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by ivm 9mo ago
I bet nobody joins Telegram because of its perceived security, it's a content platform.
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by ivm 9mo ago
Yeah, and to overcome the network effect, you need something compelling enough to justify the effort in the first place. I have hundreds of local contacts on WhatsApp, many of whom have joined Telegram on their own because of its benefits (
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by ivm 9mo ago
But we're talking about mass adoption, not Hacker News users' preferences. Signal simply doesn't offer anything attractive to most people. As someone who spends a dozen hours on WhatsApp and Telegram each week, I don't s
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by ivm 9mo ago
Various group features like communities and group voice chats, public channels, voice message transcription, only three sticker packs and no obvious way to add my own, backup is still marked as beta in 2026, no business features while al
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by ivm 9mo ago
Signal's UX is years behind even modern WhatsApp, let alone Telegram, which is closer to a blogging or social platform. We can't expect mass adoption of such a clunky app simply because it's more private – it has never worked
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by ivm 9mo ago
I'm a power user who's past configuring things, instead I want them to just work on their own. I also hate to memorize commands but like using the mouse and click buttons.
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by ivm 9mo ago
Wool poncho for cold seasons is also amazing, it's like wearing a duvet.
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by ivm 9mo ago
In the past, entire intercontinental trade routes existed just to get food seasoned, so what you’re pointing out isn’t that unusual. The desire for sensual pleasures drives most things (and not only in humans).
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by ivm 9mo ago
WinUI 3 was pretty decent even back in 2021, and much easier to learn than the clusterfuck of Android SDK.
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by ivm 9mo ago
Yup, coming from iOS and Android, I learned most of WinUI in two weeks, even before LLMs. GUI frameworks are largely similar, so there’s no real justification for reimplementing single-platform applications with HTML.
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by ivm 9mo ago
Burning Man, accoridng to the article they switched to "adventure camping trips" in 2001
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by ivm 9mo ago
Many years ago it was a great service to get to BM cheaply.
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by ivm 9mo ago
> Mobile From what I've seen, CC has troubles with the latest Swift too, partially because of it being latest and partially because it's so convoluted nowadays. But it's übercharged™ for C#
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by ivm 9mo ago
I've met all kinds of people and surely enough, some can be toxic, dark triad, etc. I'd say some topics, such as politics and animal welfare, seem more prone to attracting those types. But having a few of them here and there also
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by ivm 9mo ago
Volunteering in smaller orgs is also a great option because it naturally filters for people who actually want to do something good around them, and the way you work together leaves more space for communication than a lot of group-but-actual
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by ivm 9mo ago
I’ve been building this way since 2018 using MvvmCross[0] and it's become much less painful with LLMs where you can simply ask to recreate an iOS UI on Android. I even managed to implement experimental hot reload[1] for native UIs on A
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by ivm 9mo ago
You can create Android apps in plain .NET, building Android UIs directly with C#
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by ivm 10mo ago
I have a metal one from Zinus and it's been 100% silent after almost two years.
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by ivm 10mo ago
That's a bold diagnosis to make about someone over the internet. As a kid, I used to buy a magazine that included various translated comic strips, including Calvin & Hobbes, Garfield, and Peanuts. Peanuts was by far the least inter
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by ivm 10mo ago
Yes, I've been indie for a decade, working remotely with small clients before that, and seclusion has always been a plus. If I need to socialize, there're plenty of spaces for it outside of work. In fact, I've been actively v
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Why Rive scripting runs on Luau(rive.app)
2 points by ivm 11mo ago|0 comments
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TypeScript is Like C# – A Backend Guide(typescript-is-like-csharp.chrlschn.dev)
19 points by ivm 11mo ago|4 comments
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by ivm 11mo ago
For GUI there are Avalonia (cross-platform WPF), Uno Platform (cross-platform WinUI) and old-school bindings to native UI frameworks on Android, iOS & Mac (you can do UIKit/AppKit in C#), and of course Windows.
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Against the Brainrot(kamilkazani.substack.com)
3 points by ivm 11mo ago|0 comments
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by ivm 1y ago
Nope, I ended up changing it to that one to avoid the association with nagging prompts.
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by ivm 1y ago
It's not too bad, about 12-15 MB for the runtime on iOS. I'd say the main downside compared to other cross-platform frameworks is the lack of official hot reload (it's possible but really clunky) for building UIs. Otherwise,
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by ivm 1y ago
Not at all, but it’s important not to mix up Xamarin (nowadays just .NET) which is basically native bindings for C# and Xamarin.Forms UI framework (nowadays MAUI) which is write-once approach like RN. The former is exactly what you are tal
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by ivm 1y ago
This is already possible with .NET and MvvmCross: a shared core library plus native UI projects for each platform. UIKit feels great in C# and it’s all been working quite well since Xamarin times, with access to the Nuget ecosystem.
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by ivm 1y ago
I could, but I don't use trackng in my apps aside from some platform/error stats
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by ivm 1y ago
Just was adding "Not now" to a notification dialog in my app today simply because it feels softer. But it's a definite "no", the prompt won't appear again unless you enable notifications yourself later from the

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