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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 t…

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 d…

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 close…

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 t…

(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 shortcom…

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 transfor…

"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 wro…

The post did not mention anything about babel (or whether it is still needed). Any pointers?

And squash merge is still an ee-only (paid-only) feature ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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/…

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 abs…

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 pl…

Hi there. I used to work as a backend/infra developer at a top company in bay area (in tech aspect IMO). I moved to a new place and am now waiting for work authorization. I want to…

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 …

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://githu…

I am experimenting Dropbox + Truecrypt. The trade-off is between limited free space v.s. hassle of maintaining your own cloud.

I really enjoy watching but I am a bit occupied today. Where can I find a recording?

I don't see how you were shocked.

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 …

Within Wine lies the secret of bypassing blizzard's always-online requirement. ;)

Closing and restarting chrome seem to fix the problem for me.

A nice example that good tech reference doesn't need much stylistic formatting :)

It is like asking a developer not to change API. Or keep the old version.

My eye hurts.

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, Am…