Wait until the "OPEC" of lithium emerges from the coming price wars... If you don't think that will happen, I have some land in Yuma, Beach front.
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http://caffeineindustries.com - I am a full time firefighter/EMT that moonlights with Python and the web.
I use chrome and little snitch is always telling on it. It calls home so much that I have just given up in order to have a decent experience and gave it full connection rights. I don't know how much of the browser Chrome owns, but I guess it is not insignificant. That is a lot of data that I will never have access to... let alone for my family nor on at Google scale.
Netflix uses AWS and competes with Amazon Prime... I get it. I do think that no one knows the whole story.
Getting back to OP... it has to be damn tiring/frustrating to even contemplate competing in AI/ML space with these big mega corps. I simply would not, that ship has sailed.
They not only have custom silicon (TPU), they have the software too. Do you have extraordinary insight|foresight|genius or have you discovered/developed a major breakthrough in AI/ML? If not, good luck competing with these companies. It is a resource problem at this stage, as consolidation happened and there is no going back.
Nice that TPU's are available for rent, but to what end? If I run something truly innovative on their hardware (TPU), with their software platform(Tensor)...is that actually innovation, will they have the means to just copy it? How do I compete with that?
There is no AI competition against a company that has Tensor Processing Units among the absolutely incomprehensible data store that Google has amassed.... Especially if you are not some world class mathematician or computer scientist. The best you can hope for is to be acquired if you are in the ML/AI space as a stand-alone entity. In most cases they can probably safely ignore the bulk of AI startups.
Wondering if Jetbrains will release Kotlin/Native for a set price or charge monthly like most companies are doing these days.
I use Pycharm and have used other Jetbrains IDE's in the past. They make me soooo very happy to use. That is, I have tried almost every Python IDE and suped up Vim/Emacs; None of them came close to Pycharm for me. They know cross platform. Their IDE's are just as bad ass on the macOS as they are on Windows... again, for me.
They make IDE's for just about everything and I assume they are all of stellar quality. My assumption, as of about 30 minutes ago, is that Kotlin could be a great bet for cross platform development in the near, near future. Jetbrains has every reason for this language to succeed in as many places as possible. Web, Mobile and Desktop. The fact that it runs on the JVM and compiles to JS out of the box makes me wonder why I haven't tried it yet.
I am very interested as Jetbrains is also working on Kotlin to native translation. [1]
[1]https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/04/kotlinnative-tech-...
The problem is that it says simple, while talking about Git for goodness sakes; commit permissions and such. It says no code. I disagree... you need to know HTML basics to even comprehend the Mavo way.
Why not just make a vanilla HTML page if that is all you need? HTML is not hard... and how is this moving us past CRUD?
Paralyzation due to choice and only so much time to evaluate each framework. Couple that to "staying" power, that is, will this library be around in 6 months? I have taken a peek from time to time and been thoroughly aghast at the volume and not really seeing any of the old stand-bys around.
Now compare that to Python. There is no dearth of choice and one will find many of these choices have been around for more than a decade. They have evolved and changed of course, but not anywhere near the pace of JS. Again, I could take a 3 to 6 month break from looking at Python news and libraries... then come back and jump right into most of the libs I already know. Can a JS dev do that?
> Couple that with some baseline things that aren't changing here
Doesn't webASM give the power to abstract those things away? React creates a virtual DOM, right? Why can't Python create a virtual DOM via webASM?
I stand with you in that I agree things are going to move quickly once Python and others become peers with JS in the browser. I am sure it will be insane as everyone figures out which lib will have staying power like Django, or similar in another lang. I do think that people who generally gravitate toward languages like Python, Go, C#, Java will bring those attitudes with them... that is, they aren't going to re-invent the wheel every three months unless there is a super compelling reason to do so.
The browser is one of the only truly cross platform development environments around. The popularity of the browser is directly coupled to that fact in my opinion. How many developers|companies and organizations would be over the moon excited with hiring a Python|Ruby|Lua|Rust|C# developer that could talk natively to the browser? My guess is a LOT.
The WSL is compelling and to be honest, one of the main reasons I switched to OSX was the command line. Now, I can have a command line and not have to run VM's for 3d stuff, games, and more. Pretty compelling...
I am not a Snap user period. To count my daughter as a user is just plain sad from an investment point of view. She is not going to have a job for 9 years minimum. That means I control the purse strings.
Sanp is like those games that have a gajillion users and then simply die as no one plays them anymore.
The Yellow pages had a similar story not too long ago...
When are we going to say; What the hell is the point of this? Users "using" something doesn't make it profitable unless they are willing to pay you for it. Furthermore, advertising IS NOT working. Look at retail, malls AND name brands... Horrible performance for the bulk of recent memory.