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tphan | 5 years ago | on: React Native for Windows and Mac

I've used React Native for a client and, whilst it was super clunky, I still enjoyed being able to write React to deploy to mobile. With React Native for Web, you can technical write code that writes to a bunch of different platforms, a big selling point for businesses.

tphan | 5 years ago | on: AWS services to avoid

I've had an AWS account manager suggest to me to use Auth0 rather than Cognito for some scenarios as well.

tphan | 5 years ago | on: PWA Store

I am not a fan of Material UI (and especially the Material UI library for React). It looks kinda gross and it's really difficult to customise.

Also, you've made a very common mistake of setting `outline: none` to your focus states! Very bad for people who navigate using a keyboard.

Good job on launching, by the way.

tphan | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?

This video by Mark Dalgeish got me really thinking about design systems from a developer of view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnV1u67_yVg

tphan | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?

I honestly prefer Laravel to Spring.

tphan | 7 years ago | on: React Native 0.59.0-rc.0 released

Flutter?

tphan | 7 years ago | on: Teen Gets Vaccines During Measles Outbreak, Despite Mom's Belief

Anti-vaccination isn't exclusively an American phenomenon. It just seems like it because most commenters would be Americans or foreigners who live in bubbles. I remember in high school in Australia about a decade ago, there was one kid who was said innoculations were akin to "injecting garbage into your bloodstream".

I also frequently give blood in Australia and there are also more and more warnings about measles and stuff (interestingly regarding neighbourhoods that tend to vote very progressive).

Anecdotal evidence, however!

tphan | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella

I'm super loyal to the Microsoft Basic mouse. It lasts forever whereas all the Logitech M100's that I've purchased (and I've purchased a lot of them) don't last more than 6 months. Sad!

tphan | 7 years ago | on: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

I use both Office for Mac and Windows all the time and Office for Mac is pretty reliable IMO. They pretty much have feature parity. Which features are you missing?

tphan | 7 years ago | on: A $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech

Where is the funding going to come from?! As a non-American, I get worried by all this funding when America is in serious debt. :(

tphan | 7 years ago | on: Indian technology talent is flocking to Canada

This is just an anecdotal alternative but a lot of my Australian co-workers are eschewing all the US political turmoil and are still choosing to emigrate to America.

tphan | 7 years ago | on: A new look for rust-lang.org

Tabbing through the page is kinda annoying because they've set outline: 0 on all the buttons.

tphan | 7 years ago | on: The process of open-sourcing BuzzFeed’s single sign-on experience

The company would create a new Google account for you.

tphan | 7 years ago | on: Brain Drain Within the EU?

Can you tell the difference between American and British English speakers?

tphan | 7 years ago | on: Chinese Thesis Ghostwriting Scandal Reveals Huge Gray Market

I didn't realise that there might've been a pattern! A lot of the Uber drivers I talk to in Australia also claim to do accounting on the side.

tphan | 7 years ago | on: Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused

Composer, the defacto package manager for PHP, uses a SAT solver. It's pretty interesting looking at the code!

tphan | 7 years ago | on: Skypeopensource: Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown

Maybe should've used a different name.

tphan | 7 years ago | on: Mozilla Fights for Net Neutrality This May (and Always)

I just want to raise a couple of points.

It's not necessarily always true that corporate donations are simply to bribe politicians into doing their bidding (which is what I took away when I read your commend). Companies will give money to politicians who are already aligned with their interests.

I watched a video once which tried to address the idea that Ted Cruz was being bribed by Comcast. Once of the arguments put forward was, sure, he may have received donations from some Comcast employees. However we shouldn't conflate that to mean Comcast was paying him money. Other politicians like Hillary and Bernie also would have received donations from Comcast employees.

Also, opponents of Net Neutrality actually do make some good points against the role of government in regulating the internet. Here's a debate where Nick Gillespie (a libertarian) and Michael Katz argue against Mitchell Baker and Tom Wheeler on whether NN is good. By the end of the debate, Nick and Michael are able to convince more people to consider opposing NN than to support:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAJabAjoK08

tphan | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English?

Most people use modern English translations of the Bible.

tphan | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English?

As a native English speaker, sometimes I'll read a word but since I've never heard that word read out loud, when somebody finally says it, my mind explodes because it sounds different to how I pronounced it in my mind.