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Perhaps a week, perhaps never.

There really is no answer to this except that the more tries you make, the higher your chances one of them might have some people interested in it.

Off topic but it would be nice is sci fi could be made in which not every scene had to be the most amazing, innovative, creative, eye popping visual you've ever seen. Story might become the star then.

I'm a huge sci fi fan (anyone on HN who is not?) and gave Foundation a go, and found it to have flashes of brilliance but overall to be lifeless and frankly pretty boring.

It's hard to describe but the stories seemed to be not more than sketches without richness or detail, and many of the potentially interesting ideas were never fully explored.

To be fair, there was something strangely appealing about it, and by the end I found I quite liked it even with its flaws - probably because there were some really imaginative concepts underneath (the Foundation I suppose).

Agreed. Toxicity is such a broad range of behaviours that really a fuller story needs to accompany the posted topic.

I'd like to see an example for storing current user info.

More dry than the desert.

This is the outcome of lack of competition.

Also, Apple is not enthused about anything that might limit the ways in which a device is used. The whole point is that everything they do is focused on finding more and infinite ways to make a device used. Constraining use is deeply against the DNA of everything they are actually aiming at. There seems to be a real, deeply ingrained unwillingness to implement things that might reduce unfettered usage.

Truly this is politics. In politics, you say what people want to hear but do whatever you want. That's what Apple does - positions the iPad as kid and family friendly but just does what it wants.

Windows is still a mess... inconsistent interface, multiple ways to configure the same thing, the registry.....

I know it's not the same market circumstances but this feels alot like the decision to stop development of ie6 after Microsoft beat Netscape.

Look, here is my question: how is it that startups make such great websites? I try to make a website for my products, and they always look crap, even if I start with a template from themeforest, or use a single page site builder.

Is it necessary to pay to get someone to design it to make something look good, or do I just have naturally really bad skills at making things look attractive and convey a clear message?

What's the secret?

There is no demise coming for Facebook.

They'll clean up, grandma, aunty and the school mothers will continue posting and they never even knew there was an issue.

People will soon forget.

>> When you see that the props have changed, what do you do?

"What do I do in componentWillReceiveProps?" It's a good question. Looking through the code I see alot of cases in which I am mapping new props to state, sometimes transforming received network data that is stored in redux, sometimes making a barrier to redirect to a different page if for example some condition has changed.

Perhaps these things are relics from before I really came to understand Redux - maybe in most cases I can just directly use props rather than having an intermediate setting of state.

Any example anywhere of using context for current authenticated user?

What is the definition of a landing page?

Off topic but Dan - referring to your question to me yesterday I'm curious to your answer:

You asked "Curious, what do you use it for?" in regard to componentWillReceiveProps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16695064

I use componentWillReceiveProps for just about everything - I had thought it was a fundamental part of the Redux flow. i.e. Redux updates, new props flow through the hierarchy, I pick that up in componentWillReceiveProps and make changes based on new props.

Is this not correct?

I use it to handle changes in props.

For example load something from network, which goes into redux, redux triggers a props update, so then I do something because for example now redux state has changed to say "loaded === true"

Is this not the correct function to handle changes in props?

I like my code to be safe.

Hang on, I use componentWillReceiveProps in just about every large non-function component I build.... I just counted 50 times in one of my applications.

and its going as soon as V17? Too early.

The Context API is of most interest for me.

I love Redux but I find myself using it less than I want to because so much stuff has to be put in place any time I want to store some stuff.

How old are you?

I'd try not to spend it.

I made good money when young and as a result did not appreciate how hard it is to get. So I spent it, assuming (reasonably, but incorrectly I think), more would come.

I wish I'd hung onto it.

Governments value higher control and tighter laws over anything else. There will be more.

Just be a single founder. Much easier.

Writing code to get software builds to work feels like pointless busy work.

I feel like something has gone wrong with software development that the task of making software requires so much meta programming.

The linked page is not clear on what this actually is. Which AWS service is it the same as?

Kinda weird that there's 141 companies in the batch and only 3 of them listed in "Show HN".

Voicery and Storyline are the two that connect with my interests.

I think Voicery does itself a disservice by featuring a "pick the human voice versus pick our machine voice" demo quiz on their website. I got 100%, and it led me to emotionally response "they have failed", but in fact the voice sounded great.

A more useful demo would have been to hear a range of different voices and be able to put my own text in and hear it read back.

But it is not the point that a machine voice can be determined versus a human voice. The important question is "does the machine voice sound good enough".

Instead, their marketing approach has forced me to make a comparison in which my conclusion was that they tech "lost" in some sort of contest.

One day in maybe 1987 I was working at a computer company that had a mainframe and was full of greenscreen microcomputers like the Apricot and Sirius 1.

One day, I walked into my work area and this new machine was set up and on the screen was this: http://amiga.lychesis.net/amiga/AvrilHarrison/AH_KingTut.png I was a pivotal moment.

My mind was blown and although I could not afford it I immediately ordered one.

In hindsight a more successful strategy for Amiga might have been to build it as a games console as its primary market position.

And yet we must still do "things that don't scale" to build up that demand.

The real challenge is to work out when your product isn't being snapped up by users not because it CAN'T be awesomely useful and demanded and valuable, but because your marketing has not effectively sold it to them yet.

If you say you have a beautiful, powerful, fast, full featured application development system then you need to be able to SHOW me, and its gotta knock me out in every possible way.

Nothing here at all for Flutter, just words.

Where is that quote from? Is it praise or criticism?

I became quite interested in Flutter recently but it was pretty much impossible to find a range of good demo applications (or any demo applications) that show off what it is capable of so I gave up. LOTS of technical documentation however but nothing to sell me on using it.