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No, passion and money usually aligned. That's the whole undernote of any startup pitch.

If there were not aligned, then we should strive to change the market and society to make them align. Without a proper incentive mechanism, no innovation can be done optimally.
Fingerprints have plenty of their own issues though.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/2/11540962/iphone-samsung-fin...
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Oh I just think that there is a big chunk of users ready to be credulous about any given topic. Not the same users for every topic, just that the userbase is large enough for some people to take lots of things and run with them.
Please elaborate. I don't see how having a library of SASS mixins that you mix in to make specific CSS classes for specific purposes make anything harder to manage? If anything, decomposing things to smallest common denominator makes it easier to build better and more versatile CSS for your apps.
Last Week in AWS (https://lastweekinaws.com/), along similar lines, is pretty decent too.
Capitalism underlies the push for "unrealistic consistent growth in their investments." where "their" in this context primarily means "people who are ready filthy rich."

Capitalists want their investments to grow. Largely at the expense of others.

We'll put the pedal to the metal so the richest can earn more than is necessary. And poo-poo the notion that public workers should get even a smidgen of the same consideration.

Because it won't drive unreasonable growth if we're padding out health plans for the people that do the work.
If it's anything like my experience, the trip from clicking on the button to open the app and wait for the myriad of redirects, before clicking through to the page you actually want to monitor is non-trivial (and sometimes doesn't occur if the tab isn't in the foreground).

I don't have that many open, and it still takes me around 5 minutes every day to open them back up.
1) Why use several host platforms if the platform makes no difference to you?

2) If you know a platform then you should have no problems knowing how to use it.

It would be ridiculous to have an app from Windows behave exactly the same in Mac OS just because you don't want to remember the difference. You don't want minimize and maximize buttons put on the opposite side of all other mac apps because that is how it is on windows. You don't want copy paste in Slack to use Ctrl rather than command key because that is what you do on Windows.

3) Whatever time you save from doing everything the same across platforms would be wasted, for anybody not working cross platform who suddenly have to deal with an app with completely non-standard alien behavior. I want my standard mac hot keys to work in a mac app. I want preferences to be in the standard location. I want my color and font selectors to work the way they work all other places. I want drag and drop to work like in all other Mac apps.

We Mac users have seen this again and again. When companies don't give a shit about our platform, it is usually just a question of time before a competitor arrives which does, and knocks the other guy out. You don't survive that long ignoring the platform unless you got some lock-in advantage.

Why else do you think people make a big point of an app being native Cocoa? It is because they know it sells better, because they know customers want the native well integrated experience.
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Everything about that statement is just beyond ridiculous.
To continue in the Java vein: weren't Eclipse SWT & RCP supposed to be the ultimate answer to native cross platform UI development in Java?

I had no experience with them: did they gain some adoption or recognition at least?

Maybe all cross-platforms app solutions are just doomed to stagnate, at least until the next hype one rises, after all.
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Are they? When I was in Iceland I got the feeling that young people couldn't wait to leave, mostly due to low wages and unemployment.
Ah, the wonders of discovering the observer pattern. It's really a life "changer". How did the computer world survive for so many decades without it.
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Pretty easy to come by a set of them locally though.
You need to compare apples to apples:

The right benchmark for VSCode is not Visual Studio, but Notepad++ (5.9MB on my system right now).
Now, is this partly an age thing, though? As for myself, as I got older (late 30's) I became far more pragmatic. A mortgage helps. Financial goals help. Then there is life experience: seeing many many rounds of layoffs in multiple companies I worked for, and somehow being spared.

I just wonder if the 20something who dream of stock options and fame, of the game developers who dreamt of doing this since they were children, just haven't reached a point where the disappointment has hit. That, or internalized so strongly that they get promoted and catapulted up the chain. Workaholism, or 'passion' as some call it, can get noticed by the brass and now the passionate people are handed whips.

Age makes you more rational and common sense makes you see exploitation when faced with it.

But boy, IT folks seem to be the LAST to see it. Why is that? It's not like it's the only profession in the world where people can really enjoy what they do.
I think this is exactly the kind of idea I would fund if I were a decision maker at YC. It simplifies the process of making contact with a target. It has potential to be a unicorn. In some iteration or other, it is bound to have utility.

Well done.

If you don't mind my asking, what's your background?
You appear to know a lot about communication protocols and specifications as well as the stock market.Is this from research?
I agree. I've been developing Swing and SWT applications for 15 years. SWT has a simple, lightweight API that just works. Swing is so bloated an complicated that you will be tearing your hair out to perform simple tasks.

I feel that Sun's choice of Swing was the main reason Java failed on the desktop.
I've read somewhere (can't find the link now) that the subject aircrew was from an associate airline (United Express--different operator than United who also operates regional jets for American and others, so not even technically their own employee. Other plane would not have been stuck on the tarmac. The crew had to get to Louisville that night to meet crew rest requirements. So that flight could have been cancelled/delayed hours in advance if no crew was available to fly it. The owners of that crew had other methods available to get that crew to Louisville, UA did not have to accommodate them on a fully booked flight, and in fact could not legally do so. I personally think there must have been some hanky-panky going on between members of the two flight crews. I can't think of any other reason UA would bend over backwards to fuck this up so badly.
To be fair, rewriting huge mission critical systems is hard, no matter of what kind of system it is and what you are changing to.
> With a hard Brexit, that all disappears because the only reason London is the economic powerhouse that it is is because of its position within the EU.

This may be the only reason it has retained the role, but it had the role for a couple centuries before the EU, largely due to its historical position in the Empire and inertia. I don't think the essential connection of the role to the EU is universally accepted. Though we'll certainly see if it's true...
Worst case, Toshiba's chip business ends up part of Renesas along with with chip businesses of NEC, Hitachi, Mitsubishi...
> With my company, our users have always begged for an Mac OSX and iOS app. We never provided it, because we have zero-internal expertise with any of the technologies involved. We could contract, or hire for that specific purpose, but the moment that team member was gone the project would be dead and out of sync with the rest of the codebase.

I don't see how that is any different. If your Windows team members all left, that project would be dead or out-of-sync too. Wouldn't you replace valued team members who leave, in both cases? Or is this a concern that you won't be able to find developers willing to work with OSX and/or iOS tech?

> With my company, our users have always begged for an Mac OSX and iOS app.

Repeating this again because this should be telling. If your getting feedback begging for an OSX and iOS app, there's probably a number of really good reasons for that.

> What'd be a good example for the kind of lightweight project that can reasonable be duplicated for Native Mobile, Native Tablet, Native Desktop, & Web Browsers?

Spotify, Slack, Twitter, Facebook, any streaming video service (Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO GO), etc.

Note that I'm not using "lightweight" to mean "small weekend project", but to mean "less complex than the codebase needed to reproduce these features in a browser or Electron browser".

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If you are truly a small company / startup, and you truly have to support all platforms with a small team, then sure Electron makes sense despite all the drawbacks. I totally understand that.

But I usually hear this excuse from big companies, that still want to perceive themselves as small, but aren't. Slack is a billion dollar company, they are not a small business / small startup. If a company is large enough to have more than two people working in HR full time, then they are probably big enough to do this stuff right. "We're a small team" simply isn't true for them.
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> He is allegedly a doctor, not a demigod. Someone else can cover his shift. - You, elsewhere in this thread

So you're saying, unlike doctors, flight staff are demigods and must be given priority because they are irreplaceable?

(The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure United will view their flight crew more as cogs than demigods.)
SB400 was passed under promise that it wouldn't need tax payer support. So a promise is being broken either way.

We wouldn't be in the issue if Calpers wasn't terrible at investing. They did really stupid things like invest in the most risky tranche of CDOs during the subprime crisis. Thats not the fault of tax payers.
This is the crux of the matter. Giant companies hijack the hands-around-the-world narrative of the left for their own monetary purposes. In the US, the narrative is that there will be 'crops rotting in the fields' if cheap labour is not imported. Ironically, this is a very similar argument to pro-slavery campaigners who said the US would collapse without slavery.
> no measurable amount of CPU (even to blink the cursor!)

Is it really possible? What kind of alien technology is it?
There's two kinds of developers. Dorks who care about programming, and programmers who care about creating deliverable value.

What do consumers think about electron apps? That's all that matters. Consumers don't know what the heck electron is, only that their apps work seamlessly across platforms. The only people who complain about electron apps are dorks who have an axe to grind with web developers.

I'd rather have my apps use more resources than crashing unexpectedly and opening up security holes because the developers thought it'd be hipster to write it in C.
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As I prefaced in my comment, I presented a deck (the need to move enterprise IIOT towards conversational UI) and the evolution of documents was a part of that. I don't sit around thinking of documents in such a lofty manner ;-)

If you disagree about the evolution, I'd love to discuss and learn more from your POV. Much like documents, I'm looking to evolve into meta conversations.
At Nylas we made a huge bet on Electron-- our desktop app Nylas Mail actually started as a fork of Atom Shell before the project was rebranded to "Electron."

To be honest, we would have never built this app without Electron. It allowed us to have a small team (2 devs) ship the first version of the app without learning an entire new dev toolchain on multiple platforms. There certainly can be performance issues with building on Chromium/Node but those can be pretty easily addressed.

We even had an early engineer with tons of Cocoa/ObjC programming experience and they still preferred shipping with Electron.

The HN crowd complaining about Electron kind of feels like the early criticism of Dropbox or the iPod. "This is technologically inferior and has fewer features so it is clearly worthless."

For some reason there's a deep-rooted philosophical opposition to Electron-like technologies from lots of hackers. But I predict it will be like Java-- everyone "hates" the JVM for years and calls it slow and then one day it's running nearly every mobile device and being used across Google.

It's not crazy to think Electron will evolve like this-- it certainly has the momentum. And the ideas of a web-based desktop app platform have been pushed by Google, Apple, and Microsoft in the past. Seems like we're finally getting there...

(For the curious: https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail )
Visualizing work makes it transparent. But that causes problems in itself. The author asks:

> how can we create environments that are safe enough to make continuous improvement possible?
I believe KDE can do this now as well
"Eink devices are not (or rather, should not be) competing with the tablet that is the iPad."

I'm not arguing that they should compete. Rather, I'm arguing that the iPad can be seen as having opened the door to mainstream usage and acceptance of tablets -- both as devices and as form factors.

Many of the consumers who are now comfortable using tablets are more likely to use an e-ink based business tablet than they would have been if they'd never used a tablet before. And it's likely they'd never have used a tablet before if the iPad hadn't made tablets mainstream.

And precisely because said tablets wouldn't compete with the iPad, those consumers might buy both. Or have one provided/subsidized by their employers.
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I agree. If "nor an elephant going through the eye of a needle" was a expression used previously, it's not so strange that they have a local version with a camel.
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I provided multiple examples of great games from a variety of genres. I included a footnote acknowledging the criticism of Limbo that you would have. I addressed your points about both quality of gaming and what this particular thing means to Minecraft.

All you have to say to me is a boring complaint about Limbo. Have you played through the game? It's a short, well-crafted puzzle-platformer with interesting art, animations, and sound design.
It's just fine if you personally didn't like what the game did, but dismissing it as a Mario reskin is ridiculous.
This is the way film production has been for decades. The problem with games is that there isn't a union to protect credits or establish work rules. If there was, I would only work as a contractor.
You still get timing data from the taps.
> React native will probably be the best way forward. ... RN runs natively, doesn't need a browser, while being able to tap into the JS eco system.

Similar arguments were made when Java first came on the scene. "Write once, run anywhere." [1] Years later, here we are again with "native" Javascript libraries. I'm sure in another 20 years or so we'll be rehashing this again, just with some other language.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once,_run_anywhere
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We see the same thing with containers. Docker, flatpak, snap... It's just the right time for it.

Languages have evolve to change the way we handle constraints like memory, speed, readability, expressivity etc.

We are arriving at the pick of what languages can bring on the table. Sure we can improve things here and there, but the huge challenges now are integration, packaging, distribution, updates, communications, multi-tiers architectures and all that.

So we now tweak platforms to help us with that.

But because we didn't see that coming, it's not done in any structured way. It's done exactly the way we did everything since the beginning of computing, by stitching together stuff then hitting hard on it with a hammer until the job is done.

This is not new. IT is a joke of an engineering field. We hack everything, don't think about the future, and then end up using the status quote. It's always has been like that.
Emacs is not just a text editor. It's an operating system.
The UK's leaders seem to want hard Brexit, supported by an ever-decreasing number of political Flat Earthers, and some online bots.

The sentient element of the population is agitating hard to stop Brexit and/or making plans to leave.
Do you think no other countries bring foreign workers for cheap because the locals won't accept the job at the wages paid?

Canada does it, the US does it. No EU needed for that.

The alternative is to have production stalled or unaffordable because you don't have enough people to do the grunt work.

The industry jobs are more likely to be offshored without free movement of people, because import taxes are cheaper than manufacturing in high-wage countries. That's why free movement of goods and people go together.
The flip side perspective of this is that end users are forever plagued with poorly-performing/behaving software, because developers favor their convience over user experience by continually moving on to new technologies before they're mature enough to be satisfactory replacements of the old stuff.
I do both of those things on a daily basis. And when I have to type it someplace that doesn't have tab completion I don't want to have to count the letters in my own name. It should just be my name. In 2017 why is seven characters too many?

When your first name is truncated it just looks wrong and arbitrary. I get sick of seeing C:\Users\Matth when I would rather see C:\Users\Matthew.
Right. I doubt that climate change alone could lead to human extinction. But climate change could bring starvation, chaos and war. And there are tens of thousands of nuclear weapons.

But yes, probably not extinction.

More likely is collapse of industrial civilization. That will cut CO2 emissions, and climate will recover is a few centuries. Many other species will go extinct in the process, however. It'll be a major extinction event.
I'm not saying it doesn't, it's built on Chromium Embedded Framework.

The author is claiming it's built on Electron, which is false.
Can a fighter jet be stolen?
Do you have any evidence to suggest the phenomenon of consciousness is (or is not) isolated to the brain?
(Existence of human spirits, natural spirits, that sort)

Particularly with the Chaos mages, there is an indication of an extra fundamental force to reality- much like electricity would have seemed in the 1600s. Do you think this is the case? Or do you think there is some other interaction between the mind and the 4 normal fundamental forces?

What theories do you have with regard to the prime mechanism of action in magic?
> If you (or anyone else) had a different interpretation than me, then that interpretation should have been immediately clarified by the link I provided and subsequent clarifying comments.

Purposely interpreting something differently while there is social majority consensus on interpreting it the other way looks like having an agenda, especially by someone that is heavily involved in topic in question like you are.

> I personally think questioning my character and my intellectual honesty over what I said in this thread is extraordinarily petty.

We are not bug free. When more than one random person questions my behavior same way I do not find that "extraordinarily petty", maybe there is something to it, maybe I should look at it. I am human, I have faults, denying that is another fault.

> Questioning biases is important. I encourage everyone to form their own conclusions.

I agree with you here. Anyone reading this discussion can make their own conclusions, some already did and were vocal about it - that's why we have this discussion in the first place.
The original blog post is from Oct 2016... can't reproduce the bug now. That's ok; not deceiving.
Well, the original Lua VM is written in C, so it's more like C to Go to JavaScript.
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Facebook's HTML5 app was 5 years ago, this example comes every time but it's outdated. technologies like Electron or React Native didn't even exist at the time.

5 years is huge when it comes to web technologies.
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> Isn't that what most of HN is so

Such perceptions are common but usually in the eye of the beholder. HN is divided about such things.
You can write an article about anything in the world. But when it comes to statistical analysis then in a pretty objective sense there is only one interesting thing to say about this data. Despite theoretical ability to be manipulative, only one of these two angles qualifies as news.
1GB of ram won't run eclipse or visual studio smoothly. It's definitely not gonna run any test VM.
You're correct. Containers do contain their own userlands, a fact many gloss over. PgSQL will have to load its containerized version of all libraries instead of using any shared libraries linked by the outside system.

This is often done via a super thin distribution like Alpine Linux to keep image size down, despite the COW functionality touted by Docker that's supposed to make it cheap to share layers.

The difference is that unlike a fully virtualized system, the container does not have to execute a full boot/init process; it executes only the process you request from within the container's image. Of course, one could request a process that starts many subservient services within the container, though that is typically considered bad form.

What people really want is super cheap VMs, but they're fooling themselves into believing they want containers, and pretending that containers are a magic bullet with no tradeoffs. It's scary times.
Agree, I think this is a combination of lack of imagination by developers who only know JS, and management who has bought the myth that cross platform development is 3x faster than making native apps.

I saw this happen at work. My team were all experts on native mobile development. We could crank out stuff fast, because we knew our tools well. But then some management dude got the idea that we would do it 2-3x faster if we went with JavaScript.

Turns out it was more like 2-3 slower than making all the native versions, because we did not have strong experience with these tools and APIs were more limited, poorely documented, buggy, and the tools were subpar.
People keep saying that. Lots and lots of species will go extinct before we do. And it will be our fault.

Sure, the hunk of rock we call a planet will go on, and life will go on, but claiming we are the only casualty here is profoundly wrong.
London has fallen. Is falling. Slowly thru a century.

As the focal point for economic activity of the planet moved from Europe to North America and eventually will move to China.

Brexit has got nothing to do with it; there are much larger forces at play.