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by jamil7 5y ago
Maybe building a consumer app for iOS/Android - you can pick a pretty standard idea or look through the list of popular apps and implement something similar with IAP. You won't make a living doing this without serious investment i
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by jamil7 5y ago
I think there was also a period post 2015 MBP up until the new M1s now that the laptops were pretty bad and had a lot of points of failure. The current ones seem like a return to a more robust workhorse to me. I was lucky and and had a 2013
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by jamil7 5y ago
Just speculating but I could imagine trained dogs used for hunting or guarding camps might have been too valuable to risk experimenting with food on?
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by jamil7 5y ago
Yeah I agree it's great from that perspective but the business goals very rarely make it a priority given the added complexity. Even supporting offline-first style workflows is step up as you can tolerate more downtime on the backend a
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by jamil7 5y ago
Yeah I'm aware - I got the impression from your comment you were advocating for a more pure P2P approach (not necessarily CRDT related).
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by jamil7 5y ago
> Servers are cheap, and big companies frankly seem to love it when we're dependent on their infrastructure. I've worked on a few different sync engines for mobile apps over the years, it's also a matter of user expectatio
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by jamil7 5y ago
You're right sorry I totally missed the fine print...
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by jamil7 5y ago
Yeah good point, but I wonder if their products have a larger market and the price point is about double what this is going for. I also noticed they have an add-ons store, not sure if they take a cut there too?
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by jamil7 5y ago
Yeah, people in this thread are praising the one time purchase but I'm almost seeing it as a red flag - how do we know a niche product like this will stick around without recurring revenue? I don't know if that's paid major u
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by jamil7 5y ago
+1 For Kotlin, Swift would be nice too.
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by jamil7 5y ago
For Apple Music it's probably a case of Hanlon's razor, it's been buggy and busted forever.
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by jamil7 5y ago
I completely agree and had the same thoughts reading that. K8s for an MVP?! Throw that thing on a PaaS and forget about ops altogether until it's too expensive. I think it's really good advice for developers wanting to launch thei
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by jamil7 5y ago
Yeah, I hadn't heard the term "flow typing" before but I thought the same thing, in other languages I've used you'd use a Result type and a switch to do what the author was doing.
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by jamil7 5y ago
Is this true? Manufacturing a new washing machine sounds resource intensive.
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by jamil7 5y ago
Cool project > Github renders text files without line wrappings Save it as .md not .txt and it should work
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by jamil7 5y ago
At least we seem to have gotten out of the childish period of "oopsie doopsy" style 500 pages. Although I guess we're also in the everything is an SPA period where a website will just break in opaque ways you won't even
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by jamil7 5y ago
A cafe that turns into a bar is pretty common I thought - at least in Europe. Maybe licensing is different to the US?
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by jamil7 5y ago
I think this is generally true and agree 90% of the time although I've once seen the opposite in which what was otherwise a successful small SaaS severely underinvested in product. They had an MVP that they basically left unchanged for
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by jamil7 5y ago
IME the expectation is you have pretty deep expertise of the platform, especially as a contractor and this takes a surprisingly long time to build on either of the mobile platforms.
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by jamil7 5y ago
> It's just a bit sad that Typescript is being pushed so hard as if it's the only right way. It's being evangelised as if it has zero downsides, it introduces overhead to what can already be a brittle dependency/build
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by jamil7 5y ago
I use this almost everyday - no frills, rock-solid piece of software.
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by jamil7 5y ago
It has to some extent. The opposite is also true - look at Compose and SwiftUI.
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by jamil7 5y ago
> This doesn't explain the mobile app boom then. I feel that it doesn't make sense to expect the exact same transition desktop went through to happen on mobile, mobile is just different and has a different set of constraints.
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by jamil7 5y ago
While I agree ideas are cheap I think you're probably coming at this from the wrong angle. If you ask people what problems they have it's quite likely you won't actually find ideas people are willing to spend money on, or eno
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by jamil7 5y ago
This essentially mirrors my experience however the codebase is more around 50-50 split AppKit / SwiftUI, most controls we tend to use AppKit and layout and display SwiftUI. I don't actually think the integration is too painful, la
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by jamil7 5y ago
> I would not advise a new developer to learn AppKit at this point in time. I've been contracting on a "modern" mac app in SwiftUI for the last few months, one of the issues I see is that you can't actually get that f
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by jamil7 5y ago
Hmm I think that issue is overstated, I use a split keyboard in my coworking space, I go between it and my laptop keyboard at home regularly. Once I feel where I’m typing my brain seems to figure out pretty quickly and adjust.
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by jamil7 5y ago
Eh, I'm no Microsoft fan but it used to have issues before the acquisition too. I can't really remember if it was better or worse.
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by jamil7 5y ago
But muh plugins are all on Github...

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