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Hmmm, one could choose other grocery stores to distribute their products but developers can only distribute their app in one store. If you spent months or years developing an app a…

I personally don't missed Rails mostly because boilerplate doesn't really bother me. I'm more afraid of using the wrong abstraction. Rails (v4 was my last experience) was hard for …

Well, they already running trial by the government in Singapore… https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/nea-release-m...

I have a feeling this is not a AMD vs Intel or Apple vs Intel. This is TSMC vs Intel. TSMC basically make the 7nm chip for Apple and AMD. It looks like this company HQ at Taiwan pr…

As someone who live in Singapore, yeap, pretty much the same experiences. There's a lot of FUD about Singapore strictness but many are exaggerated. E.g. If you smoke, you gonna hat…

I love Swift but at 4.2, its still a distance from being useable for me. Swift is suppose to be modern, only to be burden by API compatibility work, which is non trivia. This signi…

Had my first full year working on my startup https://www.taskade.com/ It have been challenging. I switch from being an iOS engineer to a full stack web developer. I always thought …

2 camps: USD 814M accumulated over a year, legit vs not legit? You don’t really need to think hard, who is these 30 mil, 30 mil deposit? If you divide by a year, they need to have …

I agree. It felt like Vue is rewalking the path of React all over again. But I think it’s good that there’s competing library, though the problem domain felt eerily similar.

When one’s identity is being challenged, cognitive dissonance kicks in… Intelligence have little effect on preventing CD. My opinion is one humility have more (positive) effect.

I guess this is the calm before the storm.

JavaScript is unlike other languages, it take the big 4 (Chrome, Safari, Firefox and IE/Edge) to come to an agreement to get something done. And standardization takes many years to…

Remember the old story of The Tortoise and The Hare? U.S. is acting like the Hare now…

I'm not well verse in economy but I believe much of what US is today is built on being the global dependency. It's like the JQuery of everyone's economy: too big to fail. After Tru…

Cool site. May I ask is your WYSIWYG custom made?

In the comparison between Flow & TypeScript, he mentioned Flow gets non-nullability right. Anyone have any example to illustrate this?

It could be challenging I think. But I think tourist visa is 90 days if I'm not wrong. I really recommend visiting. The food is great and the city walk at night is kinda beautiful …

I stay in Singapore and used to work remote. I want to differentiate the tech scene and start up scene. There's a lot of noise in the start up scene just like most places. Over the…

I can't take anyone who promote JavaScript over any real programming language seriously. first, people build transpiler so that they can build and maintain large codebase without l…

Here's the part where I don't get it. Doesn't this happen to other industries, like banking, politic, entertainment, etc? The framing it as “hey tech, we have a sexist problem” is …

Erlang is probably the only true object-oriented language. http://www.infoq.com/interviews/johnson-armstrong-oop

Yep! Exactly why I stop using them and will not consider them at all. It's a crowded market and they are not standing out.

This comment is why sometimes we techie are kinda delusional. We despise existing solution thinking that we could and should disrupt everything. Tear down everything and build ever…