error episodes

  • 70. The Finale
    In the final episode of Fatal Error, Chris and Soroush go through some follow-up, then recap the news from WWDC.
    46 min
  • 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!
    37 min
  • 68. Negotiating
    This week, Chris and Soroush talk about something engineers are stereotypically bad at: negotiating.
    28 min
  • 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:

    44 min
  • 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.
    39 min

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Fatal Error is a weekly show hosted by software developers Soroush Khanlou and Chris Dzombak. We discuss topics at the cutting edge of iOS software architecture, Swift, and best practices.