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Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by muzani »

travisgriggs wrote: post #73

Started doing the Jetpack Compose tutorial(s) for like the 3rd time and thought: "Everything changes, but nothing changes. I am paid to stay atop this schizophrenic elephant of an industry." Then took another gulp of ItsGonnaBeBetterThisTime KoolAid.

We've implemented Compose in production for a few months now. It's actually been my favorite new thing.

Most of the new stuff increases the time it takes to get work done, but Compose appears to reduce it by half on simple tasks, and a lot more on complex tasks. There's also some stuff on View tech debt which isn't less apparent, but I think Compose is here to stay.

The official tutorials are quite bad though. Probably better to try building something, paying for a book, or just reverse engineering something off GitHub.

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by irrational »

muzani wrote: post #147
irrational wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d never heard of blind. I downloaded the app to try it out. Oh, they need my work email for verification? Hell no. I understand the rationale, but they do know that IT can see all my work emails, right?

They just use it to verify where you work. It's so people don't just falsely claim to be at Meta or whatever, but it doesn't keep people from lying about their workplace anyway. Enough people use Blind that HR/IT shouldn't care.

So they will not send an email to my work email box for me to click on a link for verification? Them sending an actual email to my email account is what I’m worried about.

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by marginalia_nu »

BonoboIO wrote: post #165
marginalia_nu wrote: post #60

A while back I changed my search engine's crawl data to be ZSTD compressed JSON. It's a bit finnicky to work with, but I'm beginning to realize just how powerful this is. Could literally just do find -name \*.zstd -exec zstdcat {} \; | jq 'first(select(.doc|select(.!=null)|.[].headers|select(.!=null)|test("[xX]-[aA]dblock-[kK]ey")))' and it spewed out samples of domains with a header like X-Adblock-Key. (I'm not grea…

So the Domain squatter pays to let Adblockers show ads on their sites?

Yeah, appears to be something like that. Very convenient for me.

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by travisgriggs »

muzani wrote: post #171
travisgriggs wrote: post #73

Started doing the Jetpack Compose tutorial(s) for like the 3rd time and thought: "Everything changes, but nothing changes. I am paid to stay atop this schizophrenic elephant of an industry." Then took another gulp of ItsGonnaBeBetterThisTime KoolAid.

We've implemented Compose in production for a few months now. It's actually been my favorite new thing. Most of the new stuff increases the time it takes to get work done, but Compose appears to reduce it by half on simple tasks, and a lot more on complex tasks. There's also some stuff on View tech debt which isn't less apparent, but I think Compose is here to stay. The official tutorials are quite bad though. Probab…

In some ways I like it already as well. Doing things in code instead of XML is nice. My real struggle is knowing what different citizens of the Android lineage are are "current".

Views and ViewGroups are kinda out. But ViewModels are still Good. I have no idea about Fragments and Activities and Intents. It's like every class in the system needs one of 3 badges: "Still a Club Member", "Stinky Poo Poo, DONT use this anymore", "Use if you have to, but we're hoping to make this go away some day, so keep your eyes out here."

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