udwum

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   by udwum 7y ago

   I feel the opposite. Cross-platform toolkits such as Qt are "good enough" but not great. I wish more apps would be written using the native toolkit of the platform.
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   by udwum 7y ago

   Programmers are usually very vocal leftists. I've always assumed that those who don't speak openly about politics don't care or are right wingers, but who knows.
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   by udwum 7y ago

   That's a funny one. I worked at a place where the support team that worked for the social network accounts of the company had better tools and higher priority when doing their jobs than the phone/site support team, so effectively
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   by udwum 7y ago

   They recently created (maybe not completely rolled out yet?) bookmarks, which work the way favourites did back in the day (but they are private).
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   by udwum 7y ago

   The original TweetDeck was an Adobe AIR application. Twitter bought it, and then rewrote it as a website. So it could be argued that they built it. There were alternatives before such as Seesmic, no idea how they work now, if they still do.
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   by udwum 7y ago

   What you said is ok, and it's fine if that's the default. What people complain about is that you can't opt-out of the algorithmic timeline.
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   by udwum 7y ago

   TikTok is a Chinese application so I wonder if there are other interests at play.
8. 8.▲
   by udwum 7y ago

   Depends on how expensive the settlement will be. :)
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   by udwum 7y ago

   It does something, it makes your mobile say 5G on the top. That's worth paying more money for some people.