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by Drew_ 5y ago
Plenty of web APIs that offer native functionality. Apple will not implement them in Safari for obvious reasons. Apple will also not allow non-Safari browsers for the same reason. Apple knows that even simply allowing Web Push on iOS would
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by Drew_ 5y ago
The OP he's replying to was arguing that "physical media" doesn't suffer from the drawbacks of "DRM media" implying that physical media has no DRM (obviously false).
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by Drew_ 5y ago
There are very good USB mics like the Blue Yeti for example. Plug and play with just one cable. You don't have to have a studio recording setup to get your voice to come through nicely.
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by Drew_ 6y ago
I'm also incredibly confused as to how so many publications are clinging onto advertising revenue even for members paying hundreds of dollars annually. A customer rep for The Economist confirmed they also do not remove ads and actually
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by Drew_ 6y ago
Fast charging has been around for quite some time now and battery degradation hasn't become more of a problem than it already was 10 years ago. Apple just had its battery degradation and throttling controversy only and that was for a s
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by Drew_ 6y ago
> React never claimed performance, and the virtual DOM is quite wasteful. Any direct manipulation library will perform better. React's performance (in large part because of it's virtual DOM) over Angular was a common benefit ci
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by Drew_ 6y ago
React hooks are just Javascript functions. The layout of your application is unaffected by the shape of your application state. Instead the shape of your application's state is typically governed by its layout.
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by Drew_ 6y ago
There is no additional overhead in nesting React components vs normal HTML elements. React-rendered and normally rendered HTML are identical.
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by Drew_ 6y ago
Being concerned with a technology "falling out of fashion" is a personal problem not a problem with any framework. In any case, this is not a concern when using mature technologies which are the ones you should be using.
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by Drew_ 6y ago
> Standard React could still be a bloated mess. React is ~6KB (even less g-zipped). React is very performant and its performance was one of it's original claims to fame over previous frontend frameworks like Angular.
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by Drew_ 6y ago
> Others say that the web is slow because of ADs This is pretty much objective truth in my mind. I might agree with people who hate the web if I always had to browse with ads enabled.
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by Drew_ 6y ago
> You start a new project with a framework, and it seems like there is this whole area of your project that is essentially a black box, ready to break (or misbehave) any time. Any framework you're not familiar with will feel like th
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by Drew_ 6y ago
Got to agree with everything but > Debugging modern front-end code is a breeze Is still hit or miss every once and while depending on the use case. For example debugging service workers is still a bit of a nightmare. And I've also h
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by Drew_ 6y ago
News networks have much better SEO than John Doe with a phone and 0 subscribers.
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by Drew_ 6y ago
AMD is beating Intel on performance, but with recent price cuts, Intel is offering VERY good value right now and also much better availability. If you don't need the absolute best, Intel is the way to go easily.
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by Drew_ 6y ago
> You can't really teach "mobile engineering" in abstract like you can with databases or computer vision or whatever. Sure you could. "mobile engineering" would just be a study of solving computer science problem
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by Drew_ 6y ago
Stop giving your Facebook apps access to your contacts. Newly added contacts were also showing up as suggestions in Facebook and Instagram until I turned this off. iOS and Android give you all the control you need to stop this from happenin
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by Drew_ 6y ago
This is another purported benefit of serving AMP pages but doesn't this imply publications weren't already using CDN's previously or that Google's CDN is much faster than competitors? I would guess neither of those are t
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by Drew_ 6y ago
Would Nvidia's shortages also fall in this bucket?
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by Drew_ 6y ago
This is also the same reason why tabs are better than spaces.
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by Drew_ 6y ago
> Giving a trivial function such as search box on a webpage or some animation results If you want great UI and UX, these are anything but trivial. This is why taking an off the shelf solution is preferable to reinventing the wheel in the
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by Drew_ 6y ago
YouTube Music has access to any YouTube video which is a much larger set of music than was ever available through Google Play Music
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by Drew_ 6y ago
> Google seems to be using the library of music it has on YouTube to retroactively backdoor a streaming service that plays the YouTube videos without the video. This is almost certainly not true. The on demand music available for YouTube
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by Drew_ 6y ago
Ad blocking software is very easy to install. Also the EU more or less already gave this to us for free with GDPR.
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by Drew_ 6y ago
Apple has 100% market share of iOS application distribution and therefore has a monopoly on this market. In this position they can freely and arbitrarily govern what is and is not acceptable iOS software as well as how much it costs to prod
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by Drew_ 6y ago
> Mainly that all the usb-c cables you sprinkle across your house might not have the same functionality. If you buy decent cables they all do. The reality is that whatever devices you're plugging the cables into might not support ev
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by Drew_ 6y ago
The internet in the mid to late aughts is not considered a success by today's standards.
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by Drew_ 6y ago
The KGB already did this in 2016 and the White House conveniently doesn't care and actually vehemently denies anything happened. Now, in the lead up to an election, suddenly they care about foreign intervention of elections? Or is it m
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by Drew_ 6y ago
3rd party applications/editors can render fonts however they'd like. VS Code's font rendering is almost certainly not native and I don't think Chrome's font rendering is either.
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by Drew_ 6y ago
None of these problems your listing are relevant to TikTok at all. You don't seem to be familiar with how TikTok works or how immensely popular is world wide.

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