People can work in different Time Zones!
It's actually kinda nnoying here in Australia that I have to wait for the NASDAQ to open, which means staying up later than I'd like on occasion!
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It's actually kinda nnoying here in Australia that I have to wait for the NASDAQ to open, which means staying up later than I'd like on occasion!
> https://twitter.com/leighajarett/status/1783848728878522620?...
With no solid information other than a to say "Some amazing #Flutter folks were impacted by the latest round of layoffs.".
So that could be 3, 30 or 300 people. Who knows!
Not defending Google, but to worry that Flutter is dead in the water is premature.
But having said that... it's Google! Once bitten, and all that!
I struggle with almost the exact same issues.
It doesnt have to be that way, SwiftUI is wonderful to work with!
But React I just find to be like trudging through mud. It's such an intellectual drag!
I'm guessing this is the Floorp Browser account?
Great to see a release!
Purely my opinion as a long time Apple fan, but I cant help but think that Tim Cook's polices are harming the Apple brand in ways that we wont see for a few years.
Much like Balmer did at Microsoft.
But who knows - I'm just making conversation :-)
I say public persona, as I've never met him, and have no idea what he is like as a person on an individual level.
Maturing in general and studying martial arts is likely to be a contributing factor.
I agree LOL
It was an honest question!
But not really IMHO, as it’s not a status thing.
They say they don’t care because the my don’t care. They just don’t use the built in message apps outside of texting a parent to be picked up LOL
But I understand the point well.
Discord and SnapChat are available for iOS and Android.
With Discord being available as good as everywhere.
So using Android does not exclude you socially in my experience, here in Australia.
Similarly in Europe and the UK, the What’s App was hugely popular and the default cross platform messenger.
I don’t entirely believe the rhetoric around Green and Blue bubbles that the press repeat without any real evidence. :-)
They all use Discord and/or Snapchat here in Australia. No one I've every asked about this cares about Android vs iPhone. No one.
No one apart from the Parents uses the built in messaging and SMS.
But then the Parent groups all use Facebook Messenger for most group comms.
The whole green / blue bubble thing is either over played by the Press or purley a US Phenomenon.
But given the marketshare of the iPhone with teenagers in the US, it seems it's possibly less of an issue its made out to be due to the fact that most people have iPhones anyway!
However, the Tesla Cars made in China are excellent.
The Tesla model Y is the biggest selling EV in Australia for a reason.
Also, the Tesla Powerwalls are very good, and anecdotally based on discussions with owners of other home batteries, superior to other battery products.
And Starlink actually seems to be pretty decent! Plenty of people in Australia love their StarLink!
Space X is doing Ok too it seems…
So yes, Musk has become rather odious, but the people in his companies are doing great work IMHO :-)
We won’t mention Twitter….
All I know is that IPv4 is still around.
And without knowing the IP Addresses of devices on my LAN, by home network would be harder to manage!
But no, turns out someone didnt even manage the basics! LOL
There's a reason the IT Crowd have the running joke of 'have you tried turning it off and on again...'! :-)
Do (urgent and important). Ng says these tasks are at the core of your job. They are the things you were hired to do and have an upcoming deadline attached to them. Make these your most important tasks.
Decide (not urgent but important). These tasks are core to your job and goals, too, but their deadline is much further out. Decide if you have the time to advance them, but only after you’ve finished your more urgent tasks.
Delegate (urgent but not important). These tasks have a deadline but aren’t core to your job responsibilities. Paperwork and office surveys live and breed in this quadrant. If you can, delegate these tasks to someone else. If not, don’t spend a lot of time on them. And if you find yourself running out of time, move them to the delete quadrant when possible.
Delete (neither urgent nor important). Ng says it best, “[These] are the things to get rid of because they’re just crowding out your desk space, your drive space, your head space and causing you to not be able to focus on what really matters.” Delete, and don’t look back.
I should care more to learn Git fully, but I don’t.
I’m just not interested, but yet it’s a foundational tool to my workflow.
I just want it to work. I don’t want to have to learn commands for a system that I don’t have a love for.
As a reluctant developer I just can’t work with things I don’t like! (Reluctant because I’m too old, was never great, but yet people keep asking for things because apparently everyone else around skis just dreadful at delivering….)
My dislikes are often irrational on the surface, example:
I really do not like Python and 4 space indentation, and find it very hard to work with Django.
But people broadly seem to love Python!
Same with React and JSX. Have people gone mad!
Similarly with VSCode. How do people like this I think to myself?! It’s clunky and slow.
The stock price is taking a battering due to uncertainty of the legal battles and outcomes with EU, US, AU and other regulators of markets.
It could be argued that Apple isnt winning the PR battle. It also seems like Tim Cook's star is no longer on the rise.
On the one hand he has managed Apple to incredible levels of profit and market share, but on the other his actions and policies may have harmed the core of Apple's brand proposition.
The Car Project was an expensive write off, from what we can tell.
The Apple Visions Pro seems like a pompous vanity project that has poor product market fit. It's exactly the sort of product that you could see a modern day Steve Jobs walking in and cancelling immediately.
Their product line is now confused and bloated, driven by an obsessions to squeeze as much profit out of every product for as long as possible. Rather than actually selling what is going to be best for consumers driven by market competition and a desire and pride in their work from their engineers, product and marketing teams to deliver the best products they can to market.
Apple's offfensive pricing on SSD and RAM upgrades are the one that offends me the most. I feel like I'm being scammed everytime I look at spec'ing up a new Macbook. Which is completley different to the feeling I got when ordering a new Framework 13" for school use!
Apple Executives needs to get our of their gated palace and see what the world actualy thinks of them and their products.
Obviously we could argue all sorts of things about Apple, and we will never know for sure until it happens. :-)
But we shall see!
Hopefully they will provide the ability to backup and restore file versions!
But iCloud isn’t a backup.
Its sync.
And it will happily sync corrupt files and does not provide any versioning.
The best TimeMachine is an SSD connected locally to the Mac.
The second best is an SSD running on a Mac setup with TomeMachine Server.
Then you are lucky if backups continue to work. And even luckier if you can sensibly restore anything via the hellscape that is the interstellar wormhole travel interface! ;-)
BackBlaze is very reliable at least! Not cheap with a house full of computers to backup though :-/
People can appear to be calm whilst also being aggressive.
Which isn’t the same as actually being calm and in control.
Smart people I’ve spoken to have no idea about browser finger printing!
Obviously you are committed to Flutter and Dart.
Where do you see it going, broadly?
I’ve used Flutter a small amount and enjoyed it.
But it’s a hard sell to commit fully to it.
The alternatives of native tooling on iOS, Android and the web are not contentious choices.
Whereas suggesting to a team or decision maker that Flutter is the right choice seems like it could be an uphill battle!
As a solo dev making choices for clients that want a cross platform solution I can pitch Flutter as a somewhat rational choice against the cost of seperate builds for iOS and Android. Maybe, depending….
Then there’s the Google factor… what if they get bored and kill Flutter!?
I'd been out of iOS dev for a good long while, and was still thinking in UIKit and Obj-C.
Overall I've found SwiftUI to be the most productive and enjoyable declarative framework and developer experience I've used!
To be fair my experience is limited to React and Flutter, but still, Apple have done a rather excellent job IMHO!
YMMV :-)
I've purchased a car privately this way.
Although, very sensibly, the seller met us at his bank and paid the Cheque in to his account whilst we were there. Fake Bank Cheques are a thing.
I havent used a Cheque Book since the late 1990s. We used to order take-away food in London and then pay with a Cheque and Cheque Guarantee Card when the driver got to the door!
Which of course meant you could buy food on a Friday if you had no money and didnt get paid until Monday! LOL :-)
The original BNPL Scheme! ;-)
But yes, I dont think they issue Cheque Books here in AU anymore. And if they did, what would you even do with one!
Can you imagine trying to pay in a shop with one!
https://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/
Im also a huge fan of Cloud Cannon. Which puts a CMS of sorts on top of static site generators.
NeXTSTEP had them in 1986.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns
Here are two reasons I stick with macOS:
1) Miller Columns
2) The Magic Mouse