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Show HN: A more "conversational" AI assistant(github.com)
1 points by wircho 3y ago|0 comments
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I build a couple of “apps” every day. This is how I do it(medium.com)
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Appending properties of any type to Swift objects at runtime(medium.com)
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by wircho 11y ago
a quick database for cacheing data temporarily from a web app's client-side code, maybe? I wouldn't make a whole platform depend on it, but seems useful enough at least for prototyping.
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Show HN: Request iOS permissions (location, camera, etc) in 3 lines of code(github.com)
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by wircho 11y ago
Adolfo (the author) here. As I mentioned at the end of the post I want to take this a lot further, even if it's just for fun. I'm thinking of imitating JavaScript's dynamic types with a single type "JS" by overloadi
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by wircho 11y ago
All the logic is executed on the back-end. Front-end is called only for user input and location. We've been using this syntax for a while and it works well for us internally, but we're soon releasing more appealing tools. Read com
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by wircho 11y ago
No. With REL it is possible to aggregate and manipulate any JSON API. The only thing that has to be written in REL is the card file itself. This JSON file is to be hosted anywhere on the web. For example, this is a Hello World card https:&
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by wircho 11y ago
I would say it's not, since it lacks conditional branching, although one could argue that you can simulate a Turing complete system on a Relevant card by having a user indefinitely tap on a button that refreshes it at the next state.
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by wircho 11y ago
It's more straightforward than this. Think of it as a more comprehensive Yahoo Pipes or IFTTT, where the nice graphical interface is not yet released publicly. So for now developers can just write the raw JSON. Yes, a LISP interpreter
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by wircho 11y ago
Hi everyone. The author here. A couple of answers to much asked questions: Why JSON? Mainly because it makes it natural to embed JSON objects into code that's otherwise purely functional. Also, as @detaro pointed out, it saved us the t
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by wircho 11y ago
REL is a fancy JSON syntax for making cards for our recently released Relevant iOS App. Give it a try and let me know if you have any questions.
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Show HN: REL – A JSON-based programming language(github.com)
2 points by wircho 11y ago|1 comments