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by skohan 4y ago
You could even say they're basically hostile to it.
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by skohan 4y ago
I wouldn't say I found it buggy, but rather limited. For instance even something simple like a list view has limited customisability, and some of the styling is mandatory unless you want to rebuild the entire component from scratch. I
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by skohan 4y ago
I actually see it in the exactly opposite way. A couple years ago, Swift was a nicely designed language, with a manageable number of composable features which could be used to do just about anything. With the features which were released a
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by skohan 4y ago
Are wind and solar viable at scale? My understanding was that you would need a non-existant storage solution to accommodate inconsistent production capacity.
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by skohan 4y ago
> Sure, nuclear is better in some dimensions. But along the "short term deployability" dimension, it's just not in the running. I've heard the exact same argument in favor of Nuclear. As I understand, the argument is
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by skohan 4y ago
The warranty is really worth considering. I recently had to get a repair on an 18 month old laptop, and even though it was out of Apple warranty, the repair was free under consumer protection laws, and would not have been had I bought it i
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by skohan 4y ago
It depends on your priorities. Thin and light is the win for me.
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by skohan 4y ago
Also there are probably a lot of people who want a bigger screen but not a thick and heavy laptop
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by skohan 4y ago
Keep it. I want one port to rule them all.
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by skohan 4y ago
Wow that's scary! It sounds like one of the most populous cities on earth is already close to the limit of human survivability
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by skohan 4y ago
If the max is 31C wet-bulb temperature, how did India survive the weeks of temperatures around 50C this summer?
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by skohan 4y ago
Latency is a type of performance. For instance if you have even a few milliseconds latency it's relevant in terms of UI performance.
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by skohan 4y ago
Ok but comparing with Python is like a worst-case scenario, and long running tasks would amortize Julia’s performance issues. There are a great many use-cases/language comparisons you could find where Julia would be the worse performin
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by skohan 4y ago
Yeah I would agree the use cases you mentioned are probably fine for Julia as well. I could be more precise and say that Julia is not relevant for performance-relevant applications. The problem with ignoring performance is, many applicatio
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by skohan 4y ago
I totally agree, leaning on Moore's Law to solve performance issue doesn't work. When you have performance issues on the language itself, you're essentially paying a performance tax on every piece of code that executes, in a
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by skohan 4y ago
Yeah sure it's always an option. I just think as mobile has gotten more complicated, the whole development pipeline gets wider. So in other words, having to support so many different targets means more work for designers, more work f
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by skohan 4y ago
Pretty far from you there. First of all, not all games are art. A lot of mobile games are effectively slot machines optimized to get you to keep pumping in quarters for a chance to feel rewarded. And music is quite different from most apps
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by skohan 4y ago
Most apps are just products which serve a function, not art. Like they used to put a lot of extra ornamentation on buildings during the baroque period, but eventually people mostly stopped doing it because the building functions just the sa
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by skohan 4y ago
> With modern GPUs pushing bitmaps is actually far more efficient than drawing shapes. No I mean it's inefficient from a product development standpoint. With a flat design, you can make a design system which will scale very easily
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by skohan 4y ago
I understand why trends have moved away from skeuomorphism. It's inefficient to have image assets for every inch of the screen, and it adds more visual noise to parse for the user. Also it was easier to deliver these types of designs
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by skohan 4y ago
Yeah exactly - in software development the problem is rarely that there is too much typing to do.
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by skohan 4y ago
It's existed for less than a year and you find it indispensable?
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by skohan 4y ago
Yeah and they're not doing it for us they're doing it for them. MS is a corporation not some kind of NGO
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by skohan 4y ago
What was elitist about what I said?
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by skohan 4y ago
Well I don't think I've shot myself in the foot, it seems a lot of people agree with me. I'm not against the idea of ai coding tools on premise, but it did strike me as kind of funny to imagine someone using two such tools
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by skohan 4y ago
I'm just describing what all programmers have done since the beginning of time
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by skohan 4y ago
Call me old fashioned, but I use my brain for mutli-line code generation
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by skohan 4y ago
You can't because they will just buy whatever you use to get back into your life.
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by skohan 4y ago
If Stack Overflow sold its services as a subscription service, then maybe you would feel entitled to a share of the profit off of your work.
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by skohan 4y ago
This is exactly why I don't like using MS tools. Relentless use of dark patterns and user-hostile behavior. I don't want my code editor to try to up-sell me, ever.

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