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by MarkMc 8y ago
Right now we are focused on other areas like producing a Windows version and supporting more Flutter plugins. Making it feel like a desktop app might be something we tackle in the longer term. But my personal view is that platform fidelity
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Alphabet overtakes Apple as world’s third-biggest company(ft.com)
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Springbok Solutions Ltd | Singapore | Full Time | REMOTE | US$50-60k I'm looking to fill two programming roles - both are full-time remote, but you must be able to work at least 4 hours during Singapore office hours (ie. 9am to 5pm, ex
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Our product Feather is based on this one. If you want to try running a few Flutter apps on macOS, see the 'Sample Apps' section on this page: https://feather-apps.com/
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Ask HN: What are your goals for 2019?
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One Year with Flutter: My Experience(hackernoon.com)
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Springbok Solutions Ltd | Singapore | Full Time | REMOTE | US$60-70k I'm looking to fill two programming roles - both are full-time remote, but you must be able to work at least 4 hours during Singapore office hours (ie. 9am to 5pm, Mo
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According to the "Stack Overflow Flutter questions" metric: http://sotagtrends.com/?tags=[ionic-framework,react-native,f... Also according to the "number of Flutter jobs posted on jobstreet.co.uk". Three
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Does this mean Netflix is not abiding by App Store rules and will therefore have its app delisted?
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Evidence of the Superiority of Female Doctors (2016)(theatlantic.com)
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Graph clearly showing Tenessee outperforming other states in Education(twitter.com)
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Back in the 1980's Martin Seligman analysed the speaking styles of baseball team members to determine if their optimistic/pessimistic attitude correlated with success on the field. In his book "Learned Optimism" he clai
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My point is that even without the brand-recognition TV-style ads, Google has six sources of growth which in aggregate refute the idea that "the math's not pretty on digital advertising's future revenues". And even in bra
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So Google have complety failed in producing popular content themselves, yet still managed to grow revenue at 22% per year. What does that say about Google's need to produce in-house content?
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>> 2. The average amount of time that people spend on the internet could grow 20% in 10 years > And you think Google will capture all of that? No, but it's reasonable to think that Google will capture a share of that growth in
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It doesn't matter whether people will pay for content. If that content can be monetised through advertising then it's valuable.
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I'm not too familiar with other media companies so I don't know what the correct multiple should be, but here's my math on Google: 1. Over the past 13 years world GDP per capita has grown about 3% per year. So it's reas
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Wow this article is so very wrong - Google and Facebook have enormous advantages over Disney because (a) they have other people producing valuable content for free ; (b) they know much more about each viewer than Disney. Google's reve
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Wait - so teachers in Massachusetts are not protected from lawsuits by their union or the schools? That's messed up
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Why I Bought Google Shares (2008)(mrinvestor.blogspot.com)
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Even if you limit competition among hospitals to non -emergency procedures, it would still be enormously beneficial. But even with emergency procedures I think you could still have effective competition based on outcomes and price. Here&#x
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> we consistently find the average Facebook user would require more than $1000 to deactivate their account for one year The Hackerati like to bemoan that most people don't value their privacy and will happily give it up to Facebook
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Where did you buy such a cheap copy of Windows 10 Pro?
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> Should I be re-reading/re-listening to certain chapters? Keep notes and refer back to them often? No - simply re-reading your notes or the original text is not optimal and can give you a false sense of progress. It's importan
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I agree - I'm writing code to submit VAT returns online and am impressed by the clear documentation and REST API provided by HMRC: https://developer.service.hmrc.gov.uk/api-documentation/docs...
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This is a pretty insensitive comment
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> My guess is that the platform creators tend to put a lot of money into look and feel for their native components. This is hard to match for a small open source project (or anyone, really). I wonder whether the problem for cross-platfor
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Yes Flutter could become an alternative to Electron, but it doesn't need Hummingbird for that - Flutter can be directly compiled as a native desktop application.
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Sorry if this is a stupid question, but why did Microsoft create a web browser in the first place? Did Microsoft make any more money by having control of the dominant web browser? They could have just let Netscape win. Later when Google de
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Springbok Solutions Ltd | Singapore | Full Time | REMOTE I'm looking to fill two programming roles - both are full-time remote, but you must be able to work at least 4 hours during Singapore office hours (ie. 9am to 5pm, Monday to Frid

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