anticnstrctv

ano passadodiscuss

That anecdote is present in the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter

  Making desktop apps look and feel like web apps.

This is a good point. However, it does seem like web and mobile apps and their ilk are the future for the bulk of software the majority of people use (excluding, let's say, "Pro" apps like photoshop, excel, dev tools). I'm not a huge fan of this, but the times have changed. I'm not sure that traditional desktop apps are really what I'd use the hypothetical framework I described to build.

Something like my business expense tracking app, though? If I wanted it to sync and be functionally identical to the app on my phone? I could see this framework being used for that.

anticnstrctv

há 8 anosdiscuss

Does anyone else feel that there's a huge hole in the UI world?

I like the electron/react/react native ecosystem - I really do, and this is coming from someone who dislikes javascript a priori. But is HTML/CSS/JS really the best we can do for desktop and mobile applications? I know responsive-cross platform saves money for a lot of startups and orgs, and I'm not saying the web stack doesn't have it's place.

I frequently imagine something that takes the best ideas from react/redux and from other ui and layout frameworks and lets you build something that has consistent, cross platform (desktop and mobile, maybe even web with some kind of compilation pathway to js or webasm), responsive ui, without the huge web stack. Maybe Python? It's got lots of competent developers in the market to support it. Maybe Rust or Go, if something lower-level was desired. Or language-agnostic, though sticking with one might be valuable.

anticnstrctv

há 8 anosdiscuss

Maybe I'm alone, but I never felt the graph theory pedagogy I experienced was very confusing or boring (I did think this about plenty of CS topics!). There's lots of motivating examples to pull in, and better/clearer diagrams than this in may places. This just seems like a not very lucid description of theory that is very formalized and that many lectures and textbooks deal with.

anticnstrctv

há 8 anosdiscuss

If you think you can divine such a diagnosis from a one paragraph comment on a forum explicitly populated by tech nerds that might want to read about gritty technical details via the kind of intellectual curiosity that is in no way unneurotypical, you might want to get checked out for narcissistic personality disorder.

anticnstrctv

há 8 anosdiscuss

Attitudes towards mental health in the US and the west in general are quite frustrating, and I hope they are improving. On the right there seems to be a tendency to deny nuanced views of mental illness from economic, religious, or simply conservative cultural motivations, or to push sedative (using this term metaphorically) medication as a panacea. On the left there are many influenced by the (understandable but deeply destructive) anti-psychiatry movements who both affirm mental illness and deny proper care. It is quite frustrating to see someone talk about their own "undiagnosed mental illness" while citing Foucault to disparage people you care about for seeking psychiatric methods that, as you described, saved their lives.

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