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by evv 8y ago
I heard rumors that this was coming, but I’m disappointed it is iOS/Android only. I’m working on a ordering kiosk for restaurants, but iOS and Android are not the best fit for such appliances. Are there plans to support native integrat
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by evv 8y ago
Comparative advantage is exactly why so many people will loose their jobs. If a small number of people, with the aid of machines, can do the equivalent work of thousands of workers, how will the free market support the higher cost of huma
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by evv 8y ago
Recently I've been fascinated at gap between server providers these days. It seems each provider is either: - Enterprise public cloud, AWS/GCP/Azure, expensive but scalable and enterprise friendly - Developer public cloud, Li
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by evv 8y ago
> I almost wish we had a formal system of language You mean "legalese"? The language used in law is very specific and nuanced. I enjoy how similar it is to programming, where a bug in the source language can be exploited, much
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by evv 8y ago
It is much better, considering there are companies that do actually sell our data. "rent us out to the highest bidder" is the perfect description of Google and FB's business model. It's hard to imagine how either company
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by evv 8y ago
This makes it super easy to create a blog! So easy, I even managed to create the following blog without even registering. (Yes, it seems that empty-username:empty-password is a valid login on this service.) https://baptiste.gelez
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by evv 8y ago
Almost all of VSCode is open source, but live share is not.. On their website I noticed that they intend to provide generous 'free plans' of live share, which is a big hint about how Microsoft intends to monetize their open source
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by evv 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17300893
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by evv 8y ago
If you figure out how to build a cross-platform application distribution mechanism that is better than the modern web, please do let us know!
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by evv 8y ago
Sounds like browser vendors should start implementing a "find" API which allows long lists to virtualize while still retaining find-ability.
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by evv 8y ago
Yeah, these seem like impossible hurdles without a centralized identity system to fall back on. The good news is that we have several: FB, Twitter, etc. These centralized networks already pour tons of resources into identity verification- I
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by evv 8y ago
Agreed that Electron has been a great boon to Linux users. There is no need to loose that. If the app was built with RNs layout API, you could continue supporting Electron via React Native Web. But there are awesome upcoming projects like P
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by evv 8y ago
Congrats, Emil and team! I'm most excited for this as an extensible platform for further desktop tools, built on FB's robust stack of front-end tech. Although I must admit, I'm disappointed that they didn't use react-nat
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by evv 8y ago
No paid contributors? So, projects like Vue would not qualify because Evan You gets paid through Patreon? What about open source contributors from companies like Facebook or Google? They get paid. It's hard to imagine a single open sou
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by evv 8y ago
> Unless you believe corporatist technocracy is the future of civilisation. I'm curious how you plan to stop this from happening. To me that seems like an inevitable future, and a decent description of our present society. Is it so
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by evv 8y ago
> I've told my roommate I'm moving out if he ever buys an Alex/Google/Apple assistant device. Do you have an Apple or Google device near you right now? Does it have a microphone, battery power, and a connection to the
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by evv 8y ago
I thought Bitwarden was super cool until I realized that the self-hosted version still phones home to their servers. Not to say that you couldn't fix that, I mean, the source is all available. But shamefully, as it stands, "self h
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by evv 8y ago
This would make for a cool open source project. Create a custom client for your favorite AdTech company, which injects real-looking noise into the data, blocks the resulting ads, and provide a decent interface to the content you actually ne
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by evv 8y ago
There is no way to know. Apple makes it intentionally difficult to add a website to the home screen. Furthermore, tons of users are on chrome or browsing from an app like Twitter, but the "add to home" functionality is only availa
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by evv 8y ago
The parent comment referenced two use-cases for such nefarious components. Both of which seem quite possible: 1. Bridging an air gap. This would basically be a radio repeater that lets you reach other compromised components. It just needs p
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by evv 8y ago
The behavior of the booster landing looks very different than SpaceX's. Blue Origin's booster seems to switch to a different control logic at ~30ft up, from a rapid descent to a slow controlled touchdown procedure. Meanwhile, Spac
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by evv 8y ago
Slack was able to stand out from its competitors by providing a reasonably fast web app. Nobody cared (cares?) about the desktop app. It sure seems like you can compete with a good feature set and fast iteration on your product. Throwing mo
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by evv 8y ago
What if that business wants to provide an "app" icon in the macOS dock, and a "program" in the windows start menu, without hiring a bunch of native developers? What would you advise for them, if not electron?
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by evv 8y ago
> Sometimes I look at society as a complete organ, with a hypothetical ability to make cohesive decisions for itself. And I think, it is making extremely self-destructive choices. One of my favorite philosophical thought experiments! I&#
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by evv 8y ago
I'm guessing that the OP is an advocate of open software and user freedom. Native apps are generally locked to a specific proprietary platform: Windows, macOS, Android, iOS. As somebody in support of free software and individual contro
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by evv 8y ago
This is effectively asking to double the size of the engineering team, or slow it down dramatically. If I were a startup or small business, I'd rather ship a slightly slow-feeling app with my existing team of web developers who already
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by evv 9y ago
Random off-topic feedback: the video is not correctly configured in Firefox (on MacOS). The pervasiveness of Chrome scares me sometimes.
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by evv 9y ago
Prior discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16666057 What a contentious issue! I'm curious to see who will end up swallowing the cost of this, because it sounds like 0-rtt poses a direct tradeoff betwee
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Discussing Tradeoffs of TLS 1.3 (via Colm MacCárthaigh on Twitter)(threadreaderapp.com)
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by evv 9y ago
The cat is out of the bag- this stuff works! As most of us here know, fake news is an incredibly tricky problem to address. You tell me the tool that solves it, and I'll tell you how it can be gamed. Democracy's only hope is to bu

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