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Yes. How else could the LLM even begin to do what it did otherwise. Not a criticism of you, just a place for a rant but I still find it incredible when people think they're doing something novel when really they're just reassembling existing work.

What really reinforced this for me was that I recently vibe coded a home assistant addon that, as it turns out, there was a github project that did almost the same thing. The initial implementation that came out of the LLM was essentially the same just with just some small tell in things like the logging that came from what I prompted it.

It was a very small project (maybe 500 LOC) so there's a greater chance of coincidence but it really felt like the office junior had just ripped off someone else's work and tried to hide it (badly) and really, that's exactly what they do

The S&P 500 has dropped over 40% multiple times including 1929. It did it in the 70s, 2000 and 2008/9.

The COVID crash nearly hit those levels also

I'm kind of disappointed that this isn't a simulator for managing what happens inside the airport rather than ATC.

I'm also unsure why I feel that way as it sounds like a nightmare

I'm also bummed. My company shutdown the money burning pit due to fire safety concerns

That much is the key.

They're still washed, otherwise they would have all kinds of crap on them (literally, chickens only have one hole), they just aren't subjected to chemicals and scrubbing etc.

Having very low salmonella rates in the flock makes it really unnecessary

I was searching for a comment like this.

It sounds like a crazy workaround for Flutter's strange architectural choices

Or America's advantage is by its own design.

Rich people can invest relatively small amounts in hundreds, if not thousands of startups through preferentially treated retirement funds and pay no (or little) tax on the ones that make it big.

This is what has made it so easy to secure funding in the US.

Should Europe do the same? There's definitely an ethical dilemma in making the rich, richer for the sake of innovation.

We must be buying different things if you think Amazon is cheap in the EU.

I find almost everything can be had cheaper elsewhere these days, except the Chinese junk like you find on Temu, the enshitification has well and truly sunk in.

I always paste products I find right back into Google and more often than not find them cheaper elsewhere

Dude. They're even on the React Native showcase page.

I don't know what to say but you're massively mistaken.

Uber use React Native too BTW. Lots of other big tech companies also, I don't know of any that use Flutter in a big way. Just some toe dipping

It's probably within an order of magnitude but it's really just hobbyists, casuals and indies using it.

If you compare it to React Native there probably are more Flutter apps published but if you drill down into the top 1000 on each app store you would be lucky to find more than a few in most countries using Flutter whereas React Native definitely makes up more than 10%, maybe as high as 30% of non-game apps. I know on my phone I have zero Flutter based apps installed and almost 20% use React Native in some way.

Source: I'm an app developer so I keep an eye on these things.

LOL Bolt is a React Native shop.

Just Google "bolt react native" they have jobs and articles about their usage but also any library inspector will tell you that.

No. Read the simple form of my response, the first part.

What you said was an example of one factor as to why it's more complex than the simple form for people who really want to dig down deep but on its own it's not an answer

This old myth is as old as the RN vs Flutter debate itself and I'm willing to help bust it again.

The simple answer is that when people have a problem or question about Flutter they simply key in Flutter. With RN they can ask about React, JavaScript, typescript, RN itself or one of the many components you use to make an app as it's the sum of a lot more parts.

So if Flutter didn't get more searches here I would be surprised and concerned.

The longer answer I'll just tease but suffice to say it's more complex than above.

It can come down to lots of things including the competency/experience of developers and maturity. As an experienced developer I might need to search for or ask about what I'm doing maybe 2 times a week. For someone getting started that might be that many times an hour. If you just looked at the two of us as a blob it might seem that whatever the other is using is more popular despite it being 50/50.

So yeah, number of searches or stack overflow questions or Reddit posts or whatever it is does not equal popularity.

Since when was Flutter the "go-to solution for cross-platform development"?

Maybe for hobbyists but in the corporate space it's still React Native.

The problem with Flutter, and this extends even further with KMP is that the scope of your skills is limited to making mobile apps whereas with React Native you are learning and using skills that can apply to a complete stack.

KMP is even worse in this regard as they expect you to build two frontends (yes I'm aware of compose multi platform but it's a separate product entirely) so unless you have some crazy business logic that Dart or JavaScript can't handle you're sacrificing the largest benefit in cross platform app development for the smallest.

As for whether Google are replacing Flutter I think they made a massive PR goof with the launch and have introduced a lot of uncertainty. Possibly it's their long term plan but currently it's just a tiny niche product.

The wig costs $2m a year? I need to get into this business.

The vegan diet probably saves a few bucks but I doubt he's any fitter than any other guy who spends that many hours a day on exercise.

It's easy for a new app, plug and play!

It gets harder if you want to retrofit it to an older app using older third party libraries that have no or limited support. You have to pick through everything to work out what's playing up.

> There is also no practical way to build on React Native without using a metric ton of third party libraries

As an author of a few quite large React Native apps I have to disagree. There's a few key ones and apart from that it's down to maturity. Immature developers will always reach for whatever crutch they can find first. Doesn't matter what language.

The same immaturity shows up in their attempt to recreate (a not so great) wheel with their Phonegap/Cordova clone.

I would seriously be embarrassed about an article like this if it was my business.

Snap is trying to generate headlines in a desperate attempt to stay relevant.

This has nothing to do with WFH. Just a sorry attempt at trying to piggyback on Musk's just as desperate attempt to get attention with his 996 proclamation.

I'm an older engineer too and I am very aware of how frustrating this can be for techs of all ages so I made our screening test less fizzbuzz, do my work for me and gotcha questions and more real world, challenging, engaging and most of all interesting.

Examples include: How would you solve this at a high level, here's some code we know is broken, how would you both fix and improve it etc.

After all, both parties are being screened.

The other upside is that we also get to gauge communication and analytical skills not just production line coding.

Even after doing this, over the years I have seen a good 30% refuse to do it or just ghost at this point for whatever reason. Afterall, I've done it myself a number of times.

Works beautifully on an M1. I never have any of the issues that colleagues do on their heavily IT mutilated PCs.

Did they actually dump it in the end though or just announce it?

Appbrain still lists React Native in the list of SDKs for the current version.

https://www.appbrain.com/app/airbnb/com.airbnb.android

Seems if it was all that bad it would be gone by now.

That's why PPP is so great.

When using it, it doesn't matter if the person makes 150 euros an hour if it costs them that much for a meal but the person in Italy only has to work half as long for a meal.

Anecdotally there is a lot more content for React Native than Flutter. I hang around the subs for both and the amount of lmgtfy answers vs idk is much higher for RN. Most common issues and app design patterns are solved and documented.

Flutter is where RN was three/four years ago, it's far too early to even think about calling it the king of cross platform.

This comparison is ridiculous.

Flutter and Dart go hand in hand as the only thing people use Dart for is Flutter.

If you want to compare them you need to add React Native + React + Javascript questions together and then you'll realise how tiny Flutter is in comparison.

As someone else said - I can't even find a single Flutter job in my country but there are dozens posted for React Native daily.

Flutter is definitely a legitimate cross platform choice but it's nowhere near the most popular one.

Is anyone surprised? A lot of the large tech companies that have been saying it's ok to work from home have almost as much invested in real estate as they do in their own technology.

Sustained WFH would reduce the value of this real estate greatly so it's in their best interest to do an about turn as soon as it's "safe".

I don't think Microsoft is any different.

I always figured it had something to do with lactose intolerance. Somewhere between 40 and 50% of the population are intolerant which is high compared to most of western Europe.

I accept that Google can't always pick these apps up when published but they need a transparent mechanism for reporting and taking them down.

I have a successful app on the Play store that is becoming less and less successful over time because almost all the competition do not play by the rules and violate the terms in one way or another but mostly comment spam which unfairly boosts their rankings.

Google do have a page to report them on but the response despite giving clear examples of repeated review and repeated fake reviewers is always thanks for your report and that's it.

So far I've not seen any action. Apps are still there and still full of fake reviews.

You may have been saying this tongue in cheek but it's an important thing to consider when choosing a platform.

I got very burnt once (in terms of time wasted anyway) by a startup that couldn't decide what it wanted to do.

They had an amazing BaaS product that probably was making good coin already that I am sure would have got them a buy out eventually but they decided to pivot to work on a DB abstraction layer and shut the whole thing down.

If they had just pursued the original vision they would be minted by now instead of trying to convince people their commercial layer is better than the umpteen other free ones.

LOL.

Australia is the richest nation (that isn't just a tax dodge) on earth. Sure because the metric used is USD it varies.

I'm going to give you a great grounding example. A typical gardener in this country can take home $80k USD a year. That has to be 4 times or more someone in the USA. I'm not talking a garden contractor in Bellair I'm talking an average Joe.

Google are great at hiding their revenue but I guarantee you that Australia represented a good 20% of the US based revenue. Despite having a population that's only 10% or so.

They would absolutely have their bottom line impacted by withdrawing but they aren't going to. Because of the former sentence.

Google are scared.

I don't think they will go as far as withdrawing search (note: it's just search not their 3 million other products) from Australia.

But it does set a scary precedent for them.

To repurpose their analogy in the scare campaigns they are running in Australia:

Currently when you ask about the best coffee shop in the area. Google runs down the road, taking a sample of the coffee from the local shops and fills you up with coffee then tries to sell you a bunch of related stuff.

With this legislation Google will have to pay the coffee shops for the samples.

It's a small step but Google have been profiting from "borrowed" content for the best part of a decade.

They need to pay.