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Comment · 1 month ago
I'd imagine the user benefit is they can tap new operating system APIs and features almost immediately versus having to wait for a React Native package or having to build a React Native bridge. I think everyone would agree that native apps are better in every way, but the thing is, as a small company, you can't justify hiring two different developers - hence why RN is usually a good choice to get off the ground with.
Comment · 8 months ago
I also noticed recently they changed their design completely. Instead of browsing your board and the things you pinned in the past, what you're now shown are completely unrelated items that you might want to add to your board, and most of these are things you can buy from other shopping sites.
Comment · 8 months ago
Does using Firefox allow me to play YouTube in the background or download videos to my iPhone/iPad for long journeys? No, it doesn't.
Comment · 10 months ago
I've been doing

  if condition1 && 
       condition2
       ...
  end
for ages and it seems to work find, what am I missing with this new syntax?!
Comment · 11 months ago
My uptime monitor OnlineOrNot is also down...
Comment · 1 year ago
I remember reading a history of YouTube once, and early on they were about to go under from the sheer weight of music industry copyright lawsuits and the cost of bandwidth. Google had the technology, heft and resources to do infringement detection at scale to really save them, not to mention their global bandwidth.
Comment · 1 year ago
What did the Irish government do to entitle itself to a chunk of the appreciation of your equity portfolio of presumably non-Irish companies? What did they do to contribute to that equity growth?
Comment · 1 year ago
Because Apple carefully vets all apps and that's why it must be allowed to maintain its App Store monopoly!
Comment · 1 year ago
Even more of an argument for free sideloading then. Ping your friends a URL, they click it and can install your app. All without the need for an App Store.
Comment · 1 year ago
What happened to the people who lied under oath? Were they found out?
Comment · 2 years ago
Looked at it but ruled out the Air due to lack of ports and limited RAM upgrades.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's the terrible standard library of JS that keeps me with Ruby. Rails makes it even better. Being able to write little things like 3.days.from_now to get a timestamp is great.

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