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by mythz 7y ago
Flutter's not a PR campaign for Dart, they're a separate project that chose Dart based on its technical capabilities [1]. Given Flutter enables the nicest native x-plat dev experience today I'd say it has a very bright future
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by mythz 7y ago
No he means Flutter which has been around a lot longer, it's immediately what I've thought of being inspired by as well: https://flutter.dev/docs/development/tools/hot-reload
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by mythz 7y ago
> Use it as a loss-leader to get developer mindshare Right, that's why they paid 7.5B to acquire GitHub and are further investing in it to be more appealing to developers and gain even more mind share. > Or, they can use GitHub t
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by mythz 7y ago
Why would they limit themselves to the features of integrating multiple external sites when they can build the features, integration, velocity and product direction they want without being beholden to external stake holders with different v
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by mythz 7y ago
An integrated payment solution is going to attract a far greater numbers of sponsors than telling everyone to go to sign up for a subscription on external sites. Integrated authentication, existing credit cards on file, unified billing, giv
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by mythz 7y ago
And basically every free product released by large companies which prioritizes mass distribution and user base over direct product cost. It definitely makes it much harder for the few remaining competitors but also benefits the far greater
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by mythz 7y ago
So your argument is that because GitHub no longer has a profit motive and they're now releasing features at a much faster pace, that the acquisition has somehow gone bad?
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by mythz 7y ago
Traffic, ad views, analytics and $$$.
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by mythz 7y ago
The age is nigh, its already become the easiest way to run and install Safari's JavaScriptCore on every platform: $ wapm install -g jsc Can then use `jsc` to execute .js, as a REPL or inline expressions: $ jsc -e "c
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by mythz 8y ago
On 1 quarter YoY basis, their core iPhone business saw a plateau slowdown of -17.3% ($31B). iPad saw 21.5% growth ($4.9B) and their newest categories Wearables (Watch/Airpods) saw a 30% jump ($5.13B) whilst their Service Revenue increa
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by mythz 8y ago
matters a lot more than getting inconsistent rendering and behavior that you have to continually test cross platform when trying to wrap native controls behind a leaky abstraction.
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by mythz 8y ago
Very excited, this is the fast & productive non-electron native Desktop Apps UI I've been waiting for. Most people use Electron because most native GUI's suck as they're antiquated APIs are unproductive with slow dev&#x2F
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by mythz 8y ago
Came to say the same thing, fun story, great demo! Are there any other demos/games built with the library yet?
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by mythz 8y ago
That's like saying a DB search is existing competition for a Google Search, it isn't. There were existing GEO companies that provided Mapping Services (I was developing GEO Apps with one of them at the time), but there was nothing
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by mythz 8y ago
As I'm being down voted without any discussion I'll remove why none of the existing competition did or could've done what Google Maps did and keep the insights I had at the time as a GEO developer to myself. Fly-by downvoters
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by mythz 8y ago
There was no real-time Consumer Maps App that came close to competing with Google Maps UX. Now there are multiple Consumer Mapping Services that replicate the instant utility of Google Maps, but it was revolutionary with no equal at the tim
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by mythz 8y ago
The instant utility was essential to its massive popularity, it basically ushered in the new era for real-time Consumer mapping. Everything preceding it was clunky, slow and "turn based". I can't recall what the state of MapQ
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by mythz 8y ago
Google Maps was a revolutionary product that popularized the category, they had no competition when it was released, at least now there's Apple Maps, Open Street Map, Bing Maps, Tencent Maps. I was developing with ESRI ArcGIS at the ti
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by mythz 8y ago
Why is it stupid? Apple made 8x more profit than Amazon and 2.4x more profit than Microsoft. It deserves to be worth more and still has the lowest P/E ratio of all major tech companies (5.7x lower than AMZN). If you think something is
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by mythz 8y ago
Well I'm assuming with a 26% increase in Market Cap (inc. after hours) represents 22B increase in market cap, but the $2 EPS represents ~2.4B so I'd expect a lot of the 82% institution investors knows something that's not con
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by mythz 8y ago
QCOM ended the day up 23.21% whilst AAPL was essentially flat for the day, high of USD $201.35 closing at $199.25 so normal trading variance. It appears that QCOM got the better end of this deal. Does anyone know of the $2 EPS [1] is due to
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by mythz 8y ago
No it was because of your inherent bias that motivated you into pulling out a weak data point trying to backup your false narrative to belittle her achievements. You couldn't even count her public code contributions correctly (an irrel
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by mythz 8y ago
> VS Code is one of the finest examples of open source Done Right™ It's easy to do OSS right when your a major cloud OSS vendor who are able to use your billions of profits from hosting OSS to fund a 30+ strong dev team in creating
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by mythz 8y ago
Katie Bouman herself did a fascinating Ted Talk behind the effort involved for creating the first image of a black hole: https://www.ted.com/talks/katie_bouman_what_does_a_black_hol...
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by mythz 8y ago
No, I wouldn't lend credence to a program that serves as an echo chamber to further insulate .NET's bubble. It's one of the marketing tools used to self-reinforce .NET's mono culture - which I view as the worst thing abo
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by mythz 8y ago
It's about helping MS market their products by encouraging devs to pimp their tools/products under the guise of "technical excellence" that everyone used to look up to. An award for being one of MS's best pimpers ju
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by mythz 8y ago
The MVP program has become a marketing program to encourage becoming unpaid shills of Microsoft and MS products, where the best way in is to evangelize and write articles and tweets promoting Azure. Your social media presence is more of a f
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by mythz 8y ago
A good example is GitHub's Web Hooks which is common for notifying GitHub PR's of completed CI results: - https://developer.github.com/webhooks/ There's also a Community WebHook plugin for ServiceStack:
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ServiceStack v5.5 Released(docs.servicestack.net)
3 points by mythz 8y ago|0 comments
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“Chromify” any .NET Core App in a Windows Desktop App(docs.servicestack.net)
4 points by mythz 8y ago|0 comments

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