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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

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Post by Blahah »

rimantas wrote: post #128
Blahah wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or maybe the app works great and nobody cares what technology you wish had been used.

We have already established this is not the case.

No, we haven't. A bunch of people have used the app (including me) and said nice things about it. Then some other people have spouted vitriol about the fact that it's made with electron. Frankly all we've established is that a lot of people are bitter about electron and don't have the basic manners required to take part in a constructive technology community.

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

#133

Post by mememachine »

gregparadee wrote: post #115

Some of the comments in this thread are the exact opposite thing I would expect from this community and it is shameful. It's unfortunate that the top comment is one of these which could steer some people away from reading further. As many others in this thread have pointed out, Cerebro is a pretty cool app that borrows from some core OS functionality and improves on it. Is its design 100% perfect? Maybe not. However,…

I actually find comments like yours far more obnoxious than level-headed criticism. This communities purpose is not to be a marketing team for whoever wants to post here. Criticism is much more edifying than blind support.

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

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Post by 0xCMP »

izacus wrote: post #55
popey456963 wrote: post #46

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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 li…

Choosing Electron kinda by definition means that you as a developer chose the easy way when developing the app and decided to compromise on user experience, performance and disk space to save a bit of time. It's an antithesis of "working hard".

How ironic is it that if the OP, and those supporting them, had spent some time and not taken the easy route they could have rewritten their entire idea in a constructive way which would have not set off the shit storm occurring on this post...

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

#135

Post by gwn7 »

a_t48 wrote: post #130
gwn7 wrote: post #121

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I think that you are focusing on "rudeness" too much. This is the internet. And this is a (mainly) hacker community -who are not known for their politeness-, and good engineering matters for hackers. (as it should) I think that this is the perfect medium for rudeness. The whole reason people post their projects here is to get criticism of any kind. If one is disheartened because of a rude comment, one needs to grow u…

> And this is a (mainly) hacker community -who are not known for their politeness- And you hold this up as an ideal rather than something we can improve upon? Tone matters. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. If you want to act differently than in real life, this is not the site.

Good point.

I might be wrong.

I was trying to say that everybody needs to learn how to deal with rude people/comments.

This does not justify the bad tone nonetheless.

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

#136

Post by pikzen »

spoiler wrote: post #104
pikzen wrote: post #93

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rm -rf ~/cerebro-electron && mkdir ~/cerebro && touch main.cpp is a valid option, right?

And now you have an empty file with all the functionality of the original app! Hooray!

Probably not _all_ the functionality, but damn it is fast.

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

#137

Post by Mithaldu »

0xCMP wrote: post #134
izacus wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Choosing Electron kinda by definition means that you as a developer chose the easy way when developing the app and decided to compromise on user experience, performance and disk space to save a bit of time. It's an antithesis of "working hard".

How ironic is it that if the OP, and those supporting them, had spent some time and not taken the easy route they could have rewritten their entire idea in a constructive way which would have not set off the shit storm occurring on this post...

They could've said it nicer, but i don't think there's a constructive way to say "either rewrite it without electron or start whittling down the electron code-base to remove all the stuff your app doesn't use".

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

#138

Post by Gatsky »

pikzen wrote: post #93
aeze wrote: post #89

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Good thing it's open source, so you can attempt to improve it if you'd like. :)

rm -rf ~/cerebro-electron && mkdir ~/cerebro && touch main.cpp is a valid option, right?

Try

sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid/

and we'll all be better off.

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

#139

Post by wmccullough »

mememachine wrote: post #133
gregparadee wrote: post #115

Some of the comments in this thread are the exact opposite thing I would expect from this community and it is shameful. It's unfortunate that the top comment is one of these which could steer some people away from reading further. As many others in this thread have pointed out, Cerebro is a pretty cool app that borrows from some core OS functionality and improves on it. Is its design 100% perfect? Maybe not. However,…

I actually find comments like yours far more obnoxious than level-headed criticism. This communities purpose is not to be a marketing team for whoever wants to post here. Criticism is much more edifying than blind support.

The problem I see in this community is that much of the time, many aren't providing criticism. If it were only criticism, I'd even agree. The truth is that the so called "criticism" is really armchair quarterbacking most of the time.

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

#140

Post by pikzen »

Gatsky wrote: post #138
pikzen wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

rm -rf ~/cerebro-electron && mkdir ~/cerebro && touch main.cpp is a valid option, right?

Try sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid/ and we'll all be better off.

Meh, I can probably find a PS/2 keyboard somewhere to come contribute to HN.
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