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A while back I asked a similar question. Basically I said “I need to go with RN or Flutter because I don’t have budget to hire both an iOS and Android engineer”. I was challenged by another HNer asking if I was confident that building apps with cross platform toolkits is actually cheaper.

I’ve been thinking about that a lot and still don’t have any conclusion but I’d love some tales from people that have made the switch from RN/Flutter to native or vice versa.

So I guess my question to you is why are you certain you want one of these technologies instead of building natively for the two platforms?
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I built last year an app (https://clusters.app) to allow excel modelers – I am one of them - to create web applications and monetize their skills (e.g. create easily a saas real estate mng app). I did some interviews, but people saw only custom made, freelance work as a potential revenue stream and I stopped working on it.

Now I see that Microsoft and Amazon are entering this space and I was thinking, what could I have done better or was it dead from the start. I understand marketing a new product is no easy task, but my initial results were disappointing. I couldn’t even make advanced excel users see the potential benefits for them.

Anyway, the stack is python and vuejs. I am using pandas extensively (every table is a dataframe). My thesis was that python could replace VBA and I also added data manipulation at table level (similar to a notebook) and connections to public APIs (e.g. for stock prices) through a graphic interface.

tl;dr
-I thought nobody wanted it
-I see large companies are building similar stuff
-I know go to market is important, but still, I am puzzled
In case that wasn’t a joke: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204352
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> Actual anatomized and distributed DNS querying would require vastly different technology that anything being proposed in these comments.

I hope the everything should be solved with blockchain! crowd don't get any ideas.
Oh yeah the entire 1990s was a shit show where they burned the entire company to the ground through incompetence.
> Zoox has been by far the most ambitious self-driving tech company as it's been working on developing a fully integrated vehicle, not just the core autonomous technology.

> Zoox planned from the beginning to develop the technology, build a car and operate a robotaxi service. Not even Waymo is trying to bite off that much (although Cruise is).

Is Tesla intentionally omitted or am I missing something?
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I used to work from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for a company in Sydney, Australia for few years. Interesting dynamics working for the company on the other side of the globe, I think it was 13h difference. Some aspects were good, you were basically left to do your job without interruptions for the day. You/they wake up to the updates on the other side.
>Do you want the gov't to know where you go, what you spend your money, and who you associate with?

For better or worse (and better only being in the sense that things need to get worse before they get better) there are a great many in Massachusetts do believe all-seeing government surveillance (though if you phrased it like that they'd probably take issue) is a net plus to society.
Preferably AMD just makes an ARM based chip. They have done so in the past.
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FYI: your site can't be accessed on Chrome (not even forcibly) because it uses HSTS combined with an expired certificate.
As long as having a certain score is not mandatory...

I like my iPhones, and I couldn't care less about their repairability. If they stop working and I'm out of warranty I just buy a new one.
I feel people who write this kind of stuff have an ill placed sense of superiority.

Let the (adult) people wtf they want.

If anything the world is going to be increasingly full of more addictive stuff anyway, not less. Trying to censor 1 or 2 of them among all is doomed.

Worst case scenario people will learn self discipline through their own mistakes
> I've read reports to the contrary (when researching current machine).

Sure, some don't hit the sticker temperature. _But they never did_; cheap machines always had difficulty actually hitting high temperatures.
There’s also intergenerational change. Many older folks don’t care about the benefits of high speed internet and fiber. Add in resistance to change and that can create some startling traction against progress.
> ...you will have at least one person that is guaranteed a false arrest and prosecution...

There have already been some other comments pointing out that this is an unreasonable standard, but they aren't really thinking big enough - the court-based system of justice isn't even that accurate. "Beyond a reasonable doubt" isn't going to be a standard of evidence even reaching 99% of evidence. Out of every 100 people in jail for murder, some of them just didn't do it. 100 people is a lot.
According to dosdude1's thread on macrumors.com[1], more devices will eventually become compatible and wifi will get patched.

1. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-11-big-sur-on-uns...
But replacing parts is still great.

Manufacturers are slowly pushing toward making those replacements impossible.

Just people in my family have replaced camera lenses, body, LCD, and battery. Just imagine how much waste it was if they couldn't repair those issue and had to buy a new device.

Same goes with other devices. Just a simple upgrade on old Macbook Pros gave them at least 5 extra years of life. That's now nearly impossible with new Macbook Pros.
And making the plannet a worse place in the process.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mining-ele...
>tradeoffs

It depends on the implementation. Most protected RTOSs are vastly inefficient but it doesn't have to be so.

For an example, many multitasking RTOSs do reserve CPU time for the "important" tasks, whether they use it or not. That's the industry standard for "mixed criticality", where less and more critical tasks share the same CPU.

But there's better ways to do this. Refer to the seL4 whitepaper[0].

>desktop OS

I'd rather not WaitForever™ for the computer to react to my input due to unbounded latency on my Desktop OS. We might be used to trash responsiveness, but interacting with a computer does not have to be this bad. We should stop pretending non-RTOS systems are okay to build a desktop around.

[0]: https://sel4.systems/About/seL4-whitepaper.pdf
Most of my interaction is from seeing it in a web search, clicking on it and seeing an objectively incorrect answer.
Have you cleaned your dishwasher's filters? Manufacturers tend not to recommend 'prerinsing' and many actively discourage it. Most dishwasher performance problems are down to the filters.
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Have you noticed that the Odyssey is one long celebration of doing exactly that?
In the days when computers were places you stored your data, ROX was great. It was the first GUI that made me manage my files using a mouse. Nowadays, computers are mostly glorified web browser containers. And the way Gnome is so integrated into itself now means you can kinda either use a good window/session manager and Nautilus (with a good file manager on the side), or a crappy window manager, no session manager, and a good filemanager.

(In the olden days I had Sawfish set up so that it had a button that would take a look at the path it displayed or interact with the app via whatever scripting it provided, and show the active document in the ROX. Ah, so great. Sawfish is, nowadays, too primitive for me - I want an expose style feature to find my window.)

I still like to switch to ROX to rename or move files in my codebase rather than do it in IntelliJ. I had a plugin for that for a while but I never quite got around to setting it up again on some migration or upgrade or something. Nowadays it's only VIM/gVim that responds to F12 and shows the document location.

I have given some thought to porting it to Gtk3 and Gtk4. I guess getting an infrastructure around it isn't going to happen - but the Filer was the centre.
Poor choice of words for this title, especially right now. What about “Blocked by Paypal”?
> They don't owe you another book.

It's not "another book". GoT is structured as a single, very large novel, divided in volumes, just like LOTR. There's no real ending to volumes, and somebody starting from the 5th book would understand little to nothing about the story.

I wouldn't require Frank Herbert to write the next Dune novel - most of them are quite self contained. The same would be true for most novels from Rowling so far; even though there's a "larger story" behind, books are self-contained (with the exception of the 6th HP book). If she quits writing Cormoran Strike novels, I wouldn't think she had breached my trust.

I bought (and spent time!) 5/7 of a novel (GoT) with the clear expectation that it would, someday, finish. And this expectation seems still to exist - the author never declared he's dropped the saga. It sometimes happens that a series gets interrupted because of low sales or other problems with the author (I can remember some comics - e.g. the Nana manga), but the GoT affair seems deliberate.

Would you keep reading (and buying) books if you knew you couldn't finish them? Would you play (and buy) videogames that you couldn't finish? There's a kind of "trust system" that makes me buy unfinished things. If a large series, especially an extra-successful one, where money is not the problem, doesn't finish, there's a breach of trust.

Everything IMHO. And I'd never send any kind of threat to GRRM. But I won't buy anything else from him, or at least anything unfinished.
GTA San Andreas (2004) did not have cross-platform multiplayer, so OP's assessment may be accurate.
Poor choice of words on the title. What about “Blocked by Paypal...”?
The key Idea of service is great. Interpolation extremely simplifies economic calculations. I've thrown my excel sheets )
It's also interesting that this won't fix old Electron applications. The idea of easy cross platform development via Electron is a myth because most developers won't support your platform even if all support requires is checking a box. When you consider that this is the primary justification for using Electron over other stacks it just makes your blood boil. All the downsides with none of the benefits.
A bit, yes. :) Some recognition on the very mainstream media.
Don't get it - why do you think you need this?
> Trump did more than you suggest. He used well understood language (“when the looting starts the shooting starts” is a famous quote from a white supremacist) to encourage his supporters to murder/lynch blacks.

Yet somehow it's hard to find this quote in Google if you select range before the events.
>>> No. The primary beneficiary is the seller.

New angle for the next trial: Amazon started taking double digits percentages of every sale and doing FBA in the past few years.

For physical products (consider thin margins after manufacturing costs), that means Amazon earns more money than the seller, thus they are the primary beneficiary of the sale.
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> …left and single operands…

That's false:

x='foo bar'; [ $x = 'foo bar' ]; echo $?
-bash: [: too many arguments

x='foo bar'; [ "$x" = 'foo bar' ]; echo $?
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Why would regulators be involved in setting employees working hours?
And if it's on a computer instead of on paper, there's no reason you can't tag the ingredients inline, and automatically generate your shopping list from the tags.
Yes, I could see a slightly slower but fast enough store and load be good enough (and in fact it would be great in general, not just translation).

The reason I'm thinking the cpu might actually be tso is that I haven't seen significant evidence that, in an high performance cpu, tso is a significant performance bottleneck. For the last 15 year or so Intel had the best performing memory subsystem and didn't seem significantly hampered by reordering constraints compared to, say, POWER.
No one is saying this system should flag people in cameras and send the kill drones to eliminate targets or send robocops to make arrests.

But if we have a reliable percentage that won't create too many false positives that can alert polices if a suspect is seen on a camera so that they would start the investigation, what is wrong with that?
Oh, another of Apple's hidden features. Once upon a time, one button mice were a feature so that features weren't hidden and even beginner users could quickly become power users.
Possibly. In the game Halo 2, there was an exploitable physics glitch called "superbouncing" that allowed the player to jump very high.

The effectiveness of this exploit differed on PAL (25fps) and NTSC (30fps) systems, with the exploit being easier to perform on the former.

When Microsoft ported the game to the Xbox One, they raised the framerate to 60fps, this made it even harder and less effective to perform on remastered versions of the game.
It sounds like you should just stop being bad at teaching your team members.
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As someone who's been learning to develop games mostly from the fundamentals I've learned the hard way that this is really important. If you try to run your game updates at the same time delta as your last frame draw then you're going to have a really bad time debugging anything. A fixed timestep is a must.
>Someone who works in CGI came around to say that, no, $50,000 is a normal amount of money to spend on their workstations

You'd still be crazy to spend it on a Mac Pro unless you had very specific MacOS needs. Building a threadripper multi-Nvidia GPU PC is going to outperform it in any meaningful way with a modern CGI workflow.

OS starts to matter very little when it's a choice of seeing almost a finished image in almost real time which is what you get with CUDA backed rendering engines VS having to still chug away on CPU.
You can do something "similar" with archive.org
(With automatic directory listings)

Suppose you want a really long lived store for your plain text or html files
(archive.org is unlikely to go away anytime soon)

1) create an account on archive.org

2) upload your folders of files as an Archive.org item

(works best if you upload with a root folder included so that the archive.org meta files get created outside of your first level documents folder)

Your index listing will live under a url like:

https://archive.org/download/test_blog_2020/test/

(or even sub-folders like: https://archive.org/download/test_blog_2020/test/blog/)

(note that "test_blog_2020" here is a global unique identifier you can customize when you first upload to archive.org. as long as it is available of course)

Each file will have its own url like:
https://ia601506.us.archive.org/4/items/test_blog_2020/test/...

(which means you can use relative links in your html and they will just work)

And you can use the "Edit" functionality to add more files to your folders:

via a url like this:
https://archive.org/edit.php?edit-files=1&identifier=test_bl...
Especially as I always hard that term in the general, leaking someone’s information.
Coal power. Fracking. Big agriculture. Logging--you name it. Compartmentalized work. Compartmentalized minds. People are unmoved. I don't see Snowden has added anything to the conversation.
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I'm surprised that nobody pointed out yet, that harmonic oscillators have discrete energy states as well.

I think that's why the explanation is somewhat makes things more confusing. The fundamentally different thing about quantum mechanics is that even waves in free-space have discrete energy states.

I think the video by 3blue1brown posted by someone else is a much better explanation.
Astronomers bolster case for potential of life on one of Jupiter's moons, Europa
Every organisation has a Slack channel (or similar) where grievances are aired. It's a question of whether management want to have it where they can see it or not.
My answer is to go with native apps.

We run an app analytics business and see that companies betting on cross platform are always struggling and they are one step behind on the native platforms.

Long answer short - go with native. If cost is a concern pick a single platform

In Asia that choice is Android. US or Europe might pick iOS.
The people asking for more moderation are not leftist. Would you believe Verizon is a left leaning company?
Depends on what you want to do. The biggest advantage with native languages like kotlin or Swift is that you can leverage the platform APIs and implement interesting features.

That being said, recently I used flutter for a small ~5KLOC project and I was impressed. It was the most fun and productive experience I had in years. The tooling is amazing.

If your app isn't really using any platform specific functionality, give it a try.
How to gain followers – the oldest hack in the book
Expected this to be like the spacex docking simulator but its completely different and deals with more of the orbital mechanics rather than assuming that the acceleration due to gravity is constant.
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Isn’t a cup defined as 250mL?

Unless you’re in the USA, in which case a cup is 236.5882365mL exactly.
Even the Obama-Os story is 90% fake, the story PG tells (and is repeated) is not even close to the story that the founder himself told on a startup podcast
I'm really not bothered by this.

While I appreciate the right to repair, I don't think a lot of stuff is repairable with any reasonably easy to obtain equipment these days. It's limiting all repairs to FRU replacement. I can rework everything down to 0402's and MSOP packages but BGAs and things like that, forget it.

We really should be fighting for better consumer rights legislation in our respective countries where we don't have to resort to repairing our own devices because they had designed in lifespans. You should be able to walk into the store you bought your device from in 5 years and say "it failed" and get an unconditional repair or replacement without a single argument.

We have that here in the UK under CRA 2015 and Apple have honoured repairs I've taken in there up to 5 years old without question. In fact I got given a brand new 6s after 3 years when the display developed a cosmetic backlight fault. The old one was recycled I assume and turned into other iPhones. That's where we should be.

Fear of things breaking is really a big problem with expensive technology items. Removing that fear and cost though legislation changes is the best outcome. Not the right to repair which is honestly beyond most people I have encountered, including so-called professional repairers. Involving third parties and self-repairs is walking around the problem which is why the manufacturers are surprisingly silent on this. It's a better outcome for the manufacturers than actually forcing the manufacturers to support their devices for a reasonable lifespan.
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> Why would regulators be involved in setting employees working hours?

That's what regulators do: they regulate stuff. That "stuff" includes – in particular in many European countries – employee working hours.
Another interpretation: if you push yourself and keep your mouth closed, birds can't poop into it.
Article gist: achieve a flow state / allow yourself to engage the default mode network to reduce exertion, perceived or real, on a physical task with low cognitive overhead (non-competitive cycling).
I think it would better if the EU had required listing the "sucking power" of vacuum cleaner in addition to the power usage, and require this number to be in bigger font size than power usage.

And require "suckage per watt" also.

People went by power usage because that was the only measure they got.
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I want to stress the point that autocomplete on iOS Safari is not well designed either. It is one of these things that "customers will never tell you", but they still are annoyed every time .
So much attention is always paid to accuracy when facial recognition comes up. Even if it was 100% accurate, it’s a technology that makes mass surveillance too efficient. Prohibitions need to also extend to the private sector, with the exception of, say, facial recognition for personal use (eg FaceID.)
Thankyou! I spent quite a lot of the film wondering where these amazing locations were.
>and audio latency at 80-120ms

Any rhythm game player will disagree.

Some games (e.g. llsif, for android) have "perfect" window sized to 16ms (a video frame). Even with latency compensation, these are unplayable on bluetooth yet fine on headphone jack. As the game has calibration, the resulting offset is seen to be at least 30ms worse on bluetooth.
Yes, I agree that this is a bad idea overall. However, since I'm not a macos user I couldn't care less.
Why do you believe that your anecdote will scale to every situation, ever?
Let me introduce to something called labour laws. You'll find this surprising, but they exist in the US as well (even though they are much more lax there).

Another surprise for you: work is not supposed to be indentured servitude anymore.
Yeah, but that's all it was, a neat trick. Not really well thought from a business pov and technically they had some issues, specially since acorn hw was so different from a standard PC.
Sounds like you had a pretty sweet gig.
How "helpful".
Yes 64 bit is probably impossible, as there will be new patented features in pretty much every model coming out, so most of your instruction set would be stuck 20 years out of date. I think there's not much point in new 32 bit x86 processors now, as there are low power SBCs that would cover most uses (unless you need old proprietary x86 software, but then just buy a PC second hand).
I remember attending a lecture given by Steve Furber in 1985 in Cambridge (UK) on the new chip that he and Sophie Wilson had developed. The emphasis then was on having an affordable 32 bit rather than low power. It seemed incredible that such a small team could have developed a CPU at their first attempt that was faster than offerings from their much bigger competitors.

Anyway much of the commercial success of ARM must be down to Robin Saxby who was ARM's first CEO. His interview with Charbax is fascinating [1]. He inherited a company with two customers, one of whom was failing, some interesting IP but not much else. He seems to have had a relentless focus on providing customers with what they needed - for example providing the Thumb 16 bit instruction set to reduce code size when potential customers such as Nokia were reluctant to move to 32 bit designs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO5PsAY5aaI
Maybe that’s why modern recipes on the web at 90,000 word behemoth life stories with one step of the recipe every 70 screens of indirection.
Over the past year the DAI token on Ethereum has tracked the US dollar better than that, without requiring anyone to hold collateral off-chain.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/multi-collateral-dai/
Same. As a result, I've been using this LaTeX package for my personal recipe collection (see example on page 5): http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/cuisine/cui... [PDF]

(I'm in the process of abandoning LaTeX in favor of a custom Markdown → Pandoc → HTML flow with basically the same layout, though.)
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