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by helge5 1y ago
I don't think it is an experiment, AFAIK it is used in a widely used application by the author.
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by helge5 1y ago
Yes, GRDB even w/ manual help is obviously not as fast raw SQLite. As much respect I have for the author "performance nearly identical as raw SQLite" is incorrect. Lighter also achieves some of the performance characteristics
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by helge5 1y ago
If you think that this library is "basically Swift/Core Data", you have to learn more about "Swift/Core Data" and what it does, and why and how.
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by helge5 2y ago
No, both Rust and Swift can be seen as better C++'s. And both do not provide the Smalltalk like OO Objective-C has. Swift (only) on Apple platforms integrate w/ ObjC, but the core language is more like C++ and very little like Sma
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by helge5 4y ago
I once built one in Swift 4, in part to see how multithreading via SwiftNIO and using copy-on-write datastructures would compare. It held up well against the C implementation, would be worth trying again against Swift 5.x. https:/&#x2
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by helge5 4y ago
The demo version now actually supports multiple rooms (I think the 4 or 5 last you clicked). The bigger issue usually is the lack of XOXC support (as the general API gateway lacks a lot of API features). BTW: You can also get a refund. This
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Build iOS Apps with VisualStudio Code. Or Not?(alwaysrightinstitute.com)
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by helge5 5y ago
If you have them archived as iChat files on a Mac (Library/Messages/Archive), you could try Past: https://zeezide.de/en/products/past/
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by helge5 6y ago
Thanks a lot! It is still lacking quite some functionality (check the FAQ for details), but we'll get there.
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by helge5 6y ago
Thanks! Yes, it is very 1.0 and lacks quite some features. Message editing falls in the same batch of work like the RAM improvements and will very likely be part of 1.1.
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by helge5 6y ago
Oh, the original comment was about the WebKit wrapper. Well, that this is using as much memory isn't very surprising. Why would Slack use less memory in a WKWebView than in an Electron frame? It is essentially the same app (with the El
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by helge5 6y ago
My primary goal for Shrugs wasn't better memory efficiency but a better user experience (i.e. using native controls, having multiple windows, quicklook, etc). It uses quite some memory because it does (too) aggressive caching and prefe
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Show HN: SwiftBlocksUI – Declarative Slack Apps in Swift(github.com)
1 points by helge5 6y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Shrugs.app, a Native macOS Slack Client(shrugs.app)
4 points by helge5 6y ago|2 comments
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A native macOS Slack client(shrugs.app)
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Show HN: SwiftPM Catalog(zeezide.com)
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by helge5 7y ago
In the current state it draws into a pixel buffer array which you can then display on for example an epaper display connected to a Raspi or other embedded device. 1. No. Neither. It does all the drawing on its own. Right now even fonts. 2.
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by helge5 7y ago
I think the "only" real change is that he will need a work visa, the other aspects should remain the same. A EU citizen can freely choose his workplace in the EU (which is a reason why the British voted exit, they specifically did
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by helge5 7y ago
If you are above the border income, the private version is less expensive (I might also be wrong, checkout https://www.finanztip.de/pkv/pkv-basistarif/ ). It only really affects people below that income (way too ma
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by helge5 7y ago
@throwaway9283i - I think you are indeed wrong. AFAIK if you are self-employed the gov insurance doesn't have to take you either! Yet both have to take you using that "base tariff" (600? Euro or sth) since a few years (before
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by helge5 7y ago
I _think_ those things are disconnected. If you stay more than 6 month + 1 days in Germany, I think it becomes your primary tax country and you fall into the German social system (for good or bad). But really, just guesswork. Ask someone :-
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by helge5 7y ago
I can feel your pain, but that is really not what this is about. It is all about the rules/laws :-) Your's is an pretty edgy case. All people I know which have been employed dependently by a foreign company, have been employed by
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by helge5 7y ago
That is the way more ethical thing, but it is almost never the best thing from either a financial and certainly not from a health perspective _if_ you exceed a certain income (and the barrier here is pretty low unless you have many kids, wh
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by helge5 7y ago
"Statusfeststellungsverfahren" is an (gov) insurance thing (the process is run by the "Rentenversicherung" (the pension fund)), it has (I think, not a lawyer) nothing to do with the Finanzamt (German IRS). That is an ent
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by helge5 7y ago
Puh, I'm not a tax consultant, ask yours how and why that is. But you don't put VAT on off-EU invoices (not even within different EU countries I think). It's just net. I think the reasoning is that a VAT - value _added tax_ -
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by helge5 7y ago
Well, he mixed up "selbstständig" (self employed) and "Freiberuf" (a specific tax setup for specific kinds of occupations). Unlike in many other professions he _can_ be "selbstständig" in the CS field without a
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by helge5 7y ago
Wrt to social security stuff, one should proactively run a "Statusfeststellungsverfahren" - you fill out some forms and the authorities will tell you how they declare you. That puts you on a safer side. Also there _is_ an "av
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by helge5 7y ago
Just a small clarification: You are still "selbständig" (self-employed) if you do a "Gewerbe". The thing you don't get easily is a so called "Freiberuf", particularly if you don't have an engineering
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by helge5 7y ago
No, it's not. Well, if you are doing software related stuff. (Almost any other occupation is highly regulated in Germany (be it electrician, painting service or tax consultant, you need specific degrees to be allowed to open a specif
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by helge5 7y ago
The "app" (aka iCloud Control Panel) was available at iCloud launch, that is alongside the web apps.

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