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by jamil7 5y ago
Why do we as a community feel that one technology has to “take over” another all the time? Native apps continue to exist on desktop alongside web apps and that’s fine, as the capabilities of PWAs increase we might see more coexisting with n
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by jamil7 5y ago
You're right of course, ART.
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by jamil7 5y ago
It’s too early to judge but Jetbrains are working on a desktop implementation of Jetpack Compose, the new Android UI framework. It draws to skia like Flutter so also not really “native” if that’s important to you. https://www.jet
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by jamil7 5y ago
I think the founders were just familiar with iOS development so that's what they built it in. My perspective is that RN is a risk and a tradeoff like any other, there are quite a lot of pain points of RN which make it less attractive t
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by jamil7 5y ago
Both an Intel and an M1 mac, it's especially noticeable on the newer machine as native apps open instantly, even Xcode, which is a pig seems to open quicker. Like I said it's a great editor and I use it when I need to do some Pyth
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by jamil7 5y ago
That's fair. The fact that updates and fixes are shipped with OS versions makes it less useful (for us at least). People just don't upgrade their desktops like they do their phones.
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by jamil7 5y ago
The parent's point still stands. Memory usage is lower without the overhead of the JVM (I think that's the point they were making).
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by jamil7 5y ago
Agreed it’s an excellent editor however it has a lot of engineering resources behind it and still suffers from sluggish performance, especially on startup.
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by jamil7 5y ago
Ha, and on the mac side we now have AppKit, SwiftUI and Catalyst and any combination of those you feel like.
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by jamil7 5y ago
> It's a really outdated book about a "perfect" anarchist sociaty. I do find a lot of it holds up pretty well as long as you sub-out some of the more specific examples with modern equivalents.
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by jamil7 5y ago
> It’s fine. Yeah it's not the worst but it still removed functionality from a product for arbitrary reasons. Jony Ive just didn't seem to understand/care how people actually use a mouse with both the magic mouse and the h
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by jamil7 5y ago
I thought the definition was fairly clear and agreed upon?
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by jamil7 5y ago
Catch up on years of neglected reading, language learning and playing music.
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by jamil7 5y ago
Will definitely check this out. It might be a bit hard to attract contributors starting a project in Obj-C today though.
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by jamil7 5y ago
> I keep having to tell junior devs to actually _read_ the fine error message I wonder if it's also to do with the environment in which they learn. When I was learning to program, like probably others here, I didn't have anyone
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by jamil7 5y ago
Good thing we’re finally able to display text and images with all that hardware.
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by jamil7 5y ago
I had this one in mind while reading to be honest https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sir-this-is-an-arbys
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by jamil7 5y ago
> Then by all means, please charge me separately for these things. Because I don’t need them. Apple doesn’t do marketing for me, never promoted my app. People find my app through my own marketing channels. This, maybe it was different in
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by jamil7 5y ago
A lot of architectural work or system design type work I do away from my desk, sometimes while cooking or walking home or in the shower. Sometimes I send myself a Slack message to look at when I'm at my desk again if it was too much to
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by jamil7 5y ago
The post was down for a quite a long time when I commented, I assumed the author's server had fallen over.
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by jamil7 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20210823064617/https://scottbarr... Edit: What was the downvote for?
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by jamil7 5y ago
The definitions of under and over engineered seem at odds. To me the underdeveloped version is the one that is difficult to change without touching everything.
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by jamil7 5y ago
Very cool, didn't know about AccessKit.
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by jamil7 5y ago
So you can't have any platform differentiation and at the same time lose any cohesive, platform specific UI with known conventions. Instead of two major mobile vendors we end up with one or best case scenario two major browsers from on
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by jamil7 5y ago
Side note, I’ve recently switched to Raycast after seeing them advertise an appkit role on HN and found it be a really great Alfred replacement. Not sure what the future business model is but it’s free right now. https://www.rayc
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by jamil7 5y ago
I wrote a Swift port of it last year for my app but it deviates from readability a fair bit as I tailed it a bit to my needs, I've considered cleaning it up and open sourcing it regardless. I know there is an Objective-C port floating
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by jamil7 5y ago
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by jamil7 5y ago
Yeah kinda random. Doesn't something similar exist if you want to download content from a domain without TLS from within an iOS app? I vaguely remember needing to fill something out to explain why I needed users to be able to load cont
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by jamil7 5y ago
I always wanted something like https://www.carbonfact.co/ - hope it takes off and they expand the list of products.
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by jamil7 5y ago
> other than thanking them but insistently waving them on? Unfortunately not, that's basically my strategy.

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