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I found the icon on the Noun project, I'm attributing it a bit further down on the site.

Accuracy is super tricky here. Some people speculate that the numbers coming out of China are manipulated (I have no proof or opinion on that) and there's also some concern that deaths from other causes are also counted towards Coronavirus. But that's just what we have right now... an estimation of reality.

I'd also like regions, maybe that data is available somewhere, or could be scraped from national or local news sources, and then aggregated somewhere.

Are you planing to add more features, graphs, or other information?

The app runs in the background, you don't have to have it open/active.

Wow, that's a great analysis. In addition to being less efficient, there's definitely more overhead with the extra layer of JS underneath. Just of the top of my head, this might be a bigger issue with apps that constantly refresh the screen or have real-time interactions (e.g. games or Slack), and not so much apps that are essentially a series of forms (code only runs when you interact). With our app, what affects battery usage most is the location analysis that happens in the background. It's one of the areas the development team spends a lot of time testing and optimizing.

As one of the designers of this app, I was skeptical initially if there would be restrictions on customizing common UI components, the smoothness of animations/interactions, usability, performance, etc. You definitely have to put in a bit of extra work (isn't that always the case with making things nice though), but you can get very nice results (and battery usage) with RN for sure on both Android and iOS. Personally, I think it does benefit customers to be able to quickly roll out iterations across operating systems at a high quality. YMMV though, what works for one team, industry and customer base naturally doesn't automatically work for everyone. Do you maybe have experience or data points on RN vs. native in terms of battery usage and performance? Would love to hear any insights you can share. Thanks.

The other side of this is that it helps usability when things look and feel familiar. It's interesting how it's accepted that desktop applications generally look the same, but mobile apps are supposed to be more unique. Maybe just the nature of mobile being generally more consumer oriented?

But that's a matter of priority then, isn't it? If portability is important then you have to sacrifice some power.

I'm curious, what do you run on your computer to max out a brand-new MBP with 16GB of Ram?

I currently do design and dev work on a 3 year old MBP with 8GB Ram. This includes running VMs for I.E. and back-ends for various projects, using Xcode to build apps, editing Sketch files with 50+ screens, photo editing in Photoshop and motion graphics in AfterEffects. Naturally I don't everything at once, but even with a combo of some of them, everything runs just fine. So this makes me genuinely curious what people do that these brand-new machines can't handle. And are those demands really the majority use case? If not, then there is an argument for having different machines for the demanding work loads and maybe a smaller laptop or even iPad for meetings.

What are your thoughts?

Really don't understand this. Why can't those demanding Pro people just get iMacs. It's cheaper and supports 32GB of RAM. Of course, it's stationary, but pretty sure those specific professionals are mostly stationary anyways because they use multiple monitors. This while freak-out about the MBPs ist just silly.

I like the proactive approach. Just yesterday, I went to an IXDA breakfast event and some recruiters showed up. Some people were just annoyed by their presence, but I thought it was a good opportunity to talk. They were pretty new to the industry, so I gave them pointers about how supporting the community by sponsoring events, organizing talks at companies they are hiring for, telling better stories about the companies they are hiring for, etc could get them better results than the usual cold-emailing.

I just think that if you don't like how they are doing things, give them pointers. Won't work everywhere, but sometimes it will, and that will be worth it.

I really wish Google could come up with a good overarching strategy for their products and stick with it for a long time. I'm losing track of how all the different services relate to each other.

Still not sure how this would work for anybody with a family and kids and/or living outside of urban areas (the majority of people). Has this been touched on in previous discussions? Would love to hear some thoughts.