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Re:Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @01:16PM (#43186379)
def package this and put it on the App Store before clones eat your lunch. Would happily pay a couple bucks to play this on my phone offline.
Re:I Lost Faith in Kagi on Friday April 12, 2024 @08:34AM (#40011862)
I was a Kagi subscriber for about 5 months. I had noticed a slight improvement for random software development related content vs my previous search engine (bing). After cancelling 6 months ago I don't miss Kagi at all.

The thing that made me cancel my subscription was one specific interaction.

One day I was trying to buy tickets to a podcast tour, the sales for tickets was set to open at a specific time and I was searching for the purchase page at the moment of opening. I frantically searched "$SHOW_NAME $CITY tickets", the first search failed to bring relevant results. I tried "$SHOW_NAME $CITY tickets $YEAR", nothing.

I tried many searches for about a minute along these lines and thought maybe their site just wasn't public and I needed a specific link. Then I typed my original "$SHOW_NAME $CITY tickets" query into bing and got the exact correct webpage on the first try.

Bought the tickets I wanted and immediately cancelled my subscription to Kagi.

Re:macOS Apps in Rust on Sunday May 14, 2023 @08:35AM (#35937502)
There was a talk given on this subject at iOSoho if ya want to take a peek:

https://youtu.be/8ApcIOZe9qg?t=1921

Re:Site.js: Small Web construction set on Saturday January 23, 2021 @10:51PM (#25889033)
following the dynamic part of this, it looks like they recommend DotJS.

https://sitejs.org/#dynamic-sites

I am not too familiar with DotJS, but it looks like its depreciated/unmaintained for years.

https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs

Re:Show HN: DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS on Monday September 28, 2020 @08:33AM (#24615923)
Some devs prefer a GUI even when a perfectly good command line tool exists. For example the many git wrappers.
Re:Show HN: DCPM – Docker Compose Package Manager on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @03:21PM (#22806542)
FYI you have a ref to 0.0.0.0:8000 as your homepage from the docs.dcpm.dev link

<a href="http://0.0.0.0:8000/" title="Docker Compose Package Manager" aria-label="Docker Compose Package Manager" class="md-header-nav__button md-logo">

edit: looks like a cool project though! congrats on shipping!

>Assembly Makes Flask Great Again

The fact that flask can bar a basis for other frameworks makes Flask (and werkzeug) great in itself.

Re:Programmers can’t write algorithms without help on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:04PM (#21443676)
In their defense, some other languages make the length of a string an attribute/property on a string instance. Python feels like the odd one out here making it a free function you must pass an instance to.

If the tech lead spent a lot of time working with another language that made the length an attribute, I think it would be reasonable for them to need to look it up often.

https://apidock.com/ruby/String/count https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.h... https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/string/30035...

Rx has a bit of a "namespace collision" with the functional reactive programming library ReactiveX, which has implementations in many different languages. Often these libraries are called Rx(Java|Swift|Ruby|PHP|js|$LANG).

Paradigm: http://reactivex.io/ Implementations: http://reactivex.io/languages.html

That being said the editor looks very cool! Congrats on shipping!

Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:42AM (#20767364)
Does anyone have this info in a nice info graphic? I would love to hang this in my kitchen as a quick reference.
Re:Strava cuts off Relive on Friday July 12, 2019 @01:11PM (#20422325)
The "my data" vs "strava data" is probably the reason why they've left this bug in Apple Health syncing unresolved for years, despite there being good facilities for de-duping workouts in HealthKit.

https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/206393444-Dupli...

By de-prioritizing the use of Apple Health as a central store for all your personal fitness data, it makes Strava the one place for all your workouts and allows them to dictate how its used.

Now, I record all my Workout data in Apple Workouts with an Apple Watch, then sync them to other platforms using this fantastic little app to export the data in any way I want.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/healthfit/id1202650514

This happens to me in Safari (12.1.1 (14607.2.6.1.1))/ macOS (10.14.5) as well.
Re:On logic in a Rails app, revisited 6 years later on Saturday May 18, 2019 @08:08PM (#19950484)
But placing logic in the controllers means you need to get a rails controller to test your business logic. This may seem fine in a small application, but as an app grows it becomes a headache to need to tie all your business rules to your framework.

“Rails is not your application”

Re:Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer on Thursday February 14, 2019 @09:49PM (#19168088)
I’ve used this tool which provides similar functionality for several presentations and I love it. Especially using git to version control my talk.

https://www.deckset.com

Re:An opinionated guide to Haskell on Saturday February 10, 2018 @05:44PM (#16350067)
What sort of apps can you build with Haskell For Mac? The website gives me the impression it’s more akin to Swift Playgrounds than IntelliJ.
Re:An opinionated guide to Haskell on Saturday February 10, 2018 @01:40PM (#16348759)
I’ve been reading “Real World Haskell” and enjoying it thus far. Big bonus is it is available for free online:

http://book.realworldhaskell.org

Computerphile, lots of their videos stay away from the details of code, but the concepts they talk about are fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile

Re:An Experimental Course on Operating Systems on Friday January 12, 2018 @01:48PM (#16135254)
Redox looks very cool!

It is very funny that their "Screenshots" tab is full of pictures of real computer screens:

https://www.redox-os.org/screens/

Give the app overcast a shot if your sick of the stock podcasts app:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/overcast/id888422857?mt=8

Re:Data Classes for Java on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @07:51PM (#15606595)
To provide flexibility in the future. When your data comes from a method you can change its source without changing the caller. This can be very useful and should be leveraged whenever possible.
Re:What’s New in Python 3.7 on Sunday September 17, 2017 @11:19AM (#15269993)
I think *iterable would just pass one argument that's a list, not pass each argument individually
Re:Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:58PM (#14972990)
Congrats! Hope they do great things with it. Use them to host a middleman site and love the service.
Great app, totally going to start using it on a day to day basis. It looks like deep links appear to be broken for me:

Link https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/public-wifi-nyc/id1232095734...

Renders this screen http://imgur.com/a/E29QX

Also is there better place I can submit this kind of feedback?

EDIT:

Found github repo and made an issue: https://github.com/spolu/dazzle/issues

Why is it that the C++ code is pink in one screenshot, but blue in another? And Python is blue in one screenshot and pink in another?

Looks like a great project! Thanks for sharing!

Re:Show HN: Remember – A progressive Todo app on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:23AM (#13285129)
The animation into 'completed' is a little too jerky imo. Also the concept looks very similar to 'clear'.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clear-tasks-reminders-to-do/...

Re:NYC Bike Stats on Monday November 07, 2016 @09:06AM (#12891046)
Also with citi bike people can find themselves biking home from a spot they didn't bike to and not have a helmet on them.
Re:Ask HN: What software is used at SpaceX and NASA for PM? on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @12:09PM (#12797641)
It looks like SpaceX uses jira: http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/202828

Not sure about NASA though.

Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk? on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @02:16PM (#12637861)
David Beazley's, "Discovering Python": https://youtu.be/RZ4Sn-Y7AP8

A fascinating tale about using python during the discovery phase of a trial. Very fun watch. Anything by David Beazley is great!

Re:Rack: Open-Source PaaS on AWS on Monday May 09, 2016 @04:16PM (#11662776)
I believe he referencing the fact that a well known technology called 'Rack' already exists.