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Ask HN: Can I still create iOS apps for iPad Mini 1?

I have several iPad app ideas I want to play with developing, but all I have is a 1st gen iPad Mini. Are modern frameworks like Dioxus or React Native able to target such an old device for simple apps?Or am I stuck having to find a really fast lightweight web framework and run a web app?

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Looks pretty slick, I'll give it try when I get home.

I'll go ahead and ask, since I'm probably not the only one thinking it: will there be a MySQL version? ;)

EDIT: oh, and I guess the name wouldn't be very fitting for a MySQL cli...

Re:What Was Said at the Uber Dinner on Friday November 21, 2014 @02:20PM (#8642812)
And doing so would obviously color how the report is perceived.
Re:Why would someone steal the world’s rarest water lily? on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @03:49PM (#8523154)
That was the exact same thing I thought after reading the title.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite small server? on Sunday October 26, 2014 @07:37PM (#8512979)
There seems to be a lot of love for these things. It's hard to give up the 4-core xeon and the lower price of the TS140, definitely food for thought. Thanks!

Edit: Based on the reviews, it looks like it has previously been on sale for as little as $229 after rebates, which would make it a much easier choice than the current $399.

Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite small server? on Sunday October 26, 2014 @01:16PM (#8511569)
Thanks! I've seen a few comments that also mention the Proliants, people seem pretty satisfied with them. And it might not be too slow, my current Plex server is my 2010 MacBook Pro.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite small server? on Sunday October 26, 2014 @01:12PM (#8511557)
Thanks, but I was hoping to get a feel for what HN crowd might be using, to see if there are some systems that keep coming up.

Ask HN: What's your favorite small server?

I'm replacing an old system that resembles Frankenstein's monster, one that I have been using as a FreeNAS server off and on for a few years.I want to modernize the system, and so far my top pick is a Lenovo ThinkServer TS140 70A4001LUX which nets me a system using ECC memory and 4 drive bays (OS would boot off an internal usb connector). The drive bays are not hot-swappable, and a bit awkward,...

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Re:Apple Mac Mini on Saturday October 18, 2014 @05:28AM (#8475005)
Unfortunately, the RAM on the new models is soldered on. Someone above said the drive is soldered, too, but I can't confirm that.
Re:JPMorgan Discovers Further Cyber Security Issues on Thursday October 02, 2014 @07:04PM (#8403593)
I wouldn't assume that at all. They say "a list of the applications and programs", not "program listing...". In this case, it reads to me as just that, a list, such as Word xx.xx, Outlook xx.xx, girlfriend 2.0, ms-dos 5.5, etc.
Re:Shocktrooper: mass server patching for shellshock on Monday September 29, 2014 @03:25PM (#8384697)
That should be "--only-upgrade", but ya, that's what I did.
Re:A Long, Ugly Year of Depression That’s Finally Fading on Sunday September 28, 2014 @12:24AM (#8378932)
Perhaps "confounding". That sounds right to me.
Re:New app by Secret: Ping on Friday September 26, 2014 @10:37PM (#8375888)
So... a landing page that tells me nothing, with nothing but links to the app store. Going against my usual behavior, I click the link to the app store and I get two useless screenshots and a description of "You’re going to like me."

I think I'm getting old, because I just don't get it.

Re:Docker is the Heroku Killer on Friday September 26, 2014 @01:45AM (#8371510)
Also worth checking out is dokku-alt (https://github.com/dokku-alt/dokku-alt), a pretty active fork of dokku with added features.
Re:Home Depot breach bigger than Target at 56M cards on Friday September 19, 2014 @12:21AM (#8338981)
Which one is "they" to you?
Re:Home Depot breach bigger than Target at 56M cards on Friday September 19, 2014 @12:17AM (#8338973)
Nowhere near half of all households have a Home Depot card. There were 56M "payment cards" compromised. That would be Visa, Mastercard, and whatever other cards they accept. "Payment card" sounds awkward to me, but with so many people using debit cards, they can't say "56M credit cards."
Re:Poll: Do you use an ad-blocker? on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @02:19PM (#8331490)
I also use Ghostery and Adblock Plus, QuickJS (provides a toolbar button + hot-key for toggling JS support), and enabled "click to activate plugins".

I've tried not blocking, but on my 4 yr old MBP (Core 2 Duo) all the beacons, social buttons, flash ads, etc. simply slow my browser down to the point of frustration, particularly when scrolling.

Much of it is Firefox's fault though, as Safari scrolls smoothly on most of the sites that give me trouble in Firefox. I'm just not willing to give up my tagged bookmarks (even though I would like to, as now the bookmark syncing has become slow enough to make scrolling while syncing nearly unbearable... I might have a bookmark addiction;).

Re:Caching at Scale on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @01:54PM (#8331337)
I just watched it within the past few days and I agree, very interesting.
Re:Show HN: Disco – Easy GitHub Browsing on Monday September 08, 2014 @05:45AM (#8284001)
It'd be cool if it could store the repo's files in localstorage so I could load it up before I get on a plane, or if I'm saving battery life by disabling the radios. Perhaps a totally different use case than your target audience, I don't know.

There's an iOS App named NapCat that will pull down repos so you can browse the code at your leisure. Doesn't let you view commits and the file diffs, like you can with Disco.

In my mind: Disco for keeping up with what's happening and what files they happened to; NapCat for reading source for those times when the pleasure of a little light reading is in order :)

Re:JSON Web Tokens on Monday September 08, 2014 @02:41AM (#8283664)
I can't answer your question specifically, but confreaks.com has an event page for DjangoCon, so hopefully it will pop up on there.
Re:How ACH works: A developer perspective – Part 4 on Friday September 05, 2014 @04:37PM (#8276153)
That's just it, people can debit your account with nothing more than the routing number and account number. They can present a fake check with your info to a seller, and it will wind its way through the entire ACH pipeline, ending with a credit in the fraudster's account, and a debit in yours.

Hopefully, you will notice it in a timely manner and get your debit reversed. Without action on your part, the fraudulent transaction will most likely never be questioned.

Re:Gogs: a self-hosted Git Service written in Go on Sunday August 24, 2014 @02:04AM (#8217850)
Wow, I don't know how something like Phabricator slipped under may radar, that looks amazing. Many props to their copy writer(s), seemed every page was fun to read.
Re:Gogs: a self-hosted Git Service written in Go on Sunday August 24, 2014 @12:40AM (#8217708)
Looks great! Are there any plans to include per-repo wikis?
I did the same thing, and my mom was also a touch typist (she did word processing at NCR at the time)! I felt really guilty, because I didn't understand how it was supposed to be turned into the program, so she spent a few hours typing in hex numbers for absolutely nothing.
Re:Responsive Dashboard on Sunday August 10, 2014 @06:10AM (#8159365)
It's responsive for me in FF 31 (OS X) and in Chrome. When the window size is reduced, the content boxes reflow from multi-column to single-column, and the navigation on the left goes from text+icon to icon only.
Re:Responsive Dashboard on Sunday August 10, 2014 @06:07AM (#8159363)
I found this in the readme (there's also a jQuery branch, too, apparently):

"AngularJS is simply being used to power the sidebar toggle (side in and out). It does a combination of detecting the browser size and managing a toggle cookie to keep the state the same when the page is reloaded. Check out the js/angular/bootstrap.js file."

Re:Responsive Dashboard on Sunday August 10, 2014 @06:03AM (#8159351)
Here's the project's home on Github: https://github.com/Ehesp/Responsive-Dashboard
I ran across this technique on a couple of sites last week when going for the back button (no idea if they were ExitIntent users).

I thought it was a neat idea, and I stopped and played with the effect for a couple of minutes, testing its behavior. I may not remember the sites that did this, but it did make me pause and look at the popup as my pointer left the page.

Does the Firefox add-on not work, or is it just me? (It seems like it's trying to load the full-size desktop page in the little drop-down window. Firefox 31 on Win7.)
Re:Packed Pixels – An extra monitor for your laptop on Sunday July 20, 2014 @04:42PM (#8061425)
I don't see the issue with calling it small. Small and large are sizes, whereas resolution is a quantity independent of size. A 9.7" screen is small, whether it's 1x1 or 2048x1536 or 4096x2160.

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