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Yeah, I've got a lot of tooling in Go and have been building some workflows on top of herdr, so a Go version of the same concept is a bit nicer to work with for me. I'll have to play with it a bit more later. Which PTY are you using?

This looks nice. But I'm curious -- you're clearly inspired by https://herdr.dev (me too) but you must have had some reason to build your own version. So what's unique or what did you want to change?

Just use https://tinfoil.sh

They solved all this stuff, I'm surprised more people aren't aware of it.

Are you still working on this? Because I like the words I see on your GitHub -- vim-style bindings, keyboard driven, sounds like you write a definition language for your designs, basically?

Lik Matry is to Figma as openscad is to traditional CAD (Fusion 360, etc)?

Though that does sound like a huge project to take on!

Sorry for the unsolicited advice, but I wanted to share something that was counterintuitive and made a big difference for me.

Not sure what types of exercise you are doing or your background (I could be more specific if you shared, feel free to email me) but in general I find most untrained to moderately trained people exercise at too high an intensity most of the time. Feeling like exercise is torture, and having lower cognitive function afterwards are also strong indicators of this.

Most exercise should actually feel quite easy — perhaps an 80/20 split of easy exercise days to hard exercise days is ideal. For example, if you were running you might switch between running and walking to keep your heart rate at a pretty low level (zone 1 or 2) in some sort of structured program that ramps up intensity over time but keeps you in these lower heart rate zones 80% of your exercise time.

For me personally I started enjoying exercise and getting a lot more out of it after making most of it feel "too easy"!

I'm not sure why you'd want to include AirBnBs and second houses in your measurement vacancy measurement — they aren't available for rent.

Location tracking requires specific permission from the user, not as part of installation. I think you're a bit out of date.

https://developer.android.com/distribute/best-practices/deve...

Carin is awesome. Author of such classics as Hitchhiker's Guide To Clojure [1] and World Domination With Hexapods and Clojure [2]. And I think she has a book coming out soonish? Thanks gigasquid, this was a lovely warmup to start my day.

[1]: http://hitchhikersclojure.com/

[2]: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2014/03/20/world-dominatio...

In the same genre, I watch this when I need a touch of inspiration. They're quotations from The Pale Blue Dot, again with the Sagan voiceover.

http://vimeo.com/2822787

Often we forget how far we've come, and how far we have to go. It's easy to get bogged down in the minutiae of regular life. When I listen to Carl Sagan sometimes I feel like I've glimpsed a bigger perspective.

Ha! A) Because I love Double-Doubles. B) Because it's more than 2 year old (before there really was a hamburger icon on Android). It's completely redesigned in the next version, though.

Oh, thanks for the reminder. I fixed it a few days ago and did a staged rollout but forgot to push it to everyone. I've done that so it should update for you soon.

Because it can be better designed, use common design / navigation patterns of your mobile OS, notify you when you get a reply, change the text size, change the theme, have richer animations, and allow you to automatically share content from other applications directly to HN?

I'm not blaming you. It just feels bad, you know? I'll definitely email you in the future about stuff like this. And don't get me wrong, it will be great to be able to throw out the cruft that comes along with parsing the current layout. The app is engineered to be able to drop in a new API pretty quick since I thought something like this would happen eventually.

It would help me out a lot if the current front end would live on under oldnews.ycombinator.com like that until the new API has write access, though. I think it's pretty cool to be able to be reading an article somewhere else, click "Share" in Android and have "Submit to HN" pop up in the results.

Oh, I'm well aware. I've had to push many quick fixes when some field gets renamed, etc. It's really not the API change that bothers me, more the lack of features. But hopefully they can add those things soon and I can re-enable them down the road.

Thanks! I think you'll like the new version whenever it gets finished :)

This... is cool, but also kinda sucks for me. I've invested dozens of hours into writing an extremely complicated scraper for my Android version of HN.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...

The newest version (still under development, probably a month or two from release) adds support for displaying polls, linking to subthreads, and full write support (voting, commenting, submitting, etc). I'm fine with switching to a new API (Square's Retrofit will make it super easy to switch), but without submitting, commenting, and upvote support I have to disable a bunch of features I worked really hard on. Also it would've been cool to know this was coming about 3 months ago so I didn't waste my time.

Anyways, quick question on how it works -- when I query for the list of top stories

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=...

it just returns a list of ids. Do I have to make a separate request for each story

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json?print=p...)

to assemble them into a list for the front page, or am I missing something?

I was going to ask -- isn't this exactly like Hydra? But some Googling indicates it's the same project and was renamed. Explanation of the name change here:

http://sdegutis.github.io/2014/08/11/the-history-and-current...

Just tried out the beta. I can't import Adobe Illustrator files yet (their forums says this is coming later). But otherwise it seems like a pretty good replacement. The panning and zooming is much better that AI. You can also use keyboard arrows to scroll through fonts and it shows up immediately, which is another thing about AI that has always annoyed me. I don't see any support for scripting (which I like to use to export icons), but it is a beta.

Please yes (on the Light Table demo). I know my way around ClojureScript, and I cannot get the Om TODOMVC demo to run in Light Table. If I get it figured out, I guess I'll be the one writing the tutorial, but so far no dice.

And Python.

Very cool of the people doing the matching donations. I'm always happy to do anything I can to help the EFF. But now, more than ever, it feels like they might be our best chance to avoid dystopia.

But considering the size of the tech industry and the amount of money the internet / technology is making all of us, I'm sometimes surprised by how small the EFF is. Does anyone have any thoughts on why the EFF isn't larger and better funded like most other industry groups?

SEEKING WORK - Salt Lake City, Utah OR Remote

I specialize in Android development (although I sometimes also work with Clojure & Python/Django). I work fast and write modular, well-documented code. I've used a large portion of the Android SDK, including writing totally custom views & controls, mapping, syncing to a local db, integrating with JSON / XML APIs, image manipulation, and resolving memory & performance problems.

I also make the best Hacker News app for Android (at least Play Store search algorithm thinks so), you should check it out:

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...

Source on Github: https://github.com/bishopmatthew/hackernews

Website + Portfolio: http://airlocksoftware.com/

Recently, I've been working on apps for Tommy Hilfiger and an online dating startup.

I'm have some availability starting in about a week, so if you need my help get in touch. I'd especially love to be involved from before the first line of code, but I do have a lot of experience saving apps-gone-wrong & doing Android versions of iOS apps.

You can reach me via email - matt@airlocksoftware.com

SEEKING WORK - Salt Lake City, Utah - Remote

Experienced developer primarily working with Android (plus Clojure & a little bit of Python / Django). I make the best Hacker News app for Android (at least Play Store search algorithm thinks so), you should check it out:

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...

Source on Github: https://github.com/bishopmatthew/hackernews

Website + Portfolio: http://airlocksoftware.com/ (also pretty awesome, if I do say so myself)

Some recent work includes apps for Tommy Hilfiger, Best Western, and a not-to-be-named major U.S. health & fitness company.

Available part time for the short term, and potentially more in the long term. I'd especially love to be involved from before the first line of code, but I do have a lot of experience saving apps-gone-wrong & doing Android versions of iOS apps.

$65 / hour

Get in touch via email - matt@airlocksoftware.com

Kinda tangential, but mentioning threads brought it up. I have core.async on the brain, so I was just wondering if you've looked at it or plan on using it for anything. David Nolen had a cool example using it for event handling.

It's pretty brand new, so I don't think there are any "real" projects using it yet. But you can check out this example repo from David Nolen (the blog posts author) for some more examples.

https://github.com/swannodette/async-tests

Cool stuff! A couple of days ago I listened to Rich Hickey talk more about core.async on the most recent ThinkRelevance podcast:

http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2013/07/10/rich-hickey-and-co...

I've written a few client side projects in ClojureScript, and I haven't been totally happy with the way I end up doing event handling. I'm excited to give this a try.

By the way, I love that this is the sort of thing you can do with just a _library_ in Clojure.

You should add an "email me when the Mac version is ready" signup form. Because I will forget about this if you don't remind me, but I'm willing to buy as long as the price isn't significantly higher.

If you want to manually email me when it's done my address is in on my profile page.

This looks really cool!

I've been developing Android apps for a couple of years now. On my machine, Eclipse degenerated to the point where building and running an app would lock up my machine for about a minute. So I made the switch to IntelliJ. It's been great so far, much more responsive. But there have been a few Android tools from Eclipse (the layout preview is worse in IntelliJ) that I've missed. So I'm insanely excited that the Android team is going to be building off of IntelliJ now.

The next thing I'm waiting for is the new, Gradle based, build system. http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system

Thanks for the feedback, Paul! As to your points:

1) I'd have to look into how I would make the "tap and hold" to select text work. In the meantime, if you long press on a comment and click "Share", it will bring up the sharing menu. Then you can select to either share a link to the comment, or the actual text of the comment (which you can then email, SMS, open in Evernote, etc.)

2) That's coming when I have a chance to work on the app again (busy busy!)

3) It's that way to save horizontal space when you're on a phone and the comments get nested deeply. Was it particularly confusing as a first time user?

You can email me if you have any other questions or just open an issue on Github. My email and Github are in my profile.

Thanks! And I know; it's coming. I'm just really busy with other stuff, and it's been a while since I worked on it so it would take me a while to context switch.