RodoBobJon

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by RodoBobJon 6mo ago
Perfect example of what you’re talking about: today a coworker of mine showed off a vibecoded data viewer app that lets him view our analytics in a way that works well for his job, using our analytics platform’s API. A nice little personal
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by RodoBobJon 2y ago
It’s possible at least some of those people enquiring about the AI strategy are looking to find out if a company is about to ruin itself with bad decisions around AI. And some others are probably saying what they think people want to hear.
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by RodoBobJon 6y ago
Sure, in theory Twitter’s website could be very simple and straightforward, built on tried and true web technologies. In practice, they wrote an entirely bespoke web app that is every bit as complex as a native app but shittily executed and
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by RodoBobJon 6y ago
But the implication of this argument is that the benefit of PWAs is to the developer rather than the user , right? If PWAs actually benefited users, then creating one instead of an Android app wouldn’t be waste of time even if you had to
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by RodoBobJon 6y ago
This is the contradiction: Apples’s defense of its in-app payments rule is that having a single payment system owned by the platform used by every app on that platform provides the best experience for users. According to them, Apple isn&#x2
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by RodoBobJon 7y ago
I think they're mad about the "Apps" section on the Summary tab. But I don't really get the complaints or see it as an advertisement; it's at the very bottom and users may genuinely be wondering how they get more da
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by RodoBobJon 7y ago
The idea that minimum wages kills jobs is not as well supported as you might think. People commonly take overly-simplified econ 101 labor market theories as gospel when the empirical evidence about the effects of minimum wage increases is d
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by RodoBobJon 7y ago
This drives me crazy with Slack. In 2019 I can't have two chats open at once? Madness.
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by RodoBobJon 7y ago
Yes, but FaceTime is not attempting to be a camera; it is attempting to simulate a face-to-face conversation. That it uses a camera is an implementation detail. The fact that the distance between the camera and the face on the screen makes
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by RodoBobJon 7y ago
FWIW, the Apple developers discussing SwiftUI on Twitter are careful to point out that SwiftUI is not designed to be a wrapper around UIKit. Much of the implementation currently uses UIKit under the hood, but that's an implementation
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by RodoBobJon 7y ago
SwiftUI has state. The idea is that all layout code is defined as a pure function of the state. Basically you can annotate properties with `@State` and each time one of those properties is updated, your view `body` function is re-run to pro
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by RodoBobJon 8y ago
With the caveat that I also have no particular inside knowledge of this, I think you're on to something. I keep seeing these demos which show virtual video game characters or hyper-realistic objects and I can't help but think that
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by RodoBobJon 8y ago
Gruber didn't call it a fraud. He said the demo was not "distinguishable from a fraud," which is true. His actual recommendation is the title of the post, which is that we should have "a little Duplex skepticism." A
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by RodoBobJon 8y ago
I mean, Gruber is technically correct that this demo is indistinguishable from a fraud. And yes, Google certainly wouldn't demo a completely non-existent technology, but they might very well demo a technology that only works 60% of the
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by RodoBobJon 9y ago
The prevailing theory is that Uber currently controls the customer relationship for ride-hailing, and that inertia will carry them forward. I personally don't see it. Uber has already begun being disintermediated. For example, ride-s