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The Slovak land register was hacked in January 2025. Hackers uknown encrypted the database, asking for an undisclosed 7-figure amount as ransom. The whole country's real estate mar…

Agreed. The Qt framework, which is a cross-platform UI framework, does a decent job mimicking the native Win32 looks. Inside, the code is a giant mess. But on the outside, the API …

Oh, how I hate when vendors bring "modern web" aesthetics to desktop utility programs. For example, Docker Desktop could go a long way in terms of usability if it just sticked to W…

I'm not discussing Netflix's fiscal results. My comment is about their production quality, which I find to be low and their limited content selection. Obviously, that is my experie…

I'm also finding that I'm getting far more value (both entertainment and educational) from YouTube than Netflix. Lately, several months go by without me even touching Netflix. I'm …

My thinking exactly. Got Netflix couple of years ago because of the Witcher and since then I'm finding it hard to find anything watchable. I was going to say that they heavily favo…

I'd say the reality is even more ironic - they collect so much data and reports, pretending this is to help to improve the user experience, but in the end it makes the experience s…

It seems to be a pattern with (not just) Microsoft products to hang the UI while waiting for some remote API, usually talking to the home base. Happens a lot to me with Office desk…

I’m only familiar with Flash as a user, not as developer. I’m curious, what did Flash have, that you can’t readily do with JS and Canvas? Be as broad or specific as you like.

That might be the original motivation, but post-7 Windows UI is anything but unified or consistent. New and legacy UI toolkits are mixed in the system shell itself. There are still…

Google’s UI has been cycling between bad and worse. That goes across the board - websites, Android, apps, everything. I have never come across a Google product and thought “this is…

> See where it goes? To a state where users need a (another) datacenter to access/view/use even trivial apps with “reasonable” responsiveness. There are services already being offe…

Electron is not exactly an epitome of a resource efficient framework either. If I was to compare efficiency, I’d choose a native baseline, such as the X window system or WinAPI. Gr…

I like the concept of decoupling storage from the editor app. I wish more SAAS providers recognized this as an important product feature. It would allow deployment of hosted servic…

In addition to what has been said in this thread about office culture, politics, internal processes, etc. I believe a big factor in reducing work-related stress in any job, is actu…

> It’s 2018 and I still see people walking around with Windows laptop lids open because they presumably have no confidence in Windows’ ability to sensibly preserve state after clos…

Right. There's nothing revolutionary here, that's for sure. I think, it could have been Java (or the JVM at least) in place of WebAssembly in browsers already a long time ago, were…

I think, this goes way beyond just companies preferring to hire cheaper developers and beyond software engineering as such. There is a larger, universal force at play here. Example…

> Qt on WebAssembly is analogous to the plugins of yore like Flash and Java applets. WebAssembly is kind of like a new plugin container for native code. No it’s not. With WebAssemb…

> With Qt you get a lot of conveniences and built-in magic, but I'd say at that point it's not really regular C++. This is a common misconception of beginner Qt users or people who…

> When I do any non-trivial UI in the web stack, I can feel I am in continuous workaround territory. I'm trying to bend something ill-suited to my will. I don't get that feeling wi…

Yes, this. The HTML language and DOM model is inadequate for implementing interactive user interfaces. It's a text document markup language after all. QML has its own DOM structure…

This release of Qt for WebAssembly is the first officially released prototype of this technology. Qt comes from the native desktop world where it relies and builds on top of the wh…

I think, it's time to start to perceive content publishing and application authoring as two distinct disciplines. The problems you describe arise from mixing them freely and withou…

> Oof - the point of WebAssembly is not to stick your entire UI in Canvas. Well, the way your operating system works with UI is that it gives each application one or more pixelbuff…