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by grumblingdev 3y ago
FYI: You can put a low-profile mechanical keyboard on top of your MacBook built-in keyboard and it works great. I use the Keychron K1 Pro with Brown Gateron switches. It's an 80% (ten-key-less / TKL). I needed this one because I u
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Completely agree. I think there is a cultural component that has transferred throughout history whereby people need to signal their level of education to others. You've probably had it happen yourself without realizing. You hear someon
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Agree. Our math is convenient for us humans living in our universe. But how much of our math is just a poor approximation of our universe? Like Newton's gravity was. If our math only _approximates_ the world, if we discovered something
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
A good line of questioning is to explore the constants that arise in physics, of which there are nineteen[3]. E.g. "Why is the speed of light what it is?". ~300,000,000 meters per second. But the definition of a meter is actually
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Website is broken...text is in a long thin column...
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Ask HN: Do we still need Electron?
5 points by grumblingdev 3y ago|1 comments
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Did Windows ever support writing apps with JavaScript? UWP maybe? I swear I remember it being a thing...
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Does Microsoft have a reply for declarative UIs, e.g. React / SwiftUI / Jetpack Compose? I had thought XAML was it and was ahead of the game, but it's kind of a different approach. All the new ones define their declarative UI
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Can I use TypeScript and WinUI 3? I remember a while back there was contraversy that MS wanted people to write Windows apps for store in TypeScript. What happened to that?
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Goddamn! I always wondered why it took until Win UI _3_ to decouple...but I guess this is why.
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Someone should bring the SmallTalk IDE experience to JavaScript.
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
I don't get how MS can't just build a control library. You always have to use these expensive third-party closed-source libraries. I remember when the Ribbon UI came out. And there were like 10 different vendors making all differe
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Facebook Messenger uses React Native. WhatsApp Desktop uses WinUI. WhatsApp is superior. I don't get React Native. It's such a huge, complicated abstraction with no ability to performance tweak. I don't understand how a compa
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Clicking on the second link and pressing back doesn't work until you click cookie accept :(
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
> Even the landing page for WinUI starts off by comparing the differences between two versions of it. It feels like they are trying really hard not to annoy developers by telling them their stack is now legacy. They should take all old t
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
> Every third-party app uses a different toolkit with a different look and feel This always infuriated me on Windows, and a big reason I moved to macOS. This is a great read: https://arstechnica.com/features/2012&#x2
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
For someone coming back to Windows development after 5+ years, it is so incredibly difficult to figure out what is going on. I have never had so much confusion in my life. WinUI 2, WinUI 3, C++/WinRT, C#/WinRT, C++/CX, C++&#x
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Ask HN: What is the best way to build a desktop app in Windows in 2023?
51 points by grumblingdev 3y ago|104 comments
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Ask HN: Are cross-platform frameworks worth it?
2 points by grumblingdev 3y ago|2 comments
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
The only issue is motivation. With a team size of 1, people don't realize how much they depend on having just one other person there. Some people can do it. I think a lot are in for a surprise.
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Messenger seems to be React Native evident by RCTView everywhere. It also uses NSView instead of UIView. WhatsApp seems to use UIView, but I couldn't find evidence of SwiftUI, so am assuming its just a UIKit app. There are some very si
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Ask HN: What it the tech stack of the new WhatsApp desktop?
2 points by grumblingdev 3y ago|2 comments
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
There are a ton of resources online about "why OO is bad". I think knowing that this viewpoint exists is a good lesson in itself.
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
> What does this even mean? There is a lot of good wisdom from the 60s, 70s, 80s that people forget and end up re-inventing. I don't think I'm the first person to make this comment. > OO It's very subjective I'll a
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Most new devs want to build things. Their motivation is driven by app ideas. It takes a while to develop a fascination for the internals of programming which comes after you start building things. The problem is that a normal person would l
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Why do you think the industry keep circling back on old stuff? Look at how much time we lost with OO. I am only recently coming to grips with how bad it is. C++ was the "thing you are interested in today" back then. And it wasn&#x
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
I think Lisp won that battle. The core syntax was named after actual cpu registers (cdr/car).
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
This is bad advice. > several better options these days Every other option requires you to buy into some additional paradigm-of-the-day. You can easily lose decades going down the wrong programming rabbit holes.
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
> for this reason that I am skeptical of ChatGPT Me too! I think its wayyy over-hyped. The biggest challenges in software are architecture. Object boundaries. System composition. And I'm a big believer that all the software we write
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by grumblingdev 3y ago
Very hard to skim over. Can anyone summarize? Looks like its trying to make a very simple point in a very long-winded way.

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