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Yes they prevent sideloading.

The scare part refers to warning dialogs that iOS would pop up if you used a link to an external web browser to collect payments. It would warn you that Apple wasn't running the payments and use scary language warning you about potential fraud, etc. to try to scare people away. They would also demand a 27% fee from developers for collecting money on the web outside apps if users were paying from following that link.

I switched to Ubuntu about 6 months ago and have been shocked at how well it works. It's actually good, not just barely-workable-if-you-are-a-zealot.

I keep a Mac around for when I need to run Xcode or Photoshop but that's about it. And I boot into Windows when I want to play games.

I think the way to think about this is that there are some people who figure out ways to do things or invent things that just wouldn't be figured out or discovered by other people.

So, it's not 10x or anything-X even, it's just that, if the stuff that can be uniquely provided by "10x" people is important to you, then you need someone like that. 10 1x developers aren't likely to give you that (except to the extent that you have 10 chances to discover that one of them is actually a 10xer on some dimension).

Hi - I work on Expo.

One of the big focuses for us this year is to make that experience much better.

We've already taken some steps. (We now just give you a regular React Native project if you need one), but we plan to keep working on this stuff until you can get all the power you need to build something like Screenshot Hero with the ease of use of just making a website.

On my computer, running the v8 benchmarks from the QuickJS source:

-- QuickJS -- PROGRESS Richards RESULT Richards 445 PROGRESS DeltaBlue RESULT DeltaBlue 424 PROGRESS Encrypt PROGRESS Decrypt RESULT Crypto 633 PROGRESS RayTrace RESULT RayTrace 271 PROGRESS Earley PROGRESS Boyer RESULT EarleyBoyer 771 PROGRESS RegExp RESULT RegExp 180 PROGRESS Splay RESULT Splay 923 PROGRESS NavierStokes RESULT NavierStokes 1979 SCORE 549

-- v8 (node) -- PROGRESS Richards RESULT Richards 31083 PROGRESS DeltaBlue RESULT DeltaBlue 51056 PROGRESS Encrypt PROGRESS Decrypt RESULT Crypto 36692 PROGRESS RayTrace RESULT RayTrace 63343 PROGRESS Earley PROGRESS Boyer RESULT EarleyBoyer 50309 PROGRESS RegExp RESULT RegExp 7910 PROGRESS Splay RESULT Splay 22964 PROGRESS NavierStokes RESULT NavierStokes 35214 SCORE 32307

Hi-

I worked on this along with some other people.

Here's what a demo looks like: https://i.makeagif.com/media/9-28-2017/gMnJTj.gif

You can try a really cool demo made with it here: https://expo.io/@nikki/dire-dire-ducks

It fills your room with water and has ducks swimming around. The sound changes if you dive underwater, and if you press the screen, the ducks will swim towards you. This is a video of what it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EL1emCVtIw

And you can read more about it here: https://blog.expo.io/introducing-expo-ar-mobile-augmented-re...

One time I was debugging a problem for a user of our desktop software (I work on https://expo.io) by sharing his screen and taking over his computer. And it turned out the reason the user was having problems was that in his /etc/hosts file, he had an entry pointing localhost at the IP address of some other computer on his network. Crazy. I have no idea how anything worked on his machine.

Took a while to track that was down. Was both bewildering and sort of satisfying to figure it out in the end.