MrBra

Sorry if this sounds completely dumb but I can't hold it:

Can anyone explain what's with this: "you are running ML algorithms in the cloud, and we enable you to run them locally!"

Can't we already run them locally??? Why not run them locally in the first place if speed and low latency is required?

Machine learning procedures stored inside a SQL server ???

How ugly can that be?

I have just watched the part where Emma Lawton was there as a guest. I wonder why did not they do a live demonstration of the device?

Watching this now... am I the only one who thinks it's a breath of fresh air compared to the mess of the JS world?

> if you develop your idea and the worst that happens is that Facebook copies it, then that's actually a really cool outcome, as by then you've probably done extremely well.

So you don't think that the amount of time before big players copy you has shortened, nowadays? Don't you think they are more flexible, agile, open, nowadays? Of course they are...

I agree with you that by the time that this happens it means that you have done a lot well already... but yeah... one time you could actually dream about "making the next new big thing", now you can only hope about being copied/acquired as late as possible...

Am I wrong?

Slack is a kind of a white fly or an exception if you see the bigger picture because it's in a segment that targets the devs community, which is very attentive and careful about the product they choose, because have the skills to decide about it.

But what would happen with a product targeting a more generic public (non only tech savvy people), like a new sharing economy app or a new innovative social network?

What I am trying to say is... the big players are now so big that they are just going to integrate any IT idea that is cool and profitable, in no time.

This is what saddens me. We are not in early 2000 anymore, got a concept around manipulating pictures? Yay, make a website and give it a beta badge icon and there you go, you got popular and people are interested in investing in you!

Nowadays? Go develop your new picture filters, meanwhile google engineers will publish a blog post where they talk about how their machine learning libs powered by 11230021 GPUs has got better result in that aspect and they will now integrate that capability in all Google pic manipulating products.

Do you get what I am saying?

Exactly.

> FB employees are certainly not "only busy exploring ideas", I don't know where you got that idea from.

Meaning that they have all resources and flexible mindset/approach (agile) to play with interesting ideas and iterate on them quickly! This was not a thing time ago... Nowadays you see companies as big as Microsoft being swiftly responsive to the open source ecosystem and to ie. Electron apps, and releasing Visual Studio Code to tackle that slice of the cake! In that sense. Also please, read again my first sentence :)

Agreed. Basically we could grow up upto a value of $3 billion, and then Facebook would show interest. Ok.

But I think this is true for products that are somewhat orthogonal to their base product and not in direct competition, like a radically new innovative full-blown social network could be.

What if mine was such a ground breaking idea?

What if, at stage 1 of funding, FB takes over the idea and improves with the same resources that I would only have at "stage 100" funding?

Oh and guys, please, I am just reasoning by making hypothesis, no need to remember me how hard is to build such a thing. :)

Would people give shit if Spotify was 100 Mb?

You could write Ruby, with JRuby and JRubyFX... https://github.com/jruby/jrubyfx

I was talking about a cross-platform Mono GTK# app, not CEF + Mono.

Answering myself: $$$.

Not trolling, genuine question: would Mono be a terrible alternative to Electron for a cross-platform desktop app?

What do you guys think about "8th"?

http://8th-dev.com/index.html

Is anyone aware of a unificate resource from where to learn about all the limitations of a local webpage versus a served webpage?

Also let's not forget about Guilds...

http://olivierlacan.com/posts/concurrency-in-ruby-3-with-gui...

I remember reading his book years ago and thinking it was an amazing read. I don't remember much about it now and I will for sure take a look at it again. I highly suggest it!

What about turning the image into a sound, then compressing it with MP3, then turning it back to an image again?

Just click/tap and hold for a couple of seconds and the webpage becomes editable in the browser window.

Anyone's got a clue why is that so?

Yeah, and honestly I can't understand the decision of opening the camera in transparency right on the first screen of the app, adding the camera opening time to the rest.

And that feature only looks kind of bragging to me: "hey, look at how cool we are", and I am sure some users will not even notice it.

Anyway, don't they test it and see how slow it ?

Or are they one of those company only interested in iOS and only developing for Android marginally?

Obviously, but no need to be pedantic, you know what I meant by that.

Truth values are currently accepted paradigms.

OP is questioning their soundness with not just an opinion but with an argued view.

Therefore, OP could get back other argued instances of agreement and disagreement, stimulating a constructive debate, which in turn could end up modifying paradigms and reassigning truth values.

And yeah, they could even get reassigned to OP's view.

As seen on.. Black Mirror...

Heaviest app on my phone ever.

Yea I don't have the latest Nexus smartphone, but I am sure it's not coded as good as it could and should be.

Ok neat, but Ruby needs a serious and modern GUI toolkit!

Happy to see this is alive and kicking since it became OS.

I've never had the occasion to deep dive into it, so I wonder, from 10000 feet how does it differentiates from Unity?

Let me first start with saying this specific case is really shameful.

The form and the app UI in general, is designed like it explicitly wants to go against all commonly accepted look & feel defaults.

As if someone who was completely not qualified for this had to complete it in half an hour.

And it's PayPal! Well not exactly PayPal, but the company which provided the Italian PayPal card, which is called Lottomatica. But PayPal should require some minimum quality standards, shouldn't they?

You can see how drastic is the change when browsing from the PayPal page to this one, from the link below and then clicking on the top right "home banking" button.

https://www.paypal.com/it/webapps/mpp/prepaid-discover

It really leaves me with the feeling that the attitude of the Italian company is: "hey we're letting you check your PayPal card balance without charging you anything, so you get what you pay for".

In Italy, banks, TLC companies and other big companies, charge for stuff that you don't see in other countries. For example initially when filling up your phone credit, say 10 euros, you had to pay 2 euros for "fixed costs", so that real credit was 8 euros. This was later considered illegal. Or the case of banks which charge you for non existent costs per year, just because they've always done so.

And when these big companies are forced to adequate to the rest of Western world, being forced to give the user free services (like letting them check their balance, or change your PIN) they do that in the laziest possible way. Also to transfer money between my PayPal account and my Italian PayPal card, I had to wait 2 full days, while I'm sure that in other countries it could take at maximum some hours.

I really would like that some spotlights would be pointed at them and make them ashamed for all the frustration they cause to their customers and this general attitude these local companies have here.

And you can discover such website using Google (the search engine).

But at the same time it's interesting to note that RubyTruffle will not even rely on the JVM to run!