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rowathrayon Google App Maker Shutting Down

Can't wait til they shut down Flutter. Flutter is weak.

rowathrayon Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?

What, you don't look forward to WWDC to find out what syntax got arbitrarily changed with no explanation?

rowathrayon Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?

https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/09/05/developer-salaries-in-...

Well, ok, I guess it's not that grim. Still, it's a pretty crappy job.

rowathrayon Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?

On the iOS side, I regret not knowing how horrible Xcode is and how horrible Apple's documentation is. On the Android side, I regret not realizing that no matter what kind of slick new well documented APIs Google releases we will all be writing code for Android 4.4 for the rest of our lives. Also, I wish I knew mobile developers are some of the lowest paid developers other than game industry peons.

rowathrayon Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News

Ever heard of Apple Music? Spotify? Youtube?

rowathrayon Layoffs hit Quora

Half the answers are by people calling themselves the CEO of some dinky Saas thing with five bucks recurring revenue. I don't even click on it if it comes up.

rowathrayon How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?

Because they're not public. If they ever got exposed violating privacy the owner would just declare bankruptcy and move to the Bahamas.

rowathrayon Amazon Prime video gives amateur how-to’s, conspiracy theories a stage

Right. If people think BLM is controversial, check out the Black Panthers. BLM just wants a kinder gentler capitalism, the Black Panthers wanted to overthrow the shit and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.

rowathrayon How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?

Switch to OneSearch. It's just an anonymizing wrapper around Bing like DuckDuckGo, but since it's run by a public utility (Verizon) rather than a private fly by night outfit like DDG, I trust it slightly more.

rowathrayon Amazon Prime video gives amateur how-to’s, conspiracy theories a stage

Not sure why this is downvoted. The DNC chair had to resign after her conspiracy to rig the election was leaked by Seth Rich.

CNN still up to the same tricks too. How did you like "Mr. Sanders, why did you say a woman can't be elected president?" "I never said that." "Senator Warren, how did you feel when Mr. Sanders told you a woman couldn't be president?". What the hell was that?

rowathrayon Amazon Prime video gives amateur how-to’s, conspiracy theories a stage

Why not take down books too? What if Alex Jones publishes a book with the exact same content? Why does the video get zapped, but the book doesn't?

rowathrayon 23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline

Saw an analysis of game sales on Steam for 2019 recently. Way, way down compared to 2018. Yeah, sure, it could be everybody is busy working, but it didn't look good.

rowathrayon 23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline

Also, there have been a few rather defensive sounding VC posts on HN lately. Usually it's all Techbro Tony Robbins platitudinal stuff, but it's been getting darker these days. Did you see the one with Paul Graham lashing out at "haters" or whatever? Yikes. Gives a sense things aren't going that well, and they want to justify their decisions.

Moreover, I'm getting less recruiter spam on LinkedIn, but to be fair half of that was just WeWork.

rowathrayon The Internet of Beefs

>I welcome a world where women are not slut shamed and it is normal for a 20 year old girl to brag at the office that she had an amazing fuck Yesterday from a random hit-and-run.

No, you don't. I work with a (trans) woman who has absolutely no sense of "slut shame" and listening to her recount tales of her sexual exploits every day makes me dread a job I used to find fun and rewarding.