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A lot of people seem confused about this acquisition because they think of Bun as a node.js compatible bundler / runtime and just compare it to Deno / npm. But I think its a really smart move if you think of where Bun has been pushing into lately which is a kind of cloud-native self contained runtime (S3 API, SQL, streaming, etc). For an agent like Claude Code this trajectory is really interesting as you are creating a runtime where your agent can work inside of cloud services as fluently as it currently does with a local filesystem. Claude will be able to leverage these capabilities to extend its reach across the cloud and add more value in enterprise use cases

Layout and performance of the mobile web is a red herring in the argument of why mobile web is losing. It's not just this. There are so many other factors that I rarely see mentioned. Encrypted / protected caches, local databases, far more persistent logins and UUIDS, sensor integration without the annoying Browser requests x feature modals, launching from the home screen, consistency of experiences because of standard human-interface guidelines, background sync and notifications, integrated payment systems, and on and on.

Apps integrate with the entire rich ecosystem of the device and web apps barely / inconsistently do. There is work happening on all of the above things (kind of), but the experiences arent competitive, the work is piecemeal and the pace is far too slow for people who have the webs best interests at heart. The web is losing because the consensus model for standardising and making available the tools for building the web is antiquated and terribly ineffective. Unless there is a massive change in incentives for standards committees and mobile browser providers this wont change.

From the linked article: "Eventually, [SoundCloud] plans to introduce a paid subscription that will let listeners skip those ads, as they can with Spotify and other licensed services."

Subscriptions and rev shares are generally far less friction than charging up an account and explicitly giving a micropayment to an artist. I think SoundCloud already is a "marketplace" where independent artists can function without labels (if they want to do all the other work that labels cover), just that currently all transactions happen outside of the platform. That said, I don't have any more info about how a premium subscription for users would function.

A premier track is a track uploaded and owned by a SoundCloud member who is part of the premier program. It can be monetised (ads can play in front of it) or not. The premier tier is currently invite-only but we want to open it up to more artists as fast as we can.

If a user (currently US only) is listening to their stream and they start playing a track a premier member has decided to monetise an ad will play in front of it. There are some other factors that will influence ad frequency obviously, but that is the general behaviour.

Hey there, I work at SoundCloud. One thing that might not be totally clear in our messaging about this right now is that ads will only play against tracks premier members have chosen to monetise. If you aren't monetising your tracks, your listeners won't be affected.

One thing that jumped out at me pretty quick in comparing the two implementations in jsFiddle is that with ember every property is set with an individual call rather than passing in an object of properties to change. Here is a version with backbone using individual set calls with a notable dip in performance: http://jsfiddle.net/6rvkC/

Is this limitation in ember because of the computed properties? Would changing this even help?

I would say that backbone wasn't built for the "single page web app idea". I think of it more as an elegant nucleus for apps that have heavy client side javascript. I think its the same approach that sets a project like node apart from rails. A strong, un-opinionated core with a healthy modules community which allows you to tailor all parts of your project.

Hmmm. Any reason all the views and models are attached to the window object instead of namespaced under some kind of app controller?

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The problem with this statement is what is meant by "just come" to the country. I personally don't think that any immigration process should cater to the serendipitous. It's a legal process and most modern countries have processes in place where if you say "I want to move to X" and start the legal process to move to X in your own country, then yes, you can go there and live there if you meet the given requirements. Are there any countries without any requirements for new immigrants (money in the bank, job offer, etc) so that anyone regardless of status can just come? That I don't know. In my experience the barriers are always money, time, patience, and background. Usually in that order.

Fantastic! Great use of web sockets and though there was some obvious latency (unavoidable) it did not at all deter from having a great time. I love that all the sounds in the set work together well and you could take this in a million directions.

One thing I'm surprised about here is how much Amazon is bothering to mention the tech behind everything in all the promo copy I've seen so far. This is something Apple never does and I think its a misstep for Amazon here. Claiming that silk uses the "raw computational horsepower of Amazon EC2" on the homepage of Amazon.com is a completely useless detail for 99% of people who will buy this device. Why not use the audience attention better and focus on what matters with this. Full color touch. Amazon content. Apps. Half the price of an iPad.

I have a 24 inch samsung and the size is perfect as a single monitor. I, like many, don't like looking at two or more different screens. The only thing I would be aware of is that unfortunately with my macbook pro the quality of the samsung just doesnt compare to an apple display and i fiddled with the settings for ages. Adjustable height and rotation was really important for me, and the quality is good enough for the cost.

"After being acquired, Slide had operated as an independent unit out of Google’s San Francisco office, maintaining existing apps like SuperPoke Pets and experimenting with new ones such as messaging app Disco and photo-sharing app Photovine, which was released only last week. The apps, none of which were extremely popular, will be sunsetted over the next few months."

If Google is going to "sunset" apps which are being judged as successful after only a couple of weeks, why bother with the bait and switch? Why don't they just tell everybody that they were acquired purely for talent, there wasn't really interest in certain developing products, and that here is your new "just as exciting and fun" project at Google? Seems like a waste of everyone's time, money, and trust to lead people along as if their idea in development actually mattered.

These are pretty simple, not so preachy, and generally expected observations from someone working in a location independent profession while travelling the world and picking up new languages. This is also advice aimed almost directly at people in similar positions - those with higher education and almost zero financial or emotional attachment (ex. children, sick family memebers) to their original home. What I'm more interested in though is when the author realizes that being in different places every three months, no matter how much you "hack your experience" there only allows you access to a certain level of experiential depth. Love, trust, deep friendships, community - you just cant cultivate these things every three months while planning your next destination and as much friendliness, and kindness people in these places show you, its not the same as if you are someone planning to be a part of that place permanently.

Having chewed coca leaves quite a bit travelling through Bolivia and Peru I can say the effects are generally quite mild. Done correctly with a small rock of compressed ash (usually from banana peels) your mouth and throat will numb and you will have a slight "buzz". It helps with altitude sickness a bit, but nowhere near as helpful as plenty of rest, water, and time.

I wouldn't hire anybody who put working at a start up ahead of raising a newborn baby solely on the basis that their bigger sense of priorities is completely skewed and that they have no sense of accurately judging future time constraints. Outside of Hacker News you dont have to be mired in a startup to be happy and you can take time to enjoy the rich experience that is raising a child even at gasp a less than optimal income.

The actual title of the article is "10 Skills to Become a Frontend Developer worth millions" with key points such as "#7 Be a conversion-horny UX nerd" and "#8 Write non-nerd hackable code". Of all the skills listed only one of them, the previously mentioned #8, requires some degree of vague technical proficiency. The other points involve having a desirable personality trait or simply using an existing web service. If that is worth millions hire me. I am UX-horny and I know how to click buttons and watch pretty graphs.

It seems like you arent normalising all strings to lowercase which has a huge impact on available results in the name spinner. If PitbullHelp.com is unavailable pitbullhelp.com shouldnt be as well.

I really hope that anyone reading this doesn't heed this advice. I used to live in a smallish city in Canada where aurora borealis was a common nighttime event and every time I've been back and seen them again I've appreciated and been wowed by them more. The hubble telescope can produce for more detailed and composed pictures of the stars but they are nothing compared to the time I spent star gazing in the Atacama desert in Chile here on Earth. By not seeing the aurora borealis you definitely are missing something. Exactly how much is what you need to see by experiencing it for yourself.

Understood, but I think providing a list of attributes that you consider sufficiently advanced would be far more constructive / interesting.