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Re:FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared on Monday April 29, 2024 @07:24PM (#40205387)
Can you go into any additional detail about why firechat shut down?
Re:The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime on Monday December 11, 2023 @11:20PM (#38609431)
making web apps is the least exciting thing wasm could be used for. plugin systems, embedded, serverless use cases are much more interesting off the top of my head.

i think we live in a world where we can do both: we can do wasm and we can continue making improvements to the big three webdev tools.

Re:Pinball implemented using Squint, a ClojureScript dialect on Saturday November 18, 2023 @06:38PM (#38326149)
I think this article does a decent job of highlighting many of the reasons why Closure has fallen into obscurity. https://effectivetypescript.com/2023/09/27/closure-compiler/
I feel so seen in such a bad way
I might be misinterpreting what I'm seeing but I don't see titles on any of them. For instance, on one in southern California, the icon showing the podcast art makes it clear that the title of the podcast is Ridiculous History, but when I tap on it, I only see the episode title and have no other clue to tell me what podcast it actually is that this episode is part of.

Now that I'm describing it in more detail I think what I should have said initially is that I'm looking for the title of the podcast itself, not just the episode title.

Fantastic idea. Minor issue is that when you tap on one of the flags, you get the podcast episode notes but you don't get the title of the podcast. Title needs to be prominent.
Re:Riley Reid on AI: 'I Don't Want Porn to Get Left Behind' on Monday October 23, 2023 @12:15PM (#37987797)
I mean, that's almost exactly how mainstream Hollywood treats actors, women in particular, as well. It tracks to me.
Re:Riley Reid on AI: 'I Don't Want Porn to Get Left Behind' on Monday October 23, 2023 @12:12PM (#37987745)
Intentions are useless in this case. What matters are the incentives.
Re:Kotlin Multiplatform for Android and iOS Apps on Monday September 25, 2023 @04:02PM (#37649770)
It's ok everyone, they must misspelled Go as Kotlin
Re:Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake on Thursday September 14, 2023 @01:41PM (#37512205)
The lake is great but it has good days and bad days like anything else. I lived near the lake for years and still think it's heart-rendingly beautiful. Flies weren't usually a problem, there are all kinds of animals living nearby that you wouldn't expect like seagulls, buffalo, etc.

And then yes there were occasional times where the lake would recede a bit and the smell could make you flinch from miles and miles away.

Re:Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake on Thursday September 14, 2023 @01:35PM (#37512131)
As others have said, the problem is the lake drying up from lack of incoming water.

The consequences of the lake drying up is the end of the "lake effect" cycle, the arsenic in the dried lakebed being released into the air, etc

Re:Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake on Thursday September 14, 2023 @01:27PM (#37512002)
The legal system governing water rights in the western United States is utterly absurd. I think it was a stupid system in the beginning but is orders of magnitude more stupid today given the challenges facing the region.

It also happens to be a system that people will legitimately fight and kill others to preserve. The political challenge to change this system is enormous and I'd bet most people have no idea how fucked it is.

Re:Marvel Visual Effects Workers Vote to Unionize on Thursday September 14, 2023 @01:17PM (#37511834)
This is a very naive, inexperienced view of politics. In politics, many people have acted in ways they did not believe were right. Many others have acted without a thought given to whether they were right. In some situations, wars have resulted from political actions, but in many other instances, political actions has prevented wars that may otherwise have taken place.

Not taking sides is a political action in itself. Not wanting to be involved doesn't mean you aren't involved.

Re:Skip the API, Ship Your Database on Thursday September 14, 2023 @01:00PM (#37511583)
Dear God this is a tired point. The rest of the damn paragraph of the Wikipedia article fully addresses that. Nobody who uses the term "serverless" thinks that magic fairies are replacing servers. The point is who is managing it for your application or business.
Re:Prisoners of Google Android Development on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:31PM (#37289396)
100% rollout is the default for me when submitting an app. You're saying it's not for you?
Re:Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:00PM (#37166398)
"I reply to comments without reading them or understanding them."
Re:Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:46PM (#37166212)
"I wish this person being persecuted by her government would stop being so political"
Use Expo. Ignore anything that ever mentions having to "eject" because that's the giveaway that the information is hopelessly, uselessly out of date. It's fine.
Re:Inconvenient Truths about TypeScript on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @10:24AM (#36772821)
The single threading isn't an issue for many backend use cases and even though JS was initially designed for use in the browser, there's been a decade of development on the language and ecosystem for using it outside the browser.
Re:Ask HN: React Native or Flutter for a new app in 2023? on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:05PM (#36699032)
Ejecting is an outdated concept when it comes to Expo for the past two years or so. The eject command in the cli is just an alias for the prebuild command even.

The way Expo builds your app these days let's you add native code as you want, modify your Gradle and pods files as needed, and you can still be on their managed workflow where you don't ever need to have Android and iOS folders in your repo. It's a really great time to be using Expo.

Re:Ask HN: React Native or Flutter for a new app in 2023? on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:00PM (#36698933)
There's nothing that requires you to use EAS Update though. You could just stick to submitting builds through the app store like normal.
Re:Ask HN: React Native or Flutter for a new app in 2023? on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:56PM (#36698861)
React Native over flutter all day every day. There's almost nothing you can't do in the react native world when sticking with the managed Expo workflow these days.

After Compose Multiplatform has matured a bit more I'd be seriously considering using that for everything going forward.

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-multiplatform/

Re:Nitter (Twitter front end) is working again on Monday July 10, 2023 @09:47AM (#36666371)
I'm skeptical that was ever the rain for the rationing.
Are you including Discord in the list of people using Discord as a forums?

https://discord.com/blog/forum-channels-space-for-organized-...

Not trying to be sarcastic, just haven't had a chance to use this feature and wasn't sure if you were taking that into account.

Re:What gets to the front page of Hacker News? on Thursday July 06, 2023 @01:06PM (#36619192)
I thought the secret to getting to the front page was posting about a neat thing you can do with sqlite
Re:What's Better – Expo or React Native CLI? on Thursday July 06, 2023 @11:31AM (#36617559)
The Expo team has done fantastic work to make building react native apps easy and flexible. Nothing but good things to say about their current direction and approach.
Re:Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours on Thursday July 06, 2023 @11:09AM (#36617192)
I think that they meant that you'll know Twitter has definitely hit it's decline when other media is focusing on what's happening on other platforms instead of Twitter.
Re:If you think home-rolling a solution is the answer on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @01:55PM (#36496377)
This is the equivalent of a first year physics student saying Einstein comes off like a newb.

Nicole Forsgren is legit.

I believe react native uses zerover and will therefore never hit 1.0

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