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tomwilson commented on Ask HN: Is React Native still popular?    · Posted by u/haliskerbas
cybrox · 2 years ago
Have you tried Flutter in recent times? And in general, why would it be dying?

We deploy a Flutter app to Android and iOS with a lot of native parts and it works flawlessly, fast and with native-feeling UI on both platforms. Even porting to Windows and Mac OS was relatively easy and provides a very fluent, albeit mobile-y application.

tomwilson · 2 years ago
Flutter always feels uncanny valley to me on iOS because its re-creations of the native controls and not the real deal. Not always a big deal depending on your app design but if you want an app that looks like one Apple would make it feels off.
tomwilson commented on Ask HN: Is React Native still popular?    · Posted by u/haliskerbas
tomwilson · 2 years ago
Expo has taken over the react-native scene - look at the libraries they use and you will find them pretty active.

The expo approach to generating the native projects is just better than the OOB react-native stuff which makes upgrades extremely tedious.

tomwilson commented on Ask HN: Any alternatives to Duolingo without gamification?    · Posted by u/abbadadda
tomwilson · 2 years ago
I like "Hello Chinese" but as the name suggests, it's just for Chinese :D
tomwilson commented on Sex-specific differences in myocardial injury after Covid-19 Vaccination   onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d... · Posted by u/amelius
ost-ing · 3 years ago
> Several dozen men who’ve died of sudden heart failure

Thats a massive amount. I had pericarditis, thankfully recovered. I knew a handful of people who also had the same, or myocarditis, none of which died. A friend of mine had to has his heart “drained” of fluid, which was probably the worst case.

Vaccination was sold as being completely safe and was irrefutably coerced in Australia - stripping jobs from unvaccinated people (even if the job was a remote one). Who in the government is going to take responsibility for that? Probably nobody.

And as a result I’ll never trust these institutions again.

tomwilson · 3 years ago
It just seems so incredibly unlikely to know a “handful” of people who had this unless you met them in the ER. And while I guess it’s mathematically possible, you have to know that it’s incredibly rare and essentially nobody else is in your situation.

FWIW I know one total and barely know them it’s like a friend of a friend of a friend deal.

tomwilson commented on It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal   gamerant.com/diablo-immor... · Posted by u/ddtaylor
Grollicus · 4 years ago
The worst thing (for me) about this is that whenever I go to the Apple App store I get bombarded will all these "games" that just try to make my life actively worse.

I don't understand why they pollute their brand like that.

tomwilson · 4 years ago
It's a huge chunk of their "services revenue". It's their dirty little secret.
tomwilson commented on Ask HN: I'm building budgeting app. What features would you look for?    · Posted by u/beartech
saddestcatever · 6 years ago
Similar to what others are suggesting:

Month-to-month doesn't work.

Mint's budget breakdown totally fails if my Landlord cashes my check too early/late.

Month-to-month doesn't work for expenses that aren't monthly. Example: travel.

Month-to-month doesn't work when the calendar lines up and you get 3 paychecks that month instead of the normal 2.

I'd be curious for a budgeting app that still has the concept of a month, but isn't locked to calendar dates.

Rolling average? Bucketed allotments that roll over? Maybe

tomwilson · 6 years ago
Goodbudget has quarterly / annual / goal budgets which are good for things like your travel example.
tomwilson commented on Ask HN: I'm building budgeting app. What features would you look for?    · Posted by u/beartech
tomwilson · 6 years ago
Good Budget is the one that I use after trying a TON of them in January this year. It was one of the few that really does the kinds of things I want.

Some things that I wish it had or did differently are:

- The progress bars should show the money that is scheduled to be used for a given bucket (probably in a different colour or something)

- It'd be nice to show a $/day remaining for a bucket, again taking into account the scheduled transactions too

- In the upcoming transactions, it should show all the upcoming repeats for a given transaction within the current budget period.. E.g. if I have something that is $100/week, the scheduled transactions only shows 1x $100 transaction. You can replicate what I want by creating 4 different transactions that repeat every 4 weeks, but thats silly :D

- I'd like a way to enter a transaction as a 'draft' very quickly via a home screen widget or even Siri or something. And then I could go in and edit it later to set the bucket it comes from etc.

- It has no good way to do long term savings - you can create a goal bucket for it but the bars etc for it become kind of meaningless.

tomwilson commented on Ask HN: Possible benefits of Covid-19 pandemic?    · Posted by u/DoofusOfDeath
tomwilson · 6 years ago
No April fools day on the internet.... hopefully.
tomwilson commented on The Seven-Year Auto Loan (2019)   wsj.com/articles/the-seve... · Posted by u/paulpauper
dsfyu404ed · 6 years ago
They all have to minimize aerodynamic drag in the same atmosphere, comply with the same vehicle class/dimension based (depending on location) fuel economy regulations and are all judged by the same set of benchmarks. It's no surprise that they mostly resemble each other now that all the easy gains have been made.
tomwilson · 6 years ago
Also pedestrian crash laws and safety regulations etc. By the time you plug all those values into the computer along with the hard points of your platform/chassis you are obviously gonna end up with the same thing.
tomwilson commented on Ask HN: How many of you are rolling your own auth?    · Posted by u/xhrpost
tomwilson · 6 years ago
Every time I've had a client ask to use one of these services it has ended up being more work and worse UX, with more bugs on the edge cases, than just doing it yourself.

I've implemented Gigya, Janrain, Auth0, Firebase and Amazon Cognito.

The only time I've seen them make sense is internal tools. The company I work at has a policy where any enterprise tool must auth with Okta which means logging into everything is a piece of cake for employees.

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