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by WA 5y ago
But how? React is a library to implement and structure your architecture in a certain way. Wasm is just a language. Wouldn’t you need a React-like framework in Wasm to get the same benefits? Edit: I guess you mean you’d compile your React a
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by WA 5y ago
React is for connecting state to the DOM and managing the redraws. I don’t see how Wasm could ever replace React, if you want to deal with UI. It’s a different thing.
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by WA 5y ago
Your printed newspaper can neither build a profile of you. Nor mine shitcoins. We have to consider this in the digital age, because in the analog world, ads have very limited impact.
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by WA 5y ago
Well, you can buy YouTube premium and have no ads.
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by WA 5y ago
I agree, the controls and OS integration are what makes the most difference in the whole debate. But: Why aren't there native controls in the browser? Why do they suck? > Even more «native» toolkits, like GTK and QT are have small d
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by WA 5y ago
> Web -> Ionic -> RN -> Native iOS Although that list directly relates to the number of people you reach per line of code. Web (all devices) -> Ionic (most devices) -> RN (Android + iOS) -> Native iOS (iOS only and prob
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by WA 5y ago
> Our platform lords have basically not standardized a single thing. And in addition, you have bugs in official native SDKs and then you end up writing your own text rendering engine, because some OS-level API didn't work properly.
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by WA 5y ago
> Why do you feel the need to "structure thoughts" and "get it out of your system"? I give you a simple example. If you play Wordle and you stop to think about your next guess, you can make all the possible permutatio
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by WA 5y ago
Funny, but nah. Writing it down is a way to structure thoughts and get it out of your system. But I use a simple text editor (Sublime) for this and I write them in a braindump-kind-of-way. There's really only one thing you gotta know a
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by WA 5y ago
I feel like this when I spend too much time in front of a screen. I just go outside and walk. Even 15 minutes helps. After two weeks, I miss going outside if I don't do it. These days, I walk closer to 60-75 minutes daily.
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by WA 5y ago
Fun fact (from 2012): some credit cards had more than one CCV. You could find out by simply trying all 1000 combinations on some web shops. Back then, I did security consulting and we knew a shop or two where it was possible to enumerate th
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by WA 5y ago
I’m curious too. I’m at the point where I stop reading books of some categories altogether. I read a bunch and they have all the same message. Such books about: - "the economy is shit and we are just waiting for the mega crash" (p
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by WA 5y ago
Gartner‘s hype cycle is what many products go through and they settle at some kind of normal utility. This post describes the amplitude (y axis) of Gartner‘s chart imho.
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by WA 5y ago
All software has an expiration date. Because realistically, you can’t run software bought for Windows XP, because Windows XP is at end of life. Some software require APIs that cost money to run. Like collaboration features or some number cr
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by WA 5y ago
Do autopilots in planes "fly themselves no human input at all"? Because that's what Teslas are doing since 2016, according to Elon Musk: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/789019145853513729
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by WA 5y ago
Ecosia, the search engine that sells you a good feeling by misleading you. The claim they make is: If you use Ecosia for searching on the internet, they will plant a tree. On average, a tree for every 43 searches or so. In reality, they pla
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by WA 5y ago
If you can read German, the blogger Sascha Pallenberg wrote an in-depth piece in 2013 about the scammy nature of eyeo: https://www.mobilegeeks.de/adblock-plus-undercover-einblicke...
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by WA 5y ago
I guess, if you think in NFTs all day and truly believe that your JSON receipt is worth anything and gives you legal ownership, stuff like this happens to you in the real world, too.
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by WA 5y ago
It’s not a free market if some costs are externalized to society instead of priced in. Like pollution.
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by WA 5y ago
The general question is: do you adjust to your environment or do you try to reshape your environment? There is no right or wrong. Some things, you can’t change, some you can. And it can be difficult to know when to adjust and when to reshap
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by WA 5y ago
Nah, it’s like this: people believe crypto is good because of X, Y, Z, A, B and C. All of them are false, except for C in some odd circumstances. Therefore, the current state of crypto is not good.
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by WA 5y ago
> It’s always small things like keyboard shortcuts, focus behaviour, placement of controls, but it’s all one more roadblock to using the computer. Let me check something... I open "Terminal.app" and what is this? I can't m
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by WA 5y ago
Or to write a UIKit that works across Windows, Linux and macOS with no hassle, making cross-platform development easier. But no, we have 3 SDKs on a single platform already and it apparently is confusing. Oh wait, they did create a true cro
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by WA 5y ago
> Price increases on existing customers are pure margin. Don't do this. Grandfather your old customers. Of course, it depends on the kind of business. But in B2C, customers can be price-sensitize and they don't (rightly so) u
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by WA 5y ago
It's funny that Electron and web devs are blamed for "increasingly more abstraction". The thing is: You can't really build cross-platform native apps. Maybe stop blaming people who use tools that enable this and start bl
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by WA 5y ago
It is not either or. It is also because hospital staff is burned out.
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by WA 5y ago
Please take a guess why chicken pox is uncommon in Belgium.
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by WA 5y ago
I have an Ionic app used by thousands of people daily since 2017 on both, Android and iOS. There are certainly some downsides, but it really didn’t create 10 problems for every solved one. Ironically, I have an older native iOS app and it b
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by WA 5y ago
Im curious: leadership apparently ignored your comment? Or what did they say?
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by WA 5y ago
> That sucks, up till now we have "too bad you got delisted from this platform, all your content is gone". But that isn't the case here, his contract is still on chain, and will work with anyone who calls it Well, it is st

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