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by creichenbach 12d ago
Those three colored shapes at the bottom look a lot like the EPA logo, a former grocery store chain: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPA_%28Warenhaus%29?wprov=sfla...
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by creichenbach 8mo ago
https://billhillapps.com/ Mostly from the time I was actively building and maintaining mobile apps. It's slightly outdated, but I'm still proud of the metro-style design.
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by creichenbach 9mo ago
> it added additional delays to the entire system Yes, obviously. And that hurts statistics. That's like killing sick cattle to be able to say that 100% of yours are healthy.
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by creichenbach 9mo ago
As per my other comment, Swiss trains (especially SBB) are not as pleasant as they get credit for. I get a lot that "you know, in other countries it's much worse", and it reminds me of software hosting, where it was normal in
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by creichenbach 9mo ago
I'm a heavy public transport user in Switzerland, and even though it's almost a meme how reliable the trains are, reality is different. Yes, they operate in a way that make the stats look good (x% on time), but they take tradeoff
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by creichenbach 10mo ago
Banks have stupid rules probably made by people who don't understand the matter. A relative recently got victim to phishing and gave away some of his banking details (fake e-banking login screen on a website). After locking the account
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by creichenbach 11mo ago
I've done it before on a personal project and I was pretty obsessed with user experience. For example, I changed the way buttons work (because they were natively links with Cordova, which trigger upon tap, not "finger lift",
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by creichenbach 11mo ago
That's still a bit risky as Arizona might just change its time zone definition on a whim. I'm an engineer on one of the big calendaring applications, and it's mind-boggling how often stuff like this happens world-wide, someti
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by creichenbach 2y ago
Neat. I built something similar but web-based for Java years ago: https://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/projects/DoodleDebug
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by creichenbach 3y ago
Well, among other things. Native APIs are another thing that comes to mind, but those can be bridged more easily I suppose.
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by creichenbach 3y ago
Well, to have a perfect-ish solution, you'd have to build a framework with UI elements that map to native elements on each platform. Behavior and styling (e.g. positioning of elements) would need to be consistent, so you'd probabl
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by creichenbach 3y ago
A few years back I looked around what options exist for building a cross-plattform app. It should support mobile platforms (at least Android and iOS) as well as the web, properly. The problem with cross-platform frameworks is that they eith
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Google Workspace adds client-side encryption to Gmail and Calendar(workspace.google.com)
3 points by creichenbach 4y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Visualization of Catmull-ROM Spline Generation(billhillapps.com)
6 points by creichenbach 4y ago|0 comments
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Client-side encryption for Google Calendar(workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
4 points by creichenbach 4y ago|0 comments
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Asteroid captured on doorbell camera [video](youtube.com)
1 points by creichenbach 4y ago|0 comments
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by creichenbach 4y ago
Years ago I built the same kind of app for Windows Phone 8. I can't find any reference online anymore, though I still have the git repo. It was motivated by my girlfriend stating that it's hard to understand one's size in the
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by creichenbach 5y ago
Meta: This website has one of the worst and most ridiculous cookie opt-out mechanisms. You are expected to read through a wall of text and follow complex instructions to manually opt-out of each vendor.
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by creichenbach 6y ago
Sometimes I have a song stuck in my head when I wake up in the morning, so I started tracking it. There's no text, just a music video occasionally. Not sure if it's interesting to anyone else though. https://morningtune
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Show HN: Sortable table with Covid-19 spread statistics(cedricreichenbach.github.io)
2 points by creichenbach 7y ago|0 comments
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by creichenbach 7y ago
I think the numbers in reality are a bit worse. I recently lost my wallet, noticed about a minute later and went back - it was already gone. Later someone found it in a trash can, emptied of all money. This happened in Switzerland, which is
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by creichenbach 8y ago
I wonder how/where the author gets connection time information. Each country, and sometimes each public transport company, seems to have their own system, sometimes hard to access digitally. I've been building a mobile app for qui
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Amazon Corretto(aws.amazon.com)
10 points by creichenbach 8y ago|2 comments
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by creichenbach 8y ago
A couple years back at university, I created DoodleDebug[1,2], tackling some of your mentioned issues. It can be thought of as a graphical version of System.out.println(). There is a similar output format customization mechanism as toString
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by creichenbach 8y ago
I recently introduced proper minification and tree-shaking to my Cordova app and noticed it only reduced size by ~23% (after 2+ years of active development, so quite some code). Looking at the output directory, I saw that the fonts I'm
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by creichenbach 8y ago
Selecting a list of airports, or an area, or city with distance range would be nice. From where I live, there are multiple airports about the same distance away, and I don't care much which one I use; but it might make a huge differenc
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by creichenbach 9y ago
Ah, that's actually not too far idea-wise from what we ended up doing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16637525
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by creichenbach 9y ago
Ah, so your first suggestion would be basically building an auto-encoder based on training data with correct and incorrect words (fragments). This might work, but it would require a lot of computation: Each word of the vocabulary multiplied
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by creichenbach 9y ago
That sounds interesting, do you happen to have a documentation link or similar? I can't seem to find any info about it.
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by creichenbach 9y ago
Our problem is not about auto-completion (we're not dealing with that much data to need sophisticated algorithms for that). What we're doing with our NN is ordering the set of results (matches) we already have. In other words, we&

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