how sustainable is this business model? every few years you need to shell out several billions of dollars to buy out threatening competitive userbases to stay relevant while selling ads on a website that nobody likes to click on?
didn't they raise like a billion dollars a few years ago? did they burn through it already? seems like money is created out of thin air with these valuation announcements.
basically been struggling to run nuclide in an virtualbox ubuntu image on windows.
This basically brings the react native to windows!!!!!!
I always found it pretty pissy that nuclide didn't support windowds out of the gate and it was too much like Atom (insanely customizable but without the ability to ctrl+click on functions and variable declaration and high configurability with dependencies on 3rd party packages breaks Atom).
like the comment by jolux, I vastly prefer VS over Atom. In fact I might ditch Atom asides using it as a powerful Notepad.
man what is going on today? it's like a blitzkrieg by Microsoft.
Yesterday Microsoft was still uninteresting to me because I associated with being close source, not playing nice with other open source technologies....
I can confidently say that my view of Microsoft has changed dramatically after release of VS, React-Native, Xamarin, and now an AWS Lambda alternative that looks much better than AWS....here's hoping I can get some free credits from Azure to test out Azure....which equally I used to ignore but now...I'm taking a keen interest in Azure and what it has to offer over AWS...
It's really interesting to see Microsoft has made a huge effort in winning developer's hearts by opening up everything and it's working!
This has been our conclusion as well. We were about to invest in a dozen etherium startups but ultimately decided against it for the same reason. Love the work behind it but it's just so utterly useless because not even engineers building on top of etherium trust it enough
This has been my suspicion. The new kids on the block are actually really fucking great. In fact, they have so much hardware expertise and ready audience to launch it mainstream, for example, ps vr
so allegedly this is part of a long covert war to undermine and subvert Xi, mainly people loyal to ex-president Jiang Zemin. Zemin's camp has been uprooted completely by Xi and basically in an effort to consolidate power for an oncoming wave of social unrest amid a dwindling economy, Xi created a lot of enemies.
This makes sense that Xi's enemies are supplying lot of juicy and salacious private life that will make him look bad.
The fact that the letter more or less threatened President Xi's family is noteworthy. Previously unseen level of dissent and what is different is the open nature.
Lots more "intentional" spelling mistakes that make Xi look bad. Xi seems to be panicking and taking a much more brutal action which further fuels the fear that China will experience another cultural revolution, and Xi is the biggest admirer of Mao
for me, I just report it as spam and setup a filter to remove all emails from the sender. Usually I sign up to download an ebook that is actually as deep as a puddle in valuable and new content and give out my email address or to trial a software.
I agree that this way to reach people does get old but it works for enough people that they'd teach it.