Yeah, I saw the news and I was, WTF? I don't think any serious IT person likes Oracle. So how is it possible that they make so much money? Who is hiring them?
It's definitely not the world's messaging market. For instance in Japan and many places in SEA, Line is the standard messenger - one many people probably haven't even heard of. Though it does have a nice play on words - are you on Line?
It’s not uncommon. Orkut back in the day was wildly popular in Latin America and India. WhatsApp is the same. I think users in NA have a lot of high quality options as against those in Asia and LatAm who don’t have much reliable options other than ones developed in NA.
You can get an android phone for about one tenth of what a new iPhone costs. That’s why android dominates lower income markets. Apple decided they just don’t want to be there.
Yeah, huge in Latin America in the sense that a lot (most?) business only have a number that they use with Whatsapp (you can't call or even text them). Is it the same in Europe? Since I am from Latin America I never know if people from other continents use Whatsapp as much as we do, and if when I ask them to use Whatsapp I am imposing a new app or it's what they regularly use.
No. Here in Germany WhatsApp is not even that widespread for businesses. But WA is very big here for personal communication, though Signal comes in second (at least amongst older people, and amongst my circle)
I think Europe is not homogenous enough for this, but in the Netherlands at least, there are plenty of companies that you can't call, email or text, but they'll have some other options: a chatbot, a web form, maybe a Twitter account, and sometimes via WhatsApp indeed.
Looks very interesting. The price is not good. I mean, we have to do it for 4 fones, that is 120 dollars per year, which is a lot of money, not in it's own, but it ads up with other subscriptions. The trial is too short, i think a months will be better.
It used to be. When I learned to program for windows, I will basically learn Delphi or Visual basic at the time. Maybe some database like paradox. But I was reading a website that lists the skills needed to write backend ant it was like 30 different things to learn.
That's exactly what I have in mind when I wrote the original comment. I learned Visual Basic as a kid faffing around a computer and it was so little boilerplate to make an app. It's been a regression since the.
- the license was very expensive and the commercial relationship felt predatory
- new features got added all the time, while long standing bugs weren't prioritized (e.g., mobile apps support)
In the C++ variant (a combination of C++ with Delphi wrappers):
- the compiler(!!) was unstable and crashed a lot, where you had to make small irrelevant changes to your code to make it compile without crashing itself
In general:
- the overall culture around it seemed to attract developers without concern for technical debt, which maybe was a consequence of Delphi's own strengths; i.e., every Delphi project was a big ball of mud that you had to fight against
Well, it is difficult to pronounce if you don't speak spanish, portuguese, italian, and probably others. For me, as native Spanish speaker is super easy to say.
The difficulty is that it doesn't follow unambiguous English pronunciation heuristics.
For example, I have no problem pronouncing "ender" because it has no elements that have unambiguous pronunciation. I also have no problem pronouncing "centre", because it's a well known word with well known pronunciation. But libre is not an existing English word, and "-bre" does not have an unambiguous pronunciation heuristics, so it's unclear how it is intended to be pronounced.
Not an issue in Spanish because it is (apparently) a word in Spanish.
Another example of a bad naming is Forgejo. Terrible. I'm sure it has very clear pronunciation if you speak Esperanto.
You can absolutely sync your vault without a paid subscription. Simply save it within your OneDrive or Google Drive folder. Alternatively, you could use Syncthing if you prefer a self-hosted solution.
You can, but _you_ need to figure out how to do it.
If don't know how or can't be bothered, you can pay for Obsidian Sync - which Just Works.
I tried to roll my own syncing with syncthing and iCloud and Dropbox. In the end I spent so much time debugging and dealing with files clobbering each other mid-sync I figured out $4/month to support a project I use daily isn't too much.
Zero problems since and I use Obsidian regularly on 4 different devices.
Seconding this. I use Obsidian and Obsidian Sync for personal stuff, but my employer doesn't allow Sync, so I use Obsidian very happily as a standalone on my work computer. The work vault simply never gets exposed to the outside world (we don't allow USB memory devices either).
