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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 brudgers »

plauncher wrote: post #56
mcjiggerlog wrote: post #41

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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.

Don't worry about drinchev, it is very common in Bulgaria to point out flaws whenever someone else is doing something, instead of congratulating how awesome the work is. It is not personal, just cultural.

Behaviors contrary to Hacker News's culture are common to many national cultures and most sites on the internet. That does not make them appropriate here.

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

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Post by sidcool »

pikzen wrote: post #82

Years of work can still amount to absolute crap. You're not shielded from criticism because your software is free.

There's difference between arrogant criticism and constructive feedback. Most of those who rudely criticize are those who rarely create anything. Instead they are mostly into commentaries.

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

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Post by pikzen »

aeze wrote: post #89
pikzen wrote: post #85

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>Who cares if it... I care, because it's a waste of resources, I care because I don't need a daemon written in JS running in a loop sucking up my laptop battery, I care because I like it when my software doesn't randomly get in a loop maxing out a core, I care because I like it when my software is able to push out 60FPS animations. You know, things Electron doesn't provide. I get it, HTML+CSS is probably the fastest…

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?

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

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Post by vortico »

ue_ wrote: post #83
unhammer wrote: post #17

There are quite a few of these Quicksilver-clones these days: * Ulauncher http://ulauncher.io/ * Albert https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert#albert- * Synapse https://launchpad.net/synapse-project * Kupfer https://kupferlauncher.github.io/ * Zazu http://zazuapp.org/ * M-x counsel-linux-app http://oremacs.com/2016/03/16/counsel-linux-app/ I've tried a couple, but I always end up back to Alt+F2 in XFCE, since most…

Rofi is fast, customisable and nice.

+1, it's the fastest of all that I've tried. It doesn't do too much out of the box, but it takes a couple frames to launch, as opposed to >1s for many of the alternatives.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

pikzen wrote: post #85
Blahah wrote: post #60

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I feel completely the opposite way. > It's terrible. It's awesome. Who cares if it takes more memory than someone would expect? That doesn't matter unless you're on a memory constrained system, in which case it's hardly the fault of developers looking to be productive. Electron is here to stay, and it is greatly improving the desktop app ecosystem imo. > if you try to attract developer community with plugins and you…

>Who cares if it... I care, because it's a waste of resources, I care because I don't need a daemon written in JS running in a loop sucking up my laptop battery, I care because I like it when my software doesn't randomly get in a loop maxing out a core, I care because I like it when my software is able to push out 60FPS animations. You know, things Electron doesn't provide. I get it, HTML+CSS is probably the fastest…

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

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Post by pikzen »

sidcool wrote: post #92
pikzen wrote: post #82

Years of work can still amount to absolute crap. You're not shielded from criticism because your software is free.

There's difference between arrogant criticism and constructive feedback. Most of those who rudely criticize are those who rarely create anything. Instead they are mostly into commentaries.

Aaaaah, the good old "you shouldn't critize if you haven't created anything argument". Easily applied to "you can't criticize music if you haven't recorded an album" and "Why are you criticizing this movie you haven't even filmed a blockbuster".

Commentaries have a valid point, with or without creation.

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

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Post by murukesh_s »

randiantech wrote: post #69
izacus wrote: post #55

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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".

This app took at least many months of work of the developer, who, by the way, is giving it for free. No need to be harsh or disqualify him. IF you dont like it, move on.

There is nothing wrong in using Electron. What if Electron folks release a JRE sort of thing - a one time install that can support multiple Electron apps by sharing the underlying Chromium libraries. At that point we can bring down the app size to couple of mbs at max. And we can keep the same codebase without changing a single line of code.

Regarding memory usage, it is indeed a memory hog and would require at least 100mb of memory per app. The only way we can see an improvement there is the Chromium guys doing some serious tuning to reduce the memory usage(Leakage perhaps?). Also not sure if we can even share the runtime between processes (Like windows dll), if that is possible, then we can hope to even bring the memory usage down.

Instead of forcing developers to learn different programming language and APIs for each operating system, we should as a community think about improving ways to make Electron or something similar even better.

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

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Post by wirddin »

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…

I feel the same way. Whenever I see an app compatible with all three platforms, I check if it's built on electron.

The less electron-based running apps, the better. The only electron app I (sometimes) use is Atom.

I have switched to slack on browser, instead of the app.

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

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Post by fredsir »

codingdave wrote: post #84

Is finding things such a pain point for many people? I work with a few tools/programs, and a few locations where my documents and data live. I know where those are and go to them so often it takes no effort. The few times I do need to go elsewhere, the tools that come with the OS work fine. So, sure, great, more power to you if you want to write a tool like this. I'm just not feeling the pain that would make me have…

I don't use my mouse for navigation if I can help it. With Alfred (similar tool to this) I can navigation to any folder on my system, any contact, search on duckduckgo, translate words/sentences/currency, navigate my clipboard, restart/shutdown/lock my computer, open any app with just a keyboard shortcut and a few letters that specify what I'm going for.

It's like a very precise search engine for your personal machine.

It's amazing how great it works, and not having that available when I'm using a computer ruins things for me.

If that is not enough, Alfred also has lots of other awesome features.

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