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by jrs95 8y ago
This doesn't help them get users on their services. It would just be another Fire Phone. The next step beyond their current strategy would be to sell devices (regardless of who manufacturers them) that come preloaded with both Google P
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Android doesn't really have much similarity to Linux beyond the kernel so this doesn't make much sense. They are 2 quite different userland operating systems.
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Microsoft doesn't need to be pushing their own Android distribution to be successful here. They're building a very compelling set of software that runs atop Android on any device, and this can be done while complying with Google&#
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PHP no longer works like this in practice. FastCGI etc uses persistent processes with a thread per request, and thread per request is pretty standard for most platforms that don't have good async support at this point.
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Razor templates are quite good as far as server side templating goes imo
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Also similar to Tom Christie's APIStar https://github.com/encode/apistar
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Of course, I'm only saying that would be my pick today. I personally dislike working with dynamic languages, but I would say Rails was their best option at the time.
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ASP.NET MVC as uncool as that might be. IMO this is as close to the benefits of Rails you can get in a statically typed language. And it really doesn't take very long in developing a project for static typing to start saving you time e
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From what I can tell the startup ecosystem is even weaker there than in areas like the Midwest in the U.S., which even after expenses related to transportation and healthcare makes a lot more economic sense in my opinion. Cost of living is
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99% of the time this is just pasting one dependency line into a file, and a Gradle file reads more intuitively than a Maven pom file. IMO performance aside Maven really only excels in edge cases. Most projects would never see any advantages
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Maven is very unintuitive though, at least Gradle does a better job on the CLI interface. Hopefully we'll get better options on the JVM in the future.
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Perhaps android apps are relatively resource intensive or inefficient, but in terms of "web apps" like SPAs vs server rendered websites, web apps are doing more on the client. They inherently use more resources. Electron apps don&
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Yes, there are workarounds.
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I didn't make it clear what I meant about money. The issue now is that each district is so large that in order to have an influence beyond your own vote you need a lot of money. You can't just talk to people in your community and
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Dart has had some null-aware operators for awhile ( https://news.dartlang.org/2015/08/dart-112-released-with-nul... ) otherwise you'll need to explicitly do null checks. It's certainly not perfect, but it&
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We used to have a limit in place where each representative in Congress had no more than 40,000 constituents. This allowed a single individual to have a meaningful influence if they wanted to and kept people engaged. Now elections are so lar
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I'd argue people left GoDaddy because their services suck. At least, that's been my experience with them. And at the same time, what they were doing wasn't unique, you have nearly unlimited alternatives in that space. I hope
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The great development experience is largely tied into Dart and it's toolchain, not to mention all of the underlying Dart code in the project. However, you can get the same kind of control flow out of Dart albeit with a little less stat
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There really isn't an alternative for what Flutter does, which is high quality cross platform apps that don't require separate UI code. Xamarin has Forms, but the UX is not nearly at the level of what you get from Flutter, and it
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But then there's one less thing for me to complain about to feel important and have my imagined moral superiority validated!
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Yes, but generally this is about getting discounted service. In the case of the iMac Pro in particular, Apple wouldn't accept money to do the repair at all with a voided warranty.
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Not only are Apple products difficult and expensive to repair, but if you've done something with your device that Apple doesn't approve of and voided the warranty they may even refuse to repair it for you. You're essentially
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Samsung has done just fine with waterproofing and they've kept the headphone jack.
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by jrs95 8y ago
Great article. The problem is that "liberal elites" aren't really liberal anymore. They're just powerful, and their allegiance to liberalism seems to really be about convenience and profitability and not about values. Un
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Android in particular really benefits from the faster hardware in my experience. I fly frequently so I get a lot out of more storage and better displays as well. Battery life is a big deal. That added up to me getting a Note 9. The main thi
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If it was just typing it would be easy. If it's Hack collections and async/await...not easy at all
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This is bad news for Slack, I would think. I believe they went all in on HHVM + Hack, which is going to be increasingly incompatible with 3rd party packages now.
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Biggest use of it that I'm aware of was Netflix. This was really just done for DRM reasons.
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It may actually be faster and more secure, it does well on artificial tests at least. But my issue with it is generally stability. More crashes and some sites don't behave as well. Video streaming in particular is iffy. Since Chrome is
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You might enjoy writing it, but does anyone else enjoy reading it? ;)

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