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by price 4mo ago
I'm not sure I ultimately buy that Dropbox is expensive - for one thing, Notion now charges basically the same as Dropbox, and you don't even get file sync in the deal. I can definitely believe that that was an objection customers
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by price 4mo ago
Yeah, when signing into Paper it always felt pretty silly how the auth flow was all like "are you sure you want to share your Dropbox account info with this Paper thing?" as if it was some third-party service. Ironically, just wit
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by price 4mo ago
And they had Paper, which was an excellent product (I was at Dropbox a decade ago; we all used Paper constantly and it was great) very close to what Notion later became. They never got it over the hump to wider PMF — like you say, a failure
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by price 7mo ago
I think the gp is saying that out of those millions of total Discord servers, there are >10k of them that each have >10k users. In other words there are >10k large servers, in addition to the much larger number of smaller servers.
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by price 11mo ago
Eich's own company, Brave, is pushing AI plenty hard: the Brave browser promotes a "smart AI assistant" called Leo. That's much more AI integration than I see in Firefox.
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by price 11mo ago
The timezone is UTC+7. That's in Asia, two hours from Japan time. That's why the staff member making the reply brought it up: > My timezone is UTC+7, so it should be easier for us to set up time.
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by price 1y ago
Thanks for sharing that story! I love that your dream was to be the last line of defense protecting users from bad software. We need more of that, and it's sad that execs at Microsoft and others have made it harder.
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by price 1y ago
They're reverting this developer's previous changes, because those changes were bad. More on those previous changes here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1797#no... Definit
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by price 2y ago
Heh, well, I'll take that as a vote for prioritizing that feature. :) (It's in our tracker already: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-flutter/issues/419 )
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by price 2y ago
I haven’t seen a lot of discussion here of other existing apps moving to Flutter, which surprises me because my experience and my team’s has been so good — the performance, the quality of the code and documentation, and also our experience
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by price 2y ago
Neat example, thanks! I hadn't known TS had that option. Array access was actually exactly the example that came to mind for me in a related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41076755 I wonder how widely
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by price 2y ago
That is in fact one of the new features in this 9.0 release! There's a new less-dense default, and the previous dense layout remains an option (which for myself I immediately turned on). We're also planning to give a wider array o
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by price 2y ago
Yeah. The iteration speed with Flutter's fast, solid, hot reload is seriously a big deal for the developer experience.
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by price 2y ago
Flow is not sound. They have the ambition of trying to be sound (which I appreciate), but they've never accomplished it. I went looking for where on their website they claim to be sound. There's definitely some misleading wording
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by price 2y ago
Definitely to get the most ergonomic programming experience, while also having a sound type system, you'd need to change some of the semantics of the language. A prime example is that if you index into an array of type `T[]`, JS semant
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by price 2y ago
That's true but misleading: if "any" and "unknown" were the only types, then "any" would be indistinguishable from "unknown" and you'd really have just the one type. Which makes the type sys
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by price 2y ago
Yeah, Flow had the ambition to be sound but has never accomplished it. If you read the Flow codebase and its Git history, you can see that it's not for lack of trying, either — every couple of years there's an ambitious new engine
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by price 2y ago
There's nothing arcane or particularly theoretical about soundness. It means that if you have an expression of some type, and at runtime the expression evaluates to a value, the value will always be of that type. For example if you hav
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by price 2y ago
When a language's type system is sound, that means that if you have an expression with type "string", then when you run the program the expression's value will only ever be a string and never some other sort of value. Or
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by price 2y ago
One of the things that's made us at Zulip very happy with Flutter is that it's an honest-to-goodness functioning open-source project. The issue tracker is out in the open, as are the PRs and code reviews. You can (and we did) show
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by price 3y ago
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by price 3y ago
Interesting! Thanks for tracking down that bit of history.
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by price 3y ago
Interesting. My perception in 2014 was right in line with the way it's told in that 2015 article: that this was a new and clever UI twist, one that I hadn't seen before and that many people in the industry were copying after seein
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by price 3y ago
That was in fact Dropbox's plan circa 2013-2014. (I worked there 2014-2017.) In fact they had email too: Mailbox, a mobile mail client with some brilliant product ideas, which marked the start of the acquisitions spree that included Zu
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by price 3y ago
A comment there on LWN, from a Debian developer, adds useful context: > [T]his is a misleading writeup of a Debian-internal announcement. One specific action that is mostly internal to Debian, which some developers wanted to push ahead w
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by price 3y ago
No; read the decision, or Reddit's filing. Three of these seven users did talk about RCN. Reddit defended their privacy too.
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by price 4y ago
No, some certainly were. There's one quoted in the blog post, for example. In a small community, and if you're not using it for lots of chit-chat but rather for something focused like scientific research, you can go years and year
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by price 4y ago
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by price 4y ago
> Unless I've crossed the line for criminal prosecution (which is far from anything we're discussing here), the worst-case consequence of that is .... damages. This is not how the law works. In addition to damages, if you'

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