kevinsd

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by kevinsd 8y ago
Put aside the scoring and conclusion parts, the author has a couple interesting observations that resonate with me: > ... but conscientious developers will be interested in doing things right. They’ll spend hours Googling for examples, t
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by kevinsd 8y ago
While React Native is constantly being improved, to use it in its current form, one has to be very aware of its under-developed parts, and more importantly, make them aware of by designers and PMs. Surely for any "fancy" feature o
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by kevinsd 8y ago
Github stats on number of issues # Totoal # Flow: 2081 open, 2748 closed Typescript: 2541 open, 14421 closed # Between 4/11 and 5/11 # Flow: 88 closed, 93 new Typescript: 448 closed, 173 new Note: We are using flow but we are not
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by kevinsd 9y ago
IIRC the survey was open in July/August. But it took the authors 3+ months to produce this result, which IMO has very limited commentary. It would have been much nicer for such a time-sensitive survey to come out sooner.
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by kevinsd 9y ago
(Disclaimer: Using RN in production) The author listed some very legit points that RN is lacking and I share the same pain or complaints. You can beat up any tech with its shortcomings and that will be a good read. But arriving at a conclus
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by kevinsd 9y ago
I have been missing a feature from Alibaba Cloud that AWS does not provide and there seems no easy replacement: Their Object Storage Service (OSS) provides an endpoint for transforming images (resizing/thumbnailing, compressing etc).
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by kevinsd 10y ago
"According to The State of Javascript survey, only 6% of responders that have used coffeescript before said that they would consider using it again." Nit: the calculation seems wrong to me. - Used it before, would use again: 6% -
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by kevinsd 10y ago
The post did not mention anything about babel (or whether it is still needed). Any pointers?
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by kevinsd 10y ago
And squash merge is still an ee-only (paid-only) feature ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by kevinsd 10y ago
This is great. On the other hand, no one mentioned Gitlab here yet as squash merge remains as an ee-only (paid-only) feature in Gitlab all this long. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/150 https:
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by kevinsd 10y ago
Why do this when they have google hangout? I can see that hangout is tied to a person but home phone is not. But making it a different product/service and charging $10/month is absurd.
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by kevinsd 11y ago
I think the closing down is normal in this case. If you were google, how would you motivate any SDE or ops to devote any time to it, given that a newer replacement is already in place?
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Ask HN: Tips for a back end/infra developer between jobs?
1 points by kevinsd 11y ago|0 comments
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by kevinsd 11y ago
I have read all 1-3 parts that seem available at this time. My immediate questions are: (a) is the client supposed to get a copy of the consensus to start with? (b) what if direct access to all DAs are blocked?
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by kevinsd 11y ago
May not be relevant to OP's use case but OpenVPN setup is not that bad, and could be very easy if you are willing to use pre-made setup script available online (e.g., https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install ). In ot
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by kevinsd 13y ago
I am experimenting Dropbox + Truecrypt. The trade-off is between limited free space v.s. hassle of maintaining your own cloud.
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by kevinsd 14y ago
I really enjoy watching but I am a bit occupied today. Where can I find a recording?
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by kevinsd 14y ago
I don't see how you were shocked.
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by kevinsd 14y ago
If I were Apple, I would had been very pissed off with Google's inferior Maps app for iOS than its Android one. If Maps is so core to a smartphone's overall experience, perhaps it is better to break it from a competitor's control sooner tha
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by kevinsd 14y ago
Within Wine lies the secret of bypassing blizzard's always-online requirement. ;)
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by kevinsd 14y ago
Closing and restarting chrome seem to fix the problem for me.
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by kevinsd 14y ago
A nice example that good tech reference doesn't need much stylistic formatting :)
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by kevinsd 14y ago
It is like asking a developer not to change API. Or keep the old version.
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by kevinsd 14y ago
My eye hurts.
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by kevinsd 14y ago
This guy is ripping off Amazon. You are supposed to pay a cost when your return is not due to Amazon's fault or item's defect. If a significant amount of people keep doing this, Amazon will have to raise the price for all of us.
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by kevinsd 14y ago
Now that Meebo found an exit, they ditch IM users who the acquiring company, Google, does not care either. Nobody could be blamed. But perhaps one thing meebo could do is to coordinate with meebo messenger alternatives to help users to swit
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by kevinsd 14y ago
You know, receiving US patent does not mean much..
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by kevinsd 14y ago
I have no doubt that startups including meebo got talents. But how does google maintain its bar of engineer qualification? Or does it?
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by kevinsd 14y ago
Oh well, Statcounter (and only Statcounter) again. Compared to other sources, Statcounter has a track record of valuing Chrome's market share higher. Also, the curve in the article is pretty steady/linear. Where comes "leapfrogging"?
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by kevinsd 14y ago
Given that Google is perhaps the only company whose main business is online ads and ads relevance is crucial, it is natural that they cannot give up the opportunity of tracking profile of ads viewers as easily as other companies.

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