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mathew 🦜☕
Andrew (R.S Admin)
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@mathew @ajroach42 ok thats fucking cool I want one. I dont see on this page what the record time is and if you can play on a normal record player

29 Sep 2022 at 17:43 | Open on social.wake.st
mathew 🦜☕

This is great: "stable" coin project relies on community governance, so a hacker borrows $1b, uses it to get a 67% voting stake, votes that the project should wire them $182m, then pays back the huge loan and exits -- all in the space of 13 seconds. The "stable" coin immediately crashes.
theverge.com/2022/4/18/2303075

23 Apr 2022 at 18:14 | Open on mastodon.social
mathew 🦜☕

Sure, it sucks that the web was turned into a horrendous bloated platform for applications — but when you consider that the alternative we almost ended up with was everyone being forced to use Windows, it's not so bad.

10 Mar 2021 at 0:57 | Open on mastodon.social
JauntyWunderKind
Vertigo #$FF

@mathew My understanding of the complaints I've seen raised so far isn't rooted in the hatred for an applications delivery platform. I think, on the whole, they're accepted as useful.

The pushback (at least amongst my peers) seems to be centered almost entirely around the extremely poor fit the current set of technologies seems to be for delivering that platform. And, with that in mind, I find myself sympathetic: HTML should stick with delivering documents. It's what it is good at.

Technologies such as WebAssembly offers some promise to finally provide a proper applications delivery platform. Unfortunately, nobody seems to be adopting it, at least not for that purpose.

@mathew My understanding of the complaints I've seen raised so far isn't rooted in the hatred for an applications delivery platform. I think, on the whole, they're accepted as useful.

The pushback (at least amongst my peers) seems to be centered almost entirely around the extremely poor fit the current set of technologies seems to be for delivering that platform. And, with that in mind, I find myself sympathetic: HTML should stick with delivering documents. It's what it is good at.

10 Mar 2021 at 3:34 | Open on hackers.town
Григорий Клюшников

How so? Apple computers were always somewhat popular in the US, so at least US developers had to have them in mind. It was indeed a very different story in Russia — everyone, literally everyone used Windows, and no one ever considered that other OSes exist.

And for all the application stuff, we've already had a solution, it was called Flash. After all these years, the web still hasn't caught up with it.

And cross-platform GUI apps? These simply better not exist. The proper way is to have a "core" library shared across platforms, and make a native GUI for each platform you support. Many companies are doing this exact thing already with their mobile apps.

How so? Apple computers were always somewhat popular in the US, so at least US developers had to have them in mind. It was indeed a very different story in Russia — everyone, literally everyone used Windows, and no one ever considered that other OSes exist.

And for all the application stuff, we've already had a solution, it was called Flash. After all these years, the web still hasn't caught up with it.

7 Aug 2021 at 16:01
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