thekingshorses

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by thekingshorses 11y ago
If YC provides API like reddit, you can build really good client using web technology. https://hackerwebapp.com/ is best you could do without good APIs. This is my reddit client. https://reddit.premii.com/
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
Not at all. There is only one rendering engine on iOS. Apple TOS prohibits all other rendering engines. Chrome uses Safari/webkit rendering engine to render the page.
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
> learn to do it the right way What is the right way? Native only? There are many apps in the appstore that uses html5 and users of the app don't care how is it build.
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
NSFW doesn't work: https://sense2vec.spacy.io/?NSFW%7CNOUN
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
This is awesome. If you need cross browser solution and if you don't mind using JS, then you can use canvas to blur images. Its not good as this. Demo: http://premii.com/ (Refresh the page to see a different background
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
I am assuming you are on Android. iPhone doesn't have a hardware back button, and most people don't know you can navigate back by swiping. I will add tracking in http://hn.premii.com/ to see how many user uses in
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
If you don't upvote/reply, add http://hn.premii.com/ to your home screen using chrome on Android.
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
I don't like the new http://m.reddit.com/ Try this my redesign reddit. http://reddit.premii.com/ I hope reddit does something like this, and let user configure layout for each subreddit.
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
I think this is one of the best userstyle for hacker news I have seen.
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
I used to think same way, but 99% of your user won’t feel that way. My hacker news app is a hybrid app. Available on iOS/Android/Windows/Mac and web, and I harldy see any one compalining about not being native. There are some
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
> Chrome runs my test case in 2.7 seconds, Firefox in 3.2, and IE Edge in 23 seconds... (ie 11 in 30+) I think you are doing something wrong. I have a light app and very heavy SPA (written really badly with almost 5mb of code, D3 + Highc
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
I am hiring. http://interana.com/
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
> I cannot comprehend why Reddit chose a single-page app for their new mobile site They should but not the way they are making it. It should be server side render for initial page (not just home page but any page). And mostly changing co
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
> I was the tech lead. How big is the iOS team at Twitter? This is old picture ( https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYBiL8MCUAAiB7r.jpg )
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
Non-engineers are the biggest problem building HTML5 apps. Everyone from VPs, Directors, to HR knows HTML, and they all have opinion about how it should be. They all want you to build a Facebook like app with 2 developers and works on all p
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
These right here are the problems with Cordova. Cordova is not a replacement to build native apps. Its a tool that allows you to build really good apps that works on all platforms. My app[1] wouldn't have exist without Cordova. And bas
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
var div = document.createElement('div'); div.textContent = msg; msg.text = div.innerHTML; This should remove all HTML/CSS/Script.
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
What doesn't work well? Does it freezes on 5th and 18th item? That is on purpose.
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
iPad was released 5 years ago. I have iPad2 and iPad air 2, and both works fine. I don't have LG. I have tested on Asus, Samsung S3, and Nexus 5. Try it on Chrome browser, and see how it works. Some images (Washington post, latimes, et
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
Flipboard assumed DOM is slow. I don't even think they created a prototype to see how slow DOM is. I implemented this in few hours. Works on iOS, Android 4+ and WP - Demo for mobile: http://premii.com/play/flipboar
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
App requires more work to maintain. its much easier to update website. App requires a build, submission, approval etc. I have not updated my downloaded app in long time. For HN, official APIs are very limited.
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
What is meaningful app? Twitter is list of stories with notifications. For me its more like HN app. HN has list of stories, Twitter has 140 characters tweet. When you click on the HN story, you get list of comments or article. When you clic
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
I agree with PPK, but sorry to say this: you are just throwing garbage. > There's nothing more annoying to a mobile user than an "app" that takes 10 seconds to start up Try this on your mobile browser http://hn.
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by thekingshorses 11y ago
Not everyone ignores alternate platforms. Try https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn And if you hate downloading, try http://hn.premii.com/ in chrome and add it to home screen
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
Not all mobile sites. Try this on your wp8 or other mobile devices - Mobile Hacker news - http://hn.premii.com/
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
iPhone 4s/5? I have 5s, and didn't notice that, but I also mostly use my Android device. It actually gets ycombinator page, parses DOM and generates JSON that I can use in my app. I think that might be the reason.
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
Yes. Main problem is scrolling is not smooth. I told Mozilla mobile folks, but they think its smooth.
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
Author here: You can download iOS/Android app too. It supports upvoting. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435 Or Just web: http://hn.premii.com/
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
Well, they don't know that! All our servers (API/DB) are slow, and they think that Angular will free up resource (Because not rendering on servers), and using "free" client resource to render, it will be fast.

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