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by rimantas 10y ago
Your 2013 came with 32GB RAM?
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by rimantas 10y ago
> do the adult thing and ignore it. While it probably the best advice it does sound a bit like pope's advice for the gay people: it is ok, if you do not act on it. Being unhappy is just an adult thing, I guess.
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by rimantas 10y ago
"Almost there" does not count. It has not just be there but be better at everything. And I will argue it is far far away from even "being here". I am getting tired of repeating this each time, but "web everywhere&qu
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by rimantas 10y ago
Tell me, why would I want to run Android app on Mac?
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by rimantas 10y ago
I am a programmer and changing RAM/disk/replaceable batteries are not on my list of things I need for work.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Good attitude for startups which will die after barely releasing MVP. Others will learn that maintaining is where the most time is spent and that chasing customers' whims without any regard how it all fits together will lead you to th
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by rimantas 10y ago
There is a difference between something not working and domething prone to breaking in the future. Changes are fine, but your architecture may be the one that accommodates changes with ease or makes any change extremely painful.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Actually sometimes I prefer reddit because it is also fun in addition to being informative. Too many on HN take themselves too seriously.
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by rimantas 10y ago
MySQL AB was about 400 before being bought by Sun and it was said that about 70% were remote so that gives about 280 persons. I was impressed how well organized that work was.
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by rimantas 10y ago
But the attackers were from Saudi Arabia, which is "curiously" (nothing curious about that) not on the list.
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by rimantas 10y ago
We see gazillion of the web apps (and pages that are web apps but shouldn't be) because of those who are not willing to learn anything but JS. Good luck dragging them to C/C++.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Let's not pretend that politics have no influence on tech. E.g. solar/wind vs. oil.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Except bombs are dropped by the military and the victims of the terror attacks are civilians.
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by rimantas 10y ago
The thing is that any good iOS/Android developer will know the platform they are working on while good web developer may have no idea what native SDKs offer and end up reinventing the wheel, badly.
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by rimantas 10y ago
how about adding some random delay circuit for the spin button? It would mess up with timing and that's enough.
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by rimantas 10y ago
How does that change the fact that if you consume less there be less to absorb from?
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by rimantas 10y ago
Alternative physics.
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by rimantas 10y ago
It just changes the multiplier, the rule stays the same.
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by rimantas 10y ago
So live rats are OK? :O
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by rimantas 10y ago
Once again: Mac OS in pre-X days had even smaller market share, but many many more viruses in the wild. It's not all about the market share.
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by rimantas 10y ago
So he depended on Rails. If RoR is no longer interesting, neither will be his screencasts.
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by rimantas 10y ago
I have seen stranger things than this.
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by rimantas 10y ago
There not many project these days that would not require similar stacks. At least one core language: be it Ruby, or Java or whatever. Then you will have a DB. Then you will have some fancy frontend which will sure depend on node js. Then yo
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by rimantas 10y ago
It is to convince that you want this particular product by this particular company over the competition.
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by rimantas 10y ago
No, he sounds like evil coroporations force us to meet friends in coffeshops, etc. When in reality we just don't want to tidy up our houses before inviting friends over, do the dishes, etc. And it also gives us an opportunity to leave
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by rimantas 10y ago
Ther is a place for animations in UI. First, if you have to wait animations can reduce the percepted waiting time, i.e. it is not so boring to stare at the screen when something is happening there. Also, animations can guide your attention
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by rimantas 10y ago
How have you dreamt up "web apps loading" faster bit? And if native experience for you is home screen icons, and offline mode… well, we don't have much to talk about here.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Correct. Fixed, thank you.
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by rimantas 10y ago
What apps would that be? Also, it will have zero effect on iOS upgrades, unless the number of "users with expensive external hardware items that require ancient apps" is in double percentage digits. In reality I guess they don&#x2
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by rimantas 10y ago
I wonder how long it will take for people like you to realize what users want. Hint: they don't want to control, there are already to many things to control. They want to use.

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