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by fredliu 10y ago
Isn't use case proposed by PurpleJS covered by Vert.x already? Or am I missing anything?
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by fredliu 10y ago
> Most people aren't drawn to VR. That's an interesting observation, especially from a Vive owner. From my limited experiences, everyone I showed Vive to was blown away by it (demo ranges from teenagers to non-techie adults), a
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by fredliu 10y ago
Sigh, kinda disappointed given all the hype and secrecy around this, and makes me doubt the near future of VR (I have a Vive, and was a believer until this point). For VR to really take off, we do need a "good enough" experience f
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by fredliu 10y ago
Silly question: is the US dollar being the world's go-to currency part of the US's national interests? If so, how big of an interest is that to the US? If "yes", and "very" are the answers, I wonder if Yuan can
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by fredliu 10y ago
This is great, good to know the options are there, can't wait to try it out!
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by fredliu 10y ago
Thanks a lot for the explanation. I'll try out exponent and see how far I can go without resolving to native :)
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by fredliu 10y ago
I've ran through most of the intro doc, but I'm still not sure if Exponent supports invoking platform/system APIs? E.g. if I want to access clipboard contents, or wifi network configuration, etc, how can it be done with Expon
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by fredliu 10y ago
IMO, Capital and Talents are the two major factors in determining whether or not a location has a potential to have a good and sustainable tech scene. You'd have to have good supply and demand for both to sustain a healthy tech scene,
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by fredliu 10y ago
Definitely a good point, and a puzzling one as well. A follow up question to think about would be: what's the reason for those overhead/administrative cost/monopolies, etc? And more intriguingly, what if there were no "M
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by fredliu 10y ago
It looks to me whether or not a "stuff" can be "Made In China" is a strong indicator of whether it's becoming more expensive or affordable. Basically if it can be "Made In China" it'll be cheaper, oth
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by fredliu 10y ago
This seems to be built on top of WebRTC, using data channels ? I believe at least Safari doesn't support that, but their github readme does seem to imply support on Safari. Also, since it's based on WebRTC, who's responsible
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by fredliu 10y ago
His package (base salary + bonus + average vested stock each year) seems to be standard with regard to the position he's applying. Still, with that package, if Seattle's cost of living is the show stopper (not cheap by any means),
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by fredliu 10y ago
I'm no international law lawyer, and didn't really look too much into the details of the "ruling", which I think, as any law, would be pointless unless there's enforcement (by whom?). It just baffles me that an arti
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by fredliu 10y ago
What's ironic about this article of "History of Nine-Dash Line", is that it mentioned ROC (Republic Of China) 0 times, and only mentioned Taiwan twice (in either cases related to the actual history). The fact is that the orig
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by fredliu 10y ago
Yes, WebVR is more performant (many webpages struggle to achieve even 60fps). But minimum 90fps, at a much higher resolution is a challenge even running on bare metal right now. And that is needed for even the simplest VR experience (unless
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by fredliu 10y ago
Totally agree on the potential damage Cardboard/Gear can do to VR. I had a friend who tried Cardboard he bought for $20, and his comment was "it really was just worth $20, or less".
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by fredliu 10y ago
It's great that Vive has gained such traction (I personally contributed to that number), but I don't think VR has "hit it" yet. I think what Vive offers today is a good indicator of what would become the norm in VR in th
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by fredliu 10y ago
I really like aframe, but I just has the feeling that for things like aframe, it would be similar to what the Web Apps has been experiencing: the performance will always a few steps behind the native alternative. Even for Vive/Rift, th
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by fredliu 11y ago
Interestingly enough that just yesterday I read that the famous "ego depletion" theory backed by tons of serious research might got debunked. And today, "the research is clear" that we should ban elementary homework. I j
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by fredliu 11y ago
It might be a thing in China, but I don't think it's the case in this particular incident. It's very unlikely that Chinese government officials would come up with a name for a government project with intentional ties to a Hol
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by fredliu 11y ago
FWIW, "Sky Net" in Chinese actually has a meaning, it's from a Chinese idiom, 天网恢恢，疏而不漏, roughly translated, literally, as "Heaven(Sky)'s Net(of justice) is wide, it may have large meshes, but lets nothing through&
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by fredliu 11y ago
Awesome! This is almost the last missing piece for a true Parse.com replacement.
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by fredliu 11y ago
Definitely Xamarin is geared towards the .NET ecosystem, at least for now. But .NET aside, as a cross-platform "platform", how does Xamarin compare with React Native? Anybody has experience in both of them?
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by fredliu 11y ago
What you said is true, but Samsung and Apple do have frictions, and I believe both of them do have contingency plans that hedge against the risk of a full out war between them. What amazes me is Netflix's seemingly "un-conditional
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by fredliu 11y ago
Agree, switching is so costly, and IMHO given Netflix's current profit margin, which is not that high, I doubt they can afford to replace aws with a full in-house solution.
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by fredliu 11y ago
Aws and Amazon Instant Video probably are very separate businesses. And right now, aws is obviously much more successful than Amazon Video. But is that enough reason for Netlfix to be not scared of being a full aws shop and not worrying the
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by fredliu 11y ago
FWIW, reading the comments reminds me of Hilary Clinton's answer to "Is Obamacare helping or hurting the average U.S. citizen?" on Quora ( https://www.quora.com/Is-Obamacare-helping-or-hurting-the-av... ) The c
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by fredliu 11y ago
I'm not a java programmer (my knee jerk reaction to quickly bang out an MVP would mostly be python), but this negative attitude towards Java seems unfair. There's a lot more to the Java universe than just enterprise Java. There ar
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by fredliu 11y ago
wow, now I understand why it's named like that: a polygot "node"!
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by fredliu 11y ago
Good to know. Then the "reactive" mentioned in the title is not exactly async, and not exactly as in "Reactive Extensions" either, so where can I find the intended meaning of "reactive" in that context?

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