natfriedman

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   by natfriedman 10y ago

   Done!
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   by natfriedman 10y ago

   Very much so. Email me: nat@nat.org
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   by natfriedman 10y ago

   This is a great idea. Maybe I'll create a slack for everyone who applies.
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   by natfriedman 10y ago

   Open to all these things; game AI sounds great.
5. 65.▲
   by natfriedman 10y ago

   Good idea, tonight maybe I'll write a script to email people a couple times a day.
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   by natfriedman 10y ago

   Five. If there are a lot more deserving applications, I'll try to find more funding.
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   by natfriedman 10y ago

   I'm open-minded about this. If the project has a believable path to a useful open source contribution in the future, then I think it's fundable. This could even include high variance experiments that might end up totally failing.
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   by natfriedman 10y ago

   Good question! I thought about doing that, and maybe I should, but I'm not sure what the right timeframe is, and I didn't want to pre-filter interesting projects that might not fit my preconceptions. For example, I could imagine f
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   by natfriedman 10y ago

   Lack of experience in AI is not necessarily disqualifying. I'd like to see some evidence that the person applying is capable of doing the thing they are setting out to do, though. That could be experience shipping open source software,
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    by natfriedman 10y ago

    I don't have a strong opinion about this, so I changed it to be either MIT or Apache 2.0. Thanks for the feedback!
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    by natfriedman 10y ago

    Hi HN! I'm happy to answer any questions. I'm also open to feedback if there are suggestions. I was inspired to try this experiment by Nadia Eghbal's grant program: https://medium.com/@nayafia/5-000-no-st
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    by natfriedman 11y ago

    Thanks for the kudos everyone! This is a very exciting day for those of us who have been working on Mono and Xamarin for many years. We have some more details on our blog: https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/
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    by natfriedman 11y ago

    Those plugins won't be open sourced. We're releasing the Xamarin runtime and all the commandline tools you need to build apps, but we're going to keep some of the IDE stuff proprietary.
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    by natfriedman 11y ago

    Xamarin Studio is based on the open source MonoDevelop project already: http://www.monodevelop.com/ .
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    by natfriedman 11y ago

    We'll give you a full refund. Drop a note to hello@xamarin.com.
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    by natfriedman 11y ago

    We've also re-released Mono under the MIT license: http://www.mono-project.com/news/2016/03/31/mono-relicensed-...
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    Google Photos – a packrat's review(medium.com)

    2 points by natfriedman 11y ago|0 comments
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    by natfriedman 12y ago

    Hey, Xamarin CEO here, thanks for your feedback. A couple comments/questions on the issues you raised. 1) We aren't aware of any debugger issues like this. Is it possible you were debugging optimized code which had the local varia
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    by natfriedman 12y ago

    Right now we have a huge amount of content available on http://developer.xamarin.com This includes hundreds of samples: http://developer.xamarin.com/samples-all/ And lots of detailed guides: http:/&#x
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    by natfriedman 12y ago

    Hey, I'm the CEO of Xamarin. I'm really sorry that you had a bad experience with Xamarin.Forms. Did you try doing native development with Xamarin? I do want to be clear that Xamarin.Forms is not Xamarin. It's a library that w
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    by natfriedman 12y ago

    We launched an online training program called Xamarin University, and so we have a fair amount of data on how long it takes people to get to the point where they are proficient enough to write a production app. As you might expect it's
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    by natfriedman 12y ago

    Hi there, I'm the CEO of Xamarin. I'm really sorry to hear that you had issues with consuming third-party libraries. This is actually something we've been recently very focused on improving. First of all, in December we relea
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    by natfriedman 12y ago

    This is a very nice American Airlines seminar on automation dependence called "Children of the Magenta." http://n631s.blogspot.com/2011/11/children-of-magenta-line.h...
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    by natfriedman 12y ago

    Thanks for the feedback; it's challenging to come up with the right model for evaluations, but we're taking this input seriously. We do offer extended trials (up to 90 days); you just have to email us.
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    by natfriedman 12y ago

    From a technical standpoint the "translation" is pretty much a standard Model-View-Presenter approach. This allows both us and you maximum flexibility when working with and extending Xamarin.Forms. We expose to users the same API&
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    by natfriedman 12y ago

    Sorry to hear about the error message. Can you email your logs and the storyboard file to support@xamarin.com?
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    by natfriedman 12y ago

    Drop me a note - nat@xamarin.com
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    by natfriedman 12y ago

    Thanks for the endorsement! We built Xamarin.Forms because we have lots of enterprise customers building apps with a dozen or more screens doing simple things like tabular data display and data entry, but who have a native UI requirement in
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    by natfriedman 12y ago

    Yes, you can use XAML to create multiplatform controls/views with Xamarin.Forms. Xamarin.Forms supports all of XAML 2009 and uses the XAML syntax with its own namespace and types. So, no existing XAML designer will work with Xamarin.Fo
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    by natfriedman 12y ago

    Xamarin Studio doesn't have this feature yet, but you can use Visual Studio to build Xamarin apps (and many developers do). Split panes will be coming to a future version of Xamarin Studio, though.