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Well frontend devs love marking their territory you know.

> but biggest part of all, its PHP based, written to a very high standard through & through

What?! Holy shit. Is that considered a positive thing these days?! I must be quite out of the damn loop.

How do you even enforce such a policy? And who the hell is IDA run by? The Soup Nazi?

> To me, this is a little weird. One of the downsides of Webview based apps is that it's harder to align with the native OS look and feel.

I'd agree with that in 2014 but this has been much less of a problem since the last few years. The fast pace of mobile OS's have slowed down to a halt. IOS has pretty much the same looks since version 7, Android since version 5.

The metro/material/flat design fashion has been the best thing for cross platforms apps, be it desktop or mobile, any platform or any framework.

Flutter seems to be at the right place at the right time.

No way. Time traveling UX designers are the ones designing Linux DE's today.

Although I use Python extensively and started to forget about Pascal (ex Delphi guy here), Pascal is a much better beginner language IMO.

Start with Python and you're most likely to be stuck with dynamic typing/runtime mindset and it'll distance you too far away from OS level native land.

OTOH starting with Pascal, you'll learn a great deal of low level (well, relatively) stuff and that will make you appreciate the higher level languages when the time comes and will let you leverage them more efficiently. Also as a bonus, a big bonus I think, Pascal will let you feel at home if you ever need C/C++/D in your career.

Mozilla the foundation did deserve this.

This is what you get when you force a perfectly technical CEO out and let the MBA types steer the ship. A browser is a forever bleeding edge tech; you need engineers all the way to the top. They chose political correctness over technical prowess and the product has lost the edge.

EU and NATO have always been abusive partners to Turkey, that's why he's pulling out.

Actually calling them allies from Turkey's pov is outright a foolish thing to do, a better word would be "frenemies".

> because they get paid for it

promised to get paid for it. Yet to see a dime.

You can achieve a primitive workspace switching scenario via libinput, xdotool and similar bandaids in any distro. What they boil down to is... once a certain 3/4 finger gesture threshold is crossed, it switches to the next/prev workspace in an instant. I'm not talking about that. The instant switch flashing the whole screen makes my head turn. It does not feel natural.

What I'm talking about it the exact MacOS behaviour, that is workspace switching occurs simultaneously while tracking my wrist motion, cancelable in the midst of the transition. That feels natural and allows you quick peeks.

ps. I guess you cannot have the MacOS way via the tools above because those tools should work hand in hand with the window manager, which they don't. Probably, this is a feature that would better be handled within the window manager itself.

- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Make trackpads great again! Bring on gestures by default.

- DESCRIPTION: Trackpad config situation is a mess. Pretty much every Ubuntu derivative has its own simplified (reads severely lacking) interface. What's worse is the gestures configuration. It's mostly done via some dude's one off scripts found on some forum post 2 years ago.

Give me a MacOS like experience on the trackpad (especially the 3/4 finger workspace switching) and I'd never look back on MacOS again.

That's one hell of a pessimistic view if I've ever seen one.

What I see is an brilliantly managed company despite having a globally distributed team, which has a great pace of development, which is carving a nice market share in an extremely tough market (developers) and against a fierce competitor (Github), let alone the other multibillion company backed Bitbucket.

And their radical transparency, as you put it, is a fascinating thing in and of itself. If anything it makes me feel intimate with the company. Hard to put it in words, maybe because I was a rather early adopter but if you follow them closely it's a like you're there on their board with spectator mode on. That's some invaluable experience for HN crowd.

Are we even talking about the same company?!

An HN with longer attention span and without the haste. Come to think of it that would be really sweet.