Mertax

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by Mertax 4y ago
I think the decision of which cross platform technology to use mostly depends on a team's preferred tech stack. C++ -> QT C#/.NET -> MAUI/Blazor JS/Web -> React.Native/Electron Dart -> Flutter This is wh
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by Mertax 4y ago
Definitely use case specific, as it wouldn't work generally, especially for domain driven data models. The schema I'm thinking of specifically represents a data model that is flexible enough where migrations are extremely rare[1].
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by Mertax 4y ago
What pain points have you experienced with "many sqlites per customer". I'm considering transitioning to something similar but would love to know what pitfalls I might not be considering.
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by Mertax 4y ago
Has anyone ever used multiple SQLite databases per tenant/account? For sake of argument, let's say I have a fixed schema/format that will never change and I never need to aggregate queries across multiple customer accounts. A
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by Mertax 5y ago
Even the OP implies that there is some mental benefit to using hope as a coping mechanism. Even still, I would think most practitioners are doing it because they receive some sort of practical benefit now, in addition to the hope they hold
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by Mertax 5y ago
> What question does a belief in an afterlife answer? It’s not answering questions of the physical or observable world. It’s attempting to answer the “Why” (meaning/purpose) questions rather than the “How” (method/cause).
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by Mertax 5y ago
I’ve been grappling with the same questions/concerns. We are very heavily leaning towards Blazor because it allows us to leverage a significant amount of existing C# code and existing dev resources. Personally I hope more stacks start
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by Mertax 5y ago
We use both appcenter.ms and the internal test track features of the Play Store. On boarding an external user into appcenter takes a few more emails/clicks but they both accomplish similar use cases for us.
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by Mertax 5y ago
Thanks for the helpful response. It sounds like Keygen considers a "subscription" and a "license' to be a 1-to-1 relationship, correct? Most billing/subscription managers I've looked into support the concept of
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by Mertax 5y ago
This seems like it only works if Okta knows how to integrate with your app (How do you create an app Okta knows about that doesn't force customers to use Okta or AD). Also, my understanding is it only works for Okta's paying &quot
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by Mertax 5y ago
Maybe I’m wrong, but Keygen seems more focused on licensing the application instance or the device/machine rather than the user. For us, the application is cross platform. You are granting a user account access to use and be associated
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Ask HN: How do you handle user license provisioning for a subscription product?
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by Mertax 5y ago
The end user is not the consumer segment that cares about this. As evidenced by many comments in this thread, most Apple users value the curated app store and its payment features. App developers just enabled Apple to get away with it. The
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by Mertax 5y ago
I see no incentive for Apple to become motivated to do this on their own. Google, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft all wish their app stores could be as lucrative as Apple’s, and most of these are trying to do exactly what Apple is doing. What oth
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by Mertax 5y ago
Basically a transaction receipt is all the app gets. It’s up to the app developer to associate this purchase transaction with any app related user identity information. RevenueCat had a decent explanation for this considering this is their
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by Mertax 5y ago
This sounds very similar to what we’re doing and we are in the process of migrating most of the EAV models (other than the relationships) to a json1 column (Which I’d argue is still EAV just in document format). Keeping the relationship for
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by Mertax 5y ago
What’s the application for this? EAV is often an anti-pattern when a schema could be defined, but I’m actually using it as well. Our application is an end-user-defined database for mobile data collection. The EAV model in SQLite is a bit of
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by Mertax 5y ago
While Xamarin has some pain points it definitely satisfies a market need for “native” cross platform development. My company uses it quite a bit. With .NET MAUI on the horizon as the evolution of Xamarin it has a future. Although I do wonde
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by Mertax 5y ago
This is our experience too. We have 5 software engineers maintaining 3 mobile apps, 1 desktop app, 1 SDK product, and 1 web-app (Blazor) all with a shared C#/.NET code base that is bringing about $6M annually if you include the associa
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by Mertax 5y ago
I agree. I think the secret to workflow abstraction relies in the relationships between the data. A lot can be inferred about workflow based on the direction, cardinality and type of relationship being represented.
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by Mertax 5y ago
I'm not an economist, but I imagine it's similar to disclosing any product margin or cost of goods. It's probably more about what it does to the perception of the producer vs. the consumer. It may lead to increased cost (pay
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by Mertax 5y ago
Ya the original title isn’t a haiku, right? This appears to be a 6-7-5 pattern Haiku and is more concise
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by Mertax 5y ago
I also come from a company that ships both HW & SW products. Our HW roots are much deeper than our SW roots and HW shipping mentalities have mostly prevailed (low risk tolerance, waterfall development, strict schedule). Where we’ve had
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by Mertax 5y ago
Some of the products the company I work for develops are specifically for the Ag seed research industry. We develop instruments like on combine weigh systems used to measure weight, moisture and yield of various grain hybrids as they are ha
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by Mertax 5y ago
I don’t think all companies are as adversarial towards their employees as this makes it sound. Great companies recognize they benefit when they are proactively trying to do what’s best for the employee as well as the company. Companies that
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by Mertax 5y ago
I question the accuracy of this when 19.41869, -92.06075 supposedly has enormous light pollution. What would be the cause of this?
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by Mertax 5y ago
Last year I created a Blazor WASM app[1] to get familiar with the tech. It was a game based on the board-game from the 60's called "Acquire". Although it's using the WASM hosting model, I did use SignalR to facilitate t
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by Mertax 5y ago
Hopefully a chance for them to take what they learned through years of experience and cut away from the cruft/technical debt that built up with Xamarin.Forms. I think there is potential for redemption here -- although I do worry the na
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by Mertax 6y ago
Thanks for the response. With that explanation I better understand the “null hypothesis” and how you would attempt to “disprove the null”. This makes me believe it could be done in a way where an omniscient and merciful God would knowingly
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by Mertax 6y ago
Hopefully my tone isn't misinterpreted because I genuinely appreciate the openness in your approach and thoughtfulness throughout this thread. I'm just curious to get your thoughts, admittedly some of these questions are rhetorica

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