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by cageface 2y ago
I've been predicting a return to manual content curation for a while. Algos are not going to be able to keep up with the flood of new content. Record labels are going to be more important than ever.
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by cageface 2y ago
OPFS is only available in Web Workers. I don't think this is correct: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...
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by cageface 2y ago
I lived in Vietnam for eight years, speak the language fluently, and have traveled through almost every part of the country No need to quote statistics at me, especially a completely ludicrous claim that 58% of households have a washing mac
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by cageface 2y ago
I take it you've never lived in a developing country? People there don't have much bargaining power. For example, when I lived in Vietnam I'd often see a road crew of ten people with shovels because it was cheaper than hiring
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by cageface 2y ago
Having worked in both quite a bit I think Flutter is a more polished and stable tech stack. But RN might be easier if you already know React.
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by cageface 2y ago
That’s very close to my list. It’s only a few characters but “final” takes up too much space. And I agree types on the right are easier to read. Other than that I’m mainly looking for the reasons code generation is required today to go away
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by cageface 2y ago
People in first world countries, with education, health care, good housing etc are expensive. If you're willing to deny them all that then they're cheap and easy to replace. Whereas building a machine that can do even the basics o
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by cageface 2y ago
It seems increasingly likely to me that we're going to see the standard sci-fi script flipped. Instead of AI and robots doing grunt work for humans, AI will be doing most of the decision making, perhaps guided by a small human elite, a
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by cageface 2y ago
After 20 years of using python I still think significant whitespace is a flaw. It saves a little bit of typing in exchange for a lot of ambiguity.
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by cageface 2y ago
I completely agree. I was lukewarm on Dart but decided to do my new app in Flutter and it's turned out to be a great experience. Kotlin and Swift may look better on paper but Dart is very productive. The tooling is really solid and the
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by cageface 2y ago
Thanks to you and the rest of the team for all your great work! It really is a very nice language. I've been working almost exclusively in Dart for the last 6 months and it really is a very pragmatic and productive language. I'm l
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by cageface 2y ago
The author is one of the lead developers for Dart, which has evolved over time into a pretty nice language.
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by cageface 2y ago
Anyone that believes this can prove it by taking down an existing popular product with a better engineered and better performing competitor built for the same cost. I was using computers in the 80s. They did a very small fraction of what we
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by cageface 2y ago
Sure. Just allocate 10x the engineering resources and I can make it as fast and bug free as you like.
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by cageface 2y ago
Yep I know. I've been a NYRB subscriber for literally decades. I never read the NYT review.
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by cageface 2y ago
The NYRB is that very boring family friend who has no idea how to talk to anyone who’s not a tenured professor and consequently spends most of his time in an armchair. We must be reading a different NYRB. The NYRB is one of the few remain
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by cageface 2y ago
JetBrains sells very expensive tooling around Kotlin & KMP. If it takes off their path to profit is pretty clear. That said, building a really good cross platform UI toolkit and framework is really hard. It remains to be seen if JetBrai
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by cageface 2y ago
I like Flutter a lot and I think right now it's much more capable and mature than KMP is. The problem is Google is in aggressive cost cutting mode and it's not clear how Flutter contributes to their bottom line in a meaningful way
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by cageface 2y ago
In the mid to long term I think Kotlin and KMP are likely to be where Google puts its effort. Flutter is likely toast but it will be some time before KMP is polished enough to replace it.
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by cageface 2y ago
Current LLMs have a number of limitations that human reasoning doesn't. Whether these are intrinsic to the technology or can be overcome with larger and better datasets is an open question.
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by cageface 2y ago
These are the choices we developers enjoy today. Pick your poison.
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by cageface 2y ago
Apple is pretty good about not axing published APIs, unlike another FAANG company we could compare them to.
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by cageface 2y ago
Right but from what I've read the webview it uses there is way less stable and featureful than Windows or Mac. I haven't actually tried it myself.
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by cageface 2y ago
FWIW I've had good experiences with Tauri so far. It's great being able to call back easily into Rust code and I haven't had any real issues with the wrapped web view. At this point I'd start with Tauri first and only sw
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by cageface 2y ago
The Will Pirkle books have a lot of good info and code to get you started: https://www.willpirkle.com Audio programming is a lot of fun but it's the most challenging domain I've ever worked in. You have to be very care
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by cageface 2y ago
Agile practices and the elimination of proper QA are also part of the problem.
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by cageface 2y ago
This is where I am with it now. I got bored with the image generators and tired of their plastic looking output. I still use GPT or Claude occasionally but I find switching over to prompting breaks my mental flow so it’s only a net win for
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by cageface 2y ago
I've experienced this too. Any new service that requires more than a credit card number has to go through the legal department to review the contract and that means it goes to the bottom of the pile of similar requests and probably won
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by cageface 2y ago
This react-class-model? https://github.com/Facepunch/react-class-model 7 stars on github? Class objects with decorators? No thanks.
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by cageface 2y ago
I don't think it it's a technical issue. On a technical level Flutter is mostly great. But Google has been doing aggressive cost cutting lately and not having Flutter in use in that many apps makes it more vulnerable.

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