joekim

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by joekim 10y ago
The mistake there was one of timing and approach and they learned from it. The promise of cross-platform, web-based technology is still there, that's why they created React Native.
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by joekim 10y ago
I think VSCode by Microsoft is a good example of Electron done well. In their case, I don't think it's because their web technology devs are cheaper. I wouldn't be surprised if that team knew multiple platforms and languages.
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by joekim 10y ago
Could you elaborate on what you think the elaborate on what the "right" tools would be?
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by joekim 10y ago
If this is true, then why are even bigger players with more resources like Facebook and Microsoft building on top of Electron instead of building natively? I surmise that you are not alone in believing that Slack would be better built as a
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by joekim 10y ago
> "It runs just fine" isn't data. It isn't a useful metric for performance. I don't see any claims from "mordant" that their anecdote is a useful performance metric. If anything it'd be a data poin
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by joekim 10y ago
There's nothing bad about being a historian nor is there anything bad about writing about your most significant project in ten years. Both are aligned with the title.
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by joekim 10y ago
According to Patrick Vlaskovits and others, there's no evidence that Henry Ford actually made the quote. So, I would agree that it's probably bogus. https://hbr.org/2011/08/henry-ford-never-said-the-fast
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by joekim 10y ago
Agree. Hepatitis was my first association as well.
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by joekim 10y ago
Mine too. I'm wasn't familiar with his work, but I was moved by the lovely pictures of Vernon Adams with his family. Fonts are pretty important. I spend most of my day looking at text so readability is key.
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by joekim 11y ago
I want to reserve judgement for now, but the slide is very upsetting. Why is it OK to make these kinds of generalizations?
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by joekim 11y ago
Thanks for the link. I found the article to be very informative. Can't say the same thing about the original Wolfram article.
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by joekim 11y ago
Link to video of presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntj8ab-5cvE
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by joekim 11y ago
I agree with the feeling. I'm very frustrated that Swift has not been open sourced into LLVM. Apple is in a position to take the wind out of Microsofts sails, but it feels that they're more focused on profits than on what their de
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by joekim 17y ago
I like the javascript example in the blog entry where closures are used to simplify the implementation and scoping of the async call back. Javascript is my favorite language right now.