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agmcleod··on Hyper 1.0.0
When I tried it, I found it to be slower over ConEnu. ConEmu takes some customization, but I found the experience to be better once I got past that.
agmcleod··on Scientists record biggest ever coral die-off on Australia's Great Barrier Reef
Video calls, remote meetings, typically how we call it at work. Use it with clients even in the city
agmcleod··on Scientists record biggest ever coral die-off on Australia's Great Barrier Reef
Well isn't that exactly it? Volcanos and all these natural outputs have been here for a while. But we're breaking records on global earth temperature and CO2 levels.
agmcleod··on Scientists record biggest ever coral die-off on Australia's Great Barrier Reef
Transit that uses renewable energy, or zero fossil fuels. Such as walking & cycling. Obviously one can cut beef out of their diet, or go full vegetarian. Stop flying is a bit trickier for people who need to travel around, but high speed trains that run on electricity are a good consideration.
agmcleod··on CBC asks for $400M in increased government funding to go ad-free
Global is rather conservative biased. I do find CTV to do pretty reasonably, and have some decent talent, but still I'd rather have a publicly funded organization that doesn't have to worry about ratings.
agmcleod··on CBC asks for $400M in increased government funding to go ad-free
I can't disagree on them being biased, i don't watch enough of them to say one way or the other. But they are one of the better news stations in Canada by far.
agmcleod··on I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and won't do it again
Not released yet :). I have my old one out for iOS only, built ontop of CocoonJS
agmcleod··on I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and won't do it again
I build my current game with Cordova, and really the only major breakage i ran into with updates was iOS 9 audio changes. Patched howler, and it worked fine after that.

I realize this is anecdotal, it would be interesting to see his/her game, what was so demanding to cause performance problems. Many platforms have their quirks and SDKs that you need to learn.

I've had a lot more breaking changes with my React Native app. Opened the other day, and text boxes were overflowing their container. Didn't happen before. React Native is younger, so I find it's to be expected.

agmcleod··on Italian or British? Writer solves riddle of spaghetti bolognese
Haha yep. This was a bit of a funny side joke in a Top Gear special, when they went through the Italy.
agmcleod··on Don't Give Up on the Guitar, Fender Is Begging You
Sounds pretty nice, can't understand any of the lyrics as I don't speak or write swedish. Been playing 15 years, and I have yet to write a complete piece. Have improvised with friends a lot, learned a number of songs of interest. Wrote some short music for game jams, but nothing special.

Anyways good luck on producing. So agree with practice practice practice.

agmcleod··on Running Docker in production for 6 months
Sorry I'm really confused and rather new to the devops world, aside from pushing an app to a single VPS. What problem does Kubernetes solve exactly? Is it to tie a single application spread among multiple servers?
agmcleod··on Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
Yeah those would just be separate endpoints/requests. text/html vs application/json. Instead of serving a static html file that bootstraps your react app, you're serving a rendered component.

Not really any different from building say a PHP app that serves an API to a mobile app.

agmcleod··on The Simpsons by the Data
I'd argue bart was more the main character in the first few seasons. Even though dialogue count doesnt support it. There were a number of key episodes about him. Though others existed around the other simpsons too. Like homer becoming the safety inspector, lisa meeting bleeding gums murphy.
agmcleod··on Why I'm Not a React Native Developer
I agree with you. I have almost no iOS or Android programming experience. I built my own little work out app in react native, because it's a tech stack I know pretty well. But I do run into issues where it stops working, and I need to do a bunch of dependency updates and rebuild it. Might be worthwhile for me to just learn Swift and the UIKit APIs.

When I started my current job, I was talking to our tech director on how ive been using react native a bit. Been meaning to do an internal demo for it. I do find some of the development tools awesome, but really when we already have experienced iOS and android devs in house, why not keep growing in that area instead? React Native could be a way to do some quicker business wins, with clients that need cross platform in a short time frame. But I'm not convinced it's the right solution outside of that.

agmcleod··on macOS 10.12 Sierra: The Ars Technica review
How does voice dictation enable data capture that wasnt already doable before? They already have calendar apps, browsers for web searches. The things you type pipe through the OS already. I'm not saying your concerns aren't valid, just that I don't see how these make it more about data mining.
agmcleod··on Zero-cost futures in Rust
Sounds awesome. Love it :)
agmcleod··on The Rust Platform
Knowing what packages to choose, and what works together wouldn't be a problem for them to worry about.
agmcleod··on Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon
It definitely does a lot more than when I first looked into it. Someone tuesday night was trying to get a bootstrap repo using webpack dev server on cloud9. She had a local node install, so i had her use that instead, simply because I wasn't familiar with c9. She showed me her node+react app fully running on it though, which I thought was pretty damn cool.
agmcleod··on Oracle and the fall of Java EE
I've had a mix of maintainable and rough apps on the rails side of things. I think with a good test suite, one can really build a solid app using Java these days. As you said there's a lot more modern approaches now as well. It's something I'd like to explore maybe a bit later this year, after I do some more messing around with Rust :)

Given it sounds like you use Java, what tools/stack do you use with it day to day?

agmcleod··on Ask HN: Rust or Swift for system programming?
Swift would be a good choice for job viability if you wanted to move over to iOS after exploring systems programming. In the systems world, C is probably the best choice in terms of systems programming. Personally I really like Rust, and more companies do seem to be picking it up. If your goal is really to just learn something, and potentially make something. More so than any other job prospects in the future, than I say choose what you like the most.
agmcleod··on No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down
On a podcast, a father with a younger daughter kinda dislikes the amount of homework she has to do. Wants to let her have time to be a dumb kid. He tried not bossing her about her homework, told her it was up to her to try. He said she was really on top of it. Managed it quite well.
agmcleod··on Apple launches coding camps for kids in its retail stores
There's also Codea, which runs Lua. The company that built Codea also made a game with it called Cargo Bot.
agmcleod··on With React Native it’s not all sugar and spice
Wow that stuff looks pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!
agmcleod··on Apple Starts to Woo Its App Developers
Having deployed apps to the app store, and on one occasion a bug was caught, that saved it from going out to the users. It's far from perfect, but it does have an effect. I think due to the mass amount of apps & users, shit is inevitable :(
agmcleod··on Apple Starts to Woo Its App Developers
Oh wow, that's rather awesome :D
agmcleod··on Apple Starts to Woo Its App Developers
The time to review & release is definitely faster. I wonder if quality will suffer because of it. One time when I had a rejection, I asked for some more details and got a fairly automated response. So it does feel a bit inhuman unfortunately.
agmcleod··on Apple Starts to Woo Its App Developers
> In my opinion Apple doesn't deserve any cut of the recurring money since they have to do nothing to earn it.

Aside from host the infrastructure that delivers the apps. Are they doing this to make money? Of course. But saying they haven't earned it is flat out wrong.

agmcleod··on Visual Studio Code 1.2 released
It's more of an alternative for people use sublime text or atom, rather than an alternative to visual studio.
agmcleod··on Wal-Mart Plans to Test Grocery Delivery Through Uber, Lyft
How did you guys keep vegetables fresh for 2 weeks? That's usually why i go a couple times a week. Usually buy a pack of meat to have for a few nights of dinner, vegetables to use as well. Then get more once it's used up.
agmcleod··on Regressive Web Apps
I think you and I are talking about the same thing. I was more responding to the extreme circumstances the other person posted. I agree that when you're making public facing content, it should render on the server. The faster UIs is true when you don't have to do full page reloads to load new content, but just grab serialized data from the web server instead.
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