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I want native apps because I don't want to rely on the internet existing and I don't think hosting an offline web page in a captured browser is "good enough"

Even when CarPlay is full screen, it is possible to have a the manufacturer's UI available. My Ford Sync 3 will let me get back the the car UI via an icon that is the Ford logo - i…

I would recommend the audiobook - John Romero actually reads it so it seems a lot more personal. I did feel that Romero skipped a load of stuff, at least int he audio version. Ther…

This makes no actual sense as a complaint. The M-series all have chargers with a USB-C socket on them that the cable is plugged in to, so you would have been able to use the PSU fr…

A question I'm sure you might have been asked before - will this support mobile too? It would be nice if it did. I would certainly like to try it. It does feel like being able to u…

How much is Flex? It is free. You have 2 options - 1) physical card, which works like a credit card. 2) You can flex payments you made on your regular card. The rules are the same.…

It depends. The more you use it the better the limit gets. Mine is nearly 3k now.

> Mixing C# with other languages in the same project is also difficult because it only supports MSBuild. No, this is not true. You can invoke the compiler directly with no direct c…

I would have said "true", or at least - I would have said "I do, but never incurring a charge on next month's bill", but with services like Flex from Monzo, you can actually get cr…

Legacy of BeOS.

"Queen" came from "The king and his queen". There is no common word for Queen in Germanic languages, and for what ever reason Queen became synonymous with royalty. Originally it ju…

I like WPF and I code with it regularly, but the drag and drop UI builder was the worst aspect of WPF and generated terrible Xaml that was almost impossible to maintain.

Delphi was the best RAD tool though. It was native code, not a weird interpreted or jitted app. It could also build to a single exe file. VB struggled with an unwieldy engine for m…

WinForms came way after VB4 and it was a .Net only technology.

MVC is a design pattern, ASP.NET MVC is a framework that used MVC as its go to pattern. But MVC is not in any way only ASP.NET MVC. There are plenty of other UI frameworks that use…

> The only native contenders in the field right now are IMHO are [...] and flutter I wouldn't really call Flutter "native". I don't have a strong enough grasp of where React Native…

Well - I used Archimedes computers with ARM2 and owned an Amiga 500+ and honestly, I couldn't tell you the Arcie was faster. It certainly didn't have the custom chips, so it is pro…

Advent of computing podcast did a series on his computers, of which this is a link to one of the episodes: https://adventofcomputing.com/?guid=170d60ae-c534-46f6-968b-...

> I think the thing I dislike about Duolingo is it sort of catches the casual person into a trap by misleading them into thinking that by using this app they'll learn another langu…

Inclusion. In the UK, especially on the BBC, there is a lot of inclusion. We don't tend to hide or limit people based on disabilities or differences. There is a fully blind guy tha…

I half agree, but a passport is a mid sized paper book, and an ID card is plastic and credit card sized. A plastic card goes in my wallet. I do not want to carry my passport around…

In fact - ITV had ORACLE till the early 90's, Channel 4 had 4-TEL and TELETEXT didn't replace ORACLE till about 93. I forgot about ORACLE....

No, I was there. I'm British and in my 50's. I lived through this. I'm not remembering something I was told or reading you a Wikipedia article, I actually used this technology regu…

Teletext is one way. Your receiver decodes the page you request, but you have no uplink. Teletext was made by major broadcasters, so NBC/ABC/CBS in the US might have had a service.…

Ah - you are conflating Germanic for German. Germanic is not equivalent to German. German (deutsch) is a national language, Germanic is a language family. German belongs to this fa…