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Natela commented on Ask HN: Is Visual Studio Code the Emacs of 21st century? · Posted by u/gsaga

jjeaff · 7 years ago

The only thing proprietary about the main distribution of be code, that i can tell, is the configuration. I'm not aware of any differing functionality or limitations on the open source code. MS states that their distro is the same code but with their own configuration in the product.json file.

Natela · 7 years ago

It's not open limitations but about extra Microsoft spyware included and making you agree with Microsoft Privacy Terms https://code.visualstudio.com/License/

"The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services. You may opt-out of many of these scenarios, but not all, as described in the product documentation."

Natela commented on Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/lkurusa

camillomiller · 7 years ago

Look up what Tim Cook thinks about convergence. That is not what an iPhone is for. Period. This gimmick is just a pipedream of us nerds. It won't have the slightest chance in the market and it would be a subpar product. Both Huawei and Samsung have implemented such a solution on their flagship smartphones since at least two years. They work as advertised, but nobody could give half a shit about them.

Natela · 7 years ago

Samsung didn't implement convergence, they implemented Android-with-a-keyboard-on-a-big-screen . True convergence would be something like Ubuntu Touch wanted to do

Natela commented on Three European Countries Block Tax on Tech Giants bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/adventured

xps · 7 years ago

I feel that if that law was to pass, the affected companies would simply add that 3% tax to the prices European consumers pay, especially since this is a tax on the revenue and not on profit.

It's not like US tech giants have much competition to fear from European companies anyway. A 3% price increase isn't going to get anyone to switch to another service (except maybe in the case of Amazon's physical sales).

In the end, consumers would pay and this would add to the already large price difference between the EU and the US, due to the much higher applicable VAT in the EU, as well as other similar taxes applied in some EU countries (private copying levy [0], eco-participation [1]...).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éco-participation

Natela · 7 years ago

But what is this price we pay for FB and Google services ? 3% increase on 0€ is still 0€.

We don't pay for Google with money but with our privacy. I'm perfectly fine with making my privacy more expensive to buy for Google.

Natela commented on Three European Countries Block Tax on Tech Giants bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/adventured

bsaul · 7 years ago

As a french, seing french government officials trying to impose their knee-jerk « let’s tax it » reaction to any kind of problem makes me absolutely sick. They’re just a bunch of jealous incompetent insufferable pompous politicians than don’t understand a thing about the private sector and so instead of trying to fix the numerous reason why we don’t have any competitor to google / facebook etc ( such as our best engineers fleeing to silicon for the last 30 years) , and how come all those companies HQ in europe are in ireland, prefer to add tax.

That will solve absolutely NOT A SINGLE ISSUE , but it’s just another income to feed the bureaucracy.

Thanks to the three countries that stopped this madness.

PS : i also find it outrageous that gafa don’t pay taxes, but let’s fix the tax heavens in Europe then. Don’t start making special taxes on revenue ffs.

EDIT : changed "income" to revenue.

Natela · 7 years ago

As a European I think this is a smart move on the contrary.

Google cannot get rid of the EU market, if it does, EU competitors might have a chance. So the EU can just tax Google as much as it wants. What are we to be afraid of ? Google leaving EU ? Please do ! This will only gives us a chance to come we our own solution to the web Google&FB think they invented.

I don't get how we could not be glad that we tax more those dystopian companies. Google, FB, etc... don't respect any values of privacy and freedom, they should not have even the right to do what they do in EU and GDPR is step in the right direction for that.

The only problem is that we have no weight if we don't act together, so if some European countries are too short-sighted and put their self little short term interest above the rest and prefer offer encourage Google's development, then yes we will fail.

Natela commented on Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them medium.com/@fabiospampina... · Posted by u/fabiospampinato

Natela · 7 years ago

VSCode is not Open Source and is spyware too : https://code.visualstudio.com/License/.

It's only open source if you build it yourself from Github

Natela commented on Azul GUI Framework azul.rs/... · Posted by u/ingve

moosingin3space · 7 years ago

This is part of what Rust does very well - playing nicely with others! Check out Helix (Ruby), Milksnake or rust-cpython (Python), Rustler (Erlang), Neon (Node.js), or cbindgen (C/C++) for tools that can automate the boilerplate.

Natela · 7 years ago

That's good to know !

Natela commented on Azul GUI Framework azul.rs/... · Posted by u/ingve

Natela · 7 years ago

I really wish all the best for this project. To me here are the main points why this framework is really promising :

- Backed by webrender : Mozilla is putting large effort in webrender and Azul leverage all this work by using it as a backend. Too early to say, but it can potentially be far more performant than QT or GTK

- the "modern" way people do UI : you have Dom diffing backed-in like React (and like Flutter)

- backed-in data binding

- (live) CSS styling which is a subset of web CSS

- SVG support

- Extendable : you can use OpenGL to draw to a texture and pass it to Azul for display. This will allow for integration of 3D renderer, 2D renderer (for e.g Azul SVG drawing is using this mechanism), etc...

I'll definitely follow the progress with a lot of attention. I personally would prefer Azul so much more to GTK/QT/Flutter for developing apps

Natela · 7 years ago

I just hope it will be easy to write bindings for different language in the future. I guess it's important for a wider adoption not to impose something "low-level" like Rust (for eg QT has QML/JS, GTK has bindings to Vala, Python, etc.. Flutter uses Dart, etc...)

Natela commented on Azul GUI Framework azul.rs/... · Posted by u/ingve

Natela · 7 years ago

I really wish all the best for this project. To me here are the main points why this framework is really promising :

- Backed by webrender : Mozilla is putting large effort in webrender and Azul leverage all this work by using it as a backend. Too early to say, but it can potentially be far more performant than QT or GTK

- the "modern" way people do UI : you have Dom diffing backed-in like React (and like Flutter)

- backed-in data binding

- (live) CSS styling which is a subset of web CSS

- SVG support

- Extendable : you can use OpenGL to draw to a texture and pass it to Azul for display. This will allow for integration of 3D renderer, 2D renderer (for e.g Azul SVG drawing is using this mechanism), etc...

I'll definitely follow the progress with a lot of attention. I personally would prefer Azul so much more to GTK/QT/Flutter for developing apps

Natela commented on WebRender is in beta mozillagfx.wordpress.com/... · Posted by u/bpierre

cztomsik · 7 years ago

Thanks for those links, azul is very interesting!

This is my first rust project, so I'm not sure if I would be any help

I also think it's better to have as much GUI part as possible in typescript, try-and-refine cycle is shorter and imagine how it could be with live/hot-reload

What I'm trying to do is something like electron but lighter, faster and memory-savvy. I think it could use azul, so thanks a lot :-)

Natela · 7 years ago

I agree, I think Typescript is a very good pick for UI developpement, it's easy to use yet you still have types that help with maintainability. I would definitely be using something like this to develop apps :). However there are people who prefer other languages so it'd be nice if we could have a WebRender UI framework on which we could write bindings for any language, similarly to QT and GTK that have bindings for several languages.

Natela commented on WebRender is in beta mozillagfx.wordpress.com/... · Posted by u/bpierre

cztomsik · 7 years ago

I've just made very basic integration with node. It's rather PoC, but it works.

It can currently show a window and render moving rect from vue.js template. There's still a lot of work to be done, webrender does too little to be just drop in replacement for electron but it might be worth watching if you're interested in anything like that (lightweight cross-platform opengl-rendered gui apps developed in react/vue/angular/...)

https://github.com/cztomsik/node-webrender

Natela · 7 years ago

This is a nice experiment ! There are a few people starting to hack around with WebRender. There are already Limn, Azul, Stylish, etc...it would be nice if we joined forces in developing one good UI framework powered by WebRender.