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by untog 6y ago
True, but at least on the web I can inspect what network requests it sends, what the code is (even if it's obfuscated). Native SDKs are just a black hole.
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by untog 6y ago
There are no (very few?) universal rules in tech. The HN advice to buy instead of build is correct in the majority of cases where a startup isn't actually doing anything revolutionary on the tech side (and there's nothing wrong wi
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by untog 6y ago
I feel like it’s been accepted wisdom for a long time that native apps are more secure than the web. In the last few months I’ve found myself wondering if that’s actually true. They both have their own, different security problems.
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by untog 6y ago
I hadn’t heard that. Very positive development if so.
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by untog 6y ago
Improvements like web components encapsulating CSS make it a much better fit for component development. Just a shame React doesn’t support the API like other frameworks do.
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by untog 6y ago
In fairness the decision was made in 2009. I still don’t think it was the right decision but it feels a lot more understandable to have made that choice when looking at the frameworks available in 09 rather than 2020.
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by untog 6y ago
> The context is that Firefox is not supporting essential OOP features (like private fields) I'd dispute private fields being "essential". People have been writing a lot of OOP code in JavaScript without them for a long ti
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by untog 6y ago
Plucking a single comment entirely out of context and presenting it as damning evidence against an entire company's competency feels kind of over the top.
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by untog 6y ago
Sure. But everyone is already flying by the seat of their pants here. That there isn't a backup video conferencing system set up isn't overwhelmingly surprising to me. (plus, training out of practise professors on two video conf
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by untog 6y ago
IMO it’s unfair to blame “low quality developers”. The industry has coalesced around React as the one stop answer to everything. Coding boot camps focus on it to the detriment of broader web technologies. It’s worth calling out when it actu
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by untog 6y ago
Two things: 1. AFAIK NTSC doesn’t support it, so North America never had it. There were equivalent standards but not one universal one to unify around. 2. Are there that many cultural references? I’m struggling to think of many that I saw g
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by untog 6y ago
> The left owns the mass media Not to get too far down a rabbit hole here but the OP was referring to the "far left", which certainly doesn't own the mass media. If anything, centrists own the mass media.
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by untog 6y ago
Video files are large, so you usually have to store them on some kind of external disk. And it's very possible to lose an external disk. If videos are your livelihood then I imagine you're going to be a lot more disciplined than t
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by untog 6y ago
I'm sorry but this comment is both wildly off-topic and needlessly inflammatory, suggesting the OP is fine with the over-sexualisation of children? Come on. We're two steps away from reciting QAnon posts here. But in an attempt to
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by untog 6y ago
I imagine (though the full study hasn’t been published yet to check) that they recruited children that already had X amount of touchscreen usage each day. I very much doubt they forced children into different brackets of touchscreen use as
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by untog 6y ago
> There has been growing concern that toddler touchscreen use may negatively impact their developing attention but this fear is not based on empirical evidence.” That isn’t surprising to me: there are no inherent properties attached to a
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by untog 6y ago
Well, they're already actively developing Kotlin Native...
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by untog 6y ago
I don't know, but you can do the exact same thing in Swift.
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by untog 6y ago
> I hate the idea of tipping. I tip generously. Both of these statements are simultaneously true. I strongly agree with this. Particularly in the US, where tipped workers are allowed to be paid less than minimum wage on the assumption
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by untog 6y ago
> The more sensible thing would have been to increase menu prices by 18%. That would not be sensible because when people are comparing restaurants they will appear 18% more expensive than an identically priced competition when they aren’
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by untog 6y ago
How is that relevant to this conversation at all?
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by untog 6y ago
> Notarization is about protecting users who are not capable of making an informed decision about code safety from developers who refuse to comply with Apple's terms of service. Epic willfully violated their terms with Apple to make
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by untog 6y ago
> Yet it's worth considering if Fortnight is really a good thing in the first place. IMO that's a fine conversation to have, but it is not Apple's place to make that decision for me.
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by untog 6y ago
All of those things reduce risk, they do not remove it. And given that you can be asymptomatic for two weeks there’s a very real danger of spreading the virus. And there isn’t really a good reason to be doing it right now other than “I want
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by untog 6y ago
I had the exact same debate. One potential strength for my use case (cross platform mobile stuff) is that Nim actually transpiles to Objective C, which can then be compiled with Xcode. That’s a big deal because you need to provide bitcode w
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by untog 6y ago
My “in theory” was referring to Kosmonaut. Then I pointed out Sciter as evidence that something similar has already been done.
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by untog 6y ago
I definitely have. Gmail is one that comes to mind: it scales to let you see more of a message. A lot of people are on 13” laptop monitors, they’re not that wide.
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by untog 6y ago
Surely not. They are simply each better for different use cases. If you have ~5 tabs then tabs on the side is a waste of screen real estate. If you have 50 then on the top is unreadable.
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by untog 6y ago
That’s quite the stretch. Rust’s unstable branch isn’t a total Wild West, it’s just for new features that aren’t ready for stable yet. If you’re not expecting version 1.0 for quite some time it isn’t a problem to use an unstable channel.
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by untog 6y ago
In theory. The Sciter engine is not far off that, though it uses its own scripting language: https://sciter.com/ EDIT: reply to c-smile below (HN won’t let me reply, sigh): My “in theory” was referring to Kosmonaut. Then I

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