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   by barbs 11y ago

   I recently came across this situation when attempting to hack on Keepass2Android [0], a Keepass client for Android. It was written with Xamarin, which was a closed-source framework at the time. Having to download and use software with a 30-
2. 722.▲
   by barbs 11y ago

   How is this "not worth the time" just because it's a browser extension? I don't understand why people are so caught up on this technicality.
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   by barbs 11y ago

   There was another comment in this thread that said one of you might have stale data. If you kill the app and try again it should update. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11432356
4. 724.▲
   by barbs 11y ago

   I'm an Android developer and I'd love to work here, but I'm not an American citizen and I feel like sponsorship would be difficult, considering it's not a business. But I love what you guys are doing :).
5. 725.▲
   by barbs 11y ago

   I'd love to see a ridiculously over-engineered version. Something like a website running in a browser in Windows 95 running in a javascript DOSBOX emulator.
6. 726.▲
   by barbs 11y ago

   It felt a bit more "IronMan-esque" to me, personally :)
7. 727.▲
   by barbs 11y ago

   Man... it's so disheartening to read about these things. I feel like even if I reduce all my emissions to the best of my ability - use only renewable energy, don't eat meat, don't drive etc - my net effect is only a drop in t
8. 728.▲
   by barbs 11y ago

   Good idea. For more ideas, here's Bret Victor's post "What Can A Technologist Do About Climate Change". http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
9. 729.▲
   by barbs 11y ago

   I think an appropriate analogy would be the difference between the source-code and the binary of an application. In theory, the binary would be agnostic and future-proof given the documentation of the format, but the source-code is much mor
10. 730.▲
    by barbs 11y ago

    Isn't that victim-blaming?
11. 731.▲
    by barbs 11y ago

    I imagine it also has something to do with convenience. Being such an old game, the technical requirements are quite low, which allows them to easily have that setup of multiple virtual machines on a few servers. Also, I believe they can us
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    by barbs 11y ago

    From the 2015 AIIDE Starcraft AI competition report[0]. > ""Why not StarCraft 2?" > This is the question we always get asked when we tell people we are doing a BroodWar AI competition. This competition relies completely
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    by barbs 11y ago

    I would agree with you in the case of Diablo 2 (and probably 3, though I haven't played that one). But the first Diablo holds a special place in my heart precisely because of the atmosphere. Gameplay-wise it was actually pretty broken.
14. 734.▲
    by barbs 11y ago

    Similar: "How I fixed a bug in Atom". http://davidvgalbraith.com/how-i-fixed-atom/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10993470
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    by barbs 11y ago

    Interesting that the author makes the point that choice is important for an OS like Android, and then recommends only Google-made alternatives to make it "as Google intended". Google software != best software, necessarily.
16. 736.▲
    by barbs 11y ago

    Anything where the text and background colours are such that it's difficult to read, for one.
17. 737.▲
    by barbs 11y ago

    I think it looked just fine. http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
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    by barbs 11y ago

    I agree with what you're saying, which is also why I think the title of the blog post should really be: " I work for only 3 hours a day, but everyday". It's less of a command or suggestion and more an expression of what
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    by barbs 11y ago

    At a glance this seems to be aimed mostly at web developers. How much of this would be relevant for a native mobile developer like myself?
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    by barbs 11y ago

    I think he might've been referring to this sibling post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11252320
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    by barbs 11y ago

    Completely by-the-by, but I couldn't help but notice the small advertisement at the bottom for Smile PDFPen[0]. I'm using uBlock Origin, but this wasn't blocked by it, presumably because it's unique to this site, and is
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    by barbs 11y ago

    What is your Windows command-line environment? Plain CMD prompt or Cygwin? Or something else?
23. 743.▲
    by barbs 11y ago

    +1 for aria2. It's like the VLC of command-line download tools - it Just Works with anything. https://aria2.github.io/
24. 744.▲
    by barbs 11y ago

    Also similar: http://wavepot.com/
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    by barbs 11y ago

    He's saying that Kotlin is similar enough to Swift, but integrates far easier with the Android ecosystem and development environment, such that it's probably a better choice for a lot of people wanting to make Android apps with a
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    by barbs 11y ago

    Or find a custom ROM like cyanogenmod
27. 747.▲
    by barbs 11y ago

    What exactly is so bad about their software?
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    by barbs 11y ago

    > ...what I'd call "crispness": you can write terse code that is actually understandable. What an awesome term, I love it.
29. 749.▲
    by barbs 11y ago

    Important correction: you mean Kings Cross, not King st.
30. 750.▲
    by barbs 11y ago

    This is an amazing and inspiring initiative and I wish I'd been involved somehow. I'm not sure whereabouts in Australia you're based, but if you're in Sydney I'd love to buy you both a beer :).