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by jrs95 9y ago
I didn't read it that way. To me, it seems like he's saying that how the tool is used pretty much eliminates it's downsides. It's not like this was being used to conduct no-knock SWAT raids or something.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Well, people rarely stab or shoot each other in good neighborhoods either, so why would you even bother?
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by jrs95 9y ago
If you actually look at the "study" it's clear that what they did was not particularly scientific. With such a broad and complicated topic, they basically just took the talking points they wanted to have about it and worked t
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by jrs95 9y ago
There’s really not any strong evidence to suggest that was happening. And you can’t test it because all it takes the accusation of racism and some pseudoscience and you’ll be shut down. The closest thing to evidence referenced in the articl
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by jrs95 9y ago
In my opinion it really isn’t. Looking at the studies it references, they’re not much different from “press” anyways. They read like the questions and data presented were selected to prove a political point. I’m not trying to just be ideolo
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by jrs95 9y ago
Maybe there’s such thing as bad downvotes either, your light gray text just draws attention to your comment. I’m kind of interested as to what the definition of “over-police” is in this context, though. Is it disproportionate with or withou
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by jrs95 9y ago
Well, unless the performance characteristics of PWAs are going to be much different than that of Electron apps, I would stick to native personally.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Well, for one, I prefer React to Angular, so just in terms of how I'd prefer to write my applications JS seems like a better fit. In general I tend to try and stick to things with large and successful communities when I don't have
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by jrs95 9y ago
Unfortunately no, this was purely anecdotal based on my experiences using sample/demo applications.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Yes, it absolutely can be, which is pretty amusing. Since I've gotten downvotes, apparently people think I may be one of those cases. But hey, at least I'm only arrogantly dismissing people's arrogant dismissal of Flutter ;)
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by jrs95 9y ago
I'd imagine it's mostly a performance thing. It also seems like Google is aiming to use this to help get more apps on Fuchsia as well. It may end up becoming the preferred method of making new apps on Android.
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by jrs95 9y ago
> You can learn a lot about why programming is such a shit show by reading the comments on this one. Dunning-Kruger is real. For more information on what the hell happened in this thread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by jrs95 9y ago
Flutter has MUCH better performance than Xamarin Forms though. React could theoretically have something just as good for a cross platform UI toolkit, but given that Flutter took several years to even get to a beta, I think that would probab
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by jrs95 9y ago
The Flutter project is considerably older than Kotlin Native.
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by jrs95 9y ago
I'd never use Dart otherwise, but just to get a decent cross platform development toolkit I'd do it in a heartbeat.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Even if the X isn't selling, the fact that a $1000+ iPhone is available will make it seem more reasonable to purchase one that costs $800+ instead of just the base model. Regardless of whether or not X sales have met expectations, I th
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by jrs95 9y ago
Well, you don't have tech workers offing themselves with fentanyl in record numbers, at least.
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by jrs95 9y ago
This may be true for many, but my history with stimulant usage was limited to coping with a lack of sleep. I'd work 70+ hours a week between two jobs and then still spend time working on freelance tech work to try and get out of fast f
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by jrs95 9y ago
Isn't a lot of it's popularity among users who only have one device? I've only met one person who I know used WhatsApp, and that was just to talk to his parents in India.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Nice, I might have to look into them. I believe I did I couple months ago and they had a long waiting period or a freeze on new accounts or something like that.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Poe's Law in action. Although, I think it may have played out in the opposite way you expected and resulted in more net downvotes ;)
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by jrs95 9y ago
Damn! If they really supported Monero I'd sign up right now. I'm currently on Binance it it's kind of a pain in the ass.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Wow, this pricing is great. It's been a few years since I looked into Digital Ocean, it seems like they've made a lot of improvements since I last used them for a small Rails app.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Hell, prior to pipenv being a thing, Python package management made me miss Maven of all things!
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by jrs95 9y ago
Java FX is a decent solution as well. It's just not cool.
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by jrs95 9y ago
My theory is that their code is shit. It shouldn't be surprising given that their Chief Architect wrote a Medium post (Oct 2016) in which he cited concurrency as one of the primary benefits of PHP, and advocated for "curl'ing
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by jrs95 9y ago
A lot of people, myself included, actually preferred the Linux version of Skype. But to be honest, I'd rather have no GUI app on Mac/Linux at all than have it basically be a requirement to waste resources on Slack or whatever othe
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by jrs95 9y ago
To me it's like the junk food of software. Convenient, but it's hard to make an argument for it beyond that IMO.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Shit.
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by jrs95 9y ago
But once it’s at scale, it will either be common enough or it could be made to be common enough that there’s a news story about it every other week. At that point, it’s not too difficult to kill specific people in accidents without raising

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