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Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by dang » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 2:25 AM UTC

johansch wrote: post #54

4ad wrote: post #51

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> And 99% of the Bulgarian visitors to Sweden spend their time sitting on the ground in front of supermarket entrances. So I guess that is what the 99% of people inside Bulgaria do as well? Wow. I never saw anyone on HN get so low. Ever. In more than 9 years. It appears I was right about you.

Your account is five years old, not nine. Anyway, good night.

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Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by nanospeck » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 2:39 AM UTC

duaneb wrote: post #2

Thank you. I've been missing this from my toolset after paying for it.

Just curious to know, what are the other apps in your toolset?

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by girvo » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 3:33 AM UTC

Aldo_MX wrote: post #66

wineisfine wrote: post #40

Nice that he did opensourced it. I personally never understood why this tool was so popular to start off with though. I often found myself using the original doc sites instead.

When you have a fast and stable internet connection you hardly appreciate how useful it is to read offline docs. When you don't, it is a godsend.

Definitely. When I got the train from the Gold Coast to Brisbane (1 hour, with really spotty phone coverage) it was my life-saver!

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by alexpersian » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 3:39 AM UTC

wineisfine wrote: post #40

Nice that he did opensourced it. I personally never understood why this tool was so popular to start off with though. I often found myself using the original doc sites instead.

It's enormously useful to have all your documentation available in a single place. Along with that, the sidebar makes finding relevant methods and properties very easy.

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by _pr » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:42 AM UTC

AsyncAwait wrote: post #64

johansch wrote: post #30

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That is not an excuse. I can understand why Apple went forward, even after bending backwards to work with him. (And I'm really not an Apple apologist; please do checkout my post history if you're so inclined.)

> That is not an excuse. I can understand why Apple went forward, Mind explaining it to us, I don't understand Apple's reasoning here after they said to him to send them the blog post.

He ran his mouth one more time.

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by badminton1 » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 5:06 AM UTC

fnord123 wrote: post #59

A similar program on Linux (or, I guess many platforms) is Zeal: https://zealdocs.org/ It's alright.

Zeal can use Dash docsets automatically.

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by KingMob » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 5:13 AM UTC

broderboy wrote: post #73

nkjoep wrote: post #22

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They suggest this plugins ( http://devdocs.io/about ): - Chrome web app - Sublime Text plugin - Atom plugin - Brackets extension - Emacs Package

Can't beat using Alfred to search Dash from anywhere

Yup, just make a custom search for "http://devdocs.io/#q={query}".

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by rsfinn » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 5:46 AM UTC

Oh, lord, I hate to be That Guy, but it looks like Bogdan has included an older version of Gus Mueller's FMDB library " rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb> but has failed to include a copy of the MIT License that governs them. Probably just an oversight, but...

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by ClassyJacket » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 6:16 AM UTC

flixic wrote: post #15

johansch wrote: post #6

So this is the Romanian guy who was called out for blaming his "family member" for spamming the app store with paid ratings of his apps, while using his bank account for the Apple Developer connection? ... All after pretending to be innocent and causing many, many developers to rally for him, without knowing he manipulated them? How about we just ignore him and don't continue to reward him with attention?

Let's not judge so quickly and surely. There are still many things we don't know, and we have heard a story from him that makes sense, and I find plausible. What if he really is mostly innocent? More importantly, Dash app is still great, probably the best for documentation browsing, and now iOS counterpart is restored in some way. Isn't it a great move from his side, considering the circumstances? Shouldn't we celebr…

More to the point, shouldn't it be up to us if we want to install the app or not, not just Apple? They can kick him out of the store, of course, but we should still be able to side load (without this open source compiling manually method).

If Android had a phone and watch small enough for me I'd love to change over, but their devices are all for giants (and have no fitness features and not enough privacy features).

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 6:36 AM UTC

rahimnathwani wrote: post #79

houli wrote: post #43

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From my experience apps only need to be re-signed once every 90 days. Not quite as much of a hassle but still one nonetheless

It used to be 90 days, but AFAIK it's now 7 days if you don't have a paid subscription (1 year if you do). Also there's a 10-app limit. I discovered this recently as I wanted to install Kodi on my iPad. I'm not an iOS developer, and can't bring myself to pay an annual subscription just so I can install open source software on my own device.

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