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Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by girvo »

Svetlitski wrote: post #155
flappyeagle wrote: post #114

I want a token based keyboard with the following properties Language and syntax awareness. When I’m writing JavaScript - it should provide keys for ‘if’ ‘each’ ‘function’ etc. When I have unbalanced parens, braces etc, it should tell me how many levels deep I am and what context I’m in. Instead of me naming variables it should generate random names and let me declare with a single tap. Provide easy refactoring tools…

This reminds me of programming on a TI-84 calculator. You selected from a list of keywords (as opposed to having to type them out), and the language being TI-BASIC meant variable names were usually just one letter.

Implementing a simple program to run the quadratic formula on my TI was a lot of fun in school

Re: Replit Mobile App

#162

Post by ellis0n »

darb_ wrote: post #154
ellis0n wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have given enough facts and it is possible to generate infinite recursions. I'm a pioneer in many things, like making the first phones in the 90s. I know what unfair competition is. This is not politics, the developer Rails was killed yesterday and Linkedin is full of this. I advise you to come to Kyiv and live under Russian-Iranian investments for at least 3 days. Then back to normal world and say just 'politics'.…

You keep refusing to elaborate, and you keep saying you have examples which you wont provide, and frankly the situation in Ukraine isn’t a free pass for you to be making such boldly stupid claims without supporting them in any way, you provide zero proof for anything and just keep spouting about being a “pioneer”. Obviously I understand that the situation in Ukraine is terrible right now, and I wish you all the best…

Thank you for supporting Ukraine, but the problem is not in Ukraine. Ukraine is an example of what a global catastrophe is happening to humanity in general. You can freely kill people and steal ideas, launder money and destroy technologists. Unfortunately, the first space war is taking place in Ukraine.

I am well versed in startups and technology, so I have a big reason to believe that this is exactly the case. Unfortunately, the detailed answer at the moment is a problem for me, and much more bla-bla-bla is unacceptable. I gave the facts, everything is simple.

Re: Replit Mobile App

#163

Post by rgoulter »

golergka wrote: post #123
user3939382 wrote: post #81

This is the founder who turned into a psycho tyrant (I forget his exact words, but something to the effect of, "we're not the same small company, I have money and lawyers now") on an ex-employee for an innocent side project, threatened to sue him, etc, until it went viral and then backpedaled and offered some non-apology. I remember stuff like that and will never use this company's tools, which is a shame because I w…

What if the founder is really a bad guy, but the product company releases is useful and could really improve lives of many. Should we use it and advertise to others who might find it useful? Or should we abstain from it to punish bad behaviour? Those aren't rhetorical questions, I honestly don't know.

My sense is, if you catch someone being malicious in a situation where the power dynamic is so one sided, then be very careful before giving that person more power.

Re: Replit Mobile App

#165

Post by ellis0n »

darb_ wrote: post #154
ellis0n wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have given enough facts and it is possible to generate infinite recursions. I'm a pioneer in many things, like making the first phones in the 90s. I know what unfair competition is. This is not politics, the developer Rails was killed yesterday and Linkedin is full of this. I advise you to come to Kyiv and live under Russian-Iranian investments for at least 3 days. Then back to normal world and say just 'politics'.…

You keep refusing to elaborate, and you keep saying you have examples which you wont provide, and frankly the situation in Ukraine isn’t a free pass for you to be making such boldly stupid claims without supporting them in any way, you provide zero proof for anything and just keep spouting about being a “pioneer”. Obviously I understand that the situation in Ukraine is terrible right now, and I wish you all the best…

Also, I looking forward to a post with the technical details of my project, which may help you understand why there is no patent or why such conclusions. But need to wait for my editor

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by adenozine »

johnfn wrote: post #138

Is this the same Replit who used legal threats to shut down an open source project made by an intern after they left[1]? I don't know how anyone can in good conscience support this company. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195

This is like trying to cancel a homeowner because they spoke rudely to a home invader.

He was out of line, for sure, but he was not wrong, from what I read about the situation.

I’ve seen replit used in classroom settings both before and after that kerfuffle and it’s an extraordinary product., imho. If I were a teacher, I’d probably use it.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by stevewatson301 »

flappyeagle wrote: post #114

I want a token based keyboard with the following properties Language and syntax awareness. When I’m writing JavaScript - it should provide keys for ‘if’ ‘each’ ‘function’ etc. When I have unbalanced parens, braces etc, it should tell me how many levels deep I am and what context I’m in. Instead of me naming variables it should generate random names and let me declare with a single tap. Provide easy refactoring tools…

Seems like a good use case (and perhaps the only useful use case) for the Touch Bar, though it has been understandably deprecated now.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by nneonneo »

I love both Pythonista and play.js on iOS, and it'll be nice to have another option. The former two, though, run the code entirely on-device, but from the looks of it Replit will run code on their servers? While that's not a surprise (given repl.it's model), it's definitely a little less useful for me (personally) since it'll require a persistent internet connection to test anything, and the code won't have access to anything on your device (as far as I can tell?).

I happen to really like the way play.js lets you run a full-blown Node.js server on your iPhone with access to native socket APIs (torrent client! on your non-jailbroken iPhone!), and the way Pythonista lets you access iOS native APIs via ctypes.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by LMYahooTFY »

girvo wrote: post #159
rayhanadev wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well the open source project did actually use similar Replit internals, I don't even work for Replit but with a lot of poking at their previous APIs and their own open source softwares I was able to figure that out. TBH that whole ordeal felt like a bar brawl between and employer and a fired employee, though. Neither handled the situation correctly and both were in the wrong.

> both were in the wrong Alright, let's assume that's true for a moment, for sake of argument. One of the parties we're talking about has massively more power than the other, so I'm inclined to have higher standards for them than that of an intern.

How would you say this affects the ethics of each person's actions?

Also, it's worth noting that the replit founder issued a pretty substantial mea culpa, and explicitly let Radon put the project back up.

It didn't seem like Radon made much of a concession at all, and it's not obvious to me that he was totally in the right.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by romeoblade »

babl-yc wrote: post #80

Did anyone else learn to code on a TI-83+? Although I doubt I'd use this in a professional setting, making coding accessible to more people sounds great to me.

I ended up with a TI-86 as the cheaper ones were sold out at the time of the school supply rush.

It's the only reason I passed my math classes in high school. Luckily I kept my mouth shut so the teachers didn't know. Eventually they implemented a factory reset procedure on test day.

You would bring up the reset menu and the teacher would walk around and initiate it and confirm it.

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