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reader_modeon Goodbye Xamarin Forms

Uno looks like a poor man's Flutter, they went ahead and redid controll rendering but they still use native controls for behaviour and apparently use native rendering paths for each platform. So you basically have to trust them to get it consistent between platforms across paths ? Not sure why you don't go all the way and handle everything like Flutter, at least the rendering is unified between platforms.

Having now used multiple of these cross platform frameworks (Xamarin Forms, Flutter, Ionic) frankly I'd just write the UI for each platform separately and use native design tools, using common C# library for business logic.

Otherwise use Ionic/WebView if you don't care about result quality and need fast development, you'll knock out a web UI faster than anything, every front-end dev can do web, plenty of design tools, designer workflows.

reader_modeon 38% of remote workers work from bed

>Who's going to write the fine-detail code if they whole day is a meeting?

In a start-up ? You around midnight. Believe in the mission bro.

reader_modeon Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices

>The vaccine has an overwhelming amount of data showing it's effective, and very little showing side effects.

I see studies exploring long term/subtle effects of COVID, along with controls that were not infected. I don't see a lot of "vaccinated but not infected" and "vaccinated and infected" groups in these studies. I'd be far more convinced if those studies were done.

reader_modeon How Dwarf Fortress is built

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...

I've seen this post brought up as relevant regularly up till 2010.

You may have been lucky to avoid the dredges but SW industry in the 2000s was a copy-paste fest (not in the "copy from stack overflow" sense but as in "copy paste instead of creating a function"), PHP with SQL in templates and string concat queries all over the place, MVC was a revolution. I'm not saying this was everywhere just that it was very common.

I'm sure some wise guy will come up with retort that MVC was used in the 70s and what not, but my point is a lot of the industry discovered it with Rails and Django.

The way that we teach programming these days and languages/tools/frameworks just make some bottom tier mistakes from the past impossible (or very impractical). People often ignore this context when evaluating modern framework

reader_modeon How Dwarf Fortress is built

I mean using SCM became the norm in maybe last 10-15 years ? When this was started I don't think using SCM was as ubiquitous as it is today, not to mention on a solo project. If you've been hammering away since then I can see how you might have missed it.

reader_modeon Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank

This is concerning, would be interesting to add post vaccination scans (to see if there are any similar effects triggered) and post vaccination post COVID exposure (to see if vaccination is protective)

reader_modeon TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability

But the study is about TV advertising effectiveness, and the OP mentioned it being very valuable in the auto industry. I just pointed out that the hottest brand in auto industry is spending 0 on TV or any ads for that matter.

reader_modeon TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability

If the hottest company in auto is spending 0 on ads are ads really that valuable to auto industry ?

reader_modeon TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability

But Apple sells computers ? Tesla is selling some battery installations from what I saw but their core business is cars. You could claim they are valued as a software company because of FSD, but I don't really see the battery angle, they would be not be anywhere close their valuation if they were valued on that angle.

reader_modeon TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability

I didn't say they do no advertising, I said they spend 0 on ads.

reader_modeon TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability

Someone here was arguing that advertising can't be measured only through impact on present sales but "good will and long term value". Tesla seemingly has good will beyond any competitors.

Also Tesla is buying battery cells, sells cars and expects to have third parties supply batteries long term - how can they be a battery company ?

reader_modeon TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability

But their supply is constantly expanding and demand is following right up. They have 0 ads and yet everyone knows about Tesla.

reader_modeon TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability

And yet the most valuable car company in the world (for whatever that's worth) spends 0 on advertising and sells everything they can produce.

reader_modeon Becoming a Chess Grandmaster

Which is exactly my point, chess is just another game but it has this social status where it's a sign of intelligence or whatnot. The whole thread is in response to OP making such claims.

reader_modeon Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday

>The game industry is overflowing with college educated, computer science degree wielding, software developers eager to work on a big game project. Few will ever touch Engine code - the rest are easily replaceable.

I was under the impression that junior devs aren't that hard to come by in any development category (a specific type of junior will be more likely to join a AAA team for sure). I suspect senior staff is harder to get just like any other industry - but I have no insight into this industry.

reader_modeon Becoming a Chess Grandmaster

But this wasn't my critique. Chess strategy is again chess specific, the things that translate are going to be superficial. You can draw parallels between many domains, like there are phases, strategy and coordination in many competitive online games, and I'd argue that the cooperative nature translates better to most real world than chess.

Chess has this poetic image of playing around with kings, queens and pawns that lets artist paint grandiose metaphors about real world, but at the end of the day spending a bunch of time on chess is going to make you good at chess, doubt it will do much better than any other similar hobby for transferable skills.

reader_modeon Becoming a Chess Grandmaster

>The first enables self knowledge, molds character, and helps develop a mental model transferable to other pursuits;

That's what quickly got me out of chess, when it was me playing with my brother as a kid it was about thinking really hard and trying to explore as many options as I could - it was really about who can think faster and outsmarting eachother since we only knew the rules.

When I decided to look into chess I found out it was about learning openings, recognising patterns, traps, etc. I didn't feel any smarter learning those, I just learned more about chess. You can draw up silly strategic methapores with any activity, but chess does seem to have that Sun Tzu status.

reader_modeon TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant

Is Germany really stable considering Tesla story ?

Chip making isn't clean by any standard.

reader_modeon Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended

If Facebook is cigarettes is HN alcohol ? Half joking, I often read about social media "detox" here on HN but at the same time HN is something like a social media platform that sucks more of my time than Facebook or Twitter. The only other platform I spend more time on is YouTube. I guess it's more to do with your tendencies than platform needing dark patterns.

reader_modeon Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)

200mg worked for me, started with 100mg to see if I would get sideffects, but I never used it over 2-3 days in a week.

reader_modeon Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)

Yes, same thing, I get distracted easily, but modafinil is like a cheat code to getting stuff done.

reader_modeon Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)

I got that the second time I used modafinil and went with whole pill (did half the first time). Later on I did whole pills every time and had no sideffects (a couple of times I would get noticeably elevated HR, but I was awake 12+h at that point and need moda to get through the night)

reader_modeon Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)

But the two aren't even comparable in terms of effect IMO. I already have caffeine tolerance so at this point I'm drinking coffee out of habit and not to go through withdrawal, but even when I reset my tolerance a few times getting back into it does almost nothing compared to modafinil (aside from getting jitters when I overdo it)

reader_modeon Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)

Gf had a huge stash she ordered from India years back. I almost ran through them over the years so will need to restock but it doesn't seem as big of a deal as getting rec drugs, more like ordering steroids

reader_modeon Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)

>Caffeine+Theanine is the third highest recommended home treatment for focus (behind exercise and sleep) on r/nootropics for whatever that's worth.

I'm surprised modafinil isn't no. 1

I don't use it regularly to avoid developing a tolerance, but that thing has a profound impact on the ability to focus and power through, nothing else I've tried comes even close. I guess speed/amphetamine but that gets me euphoric and I notice elevated heart rate, I don't feel any different on modafinil other than focused and tiredness being blocked.

reader_modeon Restaurant workers quit at record rate

The problem with your argument is the assumption that societies are designed.

reader_modeon Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus

That some EU members had deals for faster delivery and got overturned by EU causing a worse situation for those countries, just like UK would if it was a part of EU.

Von der Leyen even said so herself, and she still believes it was the right thing to do to stifle the big countries in order to maintain the EU.

reader_modeon Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus

Profit is the strongest market incentive, you want them to profit and invest full on in this kind of research. And pharma profits insanely is still negligible to the loss due to delaying vaccine deployment, spending any nin-trivial amount of time negotiating prices is full on retarded from that perspective, not to mention protecting vulnerable groups ASAP.

reader_modeon Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus

What other comparable developed countries are there ? Australia had it's own isolation thing so it's a different context entirely.

Russia had vacation faster, China as well.

reader_modeon Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus

EU botched acquiring vaccine compares to most developed countries by months, in no small part due to the retarded mindset that pharma companies shouldn't profit off of this and trying to renegotiate prices forever (overriding some countries who tried to acquire it individually and would have gotten it faster).

Measures were not dictated by EU, each country decided it's own policy.