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by jfb 4696 days ago
It's fun to run the counterfactuals, but ultimately, we go to war with the lousy technology stack we have, not the mediocre one we want. I'm just overjoyed that, thanks to Android and iOS, people are writing native applications again.
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There are known IKnowns: there are APIs we know that we know. There are known IUnknowns: that is to say, there are APIs that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown IUnknowns: there are APIs we do not know we don't know.