If you're already familiar with iOS, you might enjoy using Kotlin Native. KotlinConf has a demo app for iOS written in Kotlin Native: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlinconf-app
Man, how did I miss this? I'll check this out! Thanks!
The Hacker News Habit
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#22Like most of you, I come here regularly and I go to the comments first (most of the time), but I add most of the articles that I'd like to read to Pocket (a read-it-later tool) so that I prioritize what I want to read at a later time when I have more time.
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#23To cure your HN problem on a macbook, open a terminal: $ sudo su; $ echo "127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com" >> /etc/hosts
I've tried this. The problem is I also know
$ sudo vim /etc/hosts
Gdd:wq
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#24I believe Chrome's auto-complete has a lot to do with how many times I check HN and other websites. It's automatic... I open a new tab and three key strokes and I'm here.
Does anyone know of an existing way to disable auto-complete just for some websites? I still need it for work related stuff, but I bet that if I had to type everything all the time it would be easier to prevent constant checks.
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#25Great idea! I guess I'll throw out a shameless plug for my side-project, https://hackernewsletter.com, which is a weekly newsletter filled with the posts I thought were worth a read.
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#26I scrolled some paragraphs without reading and read "Unfocused Reading is a Terrible Thing to Do". Oops.
Hahaha, how meta. Scrolled through the comments and read this. Ok I'll read more than the article title now
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#27After trying several approaches what I found more useful is to have thumbnails[0] to skim HN faster..
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#28Impressive that you went "Android first" even though you were already familiar with iOS development! Kudos for that. I often click to read the HN comments first , because they are often full of insight and interesting links. (This is also why I read HN from a custom #newsyc channel in our work Slack that posts links once they hit 20 points: it allows time for initial comments to accumulate, and Slack helpfully keeps…
I read the comments first as well. It's often a good indicator of whether or not the article is worth reading. And more often than not there are better references in the comments than the original source. Would be really interested in that Slack bot if you have the source handy.
I read the comments because HN is a lightweight and quick site and I don’t know how slow the target page might be.
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#29There's no doubt that I spent a lot of time on HN, but there have been at least a few times that I've learned of things that directly impact my work first here. Off the top of my head, I knew that Sentry had rolled out hosted instance that were HIPAA-compliant when my team was about to install it and host it internally. That knowledge let us outsource it to them and ultimately save a good deal of time and money. More…
Agreed. I haven't quantified it but I would ballpark I come across 25+ things per year that directly save me significant hours of work, lead me to much better solutions to a problem, provide a lead that would help me with investing/employment/helping a friend/etc. That in addition to the intellectual stimulation and enjoyment from the other articles is why I don't feel bad about spending ~30 minutes a day here everyday. Warren Buffett supposedly has read the WSJ for decades every morning. I think to many of us here this is our WSJ.
Finally, for years I've used HN as the fastest way to check my internet connection. :)
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#30There's no doubt that I spent a lot of time on HN, but there have been at least a few times that I've learned of things that directly impact my work first here. Off the top of my head, I knew that Sentry had rolled out hosted instance that were HIPAA-compliant when my team was about to install it and host it internally. That knowledge let us outsource it to them and ultimately save a good deal of time and money. More…
I consider it professional development too. Something I like about HN is that the comments are typically fact based or coming from a constructive place. Very little have I received the Reddit or Twitter discussion responses of expletives followed by insults (though I’ve probably called one or two people some bad things).
This place has gotten me interested in so much more than the tech ecosystem I live in.