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by jamil7 3y ago
Thanks for the reply, I did, but it didn't seem like something I could directly integrate with from within my app, I'll dig into it a bit more.
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Ask HN: On-Device Text to Speech
3 points by jamil7 3y ago|4 comments
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by jamil7 3y ago
This seems like another example of the airline industry’s process of enshitification or premiumisation as it’s called in business. Make your core service shittier and provide endless charges and fees for upgrades or enhancements, some of wh
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by jamil7 3y ago
> I couldn't disagree more. In fact it's an incredibly "junior dev" mindset that sees 2 pieces of similar (or _even identical_) code and is compelled to abstract it. Unless there are at a _minimum_ of 3 implementation
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by jamil7 3y ago
Don’t worry, they’re unfriendly if you speak German too.
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by jamil7 3y ago
> We don’t spend a dime on marketing. > Basically loosing 2-4% of our customers per month. So your answer could be in your question. 2-4% might be normal for Shopify Apps, I don't know. You probably need to be actively marketing
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by jamil7 3y ago
That sounds cool, I had a similar idea a while ago but it was a browser extension. I only pulled out keywords from news articles with spacy and then ran them through deepl, I was trying to make automated flashcards to help learn to read art
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by jamil7 3y ago
A websocket API for storing and querying GeoJSON features, it exposes a lot of PostGIS functionality. I built it originally for a client project as part of a data collection app and then wondered if it might useful for others as a service.
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Show HN: Free, Offline, Article Reader for iOS(apps.apple.com)
8 points by jamil7 3y ago|0 comments
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by jamil7 3y ago
There’s been a few such things over the years. I even built one for iOS/iPad that’s still in the store. I found that doing the parsing client side is preferable because so many sites have paywalls and render some of their content with
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by jamil7 3y ago
For this reason I really like GRDB for iOS, documentation is also excellent.
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by jamil7 3y ago
Sounds like classic German customer service. You are wrong or have somehow used the service incorrectly until proven otherwise.
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by jamil7 3y ago
> 9 years later, the Swift tooling is still atrocious. Compile times are much longer To be fair you can’t really compare them since the Swift compiler is giving you a lot more guarantees than Objective-C which gives you basically zero. R
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by jamil7 3y ago
Mix in right place, right time plus a bunch of amphetamines and you have your answer.
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by jamil7 3y ago
Kind of worrying that something like Cloudflare is so deeply baked into Render and customers don’t have a choice on whether or not they’re using it.
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by jamil7 3y ago
I built a proof of concept with UniFFI recently at work. The futures/async support is quite immature and for me meant declaring part of my functions in the UDL file and partly in proc macros, but it's not clear what is supported w
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by jamil7 3y ago
> You don’t need a fast computer near you? Plenty of people like this model of development. Not really, honestly, and I've tried it in the past. Maybe it's a lifestyle thing, I travel around a fair bit on the train and value be
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by jamil7 3y ago
There’s a lot the app is doing that would not be allowed through review. It’s distributed via Sparkle which is pretty common for mac apps.
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by jamil7 3y ago
> paired with the universal access that comes with being hosted in the cloud, in a datacenter near you. How is a locked down vm, that I don’t control, “near me” more convenient than the fast, portable computer in front of me that I can b
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by jamil7 3y ago
I'd rather governments just retook control of a lot of utilities and nationalised them, rather than random one-off windfall taxes.
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by jamil7 3y ago
> You could run the whisper API locally There's a system framework for doing this on iOS which I'm fairly sure is multilingual, no idea how it stacks up though.
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by jamil7 3y ago
Thanks for this!
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by jamil7 3y ago
I also struggle with this step, but I think idea validation is a skill like anything else that you need to practise and study. The closest thing I've seen to what you're describing is ( https://needgap.com ) but I don&#x
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by jamil7 3y ago
He is responsible for getting me interested in track/fixed gear bikes and using them as daily beaters years ago, very minimal maintenance. I still ride road and cross on the weekends, though.
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by jamil7 3y ago
Yes it can be worth it. It might actually be preferable in a lot of cases. Just keep in mind you might be running a different kind of business than you expected if you’re a technical person who want’s to build something technical. It’s quit
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Ask HN: Framework for Evaluating Product Ideas
2 points by jamil7 3y ago|2 comments
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by jamil7 3y ago
Most mac apps I’ve worked on professionally have been distributed through sparkle rather than the mac app store. The 30%/15% fee is one thing but the bigger problem is slow app review, restrictions and complications around offering dis
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by jamil7 3y ago
Not a fan of Meta, but haven't they generally been pretty forward with open sourcing their tech?
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by jamil7 3y ago
Picking Rust up for work, I feel like I had the opposite experience due to how much the difficulty curve had been hyped by some members of the community. The compiler basically tells you what to do, if you don't understand the message,
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by jamil7 3y ago
I think I addressed this in the comment. To clear, I'm not a fan of Apple's policy on this and think they should allow other engines. Having said that, I think for 99% of users, the underling web rendering engine is an implementat

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