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Electron is the only decent solution for building a cross OS app in 2019. I challenge you to give me a stack that It's fairly simple to maintain on multiple desktop platforms, build UIs, has plugins to support most of the feature we're used today in a browser, etc. Don't forget that javascript now runs on the server, having a single language for everything is amazing.

The browser just became the best ecosystem for build apps and the native development frameworks are years behind the browser. The default set of Widgets available will make you waste months building your own widgets versus downloading a js plugin and it's done in 30 minutes.

Electron just gets things done, period.

There are examples of fast Electron apps like Realm Browser. You can also build the UI with Electron and Javascript while you do some IPC with smaller binaries written in C++, Go lang, C#, etc. to try to improve the performance of some operations. It is possible to write good and fast Electron apps.

Don't forget that many js developers came from jQuery and other backgrounds and might not have the best ideas when it comes to build desktop apps and even understanding an OS architecture. I don't mean to be mean with these developers, we need to acknowledge that these days lots of companies just want Javascript developers and any cost.

Another major benefit of Electron is that platforms like Linux do get some support which is really great.

Without electron, I could not use Linux to work on projects that use Slack for example.

Without electron, many developer tools wouldn't exist at all and most likely they would be tied to windows and/or mac. Linux would be the biggest looser for sure.

Don't think it's fair to shit on Electron, I love fast apps but, sometimes, buying more RAM and a faster CPU just solves the damn problem. I'm not saying people should write slow apps but at the end of the day I've stuff to get done.

I would rather see a better collaboration to try to improve Electron because... we need it. Either this or the native development tools need to wake up to 2019.
I find it a lot easier to read, personally. Less eye strain. Most of the windows apps I use, at this point, finally support it (a few stragglers). The only downside I've found is that cabling can be complicated (not every HDMI cable is 4k enabled), and if you're a gamer, it's a lot easier to get a 144hz refresh rate on an older 1080p screen. (Which is also one of those things you probably don't realize is really nice until you actually use it)
It would be incredible to be able to run Windows on ARM, especially the Pi.

Wasn't Eben hinting at something last week?
broadcom wrote directx drivers ??
Gimme a break, it’s been decades :P
Add up all the time and resources wasted by an Electron application for all users over the lifetime of the application, then compare that to the amount of developer time supposedly saved.
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You're kinda dodging the important point that your original assertion that it's a "fake rocket" is entirely false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_booster_B1019

It wouldn't be shocking if they've removed some ITAR-covered parts so no one can sneak up in the middle of the night and steal rocket tech, but it appears to be the actual booster.
That artwork demo has really piqued my interest regarding using techniques like these for creating animation more easily.
Ultimately, the reasonable price for an iPad is as the cost (including labor, figuratively) - obviously nobody wants to sell at such price. Everyone wants to get richer, irrationally so.
How many of those run on the web as a platform? (A cursory search suggests 'not many' or 'not without some effort'?)

There are some components I'd ideally like to avoid rewriting for my web and desktop applications. (E.g. why should I have to write render code for my friends list component more than once?)
Great job on the Danbooru training! I've been following you on twitter and machinelearning for the longest time haha
SEC Charges Former Senior Attorney at Apple with Insider Trading
I'm not sure what it is today - I would hope the same mindset applies, but maybe not - but back when I was using SQL, the idea was to let the database engine do everything it could with the data, before sending the results over the pipe.

That is, minimize the network bandwidth by putting the work on the DB engine.

This of course necessitated creating and understanding proper SQL query building practices. It was real easy to mess up if you didn't know what you were doing (ie - inner selects, improper joins, etc) and cause a combinatorial explosion that would consume all the RAM on the server and grind it to a halt.

That, or bring back a load of data that you then filtered on the "client" - better to let the DB server do that if you can. Of course, this was back when the clients were 486s and early Pentiums with maybe 8-16 MB RAM. Today it's a bit different, but you still want to minimize the network traffic.
Yes, we've reverted the submitted title from “Swift 5 finally makes it possible to build binary frameworks” to that of the article.
Thanks for the link. That was a good detailed discussion.
At the stage in which they're investing, a bank loan will generally be secured against your personal assets, whereas the money from Earnest is not. If you raise money from Earnest and your business fails, Earnest loses their investment. If you raise money from a bank and your business fails, you may lose your house or declare bankruptcy.
this is common knowledge among farmers here.
> If you cook it immediately after killing it it actually tastes good.

I believe we actually cook it before killing it (boil alive).
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Writable file access, ability to use ES6 and beyond without compatibility issues, media keys, etc.

But really I think that filesystem access is probably the main one, at least for me.
People love Facebook so much they wouldn’t quit unless we paid them a lot
Makes sense. My intial reading left me thinking it ONLY used differential wheel speed to steer.
> Yes, but the question is in part of why is the bell curve centered where it is today?

Answer: it isn't [0]. It's been steadily increasing (and pretty rapidly, at a couple points per generation).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
Is this what I said? Some straw man.

What I said was we should we work towards removing any obstacles underrepresented groups may face when trying to enter STEM careers.

Plenty of research that supports the existence of such obstacles and the higher drop out rates of these groups even after having a go at pursuing a career in a STEM field (particularly in tech - https://hbr.org/2016/09/what-it-will-take-to-keep-women-from...).
Completely agree. I'd like to add: people talk about colonizing Mars as a future event that will take place. I assert that we are currently in the early stages of colonizing Mars. We have [had?] multiple rovers driving around, and multiple science labs on the surface and a global satellite network in orbit. When we first landed a probe on Mars, someone asked Ray Bradbury "So, where are the martians?", to which he replied "We are the Martians!"
How difficult would it be for DL to take a badly done 3d rendering, and turn it into a realistic scene?
I assume the Canadian case you are referring to is Mike Ward. For those interested, here is a bit more about that case.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mike-ward-comedian-h...
>Consider using monospaced numbers when comparing digits between rows matters.

For the love of god don’t only consider it, actually use tabular numbers in any context where the number is not part of a sentence or something similar.
Yeah and it turned out that they were delusional and people just wanted caviar to eat it

>Most of the men were buying female paddlefish, processing knockoff caviar and just … eating it. Illegal, yes. But the plot of a Russian mafia thriller? Hardly.

>If the government did not realize its miscalculation, at least some officers must have on March 13, 2013, at 7 a.m. Central time, when 125 state and federal agents descended on poachers across four time zones to make arrests.

>During an interrogation, one poacher was confused. The caviar was for his family to give guests when they came over.

>“Why would I want to sell it?” he asked.

>“To make money,” an agent suggested.

>“Heck, no!”

>Of the 112 defendants tagged with state or federal violations, investigators observed only Petr Babenko, the owner of a gourmet store in Vineland, New Jersey, intending to sell the stuff. He was prosecuted, convicted, and given probation. The government seized his Mercedes van.

>To Hitchings, it doesn’t matter. Other men were undoubtedly selling, he said
I don't know anyone who believes in Claim 1 as you've presented it. There is an alternate version that I do believe

"All populations of people are inherently valuable and therefore should not be left behind by advancements in technology"

The examples I gave were both cases where it was not obvious at all to predict that the skills would be needed.

For example, while the low level circuit designer probably won't benefit from cultural and racial awareness, he may not always be a low level circuit designer in the company. He may rise in the company and start making decisions about how/where/which circuits are built. And at some point having cultural and racial awareness would be a benefit.
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Fascinating history on design documentaries Helvetica, Dieter Rams, and more
There seems to be quite a lot in common between PG and Oracle RDBMS, PG is the database that seems to make the most sense to me as an ex-Oracle RDBMS person? So I can see how this functionality could be a blessing in a migration project. Time to roll up my sleeves and study postgres I think...
> Why is there always someone ready to jump in with this elitist nonsense?

Because it's absolutely true. You'll know it once you watch a web dev try and work on desktop app.
So... When Apple contracts a cleaner for their office, should they pay them more than, say, IBM? Surely clean office plays some role in company success?

What's about electricity? Should Apple be charged more per kWh using the same logic?
Combination of things really

* Non-native look and feel. Personally I think this is the big one.
* Applications/Applets took (take?) forever to boot. JIT takes a while to kick in.
* High memory usage due to heap+reference memory model and GC model.
* Latency spikes due to GC
* Installing a JRE is cumbersome for users
* Incompatible JRE versions are a pain for users

If I'm being perfectly honest, a lot of the problems people have with Electron were or are problems with JVM consumer applications.
It's difficult to fit nuance into such a small title. And titles are not supposed to convey the entire message -- if they did, what would be the point of the article?

I understand where you are coming from, but that title is pointed, topical, and expanded upon in detail throughout the article.
Given the link between tech work and depression, and more generally the link between depression and careers with very little physical activity, I think it's unconscionable to modify the preferences of people who would otherwise prefer to not work in tech.

By all means, help people who desire it. By why 'correct' people who don't?
I think gender, race, class, and sexual orientation are probably the most important dimensions. I gave very specific reasons why race is important in my field of medicine, and I don't know why you think I am highlighting it as an important dimension because of historical marginalization. What are other ones that should be as elevated?
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How the Terminator 2 music was made [video]
I keep seeing this "extremely quick to iterate on" point being brought up in defense of Electron. Slack released threads 2 years ago and we still can't post snippets, images, or use many slash commands inside them. Their last genuinely new features in the last year were synced DM drafts and the little lock badge on workspaces you're signed out of. Where's the iteration?

Meanwhile, almost daily I hit so many issues with the macOS application that I have to walk away from my computer in frustration. It makes my working life miserable due to its poor performance and bugs, and it encourages awful organizational and communication habits.
Java runs everywhere and is at least an order of magnitude more efficient than Electron. If it was really about WORE then these developers would be using Java, a language and runtime actually designed for applications instead of being shoehorned into that role.
We need to stop trying to attribute that to gender. I loved math as a kid, I thought it was fun. I was on the math team for middle school and high school. I had a computer at home from a young age, and played the math games my parents forced on me. In addition to the game, games. (I am 40 - so things were pretty different as I was coming up. But my family was an early adopter of technology - we had a computer when I was 5. And if I would have had different upbringing the outcome could have been quite different.)

Being a programmer wasn't something that was on my radar at all. I didn't know any. I didn't know it was a job that existed. As I got older it seemed like "computer people" only liked video games, magic cards, scifi books and didn't like to hang out with people. It seemed boring and antisocial - and not like my sort of people.

I probably would have been a great engineer. And while I work in tech, I am a marketer and have worked in more technical roles around software implementation, operations, pre-sales in addition to all of the marketing jobs.

So let's ask ourselves something else - how many people do we lose along the way because of exposure or the way we have socialized what an engineer is, does and likes.
GDPR: What Happens in the U.K. Post-Brexit?
Things like this is why Microsoft is still retaining a lot of business-customers which Google will never touch.

They care about addressing the customers need first and foremost, while Google’s #1 priority will always be tracking and ads.

When the EU said processing needed to be done in the EU, Microsoft was fine with that, while Google has been playing nice only on paper.

With rulings like this, guess which one will seem more reliable and dependable (from a business POV) for the EU market?

Not Google. That’s for sure.
>So 330/275 = 20% better.

due to the exponential nature of the rocket equation, 100 tons of fuel will result in 2 tons to LEO in the former case and just 1 ton in the later.
If I read your agreement correctly, your terms are so that you invest $150k in what is or nearly is a bootstrapped business, on what essentially seems like a profit share basis, and expect to get paid for your doing so until you've made $3M? It's not entirely clear to me what the benefit is compared to a bank loan or VC money if you can get the latter.
This is something I've wondered about a lot as well. Look at any large company in the world, then look at how diverse they are. Probably isn't much of a correlation between one and the other.

Looking at companies like Google and Amazon and Facebook and what not, you'd suspect any effects from having a diverse workforce are massively outweighed by other factors like selling a product/service more people want, good product design, price, marketing efforts, etc.
LayoutManager to display the timetable for Android
I did at the time, I'd have to dig around to find my comments then - I looked at the bailout as cheap, compared to unemployment for the big three, and their dependent manufacturers.
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Eventually, one of those current frameworks will "have been around forever". My bet is on React or one of its descendants, because viewed as a generic API it's a pretty good philosophical refinement of preexisting non-web-specific UI frameworks.

For example, there's now a framework that implements the React API for general-purpose terminal rendering, without actually involving any web stuff at all: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
I don't think you understand how interest rates work.

If you look at the repayment schedule in the model, you'll find that Earnest ends up being CHEAPER than 20-30% without the personal guarantees required by a bank:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h_L7oa3rbV8P-ZnMM-l1...

A stream of cash flows that goes:

0: -150,000
1: 0
2: 0
3: 1,800
4: 14,400
5: 50,400
6: 97,200
7: 205,200
8: 81,000

The IRR/effective "interest rate" of this stream of cash flows is 18.3% - lower than the 20%-30% you're claiming.
yeah completely agree.
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It always baffles me when people don't do their research before releasing a project / product. A few months ago there was a guy releasing his own language called Flux...
My point was that certain underrepresented groups are treated differently in STEM fields (particularly tech), they either face obstacles to being hired, or, once hired, are not paid proportionately relative to their white, male colleagues. Research exists to support both of these points.
Interestingly the expander bleed cycle mentioned at the end is going to be used in the Blue Origin BE-3U, a change from the combustion tap-off of the older BE-3.
Google says it’ll invest $13B in U.S. data centers and offices this year
Lawyer in Charge of Apple’s Insider-Trading Policy Accused of Insider Trading
that said oleg kiselyov said that generators were .. as powerful as calcc. Or maybe close enough. I forgot the details
> there's some ridiculous pistachio laundering scheme

Believe it or not, this is pushed by the same folks that own Fiji Water and Pom Wonderful.
I really wanted to like Evolution, but I could never get it working on arch linux with i3 with gmail. Worked great back when I was using Gnome though. Thunderbird didn't have this problem for me.
Interesting -- can you elaborate a bit more?
"For example, the turbine of the V-2 rocket was spun with steam ..."

Steam technology and rocket technology have a shared history.

That kind of bottleneck shape that a is quintessential shape of a rocket engine, is actually a Steam-Engine-era technology called a de Laval nozzle.

I didn't know they used a tiny steam engine inside a V-2.

I think it's cool that the design of such an old technology, the steam engine, lives on inside the design of such a new technology, the rocket.
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Not necessarily, If you're talking about platforms like LinkedIn where people hardly change their profile pic.
Thus the rationale behind this prescient (devious?) investment trend:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-quietly-amasses-califor...

WSJ: Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards—and the Water Underneath
Making a bet on climate change, the university’s $39 billion endowment has been snapping up farmland and the related water rights
Oh man, glad I'm not the only one I noticed this. It used to take ~2 seconds to find my favorite playlist and play it. Now it takes upwards of 10-20 seconds.

On the dedicated "select a playlist" page with the squares, it even freaking re-organizes the squares every time you view it! Imagine if your desktop icons re-organized themselves in some arbitrary way every time you needed to open a program, and you get the utter destruction of muscle memory that can make up for the gaps in efficient design.
In this degenerate case the "hash function" is base_address+(index*sizeof(memory_address))
And yet nearly all the things that people complained about with Java are at least as bad with Electron. I've grown to hate developers because of this faddish nonsense and their ridiculous and arrogant belief that their time is worth more than everyone else's.
Clickbait. Zero controversy in doing so. This article is attempting to invoke the privacy boogeyman when the data in question is nowhere near putting any of that at stake.
Show HN: DropZap World game for iOS and tvOS. [TestFlight Public Link, Videos]
Videos of three levels from the beta (there are over 100):

https://youtu.be/N5RxNDTmsPQ

https://youtu.be/NkCcYdBLrHY

https://youtu.be/V0mXspbCW3U

You can join the DropZap World beta anonymously using this TestFlight public link:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/CdEXgjst

The basic gameplay mechanic is that when a circle lands, it fires lasers of its color in four directions. These lasers destroy pieces of the same color.

Any feedback would be appreciated!
Same way that there's a shortage and low pay for emergency medical services staffing, unfortunately.
I was using a terminal to access the internet till 1997. Not a terminal-emulation app on a computer, but an actual terminal. So I didn't have the relevant experience to support my claim that "before the web you had to use terminal-based interfaces to access any internet service" and I retract the statement.

The web however was the first internet service that the majority of its users used a GUI to connect to.

Actually a large number of internet users became internet users simply because they were issued a Sun workstation by their employers, and Sun workstations came with internet clients pre-installed. I believe that a large fraction of the users of internet email in the 1980s were of such a nature, so allow me to qualify my previous paragraph to exclude those users because I don't know enough about their usage habits.

In what ways do you prefer the experience of teaching or learning about computers on the internet of today to the internet of 1992? Do you prefer the web to netnews? (I do, too, but not enough to cancel out the effect of all the web pages containing false information about computers or low-quality exposition thereby making it harder to find the high-quality exposition.)
Are they anymore so than other cars driven where they salt the roads? I have not heard that.
i was expecting to see 8008
Automation Creates More Jobs, at Least in the Beginning
> The union pitch to businesses should be "you'll get more cost-effective results if you hire our union guys."

This approach makes no sense.

The role of a union is to defend the interests of their members in particular and workers in general. This means that the job of an union also includes opposing management decisions that go against the best interests of the company's workers.

An union only has any semblance of value if it oposes management practices that hurt workers, such as laying off a significant portion of a company's staff when the company is not in financial risk.

Your pitch idea is utterly absurd because you can't convince a manager that eliminating 15% of the company's salary costs is a bad idea even if the alternative is keeping around workers that might not be needed in the immediate future.

The only way to avoid these whimsical lay-offs is if an union opposes these initiatives in a way that the corporation has more to lose if he pushes them ahead.
Renting the American Dream: Homeownership shouldn’t mean “financial security”
Maybe have a little empathy here. In a low-income school, kids are walking in the door with way more problems than your upper middle class school where most kids have their basic needs met.

Also, it is time to retire this stereotype that every non-white kid who is academically inclined is being bullied for acting white at school all the time. I get the most grief from white kids about "acting white" growing up. From fellow black kids it was pretty rare - 1-2 times. Mostly other kids were more inclined to help uplift me.
Yeah, that's effectively the approach I've long taken, though I prefer fewer shades of the accent colors.

What it doesn't help with is choosing which grays and accent colors to use. A slightly warm gray? How does that interact with the accent colors? Do the accents shift hue and/or saturation at the different shades? Doing so usually looks better, but then by how much?
Looking at the photos, it appears that Texas is well represented (and not in a good way). My fear is that in 20 years, these buildings will be a stain on the landscape, as many owners will not spend a dime on aesthetic upgrades.