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amroxon How we use Rust in our mobile SDK

I too am nostalgic for the early days of mobile when system resources and screen size were both scarce. It required creative solutions. It was fun. Nowadays with larger screens and phones that are as fast as your laptop, mobile apps share more in common with desktop apps than not.

amroxon A note of reflection after 10 years of “A successful Git branching model”

For mobile apps and SDKs I found it very useful to keep a pointer to the current production version (master) for integration tests.

amroxon Little known features of iTerm2

I just discovered this last night! Such a cool feature.

amroxon Giant dams enclosing North Sea could protect millions from rising waters

Not sure if you're serious, but transportation is only 14% of emissions. Electricity, agriculture and industry are all individually bigger contributors.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...

amroxon The State of macOS for Software Developers

Personally I don’t find the “Vista-like” pop-ups that bad. It’s a minor annoyance when setting up a new app, but otherwise I hardly ever see it. And how often do you install new apps on macOS anymore?

amroxon Setting Up a Jenkins Home Lab

Also seems like drone.io works exclusively with Docker, which is tricky for Android and AFAIK impossible for iOS projects.

amroxon Setting Up a Jenkins Home Lab

I hadn't heard of drone.io

> Drone.io does not let developers configure two different projects against the same repository. Instead, one must fork that repository into a new one and use that to create a new Drone.io project.

https://www.slant.co/topics/2637/viewpoints/6/~best-self-hos...

Is that true? If so, that's pretty limiting.

amroxon Nim vs. Crystal

Swift runs on Linux just fine. There are web frameworks in swift. Tensorflow is working on Swift support [2]. Yes it is Apple supported but it’s open source and runs plenty of places besides iOS. You may still think it’s “garbage” but you’re misinformed about where it can be used.

[1] https://github.com/vapor/vapor [2] https://www.tensorflow.org/swift

amroxon Show HN: I want to write resume in markdown, so I build this tool

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amroxon Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era

I had the same experience showing my daughter Cut the Rope.

amroxon Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?

Monodraw - ascii/text drawing app.

It’s useful and delightful

https://monodraw.helftone.com/

amroxon Bazel Release 1.0

The only contact I’ve had with bazel is via Tensorflow (more specifically tf lite). Last I tried it was not possible to set up bazel to output a static library. Has this changed?

amroxon Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix

Neat. I like both Nix and containers.

Though I'm curious. Can someone explain

> This is not an officially supported Google project.

"20% time" I guess?

amroxon Why the C++ standard ships every three years

I would say that the primary driver for growing the niche Objective-C community was iOS, not CocoaPods. And Objective-C is dying again with the introduction of Swift.

Also, I see cool C++ open-source projects being released fairly frequently.

amroxon QuickJS JavaScript Engine

Does anyone know is this is x86 specific? It sounds like it’s just C but I’m not at a computer right now so I can’t dig in. It seems really interesting for embedded or mobile (iOS/Android) too

amroxon Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into

Learning the basics about how programming languages work - parsers, interpreters/compilers. I've heard good things about Writing An Interpreter In Go [1]. Related, I've enjoyed Martin Fowler's DSL book [2].

  - [1] https://interpreterbook.com
  - [2] https://www.martinfowler.com/books/dsl.html

amroxon Spectrum – Image transcoding library for Android or iOS

> I don't know how well that runs on androids and iphones.

Not well.

amroxon Spectrum – Image transcoding library for Android or iOS

We write our internal demo apps for our iOS framework in Swift for this reason as well.

amroxon An Introduction to Modern CMake

OpenCV includes a python script to build a framework for iOS. I agree, it’s not great.

amroxon Ask HN: Is anyone using json schema?

> - Someone would change the code and always forget to update the schema to match. It only makes sense if you're somehow generating the code from the schema.

We used http://www.jsonschema2pojo.org/ (via the gradle plugin) on a previous project. I think it worked fairly well.

amroxon Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

San Francisco, CA (INTERN, H1B welcome)

MindSnacks - http://www.mindsnacks.com/

We build wonderful educational games in San Francisco. If you are nice and want to help us make splendid products, we'd love to heard from you.

We're hiring in lots of areas! Here are a few:

* Backend engineer: So much data, so little time! If you can extract the signal from the noise, and want to improve the way people learn through our products, let's talk! Experience with scaling multiplayer games or web services is a huge plus.

* Mobile engineer: You build pocket-sized awesomeness on iOS and/or Android. We make games that teach people stuff. The perfect combination! We have plenty of fun and challenge projects for both mobile app and game developers.

* UI designer: We believe that great design is essential to build products people love. If you live to make jaw-dropping UI experiences (web and/or mobile), this is the place to be!

Email us at jobs@mindsnacks.com More details: http://www.mindsnacks.com/careers/