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by matt2000 8y ago
Not in PCs, but I wonder if the iPhone would count as a largely custom designed computer. They do custom silicon for a lot of the system, and get much higher performance than commodity phones as a result. Perhaps the spiritual successor to
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by matt2000 8y ago
"The hardest thing for a casual user to learn would be "sudo apt-get install" and then guessing what the package name is that they might want to download, like vlcplayer or java" Everything you said in this sentence is a
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by matt2000 8y ago
That's why I was suggesting running Win7 in an emulator for legacy apps.
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by matt2000 8y ago
I never really understood why MSFT didn't start a clean slate rewrite of Windows about a decade ago. Imagine how much simpler and more reliable it could be, and you could run Windows 7 in an emulation layer if you had older apps you de
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Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery public dataset(cloud.google.com)
133 points by matt2000 8y ago|44 comments
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Moving 500,000 Users from React Native to Flutter(medium.com)
3 points by matt2000 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt2000 8y ago
I'm having the same experience: high CPU usage, slow typing response and big battery usage. Will see if 61.0 helps at all.
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by matt2000 8y ago
I had some similar experiences with multiline text controls in the summer of last year, but it seemed to improve by around the fall. Not quite sure of the current state but it seemed to be improving. (Overall it was still super worth it to
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by matt2000 8y ago
Dokku is _preeeeeetty_ good but you kind of end up messing around on the server eventually to get things working, or fix things, etc. If you're into that, or have CPU/RAM requirements that would be prohibitively expensive on Herok
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by matt2000 8y ago
I'm guessing he means "$2 more than a $5 droplet that you maintain yourself."
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by matt2000 8y ago
I hear this a lot about Go, but doesn't the webserver handle concurrency for you in most cases? I don't do a whole lot of explicit threading work when I write webservers in Java for example. Or is there something I'm missing
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by matt2000 9y ago
The thing that sometimes gets lost in the debate around Tesla autopilot (IMO), is that it's possible for self driving cars to be theoretically better than human drivers, AND that Tesla's implementation of that concept to be overal
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by matt2000 9y ago
Same here, it's so weird. Most services are dying to get you to sign up for autorenewal, these guys don't even allow it.
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The Project from Hell(projectfailures.wordpress.com)
3 points by matt2000 9y ago|0 comments
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by matt2000 9y ago
I use a bunch of IDEs from https://www.jetbrains.com/ (mainly Idea) and it is hands down the most important thing for my productivity. Been using them for over 10 years, super worth it.
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by matt2000 9y ago
I agree. It seems very clear that code readability is reduced by var-like type hiding. When I'm doing code review and I see "var address = contract.getAddress();" what is the type of that variable? I have no idea.
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by matt2000 9y ago
It's probably not a great fit for making games, a lot of the benefits are in quickly generating and updating more standard UIs, not 100% custom drawing like games usually require (although you can do custom drawing of course). I would
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by matt2000 9y ago
Yeah I hear you, I’m just missing the stuff I used to find here - little cool libraries, new ways of doing things, stuff people made. So much of what’s upvoted now are just the contents of the business section of any major newspaper.
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by matt2000 9y ago
"Hacker News" this is not. I hate to be the guy saying "why is this article on here" but I do miss the stuff that used to be on this site :(
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by matt2000 9y ago
I define weak spots in terms of things I'm trying to accomplish. If I'm weak in areas I'll never need, then who cares? When trying to accomplish something you'll find out pretty quickly the things you need to improve and
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by matt2000 9y ago
Among all the other things mentioned in the comments, AFAIK this is the rendering engine for https://flutter.io/ too
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Will Cryptocurrencies Be the Art Market’s Next Big Thing?(nytimes.com)
5 points by matt2000 9y ago|1 comments
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by matt2000 9y ago
Does anyone know what would have happened if the battery wasn't available? Some sort of brown out?
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by matt2000 9y ago
Sounds very promising, I will give it a try. Thanks!
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by matt2000 9y ago
Can anyone using this give us a report on the developer experience? Even simple quality of life stuff is useful like how easy is it to see logs for running containers, how fast are the deploys, etc. Thanks!
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by matt2000 9y ago
Were you running a docker image on custom VMs on app engine? Just wondering how easy the transition was. Are you still running on Google cloud instances via nanobox?
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by matt2000 9y ago
Add my vote for this one. I'm running a dokku server right now for this reason but would rather not.
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Ask HN: Anyone using nanobox.io?
5 points by matt2000 9y ago|0 comments
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64K and loving it, our experiences writing apps before the iPhone(larvalabs.com)
2 points by matt2000 9y ago|0 comments
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by matt2000 9y ago
This article is from 2014 so I thought it would be interesting to see how things are going. It's hard to tell whether the subject of the article, Protean, is having success with the in-wheel motor. Their website is vague about who thei

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