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Can confirm. The Firebase team is monitoring StackOverflow constantly. I've had answers in as short as a few minutes.

> How does that make presenting their product propaganda any more so than any other product presentation? Heck, they even use it themselves for their backend. There is that aspect, sure. But what I…

As long as you are ok with going through the App Store and only using iOS then yeah, good for you. This is what I meant earlier with: > I really don't see Swift becoming a popular full stack s…

Swift is fast and the language is nice and all, but this feels more like propaganda. Let's not forget IBM and Apple have become friends recently.[1] I really don't see Swift becoming a popul…

Yes, that was it.

I have almost no bufferbloat when downloading (about 1ms) but about 300ms when uploading. What does this mean?

In 2007 I crossed the border on bus going from Montreal to NY. The girl I was travelling with was accused of illegal importation of fruits because she was carrying an apple for the trip.

> In Pakistan, IKEA furniture is an imported luxury good. There are fancy high-end boutiques selling IKEA furniture in the most upscale consumer markets. Same here. Of course you pay double or trip…

There's no IKEA in Mexico, and I really miss it. Anything here with a decent design almost falls into the luxurious range. Sure IKEA has some cheap stuff, but you can also get better products by …

> I need to find something with purpose,big money, and satisfaction. Do you? If you did, you'd be motivated about that. But you aren't. The problem is not really finding something outside…

Just login to the site and pick the subreddits you want to see?

We used their react-templates extensively last year and the experience was mostly positive. This year we are moving from React to Vue. In parte because we prefer working with HTML + directives than JS…

> a platform that is arguably doing significant damage to our culture and democracy Ignorance and the lack of critical thinking are probably more responsible here than Facebook.

> I don't hear much about the display on the MBP, it's as near to perfect as any display I've ever seen I mentioned it in my article. It has a wider gamut and brighter panel, but col…

I don't know about London, but in Mexico City it's really the only option. It sucks, but it's the reality. Even if you have your own car, there are now air pollution emergency measures …

People usually confuse an OS with a UI. Obviously different devices need different UIs.

Indeed. The tablet aspect is pretty mediocre.

He lacks vision, not because he doesn't share my vision, but because of everything he has done in Apple. That's not to say he is a bad CEO, he isn't IMO, but he is only polishing the sa…

iOS and macOS are much more different than a change of UI.

Again, the problem is pretending to use the same UI for all input methods. And I agree that is a mistake. But what if you could use the same language and frameworks on all devices? The same tools (IDE…

The UI is but a small part of an OS or an application. It's obvious that the UI has to be different depending on the device, input, etc.

ESLint has a rule to prevent this. http://eslint.org/docs/rules/yoda

We definitely need a universal OS for all our devices and I really believe Google is in a great position to get us there. It would really surprise me if Apple got there first. Tim lacks vision and wil…

Because you can as easily create a fake social media profile

So if such person engages in a terrorist act having lied on a form would matter at all?

It's just as ridiculous as those forms you are asked to fill when entering the US as a foreigner. For example: > Do you seek to engage in terrorist activities while in the United States?

My team is moving from React to Vue precisely for many of the reasons you are pointing out. We considered Polymer but we felt it's still too early for web components. Vue's code is not as el…

> Querybase is in an experiment and not for production Also since Firebase doesn't allow more than one filtering field with orderByChild(...) I'm guessing Querybase will do all the work o…

Yep data modelling and querying capabilities is a real deal breaker in Firebase. Something as simple as filtering by 2 or more values becomes ridiculously tedious. http://stackoverflow.com&…

I wrote this piece on Firebase recently and I would not recommend it except for very simple or specialised projects. https://medium.com/@Pier/firebase-the-great-the-meh-and-the-..…