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by matchbok 6y ago
Rand Paul is rarely right about anything.
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by matchbok 6y ago
...yeah, that's why the war was fought. Don't let confederate apologists change history here. Every confederate state had "slavery" in their constitutions.
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by matchbok 6y ago
I see nothing but a loading screen. If you need a loading screen for a resume, you're probably doing something wrong.
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by matchbok 6y ago
Still an annoying and anti-consumer practice. Another "growth marketing" tactic that doesn't take into account the number of people who never visit that site again because of the spammy stuff.
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by matchbok 6y ago
Another attempt that doesn't address the real issues: rent is too high and/or wages are too low. In-demand locations are always going to be expensive. The minute you start providing "special" apartments to a certain grou
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by matchbok 6y ago
Glad it's going away, the syntax is a chore to read and understand. There's no valid reason for the use of brackets.
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by matchbok 6y ago
That's also not true, at all. If you think most jobs can be automated you clearly have no idea what an average job is.
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by matchbok 6y ago
Yeah so it works, but from a developer perspective it's about 10x more complicated than iOS. It's also a source of bugs and crashes because of how Android manages the state change.
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by matchbok 6y ago
Truth hurts.
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by matchbok 6y ago
No, we aren't. Not even close.
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by matchbok 6y ago
You're right. It was never designed as a mobile OS with a soft keyboard. Hell, it's 2020 and rotating the device still doesn't work as it should.
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by matchbok 6y ago
The lack of quality control in the Android SDK is pretty impressive. It is by far the worst SDK I've ever used. Hell, even simple think like hiding/showing a keyboard requires a ton of code and checks. In 2020.
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by matchbok 6y ago
Fringe nonsense, get this off HN.
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by matchbok 6y ago
Another Google project that will end up being abandoned. Flutter, Dart, messaging, etc. They need to just fix Android.
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by matchbok 6y ago
Overpriced? The average android phones cost the same as iPhone. That argument is tried and not relevant anymore. Plus, iPhones actually work longer than a year.
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by matchbok 6y ago
Oh, my team has tried the new stuff. It's terrible. Especially with the viewmodel stuff. Hidden bugs, no documentation, constant API changes. Hell, you couldn't scope a viewmodel to a nav graph until recently, which defeats the en
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by matchbok 6y ago
Hm, I'll have to try that out! Oh, on those. Compared to iOS and ViewControllers, they just isn't a comparison. Starting them? Oh, can I do new Activity()? Nope, use this Intent thing. Rotation? Good luck! Passing data around? I h
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by matchbok 6y ago
Did they build a real simulator yet, like iOS? Note, not an emulator, which does hardware stuff. A simulator, so we don't have to use up our entire machine to run another operating system just to run a java app. Or finally fix the acti
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by matchbok 6y ago
Amazing. Still boggles my mind that these huge companies can't invest in native development. You never really understand how constrained Slack is once you see what multi-window setups could look like. The current UI is mess and this is
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by matchbok 6y ago
People like slack because it makes them feel more productive. Note, that's not the same as actually being more productive, which I rarely see is the case.
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by matchbok 6y ago
Is RN still used widely? Most people/companies I know have ditched it. It's never a time saver and usually just a pain once you wanna do something complicated.
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by matchbok 6y ago
Using 'any' is perfectly fine, you just don't understand how most companies use TS.
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by matchbok 6y ago
None of those issues are what TS tries to solve. At all. Compile-time checking is well worth the switch. Refactoring old JS express apps is a nightmare. You can add TS incrementally, so your argument about "downsides" is not valid
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by matchbok 6y ago
No thanks. Government subsidized units are a mess, and have been tried before. Plop someone into an "affordable" unit and you are basically locking them there forever, as they cannot afford to move. That is a very bad situation to
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by matchbok 6y ago
The fit and finish of apartments and houses is largely irrelevant. The cost of the housing increase over the past 20 years is the cost of the land beneath it. Largely because we have not built transit and housing and jobs elsewhere. Based o
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by matchbok 6y ago
This is incorrect. Those homes are expensive because the land beneath them is expensive. The finishes are largely irrelevant. And the land is expensive because there are not enough places like them.
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by matchbok 6y ago
No, they don't. That's just not true. I'm in that group and I cannot simply get up and leave if my company decides to do something like that. I have responsibilities to my family and future. Same with everyone one of my frien
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by matchbok 6y ago
I guess you are the arbiter of moral righteousness in the world, then. Are you writing this on a computer? Where did the materials come from that built it? Conflict free? How about the wages for the person who built it? Hint hint.
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by matchbok 6y ago
The average software engineer does not have a skiing holiday or a swimming pool. Even home ownership is down. The vast majority of people, even people making 100k+, do not have that luxury. Grouping together millionaires with software devel
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by matchbok 6y ago
So much virtue signaling and holier-than-thou in this article. Really embarrassing to read. We make ethical judgements everyday, from eating an apple to driving a car. Does the author use a smartphone built by low-income folks across the oc

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