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Then you aren't even half done. You still have to undergo the memorable experience of code sign and app store review.
First wrote iOS apps in 2010. Loathed it then, loathed it now.
I shun these devices for which I can't write my own software without permission.
Progressed pretty far into the process. 94% on intelligence assessment and positive on the behavioral. Then in a call with HR, I was was told a COVID vaccine was required. I said I was unwilling to take an mRNA vaccine. Rejected by email after that. (I did get Novavax a couple of months later when it became available in my area).
Overall, my impression was negative. Success at Canonical means you fit into a narrow model, subject yourself to unwarranted character judgments, and don't have an opinion about much.
Anything to unseat Intuit. That said, a direct file option would be best, but I don't trust myself to fill the forms correctly.
[1] AI: Accelerated Incompetence. https://www.slater.dev/accelerated-incompetence/
Analytics only work if the agent runs JS. CF on the other hand counts file fetches, which can't be circumvented.
There's always a baseline of bot traffic.
It's almost a tautology, but when I remember it, I feel more dignified about my age and more empathetic for others' age anxiety.
My experience corroborates this. Reminded me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473618
Found it:
Yeah. In real life there's no karma value next to your name and no string of reactions next to every statement you utter.
Imagine a VR-based dystopia which displayed such information to everyone you encounter.
While AI accelerates initial product development, there might be a tail end of costs, like tech debt that plagues a product for years. For startups that die, it won't matter, and startups that "make it" (in VC terms, i.e. jackpots) can afford to rebuild the whole product from scratch.
docker run --rm -p 8080:80 -v "$(pwd):/usr/share/nginx/html:ro" nginx:alpine
I think we have a word for that - copyright
Could anyone teach me what makes this a fair characterization of Cloudflare?
https://www.pathsensitive.com/2022/03/abstraction-not-what-y...
Disclosure: I work there.
Two identical pieces of code can have different specifications.
# x is an age of a person; the code checks if the person is past the retirement age in the US
def is_of_retirement_age(x):
return x >= 65;
# x is an ASCII character which is already known to be alphanumeric; this code checks if it’s a letter.
def is_ascii_letter(x):
return x >= 65;
- Avalonia has a guide just for people like you and me [1].
- Avalonia's flavor of XAML has small divergences from WPF that will have you hitting their docs often. There are some nice quality-of-life improvements, for example you can bind a Button click handler directly to a method without ICommand. The major concepts are the same e.g. data binding, dependency properties.
- Coming from WPF, it's possible you've used MVVM and dependency injection. You'd be going against a strong cultural grain to not use them in Avalonia. But I would be surprised if your WinForms app is architected like that, so it may be a design challenge extracting coherent ViewModels and properties from the ball of mud that many WinForms apps become.
- For macOS, read up on notarization [2] and, if you're publishing to the Mac App Store, the review process.
- I recommend starting with example apps (look in the Showcase) or with the Avalonia template solution which just runs out of the box.
- The Avalonia team iterates quickly. Expect to upgrade NuGets frequently, and don't get too far behind. There was recently a big jump from version 10 to 11. Good for you for starting after that.
- Not Avalonia specifically but if you're not used to .NET Core check out #nullable enable. Can't live without it now, but was confusing at first.
- Be sure to check out all of the official and community libraries [3]. I bet my design big on `ReactiveUI` and it's gone well.
[1] https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/get-started/wpf/
The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases.
See my comment [2]
- You want to target Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and browser from one codebase.
- You've already decided to use .NET / XAML. (So you're not comparing to e.g. Flutter)
I chose Avalonia over the alternatives [2] that also match this criteria. It's been a good experience, and I'm overall happy with the app. The solution template "just works" on all platforms, and iteration from it to my finished app was straightforward. I found libraries for everything, whether Avalonia-specific or just .NET. The Avalonia community is active, and the devs are responsive on GitHub. Avalonia as a company will be around as they have a strong business model selling XPF.
Some downsides are:
- Mobile is not as polished. Avalonia started on desktop and expanded to other platforms. Some controls feel awkward on mobile, because they were originally for desktop. Example: TextBox. If Mobile is your primary concern, consider Uno or Xamarin [2].
- The "non-native controls" approach has pros and cons. Your controls render the same everywhere, but they can feel out of place, depending on your styling. For example, buttons in my app don't look like iOS buttons, which Apple cares about a lot. However, my users already familiar with the look on Windows or Android can easily use the app on iOS and vice-versa.
- Build times for mobile and web are slow. I mostly edit-compile-debug on desktop and then smoke test on other platforms.
- You still have the usual deployment and distribution challenges for each platform: desktop installers; macOS requires notarization; iOS requires App Store review. For most of that, Avalonia has excellent docs [3] and there are supporting libraries [4].
[1] I created FitEdit. https://github.com/endurabyte/FitEdit/
[2] https://github.com/robloo/PublicDocs/blob/master/XAMLFramewo...
Do have a look at the testimonials. He hits the nail on the head on many ideas I could intuit but didn't have words for.
I don't know of any books or speakers to compare him to. He's a unique bridge between academia and industry. I suppose you could say his teachings are available in the many academic papers he sources, but those papers are dense. His curation and contextualizion gets the ideas in a form I can comprehend and apply at work.