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by yen223 3y ago
I know that iPhones are popular, but I didn't fully appreciate how insanely popular they are until I'm seeing the numbers laid out like this.
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by yen223 3y ago
"We are happy to report that we had an all-time revenue record in Services during the June quarter, driven by over 1 billion paid subscriptions..." What counts as a subscription? Because 1 billion feels incredibly high to me, like
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by yen223 3y ago
Maybe the lack of superconductive scientists is the reason why we haven't unlocked room-temperature superconductivity.
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by yen223 3y ago
Yeah, people here seem to forget that Javascript had actual competition in the browser space back in the day. It was very likely the winning browser-side language would have been a proprietary one, which isn't the world I want to live
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by yen223 3y ago
The problem of folks responding solely to the title is not limited to Reddit. It's a pervasive thing here in HN too.
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by yen223 3y ago
To confirm a theory that I had [0], I once tried to track what languages the software I actually use is written in. I basically arrived at the same conclusion as OP - almost everything I use is written in C++. From the browser, to my favour
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by yen223 3y ago
Both Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI came out around the same time, in 2019 I think. It's probably more correct to say that both frameworks copied React Native and made it more "native"
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by yen223 3y ago
The fact that Apple revealed the Vision Pro before any games were demo-ready is a strong signal that Apple doesn't treat gaming support as a major blocker. Indeed, looking at Apple's product lineup and marketing, it's clear t
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by yen223 3y ago
I did quite recently, to communicate requirements to devs working in a language I wasn't familiar with.
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by yen223 3y ago
I presume it's because Python has a reputation for being a slow language, and this quiz wanted to show that even "slow" Python code can be fast on modern hardware, unless you touch IO. That, and Python is probably the most ac
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by yen223 3y ago
Tires and steering wheels are the same after all, no need to reinvent the wheel
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by yen223 3y ago
Anyone who's done any gardening would find that fertilizer - both natural and otherwise - do not smell pleasant.
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by yen223 3y ago
Just make sure not to confuse it with epoch milliseconds!
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by yen223 3y ago
What's the problem you're trying to solve?
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by yen223 3y ago
Not to mention the whole "video game" thing that people really like
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by yen223 3y ago
I've been seeing a lot more "ChatGPT only produces junk code" comments (case in point, this entire thread), and that hasn't really been the case either.
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by yen223 4y ago
It bothers me that all the examples provided shows that companies care about performance ("Company $X made their app 20% faster"), but none of them talks about the impact of caring about performance ("Company $X made their
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by yen223 4y ago
It's not just maintenance, Microsoft has released several expansion packs to the original Age of Empires II, plus an Xbox port to boot.
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by yen223 4y ago
We are more likely to run out of fossil fuels before we run out of sunlight and wind
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by yen223 4y ago
Best paid investment - my Jetbrains subscription has easily returned many multiples in saved time when working with code. Best free investment - A tie between MDN, the official Python docs, open source code on github, and youtube. It's
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by yen223 4y ago
Most people here don't want faster dishwashers, they want an argument =)
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by yen223 4y ago
Don't want to jinx it, but I haven't heard of any Sydney-based startups doing layoffs. I have heard about Sydneysiders from Microsoft, Google and such who were hit by layoffs though.
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by yen223 4y ago
Programming AIs worry me because I think they can get better at programming faster than I can get better at programming
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by yen223 4y ago
I found the Tailwind docs to be a surprisingly good resource for learning CSS itself.
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by yen223 4y ago
I've always thought "orthogonal" as in ideas came from "orthogonal" as in vectors - meaning to be independent of each other.
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by yen223 4y ago
This applies to choosing external dependencies as well. Startups that chose FlowTypes over Typescript are struggling right now.
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by yen223 4y ago
The thought of future archaeologists being thoroughly confused by Roman terracotta tiles that apparently generates electricity amuses me.
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by yen223 4y ago
The JVM doesn't have much of a presence in iOS, so that removes one fairly major platform. Kotlin Native, as an alternative to Swift, is not quite there yet. As for desktop apps, I guess it's just because web technologies has been
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by yen223 4y ago
Oh another issue I found was that there are way more people being condescending about native desktop development, than there are people who teach native desktop development
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by yen223 4y ago
There's just straight up less educational material of any kind that teaches native desktop app development. I would love to see the equivalent of the MDN but for AppKit, but alas

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