rimantas

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by rimantas 10y ago
Native apps are awesome. They have 10x more than you mentione with 10x less effort to develop.
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by rimantas 10y ago
and 4G may solve bandwidth but it does not really solve latency.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Whoa. If you want content quickly many apps will offer it in widgets. Many will show you notifications with ability to interact with them without even opening the app. There is nothing instant about websites.
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by rimantas 10y ago
In what world native apps are slower than web apps? And where do you find "extremely fast" websites, with all this JS frameworks crap and gazillion of trackers being pushed to your poor browser?
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by rimantas 10y ago
Ah, the good old "installs zero apps" statistics. Would you mind telling how much new web pages does average American open in a month? Let me guess: the same zero.
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by rimantas 10y ago
How much work is installing the app? Single tap? The same of less than opening a web page? No need to remember screen and folder, just use global search on your phone.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Web page does not need opening? Interesting… Updates happen automatically now.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Probably just MakingStuffUp.iso
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by rimantas 10y ago
To have high quality GUI Swift is not enough. You'd need to have AppKit ported, and a bunch of Core* (CoreImage, etc.) stuff. In short—not going to happen.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Believe me, it is not. All Android and WP developers I know also used Macs. :)
161.
by rimantas 10y ago
Sure, because who deserves a decent UI&UX.
162.
by rimantas 10y ago
if itunesconnect is any indication then Apple cares a lot more about developers than it did five years ago.
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by rimantas 10y ago
So what made MB "Pro"? SD card slot? Height? Weight? Absence of TouchBar? People complain about 16GB RAM. Does your current MPB has more?
164.
by rimantas 10y ago
Not sure about Xamarin studio, but for Xcode, AppCode, PHPStorm anr Virtualbox 16GB still does do.
165.
by rimantas 10y ago
Continuity. No cables required.
166.
by rimantas 10y ago
Same in Lithuania. Have been using mobile signatyre as it is called for yeats, very convenient.
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by rimantas 10y ago
People still find Amazon and Google attractive?
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by rimantas 10y ago
What's comical (or sad, really) that things built with this often are not even web apps.
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by rimantas 10y ago
It has nothing to do with technology and tools.
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by rimantas 10y ago
It's not about the food. It's about slowing down and taking your time. When you start taking tablets to save time drinking, o soylent, to save time eating, you for sure do not slow down. Why it is important to slow down and unplug
171.
by rimantas 10y ago
"Good morning," said the little prince. "Good morning," said the merchant. This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and y
172.
by rimantas 10y ago
Long division was probably the first algorithm I've learned. If you don't think that learning how to manipulate abstractions by applying algorithms is a usefull thing… well why not just skip arithmetics too, calculators are good w
173.
by rimantas 10y ago
Yeah, it's really not up to the parents to raise their kids. It's scarry how we get to this point where people write this kind of shit with a straight face.
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by rimantas 10y ago
More like building tv sets into lawnmower.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Sandi Metz has a talk where she speaks about her dislike for if https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMPfEXIlTVE
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by rimantas 10y ago
1/3 of KB of CSS can convert any of them from ugly into really nice.
177.
by rimantas 10y ago
If you see no problem, how do you propose to revive those killed because trial went wrong and an innocent man was sentenced?
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by rimantas 10y ago
Interestingly enough, you can get less radiation from diving in the spent fuel pool than being in open air: https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
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by rimantas 10y ago
And the tech is also very believable. Not overdone, nothing gimmicky, feels very real.
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by rimantas 10y ago
An editor gave an advice for the aspiring writer once: read more books. —Will it help? —Sure. The moore time you spend reading the less time you will have for writing crap.

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