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by untog 6y ago
I don’t think people view going to an office as an answer. They view daycares and schools reopening as an answer.
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by untog 6y ago
> Unless judges are also drinking the leave Trumpney alone Kool Aid I have some bad news about the past three years of judicial appointments...
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by untog 6y ago
Sounds like a case of survivorship bias at work here. How many revolutions led to failed societies that aren’t around any more?
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by untog 6y ago
This is so thoroughly depressing. There is a very real need for a debate about the place social networks have in the spread of misinformation, but no-one wanted to have it. Now we will anyway, but by debating it in the most hysterical terms
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by untog 6y ago
It’s been my experience that coworkers with butterfly keyboards either type nearly silently or incredibly loudly. I’m not sure it’s worth the trade off.
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by untog 6y ago
> Browsers already load images from top to bottom Is that true? I believe that they kick off the requests to load images from top to bottom, but I don't think they prioritise bandwidth in such a way that downloading image #3 will ne
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by untog 6y ago
That’s not true at all. TV, and newspapers before that have inspired outrage when they expose wrongdoing for a very long time now. No, it’s not constant like social media, but it’s still been a powerful force. There’s a reason the printing
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by untog 6y ago
If you’re someone who needs total control over your device then why are you buying an iPhone? Jailbreaks get patched in OS releases so it’s only a matter of time before you lose control again. If you really care about control why wouldn’t y
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by untog 6y ago
“A device controlled by the owner” is one way of putting it. “A device capable of installing unverified software with an increased potential to introduce security vulnerabilities into the OS” is another.
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by untog 6y ago
There isn’t a huge crossover between desktop apps and mobile ones. If you’re making a mobile app and you want to make money, you want to be on iOS. It’s been documented plenty that iOS apps make a lot more money than Android ones do.
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by untog 6y ago
But it accurately describes a lot of use cases where something like Postgres (or MSSQL or even Oracle!) have been deployed because it’s what people assume is needed. It’s great to see accounts detailing how simple things can be.
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by untog 6y ago
You’re welcome to not use it. I don’t mean to sound overly negative but for small shops or individual developers there is simply no way for them to create a web, Mac and Windows version of their app at the same time. Personally, I’m glad th
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by untog 6y ago
Do you think that an informed population is a net positive or a net negative? I personally think the former, and I had a pool of spare cash lying around I might try to put money towards that effort.
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by untog 6y ago
Unless they're hiding it well (always a possibility...) Target is that retailer for me. Of course they don't have anywhere near the selection of Amazon, but for the regular essentials I need their free two day delivery does a fant
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by untog 6y ago
Eh, I don't think JavaScript is really associated with Java these days.
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by untog 6y ago
> There was a real cost to printing single newspaper to me. There is also a higher cost to the subscriber to receive a newspaper compared to digital delivery, IIRC. So it is still proportional.
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by untog 6y ago
...when did I suggest they did? Come on. What I'm saying is that it is not possible to have a conversation about the release of version 9 of Electron on this site. So far the thread has proved me right.
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by untog 6y ago
I've never used it, but DeskGap uses native OS webviews: https://deskgap.com/ Of course, downside there is you now need to handle cross-browser compatibility issues (particularly Internet Explorer on Windows)
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by untog 6y ago
Counterpoint: Google's Material Design framework has tremendous research behind it, and has a variety of both native and web implementations. The broader point is the one I already made: this isn't new. None of this is. Going over
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by untog 6y ago
Electron bumps their major version number when they move to a new major version of Chromium. Which is what they've done here.
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by untog 6y ago
You don't like Electron apps? OK, we know. We know because every single time anything about Electron is posted we have the same conversation why native is better, and it gets the same replies articulating the reasons why people still c
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by untog 6y ago
Well, sure. I wasn't intending to imply that the entire population of the globe is working remotely.
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by untog 6y ago
I'm skeptical. Not just of this article but really of anything written in this moment that talks about how The Way Things Will Be. We're thick in the middle of a pandemic right now. It will subside. No one knows exactly what waits
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by untog 6y ago
That isn't a new phenomenon though, surely? The idea of leaving SF etc. and working somewhere remote for a better life balance has been a discussion for some time now.
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by untog 6y ago
I'm really curious to see how this actually pans out. As someone who enjoys remote work it's tempting to look at the situation today and say "finally! The fever has broken! Employers will realise how great remote work is!&quo
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by untog 6y ago
Speaking for myself, it won’t. In “normal times” I gave up video gaming because it didn’t feel like a good use of my time. When (if?!) things return to normal that’ll still be the case.
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by untog 6y ago
Same for me, except with first person shooters. I used to play Counterstrike back in the day but long since lost interest, but now I’m playing the free to play games like Fortnite and Call of Duty Warzone. I think the main reason is that it
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by untog 6y ago
We already know what happens when that system is created, though. Because it’s what the web used to be. And the result was that people hacked around it: rendering entire page structures as static, unresponsive images. And that’s exactly wha
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by untog 6y ago
Everyone on HN is an outlier, though. We’re very atypical users.
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by untog 6y ago
> I believe that gmail won email not because of security and good user experience. I think they won because it removed the complexity of this problem. I can’t agree with that because Gmail was far from the first to provide this. Growing

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