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andy

188 karma · joined February 25, 2007

Owner/Developer at https://greenrobot.com

email: andy@greenrobot.com

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andy··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
Location: Colora, MD

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe to CA.

Technologies:Android Kotlin, iOS and Mac Swift, Flutter, Python, SQL, JavaScript, Three.js, CSS, React, React Native, and PHP developer.

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/andytriboletti/publicfiles/blob/main/resu...

Email: andy@greenrobot.com

andy··on Proton spam and the AI consent problem
I just signed up for proton vpn, before I read this post. So far so good other than this post, but I notice I can't access my own freshdesk help desk while on proton vpn. It says location not allowed.
andy··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
I recently released a game:

GunStopperDrone Game Single player game, race against the clock to defuse a dangerous situation using a drone against an armed attacker. https://game.gunstopperdrone.com/

andy··on AppLovin nonconsensual installs
I reported problems about applovin sdk clicking on/opening ads on ios apps like a decade+ ago. have never used them since.
andy··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)
Location: Maryland

Remote: Yes please

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: flutter, react native, kotlin, swift, react, python, fastapi, flask, php, laravel, javascript, augmentcode, coderabbit, more

Résumé/CV:https://raw.githack.com/andytriboletti/publicfiles/main/resu...

Email: andy@greenrobot.com

andy··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)
Location: Colora, Maryland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: iOS Swift, Android Kotlin, PHP, Python, SQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, MacOS, Linux, Windows.

Résumé/CV: LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andyiscool

Email: andy.triboletti@gmail.com

I recently did this: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/TripoSR/issues/101#issue...

I made / making: https://app.wordcraft3d.greenrobot.com https://feather.greenrobot.com https://openspace.greenrobot.com

andy··on AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them
I opened an issue with this. Maybe someone here knows.

I see a Python script I can run on my computer, I haven't tried it yet, but I think I could connect a microphone and process real-time audio and output it in real time, but I don’t know how to detect the user looking at someone. Could you tell me how that works?

andy··on SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
I guess they found what they were looking for.
andy··on Could LSD be the right prescription for the terminally ill?
What do you think schizophrenia is?
andy··on The Dark Side of Doctoring
What other dark side of doctoring issue can I think of? Well, the doctors and nurses at Fairmount kept me prisoner without the ability to call my friends or family, denied me water, physically tackled me and tied me down. I was not allowed to use a lawyer of my choosing. I did not hit back when they tackled me. I never committed a crime. I feel like I am being repetitive. That is completely on purpose. The dark side of doctoring is at Fairmount Behavioral Health in Philadelphia, PA. It's a hellhole and should be closed. https://surroundedbyspies.com
andy··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
I just sent you an email. What you're doing sounds great to me and I develop Android apps, among other things.
andy··on Welcoming Fabric to Google
Let's hope it doesn't end up like Adwhirl. :(
andy··on Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to Staff
My thoughts are with this man. I was also put on an employee improvement plan at a company previously.
andy··on The Challenge of Consciousness
According to the article, there are 85 billion neurons in the brain. Bill Gates has a net worth of 85 billion dollars. That's interesting I think. When I read 85 billion neurons I thought that's not really that much considering.... and I wonder how much Mark Zuckerberg is worth - then I Googled who's the richest and saw Bill Gates had 85B.
andy··on Visual Studio for Mac Preview
Thank you, the problem is now resolved for me.
andy··on Visual Studio for Mac Preview
Sure here are the logs:

[art] Not late-enabling -Xcheck:jni (already on) [AndroidRuntime] Shutting down VM [AndroidRuntime] FATAL EXCEPTION: main [AndroidRuntime] Process: com.greenrobot.testapp, PID: 3218 [AndroidRuntime] java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider mono.MonoRuntimeProvider: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to find application Mono.Android.Platform.ApiLevel_23 or Xamarin.Android.Platform! [AndroidRuntime] at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:5156) [AndroidRuntime] at android.app.ActivityThread.installContentProviders(ActivityThread.java:4748) [AndroidRuntime] at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4688) [AndroidRuntime] at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap1(ActivityThread.java) [AndroidRuntime] at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1405) [AndroidRuntime] at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) [AndroidRuntime] at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148) [AndroidRuntime] at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417) [AndroidRuntime] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) [AndroidRuntime] at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726) [AndroidRuntime] at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616) [AndroidRuntime] Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to find application Mono.Android.Platform.ApiLevel_23 or Xamarin.Android.Platform! [AndroidRuntime] at mono.MonoRuntimeProvider.attachInfo(MonoRuntimeProvider.java:38) [AndroidRuntime] at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:5153) [AndroidRuntime] ... 10 more [AndroidRuntime] Caused by: android.content.pm.PackageManager$NameNotFoundException: Xamarin.Android.Platform [AndroidRuntime] at android.app.ApplicationPackageManager.getApplicationInfo(ApplicationPackageManager.java:304) [AndroidRuntime] at mono.MonoRuntimeProvider.attachInfo(MonoRuntimeProvider.java:32) [AndroidRuntime] ... 11 more [Process] Sending signal. PID: 3218 SIG: 9

Email me at andy@greenrobot.com if you have any questions and don't want to post them publicly.

andy··on Visual Studio for Mac Preview
My feedback on Visual Studio for Mac: I created a basic mobile application. I didn't write any code - just started with a new application and clicked run. When I launched it for iOS it worked. When I launched it for Android it crashed immediately. OK...
andy··on Maple Match
No Android version of Maple Match? Try Dating eh: https://datingeh.com
andy··on Ask HN: Who is firing?
Yes, I liked being a contractor for that reason.
andy··on Ask HN: Who is firing?
Something funny is they granted me some additional stock options which I did not purchase after my negative review and before they fired me. Being fired was actually a surprise to me, I thought I had improved at least a little bit.
andy··on Ask HN: Who is firing?
I'm not looking to sue Wickr! I am sure I was fired not laid off. I don't bring up to people on interviews that I was fired. I wait for them to ask. I have my own company, so I am even considering taking Wickr completely off my resume completely. I don't know.
andy··on Ask HN: Who is firing?
I was fired from Wickr.com a few months after their layoffs.

I was fired from Wickr a few months ago. The given reason was they considered me not a Senior Android Developer and that was my title - I asked too many questions apparently. My manager indicated that if my title had been Android Developer there probably would not have been a problem. I don't care about titles really. I was hired in 2014 as a contractor for 3 months, and then they converted me to a salaried employee. I'm currently searching for a job. I'm finding it challenging to find my next job I think due to disclosing that I was fired from Wickr after a performance review and me being there 2 years doesn't help. The interesting thing is the performance review was held in December 2015, a few months after some layoffs where I was not affected but coworkers were. Another interesting thing is Wickr HR person told us that during the performance review to not expect any surprises. However, this underperformance was a complete surprise to me. I had never been notified. Personally, I would prefer to be laid off vs fired, even if it means a few months less of salary. It was very easy for me to obtain the job at Wickr. I wasn't asked hardly any technical questions and just did a phone screen, never met in person. One thing is I liked being a contractor at Wickr because I was paid for hours worked. The CTO was very insistent about us working overtime, meaning nights and weekends. I complained to him about this overtime requirement without getting paid in an email about a month before my performance review. The reason I emailed was because we were just in a scrum meeting where management was asking us for feedback on how the sprint went.

andy··on Ask HN: How to make a career working remotely?
There are a variety of good sites that allow remote job postings. I'm looking now.

- https://stackoverflow.com/jobs

- https://angel.co

- https://remoteok.io/

- https://weworkremotely.com

Good luck.

andy··on EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practices, fine expected
What email service do you use? I think Google is secure and they have never deleted or altered an email of mine as far as I know.
andy··on EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practices, fine expected
Apple should really consider supporting the use of external email clients when clicking on a mailto: link. Reminding me of a deceitful lawyer, they allowed you to remove default email client, however even if you have Gmail.app installed and tap on a mailto: link it displays a popup telling you to install Mail.app instead of allowing you to choose Gmail or another Email client. Same for http/https links. I prefer to use 1Pasword instead of Safari.
andy··on Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects
I know what you mean about needing a solution with lots of storage. I have Linode servers, and I'm at 90% disk space usage on one of them. They just upgraded the ram on all servers, but what I really need is more disk space. I'm nowhere near hitting the bandwidth limit, just need more space.
andy··on An Expensive Law Degree, and No Place to Use It
OMG, I haven't paid him that much. I mean his lifetime earnings on upwork. I paid him for a total of a few hours. That's all I needed.
andy··on An Expensive Law Degree, and No Place to Use It
I have paid a lawyer on Upwork $125/hour for a few hours to create TOS, Privacy, DMCA policy for my apps and sites. In total, he has worked 1947 hours: $243K. edit: that's his lifetime earnings across 84 different jobs, not how much I paid him. I paid him total of a couple hundred bucks.
andy··on United States of Paranoia: A growing tribe of troubled minds
Thank you salgernon, everything is fine now with me, but I will never forget what happened to me. I wrote my blog before Snowden, btw.
andy··on United States of Paranoia: A growing tribe of troubled minds
It's not paranoia if they're really after you. Read my blog at http://surroundedbyspies1.tumblr.com. I have written about 1) Cops trying to get me to talk about Muslims in a bar, after posting a lot of anti Muslim stuff online about ground zero mosque. 2) Finding a user avatar of Osama Bin Laden on the profile of a contractor I paid, reporting it to the FBI, and being involuntarily committed few weeks later for 20 days. 3) Being recruited by the UN and then finding proof via Rapportive gmail tool that they were spying on me via someone I fell in love with on Twitter. I wrote Rapportive asking about the proof and Rapportive stopped using Rapleaf, their data provider, that day. The service Rapportive is named for. We are not all delusional.
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