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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
It's not. It's actually worse. You're assuming that random people on the internet are going to collectively be more secure than CAs, which is obviously not the case. Imagine you get an email signed by the IRS, and which is tr
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
>and rewrite pretty much all my app infrastructure Though, to be fair, you'd have to do that even if the Flutter was written in Kotlin. Maybe not the back-end parts, but the View would definitely have to be re-written.
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
What are others? Will there be first class Kotlin support?
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
So I understand this correctly, Dart just pivoted language styles 7 years after being in stable? So all old Dart code won't work now? This seems much worse than the Python 2 - Python 3 jump.
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
>So? Some could argue it's a very productive approach. Some could. And others look at it and think "Python" or "JS" speed app. Oh. And harder to refactor/detect errors.
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
>But, when Go came out, there were no libraries. And it didn't get so much bad press. 1. Go had a lot going for it when it came out (single, static, exe, memory safety). 2. Go's stdlib came with a lot out of the box. To the e
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
>Well Flutter does provide for a way to call into existing native code so I think that mitigates the code-reuse concern. Is it like calling Java from Kotlin (pretty) or C from Java (ugly)? > The other thing to consider is that this ad
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Different people hate different things. And I don't think that anyone hates Dart because it has generics.
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
I can't speak for everyone, but my problem with flutter isn't the framework - it's the language. Or, more accurately, the fact that it's not a JVM-based language. When Android came out, it was able to piggyback on mill
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
1. Companies distributing Google Play Services has to sign an agreement not to ship (or even build) a non-Google Android-derived phone. So, while Samsung may ship Tizen and Windows Phone, they may not build phones for Amazon (which caused A
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
>By definition, a phone with project treble has to boot and pass all tests in the Android compatibility test Suite with an unmodified AOSP image. But it won't help if the bootloader's locked
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-s9/ for US site. Small question: Do people still buy $800 phones, and why? If you care about security, these probably won't receive security upgrades for mor
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Just curious: do you (as in Y combinator) use Arc for anything else or is it a "hobby language" for HN?
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
>Small independent development companies have done applications across multiple platforms by using their native toolkits for decades Really? How many programs supported Linux before electron?
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
What would be interacting is an electron like environment with a pared down JS/CSS engine which only let "modern JS/CSS" (maybe something like Servo). It can be optimized for that, and you don't really have to rende
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
The big problem is that out of the 5 technologies you mentioned,only two are cross-platform, and only one builds an exe (yet). Oh, and that one is practically designed around a hybrid C++, so if you don't like C++ (last time I tried C+
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
The problem with these tricks is that they're dependant on V8 internals, which means that there's no guarantee that it will be fast on Firefox (or edge, or even Safari). So now if google changes the back end, websites will slow do
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
They'll just turn around, provide better service at lower prices, drive spacex out of the market, and raise them again. They have a lot more money to play with (and their infrastructure is much cheaper to maintain).
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
There is (at least on Debian) - enable contrib and use apt. The problem is that neither your install or recover CD won't have it enabled by default, so if you have a problem, your hard-drive won't mount.
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
The problem is that it isn't upstream, so having it as a rootfs is somewhat dangerous - you need a custom initramfs).
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
>Serious question - what can we do to lower these barriers to entry? Friendlier community norms? Documentation / tools? Social stuff (groups, meetups, etc?) You can't edit while wasting time on the computer. You have to actuall
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
What I don't understand is what is FB thinking? Look at it this way: What do I want to see? Friend's image/text > Group image/text > Pages I like image/text > Friends of Friends image/text > Memes
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
> It varies though and can be as far as 100 million km (63 million miles). It could get worse. Since at that point, the Sun is smack in between the earth and mars, so for a few days you can't get _any_ signal through. You'd hav
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
It can be reused, just won't be as it's an outdated model. They still want it back for data.
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
The (counter) corollary to rule #1: They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
> WP internals being PHP... I think you get the idea. Who's to say after they have established a foothold they won't push to run WP on the v8 engine and write out PHP, a language they're actively hostile to? The thing is t
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
How much "sponsoring" did NASA give SpaceX (and by sponsoring I mean a "here, take cash" rather than a "here, take cash and fly me to X")
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
It's much cheaper (and safer) to throw away a satellite than to develop and fly a shuttle.
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
SpaceX never claimed that it's advancing rocket science. NASA recovered rockets and landed on the moon years ago. What they didn't do was lower the cost to orbit. _That_ is SpaceX's thing

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