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by the_trapper 8y ago
I think breaking up the ISPs and media conglomerates would be much more impactful. I can't think of a single market segment where Google and Amazon lack effective competition. Facebook is already bleeding users, and how would you break
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by the_trapper 8y ago
You should check out Lazarus. It's basically open source Delphi and cross platform, write once, compile anywhere. http://www.lazarus-ide.org
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by the_trapper 8y ago
I think you meant https://www.x-plane.com instead.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
Qt's licensing can be a problem for certain platforms such as iOS. It is also quite bulky compared to Flutter. File sizes are mostly irrelevant on the desktop these days, but on mobile it still matters
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by the_trapper 8y ago
> One problem on Linux is that the native toolkits (Qt and GTK) are just garbage. I think a lot of this stems from the fact that Linux (or BSD for that matter) don't really have a "native" toolkit. Also, I think people ove
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by the_trapper 8y ago
I'll take an Electron app on Windows any day over one that has to utilize an X11/POSIX layer to run. In fact I'm not aware of any widely utilized software on Windows that relies on the stack you're advocating for.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
Explain to me how an X11/Posix desktop application is better for a Windows user than an Electron one.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
I'm not sure that this does encourage native Linux game development. Why bother putting in the porting work for 0.1% of potential users when someone else might do the work for me via Wine/Proton.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
I'll second A Tour of C++ 2e. It's a great way to get up to speed on the most important aspects of C++. It's very readable if you're already familiar with C syntax style languages.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
Maybe by Android ZuchiniBread we'll be able to use Java 11 on Android. One of the major pain points of Android development is that the vast majority of the API is designed around limitations of Java 6. Yes, I know that you can use mos
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by the_trapper 8y ago
Yes and Congress can override his veto. That's how the checks and balances work.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
The President having veto power over the budget is not the problem, the complete lack of any sort of ability to compromise amongst either party's leadership is. Without veto power Congress could ram through all manner of pork barrel sp
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by the_trapper 8y ago
> The study addressed this. There are sexist gender roles at play even among single parents, potentially. (To wit, you didn’t lament the rise of “single fatherhood.”) Isn't that mostly caused by a sexist judiciary. I know that as a
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by the_trapper 8y ago
You forgot about Amazon. They are by far the dominant player in the Android tablet space.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
The Android ecosystem is actually in an even worse situation because most people aren't even able to apply security patches on their devices, even if they are technically inclined to do so.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
It's not usually seen that way because the BSDs are considered to be directly descended from the original UNIX codebase and GNU and Linux are clones.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
They bought Xamarin. I'm also pretty sure they do make money from their Enterprise versions of their .NET developer tools.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
> The main difference is that one of the vendors actually supports the language in question (Kotlin) as a first-class citizen. How is this different for Xamarin? C# has first class support on Windows.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
The stupid thing is that these code names sometimes span multiple versions of Android and even API levels making it all even more of a clusterfuck of a platform. My suspicion is that they do this to hide all of the fragmentation and preten
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by the_trapper 8y ago
Although it's not a guarantee that it'll stick around, the fact that it's open source greatly increases the probability. GWT is actually still very much alive even though Google abandoned it years ago.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
WebObjects isn't open source, Dart is.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
From what I understand, AdWords is written in Dart. This alone means it's not disappearing anytime soon.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
Honestly, I would say that with all of the recent improvements to the emulator over the past few years that Gradle is actually the sluggish, horrible part of the Android development experience. The emulator is actually pretty decent now.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
In all fairness there are a fair number of POSIX APIs that are dangerous and need to be deprecated and removed.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
Google Code had git support and a fair amount of traction within the open source community at one point but they let it stagnate and eventually put it in read-only mode. I don't think Google actually wants to be in the code hosting bu
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by the_trapper 8y ago
I'm hoping they go with the current VSTS pricing... https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/pricing/ It's very simple, reasonable, and sane compared to GitHub's.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
It's a convenience thing for me. As a hobbyist solo dev it'd be nice to have a place to work on code across different devices in private and then open it up when I feel the code is mature enough and the time is right to put it ou
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by the_trapper 8y ago
Isn't that one of the strengths of Git? The whole decentralization means that it is ridiculously simply to take the whole shebang and migrate to another service or even just self host on a cheap VPS.
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by the_trapper 8y ago
I'm also optimistic they'll revamp GitHub's pricing structure. Their current price of $7 a month is absolutely absurd for individual developers. I can get a pretty decent VPS for $2 a month cheaper. Considering that most o
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by the_trapper 8y ago
Microsoft has never been about free software. They are however embracing open source in a manner that feels very sincere to me. For the record, the so-called "spyware" is telemetry which exists only in the SDK for .NET Core and

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