> However, if they dont have a 3 to 6 month emergency fund that's on them
> And just because someone is not at risk of dying from COVID-19 doesn't mean they can't catch it and spread it around, thus possibly contributing to someone else dying
By your logic I could say "I feel for the 60+ demographic. However, if they are in a demo thats at risk thats on them."
The impact all these closures will have an hourly workers who dont even make enough money to build a 6 month nest egg is just as serious of an issue as the spread of COVID-19.
Tying anything and everything to Trump is so tiresome and has nothing to do with the article, the Astros scandal, or the actions of commissioner landis/manfred.
partisanship has got to be at all time highs. My comment is likely seen as me defending trump and therefore anyone who dislikes trump just automatically downvotes it regardless of context. 2020 is awesome
The amusing part is, I can say with some amount of confidence that the Astros still would have done this if HRC has won. How the sitting president has any bearing on this is beyond me.
100% agreed. There is no correlation between Obama and deflate -gate or Trump/Astros Scandal. Its such a sensationalist thing to add (that I suppose works cause here we are talking about it) but overall my respect for journalism continues to go down. And its a shame cause this was an otherwise good article.
I've only been in tech for 6 years so I had never heard of him before his passing recently. I ordered his Innovators Dilemma and Innovators Solution after reading about his influence. Im pumped to read them!
this is the dumbest take on here. You think that because Facebook hasn't rewrote their apps in RN that RN must suck? What kind of evaluation for software is that.
They haven't rewrote in RN because it's unnecessary. Its not worth the engineering resources. There is so many things on the global product roadmap to build then rewrite something that already exists and works fine.
Like all software, RN is great for certain use cases. Just because someone isn't using it for X doesn't mean it also sucks for Y.
No one makes you suffer through anything. You can’t get push notifications without specifically opting into them, and you can disable them forever for any app with about 3 taps.
you act like whatever something is right now is the same in the future. It's quite possible they see RN as the future for all products and easing there way into things. Maybe they are struggling to find Java/Kotlin devs and have a surplus of Swift devs. So no, that does not really just say it all.
I can see, if you were a billion dollar company, how you’d have an Android infra team to bridge those performance-intensive items, with the UI team doing all their work in RN.
So you can’t be a startup/small shop if you want to do this well.
I assume it's easier to find a handful of skilled Android developers rather than staffing an entire engineering org with them.
From my experience with RN, you do need to get into the native bits, but most of the development will be not native. So the number of skilled native device engineers required should be less.
I think you’re touching on something extremely important here. IME, anecdotally, not backed up by data: experienced native Android devs are getting harder and harder to find.
The ones I’ve known personally hated it so much they moved to backend or full stack jobs.
Interesting, I always thought it would be harder to hire iOS devs since the initial cost is higher - you need to buy a more expensive Apple computer and pay an yearly $99 subscription just to get started.
For that reason I thought that there would be way more Android devs. After all, a teenager with a regular computer can start developing Android apps and download the APK in a cheap Android device without paying anything.
On the other hand you mentioned _experienced_ native Android devs, while my thought applies more to junior Android devs, and maybe the two things don't correlate as well as expected.
All I can is, as a RN Developer, I love it. I love being able to use 1 language for both app platforms. The RN community is amazing. Many of the comments here talking about outdated packages were likely burned by RNs early days when it was <0.40. RN has come along way since then. Its been a while since I ran into an issue updating packages or couldn't find a lib for something I needed. There is also great resources when you want to handroll something yourself.
Migrating an existing native stack to RN might not be the answer, but anyone looking to get their startup off the group should consider RN. Its fast development and converting a React web dev is super easy.
And I as a mobile native developer for both android and iOS on the other hand now know to skip talking with Shopify for future jobs as I hate RN and the performance hits and non standard UI it introduces. So we both win!
The sad thing is, all* their tier 1 mobile apps are still ios/android native and are not going to be rewritten, so they still need native devs. But after this blog post native devs will be a lot harder for them to find and hire.
* except for POS for Android which apparently has been rewritten, but not yet released, in RN.
I use DDG as much as I can but when I need to find something very specific, or find a solution to a bug Ive encountered, it takes 2x as long on DDG vs Google
I find Google ignoring my attempts to be more specific more often.
Just as a contrived example a search like "R33 RB25DET Motorsport ECU" typically got me specific links relating to the exact car, engine and topic. But the past 5 years or so it seems like it is weighting the more common word and more general terms. Often excluding the target topic altogether and just giving general motorsport results. Perhaps it's a consequence of every SEO specialist and their dogbot hammering general search terms and gumming up the machine with cruft.
That's something that really drives me nuts about it lately. If I just wanted general results, I'd do the lazy thing and not put in the additional terms. Worse, I've been finding that it still ignores some of the terms even when I put them in quotes.
The results just seem really bad lately, especially for anything technical. Just now I'd been looking for "html5 canvas torture test". The top result is a video called "Torture Testing my Nut Sac!!" and then some videos about testing Glock guns. Umm, no, that's not even close to what I'd wanted. (Bing does way better here and DDG is somewhere in between.)
I'm not sure what Google engineers are using to find technical information on the web these days, but I can't imagine it's the public Google search.
I personally find it most helpful to just ask Google a question like I'm a complete idiot. I got the idea from the meme about "that guy wot painted them melty clocks", which works extremely well in my opinion. Looking in my history "how to multilingual in java please", worked fine. You get a laugh out of it, 90% of the time Google figures out what you need, and the rest of the time it's going to show whatever the hell it wants to, any way.
At least both of us are pretending the same level of intelligence, which takes away a lot of the irritation.
I also tried talking to DDG like a duck, but it doesn't give as good results as talking to Google like an idiot.
Just to be clear, I still use !g pretty frequently.
But psychologically it's rather different. If you find the Google search page to be visually aversive then your goal is to get in and get out quickly. That's a bit harder if Google is your default search.
Coming from a web background, React Native made the most sense for me. Since I started using it a year ago, I absolutely love it. Great community with constant updates from Facebook, tons of articles/blogs/courses on how to learn it and there hasn't been a single feature Ive wanted to build but couldn't due to some lib restriction
I'm a backend/web dev and recently built an app with flutter over RN. The reason I picked flutter was more about the component/widgets... flutter has them built in. This allows me to just focus on building features over trying to figure out which things to use with RN.
What kind of components/widgets are you referring to? RN has a lot built in and then there are a good number maintained by the community. As far as custom UI components I know some people use libs like NativeBase but I handroll my own
> And just because someone is not at risk of dying from COVID-19 doesn't mean they can't catch it and spread it around, thus possibly contributing to someone else dying
By your logic I could say "I feel for the 60+ demographic. However, if they are in a demo thats at risk thats on them."
The impact all these closures will have an hourly workers who dont even make enough money to build a 6 month nest egg is just as serious of an issue as the spread of COVID-19.