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Gary Fung in WonderSwipe

Jan 19, 2018

Rethink Mobile Search, 10–100x faster. Introducing WonderSwipe 👆🏼

Search Different.

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Gary Fung in WonderSwipe

Jun 23, 2018

For what it’s worth, I agree with almost all of the criticisms of React Native listed in the Airbnb blog post.

Should we use React Native?

Charlie Cheever

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The moral of the RN story is don’t be half assed. Is 10x rebuild/iteration time reduction and JavaScript being at least 2x less verbose/tedious as either ObjC and Java code, on top of typical 90% JS code reuse between the platforms; is that worth switching from native for you? Then fully commit to progressively rewriting your app to 100% React Native…

Gary Fung in WonderSwipe

Jan 29, 2018

As a society, should we value creating products and services that make the world a bit better, or should we value creating money, and assume the rest follows?

WTF Is Wrong With Capitalism?

John Battelle

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You got the order wrong. The real uber rich+successful businesses are built with products people wanted first and foremost. The bags of money followed as a byproduct.

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Gary Fung in WonderSwipe

Feb 16, 2018

No, a more reasonable explanation for why Twitter, Facebook, and Google have not taken a more ambitious approach to stopping abuse of their platforms is because they are afraid to do...

The Automatic Weapons of Social Media

John Battelle

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How do you know that? Do you know how their software works, really works? How they don’t work? Only then are you qualified to say whether there’s a solution but “they are afraid to do so”, or there can be none.

I’m a technologist. I’m with you that disalignment of users’ attention and advertising profits are root causes of…

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Gary Fung in WonderSwipe

Feb 1, 2018

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Sorry, but been there done that.

I’m an ex-web developer turned React Native developer. I can do so much more with far higher consistent performance possible in native UI components, than dealing with the legacy DOM(s). No matter how shiny are the new frontend libraries, React included (ironically).

Gary Fung in WonderSwipe

Mar 8, 2018

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Bingo! Here at WonderSwipe, we are preloading search hits aggressively and indiscriminately. Plus more, including UI innovations for 10–100x search browsing speed-up.

Gary Fung in WonderSwipe

Apr 21, 2018

Looks Like an amazing tool. Hope we get it for Android very soon.

Zamir Ahmad

I hope so too! I get asked too many times where’s the Android version, kinda annoying. Haha.

WonderSwipe is built with React Native. So I believe we are already about 80% of the way to an Android version. It’s just a different platform and we’ll need time to test and polish any quirks. Thanks for your interest truly, and…

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Gary Fung in WonderSwipe

Jan 31, 2018

Content algorithms must be carefully controlled and regulated: Not by governments but by trained journalists.

It’s Time to Put Journalists in Charge of the Algorithms

Mike McCue

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We should have never put tech companies like Facebook and Google on pedestals. Do no evil? Fake news, truly!

But why should we put journalists on pedestals in their place? Are journalists omniscient and without bias?

What we should strive for is content neutral ranking. If engagement metrics and…

Gary Fung in WonderSwipe

Feb 15, 2018

Sam — you heavily misunderstood what I wrote.

Lou Kerner

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I understand what you wrote. But you haven’t understood the unsustainability of today’s attention economy. You can’t keep ramping up time spent per user, there’s only 24 hours in a day unfortunately. 🤷🏻‍♂️

So the new trend as Zuck have tried to be sincere/diplomatic about, is to focus on more “time well spent”, not ever…

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Gary Fung in WonderSwipe

Mar 16, 2018

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You are wrong — Software brought the Internet. What do you have if not for software? Technology changes society and society needs to instruct technology “what” to fix in the process.

The real premise of the article is that ad-driven business models give rise to sensational vitriol or outright fake news. I wholeheartedly…

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Rethink Mobile Search, 10–100x faster and better. Here, we write about how in our app design, how the Web search market have become stagnant, and how might we build a better knowledge sharing economy and fight attention deficits, drowned in information overload and fake news.

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