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They could have used Electron or Qt and supported all platforms. Also, why not offer a trial version?

Why would they name it as i9 anyway? I was so sure that it would be i11...

I'm personally looking forward to the times that this competition drastically lowers the price of mid-range CPUs for the benefit of the normal people who don't buy CPUs for 2000$.

(Yes, I know that "normal people" don't even buy laptops anymore, let alone desktops. Please excuse my fantasy-world in which people buy desktop computers and even upgrade the amplifiers of their at least 7-piece stereo sound system)

I generally agree, just a small nitpick:

> Are you making sites for blind people? Use/support tools that are thinking about WAI-ARIA/semantic markup.

I think developers should always have accessibility in their mind. People (or organizations they work for) may choose to use IE8 and yes, it makes sense to draw a line somewhere regards to supporting browsers. They can decide if an upgrade effort is worth to use your application. However people do not choose to have less abilities and it's possible that they can't do anything to change that. I'm not a dictator who says everyone must use all the accessibility best-practices but usually there's a small effort which can be made with huge gains.

Is there special logic in react that binds arguments of a function to the props with the same name? I'm talking about the handleDelete "fix" in the article:

    render() {
        const views = this .props.dataList.map((d, i) => {
            return <Data data={d} index={i} onDelete={this.handleDelete} />
        });
    }
    handleDelete(index) {
        //...
    }

I guess they just call that function from within the Data component with the correct parameter. But then, Data component needs to know how to call that function. Is there a better way?

Programmer who doesn't know regex is something like a system admin who doesn't know sed.

They just say that "the energy trade-off between containerization and enabling TLS/SSL is comparable for PostgreSQL" and quote the lead on this research, Abram Hindle: "If your expenses are people, then Docker is probably worth the hit".

It says "Software Engineering" on my graduation certificate. I wouldn't be able to get licensed even if I wanted to.

> Have you been trained as an engineer, in a country where "engineer" is a very specific thing and is held to higher expectations, including the possibility of having your title taken away by your peers if you do not respect your duty to, first and foremost, your users and/or society, like every country that takes the title of engineer seriously?

I have been trained as a Software Engineer in Istanbul. I am very sorry that my country doesn't fulfill your expectations.

> If yes, what in earth makes you think writing Electron apps is a good idea?

Engineering is about making trade-offs. There's enough discussion here about what those are for writing Electron apps.

> If no, back to my point.

What, "no"? What was your point? ...that I'm not an engineer? As I said, I am one.

> yes, I am an utter cunt, but being called a typical hackernews one hurts, considering how I can't stand most HNers

I don't think you are a cunt. I think you are uninformed and have concrete opinions based on limited or self-fulfilling-prophecy-boosting experience.

I write Electron apps and call myself an engineer, because I am an engineer. Could you please explain why am I being hilarious?

I mostly agree, just a silly nitpick: Fast usually means cheap, especially if you are talking about software engineering. So I'd say the choice is between "fast & cheap" and good.

I and many people I know care tremendously about the lyrics feature.

In the US, according to the constitution. But it is mostly not free speech in Germany, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung

Well I just invested on a PC with an i7 more than a thousand euros so that I can do web development on it. It will probably give me a maximum of 5% speedup over my 6-year-old PC but that's still worth it. What I develop needs to run on the dirt-cheap mobile phones too, which is what 90% of my users have, and even then it still makes sense.

In the meanwhile many people like me who love TS/Flow wait for the days when their annotations could be used to optimize their apps. If types on JS doesn't come I'm sure someone will compile TS to WebAssembly or something.

I'd be in even just for the possibility for reflection/dependency injection.

This is a very creative and practical idea. Well, I haven't seen anyone (seriously, 0 people) scanning a QR code before so there is that...

UWP is going to change that.

You already got many relevant answers but just in case you need it again, https://www.google.com/ncr redirects to the international version.

> it is now down a path of crap

People always said Apple evokes feelings. Now it seems obvious that it goes both ways. I acknowledge that it is impossible to be objective on this issue (different use cases, different people, different habits and so on) but saying that they are on a "path of crap" is too strong for most of the time, I bet. I haven't ever used any Apple product, so it's just a somewhat external observation.

It panics sometimes instead of returning the errors and there's no way to catch that in a clean way in go.

This is however such a great idea to send some commands to your pet projects. At the very least, don't know of a (dirty or non-dirty) solution which is this quick.

I would say, why not (maybe not, because some naive soul uses this on anything high-volume and hilarity ensues).