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Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

#41

Post by mcjiggerlog »

drinchev wrote: post #36

OMG, another electron app that is meant to run as a daemon. It's terrible. I already have hard times with Slack taking more memory than i would expect from a chat. Yeah, I know that it's super hard to make native GUI these days, but please if you try to attract developer community with plugins and you have a relatively simple app, don't choose electron for that. Examples of good ol' native desktop apps : twitter for…

Wow, some of the comments in this thread are pretty harsh considering the developer has worked hard on providing what looks to me like a pretty cool free app. Nobody is forcing you to install it.

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Post by pymai »

drinchev wrote: post #36

OMG, another electron app that is meant to run as a daemon. It's terrible. I already have hard times with Slack taking more memory than i would expect from a chat. Yeah, I know that it's super hard to make native GUI these days, but please if you try to attract developer community with plugins and you have a relatively simple app, don't choose electron for that. Examples of good ol' native desktop apps : twitter for…

sure native apps would be great, but this guy seems to be doing this in his free time. i doubt he has time to learn and make native apps on all three os's

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

#44

Post by WildUtah »

SFJulie wrote: post #29
faragon wrote: post #12

"Cerebro" in Spanish means "brain".

Not even close, it is the «brain» as invented by Pr Xavier in X-men. Spanish must have stolen it in an alternate universe when the X-men went back in time fighting the spanish inquisition disguised as lumberjacks and it's ok.

Hm.

I don't expect it that it was the Spanish Inquisition.

Cerebrō was Latin for brain before it was Spanish, so probably it's some kind of Future Past thing with the Colosseum. Which explains why it's so beat up, but not how Magneto lifted it when the Romans didn't have steel-reinforced concrete.

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

#45

Post by juandazapata »

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #41
drinchev wrote: post #36

OMG, another electron app that is meant to run as a daemon. It's terrible. I already have hard times with Slack taking more memory than i would expect from a chat. Yeah, I know that it's super hard to make native GUI these days, but please if you try to attract developer community with plugins and you have a relatively simple app, don't choose electron for that. Examples of good ol' native desktop apps : twitter for…

Wow, some of the comments in this thread are pretty harsh considering the developer has worked hard on providing what looks to me like a pretty cool free app. Nobody is forcing you to install it.

So, people shouldn't be able to comment their point of view because the developer worked hard?

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

#46

Post by popey456963 »

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #41
drinchev wrote: post #36

OMG, another electron app that is meant to run as a daemon. It's terrible. I already have hard times with Slack taking more memory than i would expect from a chat. Yeah, I know that it's super hard to make native GUI these days, but please if you try to attract developer community with plugins and you have a relatively simple app, don't choose electron for that. Examples of good ol' native desktop apps : twitter for…

Wow, some of the comments in this thread are pretty harsh considering the developer has worked hard on providing what looks to me like a pretty cool free app. Nobody is forcing you to install it.

Completely agree. Electron is free, easy to use and doesn't take much effort. Although it isn't the most memory efficient thing in the world, it is great at making really small applications (like this one) which developers can easily make plugins for.

Javascript is probably one of the most common languages, with Node.JS the most common server-side variant of it, allowing so very many people to contribute.

Also, we live in age where we don't have 100MB systems. At the moment the program is using a whole 30MB, which constitutes about 0.4% of my 8GB system.

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Post by drinchev »

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #41
drinchev wrote: post #36

OMG, another electron app that is meant to run as a daemon. It's terrible. I already have hard times with Slack taking more memory than i would expect from a chat. Yeah, I know that it's super hard to make native GUI these days, but please if you try to attract developer community with plugins and you have a relatively simple app, don't choose electron for that. Examples of good ol' native desktop apps : twitter for…

Wow, some of the comments in this thread are pretty harsh considering the developer has worked hard on providing what looks to me like a pretty cool free app. Nobody is forcing you to install it.

Hey, come on.

I also had criticism in time for open source projects I worked on.

It's not about the person who did it, it's about my opinion and why I wouldn't use it.

Kudos for everyone doing open source.

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Post by [deleted] »

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #41
drinchev wrote: post #36

OMG, another electron app that is meant to run as a daemon. It's terrible. I already have hard times with Slack taking more memory than i would expect from a chat. Yeah, I know that it's super hard to make native GUI these days, but please if you try to attract developer community with plugins and you have a relatively simple app, don't choose electron for that. Examples of good ol' native desktop apps : twitter for…

Wow, some of the comments in this thread are pretty harsh considering the developer has worked hard on providing what looks to me like a pretty cool free app. Nobody is forcing you to install it.

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Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Post by [deleted] »

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #41
drinchev wrote: post #36

OMG, another electron app that is meant to run as a daemon. It's terrible. I already have hard times with Slack taking more memory than i would expect from a chat. Yeah, I know that it's super hard to make native GUI these days, but please if you try to attract developer community with plugins and you have a relatively simple app, don't choose electron for that. Examples of good ol' native desktop apps : twitter for…

Wow, some of the comments in this thread are pretty harsh considering the developer has worked hard on providing what looks to me like a pretty cool free app. Nobody is forcing you to install it.

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Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

#50

Post by popey456963 »

juandazapata wrote: post #45
mcjiggerlog wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, some of the comments in this thread are pretty harsh considering the developer has worked hard on providing what looks to me like a pretty cool free app. Nobody is forcing you to install it.

So, people shouldn't be able to comment their point of view because the developer worked hard?

I think people should be slightly less critical of design decisions enforced by a limited amount of time to work on a side-project that's free.

Comments such as "why didn't you make everything from scratch" probably aren't going to contribute much to the conversation.

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