dman

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1. 421.▲
   by dman 8y ago

   A near monopoly
2. 422.▲
   by dman 8y ago

   What would multiplayer look like in a gitlab like app?
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   by dman 8y ago

   I would not have minded at all if the replacement was equivalent but it is not. I believe Firefox with XUL was a completely different product (closer to Emacs in terms of viewing extensibility as a goal), Firefox with the new extensions is
4. 424.▲
   by dman 8y ago

   I wrote some extensions myself over the years, all my time writing those extensions went down the drain.
5. 425.▲
   by dman 8y ago

   Firefox lost me with the whole XUL fiasco. Breaking peoples workflows before they had a credible alternative lined up was highly unprofessional. I was an enthusiastic Firefox user until the XUL retirement.
6. 426.▲
   by dman 8y ago

   Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
7. 427.▲
   by dman 8y ago

   What language do you write?
8. 428.▲
   by dman 8y ago

   I am aware that you can build one codebase for all those platforms, the question is whether all those platforms are supported. In particular https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding still says that desktop u
9. 429.▲
   by dman 8y ago

   Any news on if the desktop embeddings will become a supported part of Flutter?
10. 430.▲
    by dman 8y ago

    Maybe we need simpler standards? Ones that are implementable without spending a billion dollars.
11. 431.▲
    by dman 8y ago

    If your screen has even a single crack - Apple will insist that you need to replace the screen in addition to changing the battery. The screen costs >$150 from what I recall.
12. 432.▲
    by dman 8y ago

    I think in 2019 Atom will have to effectively answer the question on what it offers over VS Code.
13. 433.▲
    by dman 8y ago

    This can go the other way too => People kept complaining about Internet Explorer for years. Then one day better alternatives showed up (Firefox, Chrome) and dealing with sub-par experiences was no longer a necessity.
14. 434.▲
    by dman 8y ago

    Any thoughts on what it should be raised to?
15. 435.▲
    by dman 8y ago

    But then they would have to write something good.
16. 436.▲
    by dman 8y ago

    How/why are so many people using nightly as their rust version? Usually companies are conservative about jumping onto newer compiler versions.
17. 437.▲
    by dman 8y ago

    Thank you for these pointers. Posts like this are why I come to HN :)
18. 438.▲
    by dman 8y ago

    People who make great websites cant make phones that run linux either :)
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    by dman 8y ago

    In the same vein - if you happen to be stuck in a problem domain where counting/avoiding allocations is important the other languages I listed above (even C++ really) make things very hard. Rust has a decent take on building a safer c+
20. 440.▲
    by dman 8y ago

    So we agree that we have different tools with different tradeoffs?
21. 441.▲
    by dman 8y ago

    Thats why we have Java / Rust / Python / CSharp.
22. 442.▲
    by dman 8y ago

    Fortunately not everyone makes technical decisions using the wisdom of crowds.
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    by dman 8y ago

    There are entire product categories (Games / Databases / Operating Systems / Video editors / Animation / Data analysis tools / robotics) where C/C++ continue to be the dominant languages.
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    by dman 8y ago

    This has 64 GB for ~260 - http://plugandgear.com/lenovo-ideapad-120s-11-6-inch-hd-lapt... At any rate I hope you agree that 5 years (from launch) is not a long time to support a device. This policy is wasteful to the enviro
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    by dman 8y ago

    If GDI broke there would be a riot in financial firms.
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    by dman 8y ago

    On the price front - https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-11-300... - that is a windows laptop for $180. Do you think a chromebook will have better $/year than that? On the durability fr
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    by dman 8y ago

    That is worse than other alternatives - PCs and Mac machines.
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    by dman 8y ago

    Support window for older devices is questionable. I own a Generation 1 Pixelbook and it has stopped receiving updates (including security updates). Dropping security updates after a couple of years in fact is worse than other operating syst
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    by dman 8y ago

    If you work for a large company and have a department that does tech support, talk to the people there about recent Apple products. In my case that made me realise that the increasing unreliability is not just anecdotal or the result of peo
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    by dman 8y ago

    When you are shipping binaries, you usually do not have control over the cpus your users are using. Setting march/mtune to native breaks if the developers machine is noticeably newer than the users machine. Also letting the build machi