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by ivm 1y ago
Android Kiki to Android Bouba evolution: From square icons and sharp Roboto to blobby amoeba-shaped designs and rounded fonts. Also, Chile mentioned!
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by ivm 1y ago
"Market comes first, marketing second, aesthetic third, and functionality a distant fourth" ― Rob Walling in "Start Small, Stay Small" Apple's aesthetic is more important than the quality (which has been deteriora
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by ivm 1y ago
The hate Objective-C has received for its syntax is unreal. It’s a minimalistic, easy-to-navigate language, but people assumed Swift would be easier just because it looks more like Java and C#. Meanwhile, Swift is such a mess that even its
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by ivm 1y ago
Quality CO₂ sensors are pricey. I previously had two from AliExpress, but both were unreliable and eventually broke. I finally got an Aranet4, and it’s been flawless for over a year so far.
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by ivm 1y ago
I have this instruction in ChatGPT settings: > Be direct and concise, unless I ask for a formal text. Do not use emojis, unless I request adding them. Do not imitate a human with emotions, like saying "I'm sorry", "T
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by ivm 2y ago
Spot on, see the 2017 article "God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism" about that dynamic: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/18/god-in-th...
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by ivm 2y ago
At least in Chile, it’s common to have 3 months of interest-free payments offered by the banks, and some stores offer up to 24 months for cards issued by certain banks. It really helps with one-off costly purchases, like a new device or som
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by ivm 2y ago
.NET for iOS and Android is very robust, I’ve been developing with it since 2018. Just avoid using MAUI for interfaces because it's still quite unfinished after the rewrite from Xamarin.Forms.
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by ivm 2y ago
> It's especially funny as the author, with very little awareness of what he was writing, tried to strike positive "we are all one" notes... And ended up with something that would give Ligotti nightmares. That's Ger
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In Defense of the Rat(hakaimagazine.com)
48 points by ivm 2y ago|40 comments
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The Brazilianization of the World (2021)(americanaffairsjournal.org)
4 points by ivm 2y ago|0 comments
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by ivm 2y ago
The native approach is quite viable: my MvvmCross-based app has been on both stores since 2018 with almost zero MAUI/Xamarin-related issues, even with hundreds of thousands of installs. Not gonna lie though: building the UI twice for b
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by ivm 2y ago
Yes, it’s terrible in Latin America. For example, in many areas of Santiago, Chile, you can’t take your phone out on the street without risking snatching.
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by ivm 2y ago
I agree, I've been developing for iOS since 2011 and the only unpleasant change that has happened is the growth in number of screen resolution. Doing pixel-perfect UIs just for 640x960 and 1136x645 was much more comfortable. Android, o
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by ivm 2y ago
Last time I checked Windows still did not have anything like Quick Look, so for me it's the opposite. The only macOS enhancements I've been using since 2011 are Karabiner for keyboard customization and f.lux for warm colors at nig
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by ivm 2y ago
macOS has decades-long technical debt as well (NSCell can still be found in the UIs you see), yet it remains incredibly robust aside from the years when Apple shake it with big visual updates.
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by ivm 2y ago
It's much, much better. I'm doing both and it always takes at least 2x time to do the same thing on Android. Apple's API are much more consistent and the overall architecture of UIKit is just great (thank to its AppKit ancest
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by ivm 2y ago
Coming from iOS development, it was incredibly frustrating not to have an event for software keyboard appearance/disappearance. I tried researching the issue and ended up in Google Groups, where an official Google representative was sm
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by ivm 2y ago
As someone who moved from pure iOS development to cross-platform iOS+Android development in C# with native UIs – big nope! Android development is a mess, it takes at least twice as long to build exactly the same UIs as on iOS, and there are
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by ivm 2y ago
I did not personally suggest medical attention, but it is something OP can try and then stop if it’s not helping. But having kids cannot be undone unless one is ready to abandon them. >biological reality >negative replacement rate
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by ivm 2y ago
And the fractured developer ecosystem with multiple UI frameworks (WPF, WinUI, MAUI, Blazor) all being understaffed, while actual Microsoft products are being developed in React Native.
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by ivm 2y ago
You are the one aggressively pushing others to have kids with unproved statements that only a minority is not cut out for this task and that it will surely give them purpose. So the kids will become a means to an end, in your own words: &qu
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by ivm 2y ago
You seem to not know anyone who was an unwanted child born because of some secondary motivation, and how deeply it traumatized them for life.
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by ivm 2y ago
Not in developing countries: most small excavations in Chile are done by hand, even during road construction. Very few bobcats around here, so anything where a backhoe would be too big is done with shovels.
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by ivm 2y ago
This is not pettiness, but typical behavior of settler-colonial landowners who view indigenous peoples as subhuman pests unworthy of their land for "using it unproductively." They have already committed genocide against his tribe
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by ivm 2y ago
It's not universal enough to be advised to someone as a solution, increasing the already existing social pressure to have children, and also exposing both the potential parent and child to the risk of lifelong unhappiness together. Als
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by ivm 2y ago
> All happiness is rooted on purposive and positive mental ideation of one's existence. This is just one of many views on the nature of happiness. For example, Buddhists have another view on it, including the possibility of achiev
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by ivm 2y ago
It may work, but some luck is required along with the right market fit. For example, a few years ago I shared similar concerns to the author of Session time tracker[1] when he was starting the app's promotion. Back then I believed he
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by ivm 2y ago
Hi hi, Qbserve's dev here. Not to be a downer, but time tracking has turned out to be one of the worst possible niches for starting as an indie dev. The app did great on Show HN (sales were fantastic that week), but then I spent almost
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by ivm 2y ago
The last one is quite perfect indeed, others are overdesigned and too specific in their styles that look dated now.

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