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jrempel

Re:OpenAPI v3.1 and JSON Schema 2019-09 on Saturday February 29, 2020 @09:36PM (#22454745)
In my testing after compression json+xml were essentially identical for the same payload
Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:12PM (#22332246)
In my experience, startup interviews are even less personal and more leetcode based than FAANG. aka solve leetcode hard in 40m on a whiteboard
Re:Kotlin vs. Java on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:34AM (#21810949)
value vs variable. As someone that works on both Kotlin and Java daily, what is issue? 95% of the time I'm using val.
Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin on Friday December 06, 2019 @11:44PM (#21728520)
Flutter has similar tradeoffs as other cross platform tech such as React Native. Its great for simple apps that don't need platform specific UI or services.
Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:17PM (#21728013)
Kotlin has its own stdlib which runs on multiple platforms other than JVM.

I've used Java, Python, Ruby, Go and Kotlin. Kotlin is def my favorite and goto. Do you have any specific examples/complaints?

Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:15PM (#21728007)
This is the Android Dev blog. Flutter is completely separate competing team
Google can only do so many things. Every avenue needs to have a significant impact. Google is also a SV echo chamber. They have a lot of blind spots. Lots of room for smaller startups to carve a niche. After get large enough to get Google's full competitive attention another story.
Interesting. I recently swapped desktop from Windows to Linux because of the instability from updates. I have a macbook pro I also use which is generally faster and more stable.
Re:Ask HN: React Native or Flutter? on Monday September 16, 2019 @02:30AM (#20981567)
Kotlin Native. Native UI, shared logic
Re:Google Hangouts Chat on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:29PM (#16487756)
You forgot Android Messages