Regarding state management, have you tried MobX? It makes state management almost ridiculously simple. I've noticed a slight performance hit using it for deriving values for 60fps animations on React Natuve but in normal usage you'd never notice.
Good point. I suppose what I meant was more that types are at the core of Elm and pervade every part of the language, whereas TS/Flow are adding types on top of a dynamic language and there are parts where it may be difficult or impossible to maintain type safety to the same degree (especially when interacting with non-TS/Flow code)
Absolutely agree, this is one of the biggest benefits I have found since I started working with Typescript (that, and the ease of refactoring).
Of course Flow/Typescript's approach to typing isn't as complete as Elm's, but you can still gain some of the benefits by using one of them; and for many of us, introducing Flow/TS at work is a lot more likely to happen than introducing Elm.
I thought the very same thing, as I can see the benefits to both having a single atomic commit for ease of reading history, and to being able to see the individual commits that made it up to avoid losing valuable information about changes.
It turns out that the Github "Squash and Merge" option for Pull Requests does basically this – you review the PR as a bunch separate commits, when you click "Squash and Merge" a single commit is created in the target branch with all the commits squashed, but you can still go back to the original closed and merged PR (e.g. by following a link in the commit message) to view the individual commits.
Obviously this doesn't help if you want to bisect among more granular commits, but (without having actually used it), it sounds like a good middle ground to me. The previous workflow I was used to involved squashing and force pushing to your branch, therefore overwriting the individual commits in the PR for ever.
I was going to say the same, Discover Weekly frequently really impresses me with some of its selections and I have discovered some excellent artists through it. I'm into electronic music - not what I would consider really obscure stuff, but certainly not mainstream - and many other recommendation systems seem top lump anything electronic together with mainstream "EDM" etc. (which is nothing like what I enjoy) whereas Discover Weekly makes intelligent recommendations of quite obscure stuff.
I wasn't trying to raise an issue at all, merely state that Spacemacs isn't as obvious to a new user as Atom - but I'm not saying that that's a bad thing, obviously (Spac)emacs has a lot more power under the hood potentially and I am sure is worth the additional effort to learn.
I have to say I'm impressed with what a good job you have done of making it user friendly :)
> Honestly, and sorry for sounding rude, to me it just seems like you intentionally tried to not understand in order to prove a point; Just because in your mind you have this idea of emacs just having to be inferior in some way.
Not at all and I didn't mean it to come across in that way, apologies if it did. Thanks for pointing out those things - I actually for some reason didn't think of using the menu bar at all, I guess because it looks like a non-GUI app. That's my fault anyway!
I was just interested in the "absolute newcomer" user experience, as that is how a lot of people will judge things, which for me after a few minutes was "I can't work out how to do what I need to do" and so I stopped. I'm sure that with an hour or so playing around, I would get used to it, and I intend to!
I downloaded and tried Spacemacs out of curiosity, after seeing your comment.
While I'm sure it adds a lot of usability features compared to the default Emacs config and it looks pretty cool, it's nowhere near as immediately accessible as Atom or Sublime - for example, I have no idea how to close an open file without Googling whereas in Sublime or Atom it's either click the "X" or use the standard Cmd-W shortcut. I also have no idea how to open a project or search for a file, and don't really know where to start discovering those things, whereas in both Sublime and Atom you can browse through the menus, or hopefully quickly discover the Cmd-P command launcher which lets you type a command.
If I wasn't somewhat familiar with Vim, I would have absolutely no idea what was going on as by default it uses Vim's modal keybindings. I also noticed an annoying lag when pressing spacebar to bring up the command list thing - slower than any lag in Atom!
It does look intriguing and I'd love to learn to use it more, but I don't think you can really say the usability of Atom/Sublime and of Spacemacs to a new user are anywhere near equal, never mind "how would they justify their choice?"!
I understand the point here and agree to some extent, but on the other hand I think using a standardised set of emojis makes sense for cross-platform communication apps such as Whatsapp, as I think the meaning of some of them is reasonably subtle and those subtleties are very much influenced by the specific design - for example, the Apple "person with folded hands" shown in the article clearly represents prayer to me, whereas the original Google one looks kind of creepy with its screwed up face. I found this to be an issue when I had a windows phone - for better or for worse, emoji are used quite a lot, and I sometimes had to think back to the iOS equivalent to make sense of them, as they looked so different.
In my opinion Apple's take on emoji is both the most visually attractive (the proportions of the old Google ones are way off and the "slug" creatures quite visually unappealing) and the richest, so it's no wonder they have become the de facto standard. In fact, I'd wager emoji wouldn't have taken off anything like as well as they have if everyone saw the original Google versions, for example, as they lack the "cuteness" and charm of Apple's versions.
What might be nice is if Apple were to make them fully open source - I've wondered before what the legal status of apps like Whatsapp embedding them in their app is.
Yeah, you are right. It's just a particularly annoying bug because: 1. It broke my phone pretty fundamentally, 2. It was a third party app that broke core functionality (in a roundabout way), which shouldn't be possible on iOS, 3. Lack of response from Apple, 4. Such a bug would be much lower impact on Android due to (IMO) silly restrictions on iOS. These factors combined with a lingering slight dissatisfaction with iOS has left me a bit annoyed (but I'll probably forget all about it soon!)
It's happened to both me and my girlfriend. It's not very common but seems to happen sometimes when software is updating when it has a good signal/wifi and you move into an area of no signal. Having been caught out a couple of times being unable to access important apps because of it (one time being in an unfamiliar area with a half downloaded Google Maps and insufficient signal to download the app again), I just don't risk it any more... Which is a shame as otherwise it makes sense to stay up to date obviously.
I did report this as a bug to Apple, who requested a device log of some kind when it next happens, but it's hard to reproduce manually.
You're right, I guess "stability" is probably more accurate.
At the end of the day, it represents app(s) breaking the phone in very fundamental ways, in spite of the sandboxing iOS enforces (obviously this is a different vector in reality, but from a layman's point of view the end result is the same), in a way more severe than any Android app (which arguably have a reputation of being "less secure") has broken that OS as far as I am aware.
This stability/security was one of the reasons I've stuck with iOS for so long, but this particular issue has forced me to reevaluate my thinking somewhat, as I'm sure it will for many others.
The current theory according to the article is that booking.com's app downloads a 2.4mb file of links for its "universal links" data (that annoying thing where you get taken to an app rather than a website and you can't disable it without removing the app...) which causes the database to slow down/become corrupt.
Therefore if you've not got booking.com's app installed, you should be okay (for now). Needless to say the fact that a third party app can break such a core OS feature rather shatters iOS's reputation for security above all else...
Your thoughts echo mine exactly (right down to submitting a story that got no votes!).
The fact that this kind of bug would have a lower impact on Android (i.e. wouldn't disable major functionality due to the ability to switch out default apps), along with a general sense that Apple's software quality and support is becoming less reliably good (I would certainly have expected a quicker official response to this issue) and a slight feeing that Android is creeping ahead of iOS in terms of interesting new functionality is making me seriously consider the switch (partially as a kind of "protest" move, partially because I'm really annoyed about a major part of my phone breaking randomly, and partially because I'm curious to try it out), which I definitely wasn't seriously giving any thought to before this. Could work out to be a good thing in the end ;)