mikece

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by mikece 8y ago
I refer to my period as a Xamarin contractor as "bomb technician programming." The biggest advantage of Xamarin is also the greatest source of its problems: anyone who programs C# can start a Xamarin.Forms app and get a proof-of-
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by mikece 8y ago
I would take an app search engine -- or several of them -- or a curated lists of "new and interesting PWAs" that anyone can create and maintain versus a gatekeeper (or a collection of gatekeepers with differing standards) who dema
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by mikece 8y ago
Apple didn't have the app store and it's 30% rake of all transactional revenue at the time. Jobs was somewhat notorious about being adamantly opposed to something one day and then announcing to the world that Apple had created a
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by mikece 8y ago
While I don't have a problem with eugenics as a purely philosophical thought exercise, actually implementing it is another question. It's pure hubris to think we understand humans -- at the physical, psychological, or spiritual le
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by mikece 8y ago
Progressive Web Apps have the potential to be massively disruptive to apps as we know them now... and that's before the near-native speeds that WASM will bring are factored into the equation. After making the mistake of going all-in
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by mikece 8y ago
Do proponents of Free Software, on the whole, assert that the concept of intellectual property should not exist?
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by mikece 8y ago
Emails also need brevity. The phrase "I would have written a shorter letter but I didn't have time" applies 10x to emails. People are busy and if you cannot distill the essence of your email to a single thesis and communicat
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by mikece 8y ago
Apple open-sourcing Swift doesn't really do much though. Sure, Swift is a nice language but allowing IBM or others to start using Swift for making mainframe or web frameworks doesn't make a difference to Apple from a sales perspec
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by mikece 8y ago
Xamarin was also closed source and $1000 per platform per year (my employer at the time was paying $3k/year for the mobile devs to churn out iOS, Android, and Windows mobile apps from one Xamarin code bas). Immediately after being acqu
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by mikece 8y ago
Microsoft screwed up Skype by trying to “make it more Microsoft” whereas LinkedIn is being left to operate as before (tough MSFT is using the data for something). My guess is that GitHub will continue as before with the main change being t
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by mikece 8y ago
Atom and VS Code are both built on Electron. No need to kill Atom as it and VS Code are built for different purposes.
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by mikece 8y ago
Not surprising. Microsoft has made a big deal of partnering with GitHub, showing off how well their Azure-based CI/CD products and services integrate with code hosted at GitHub. Not to mention that .NET Core and many companion librarie
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by mikece 8y ago
Xamarin.Forms provides an abstracted UI definition of common controls across platforms. This makes design faster since you can simply specify a Button or a Picker without knowing or caring that the actual implementations on iOS are UIButton
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by mikece 8y ago
There are several aspects of Flutter that are compelling. The two which I find the most interesting are speed of development and the platform independence when designing the app. Speed of development: I've seen Flutter development refe
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by mikece 9y ago
I thought the primary goal of Stack Overflow was to crush Experts Exchange — that’s what Joel and Jeff said in the podcasts they published while SO was being built. I figured everything else it achieved was gravy.
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by mikece 9y ago
Facebook, Google, the credit agencies, et al would need to make the argument, then, that collecting personal data is protected speech. Otherwise, whats the legal objection?