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by jarjoura 4y ago
Twitter has communities just like the other platforms, however, it's follow/follower model is a fatal flaw that encourages toxicity. Every single community that flourishes on Twitter eventually devolves into a set of people who sp
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Except for a few complex components, Compose is for all intents, a complete rewrite of the Android view system. SwiftUI, at least in its current iteration, mostly wraps UIKit and AppKit controls and is bound by the contract of those control
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by jarjoura 4y ago
This should be the top reply! Just want to add my extra take on comments: Comments are absolutely necessary when explaining complex logic that is hard to read for the casual reader (or yourself 6 months later). Comments are not necessary wh
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by jarjoura 4y ago
While I agree with your hesitation in marketing deceptive content, I think you may be overloading marketing on YouTube with the term click-bait. From Wikipedia: > Clickbait is ... designed to attract attention and to entice users to foll
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by jarjoura 4y ago
This is always a vicious cycle that starts with good intent but spirals into an oppressive regime. 1) It's starts after the product launch post-mortem 2) Team creates a process to improve avoiding future mistakes 3) Process innocentl
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by jarjoura 4y ago
It's honestly surreal to me the amount of hype crypto is getting right now. No one can even articulate why they love it, other than the hype itself.
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The iPodification of the Mac has been so utterly jarring to me. Little nuances in productivity have been reduced to accommodate porting over a platform that was designed for touch. Microsoft tried for a decade to merge touch design in a des
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by jarjoura 4y ago
Rust is taking over the tools space for sure, replacing important tools that need to run often and speed is king, replacing tools written in python and perl. Rust is also making its way into new core cross-platform libraries that need speed
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by jarjoura 4y ago
In my experience, object oriented view systems like Cocoa (UIKit or AppKit) work great for small teams with deep domain knowledge of their code base. However, they constantly require refactoring as teams grow and systems become more complex
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Flash was a Macromedia product that Adobe acquired. I don't think the team that worked on it foresaw the rapid shift to touchscreen mobile devices. Even so, there's no way Adobe could have competed with Apple and Google's pus
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by jarjoura 4y ago
There are so many mundane things that happen in local communities that I'm not sure you need research to show how invaluable it is to local readers. Yet, is noise to everyone else. I could think of a few, new businesses opening up, or
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by jarjoura 4y ago
I used to be an avid Economist reader, but even they are increasingly moving away from long form non opinionated journalism towards more bite-sized, clearly biased takes on the world. They have made it know they clearly believe Brexit was a
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Sure, but what about medium sized communities? The Bay Area has lots of local news outlets and even more local "boots on the ground" community blogs run by volunteers. I don't know if that's true around the rest of the c
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by jarjoura 4y ago
For me, the biggest problem is that news media is allowed to control the narrative by injecting bias into the coverage. We all know language choice has a strong power to manipulate and shift people's perspectives on what needs to be ra
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Oh, that's very cool, I haven't heard of them!
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At this point it would be hard for any normal user of Windows to tell the difference between the Intel and ARM variants of Windows 11. Things that haven't been ported to ARM will run slower, but they're already on par with low-end
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by jarjoura 4y ago
Can you dual boot any other OS on ARM Macs yet? Seems like this project might have missed a few steps along the way. This really should be a Microsoft effort. They just announced that they have Visual Studio compiling in ARM64 finally, so i
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by jarjoura 5y ago
They also do not invest in their workforce the way other Bay Area companies do. For example, they do not really encourage engineers to grow outside hired abilities and make it almost impossible to find time to work on anything except the Ra
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by jarjoura 5y ago
This is a hypothetical scenario and seems weird to create a debate around. Do you have explicit examples of YouTube censoring content that seems unfair? For YouTube, they are appeasing advertisers who do not want to align their brands with
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by jarjoura 5y ago
What is this post about exactly? Reddit has more porn than any one person can possibly see in a lifetime. Twitter too. Apple and Facebook took a middle of the line approach to avoid offending people. Also sex is a hard line to walk. There’s
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by jarjoura 5y ago
Just a side rant, but Vimeo always had this perception (to me), that it was a Ruby of Rails clone of YouTube. It had that very clean minimalist pastely UI with very easy to understand player, but always felt static. Compared to YouTube with
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by jarjoura 5y ago
Counterpoint, I made a recent shift to Android from many many years of iOS development. It's not the language that I struggled with, it was the completely different engineering culture surrounding the platform. Yes there are many simil
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by jarjoura 5y ago
For macOS universal binaries, yes, they still build both platforms. For iOS, it's only ever building for the platform you target, simulator or device, so the only change there is the simulator is now an arm64 target.
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by jarjoura 5y ago
There is no OpenGL driver on M1. So your app is running through a translation layer to the native Metal driver underneath. All OpenGL rendering on M1, no matter the framework (iOS, Catalyst, macOS) has pretty terrible performance because of
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by jarjoura 5y ago
Jan 10, 2021 was the day I unsubscribed and/or deleted every news source I had. I just couldn't take it anymore. That week capped off a decade of alarmist content that seemed to start at the end of the housing crash, but continued
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I partially agree, evil is such a hyperbolic word. However, Apple and its rank and file during the Steve Jobs era believed 3rd party developers to be rather incompetent, and 3rd party software could never live up to the beauty that Apple it
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Isn't that exactly how it works? You listen to something and the artist gets a share of the profits. Same as YouTube. Personally, I still don't think that should make these platforms immune from content scrutiny. There's impl
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I actually quite liked the expansion on the lore and mythology of the movie. Also the new blue-haired actress lit up every scene she was in. More of her please! I just couldn't understand how someone who was as much as a perfectionist
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All of these companies are too big to fail at this point. They all have at least a decade of reserves to power through anything that gets thrown their way. However, I do predict that they will change in significant ways in the next decade.
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by jarjoura 5y ago
Focus Mode on iOS keeps getting better and better. I use it aggressively to limit all kinds of things, not just social media. It gets annoying when I need to legitimately open a locked app, but the benefits have been extremely worthwhile.

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