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Re:I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking Ga... on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:30AM (#45194412)

Imagine finally hearing further dialogue from the Bucket Mouse after all these years.

Re:Launch HN: Dart (YC W22) – Project management with automatic report... on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:30AM (#39443300)

Was it a deliberate decision to go with a name that clashes with a top 20 programming language?

Re:The Continuous Delivery Test on Sunday July 10, 2022 @11:49AM (#32045788)

Indeed. Does your deploy process self-heal? Err, no, I need to wait two days for App Store review.

Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems (2012) on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:43PM (#23884212)

Great example is Fastlane abstracting over the impenetrable iOS command line tools.

Re:Flutter looks good, but is painful on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:43AM (#20612402)

Not as simple as that. Some people clearly manage to create things effectively with it. Newcomers can see this but understand that there will be difficulties.

The difficulty for newcomers is anticipating where the pain points might be. Detailed articles like this are rare and a huge help with assisting with decisions on whether to invest time into it.

Re:Amazon allegedly scammed out of $370K by 22-year-old's return shipm... on Saturday August 03, 2019 @12:07AM (#20598612)

Source

Re:Much ado about iOS app architecture on Thursday November 09, 2017 @04:59PM (#15666188)

Odd example; Butterknife greatly reduces boilerplate around accessing views in Android. Why wouldn't you use it?

Don't you use Retrofit for your network API code?

Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @03:37PM (#15452725)

I have a script on AWS which scrapes the UK National Rail website for my commute every few minutes between set times in the morning and afternoon, and sends me a Slack notification if there are delays or cancellations.

I could check manually but train problems are actually infrequent enough that I usually don't bother, although they are highly disruptive when they do happen.

Re:The rise and fall of Ext JS on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:22PM (#15369343)

OP is confused.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016) on Friday January 01, 2016 @12:39PM (#10822492)

Future Platforms (http://www.futureplatforms.com) - London UK - Onsite - Permanent - Full-time

iOS and Android developers.

Future Platforms is an award-winning digital agency specialising in mobile.

We're looking for talented and driven iOS and Android developers to join our fabulous team on a range of projects for AAA-list clients including Domino's Pizza, EE and the Premier League.

Experience of a busy agency is desirable, but most important is the personality and technical ability required to ship and maintain gorgeous apps that hundreds of thousands of users will love.

More details: http://www.futureplatforms.com/careers/mobile-developer-iosa...

CV and intro to [email protected], please mention Hacker News!

Re:Listening to satellites for $30 on Friday November 27, 2015 @10:14AM (#10637597)

See also http://mattg.co.uk/words/noaa_sdr/ from earlier this year