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by rrevo 4y ago
Awesome project. Dune was the book which made me write my own dictionary app as well - https://www.vedaist.com/ !
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by rrevo 5y ago
Wiktionary dumps are around 1gb for a million words and definitions ( https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/ ) uncompressed. However this is just raw text. We have images as well like https://www.vedaist.co
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by rrevo 5y ago
Nope, sorry. Vedaist has online features like sync and the word catalog of almost a million words would be too large for fully offline usage. But I've also implemented product analytics which you (and many others) dislike. I'd rec
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by rrevo 5y ago
If you're looking for an alternative dictionary on mobile, check out Vedaist ( https://www.vedaist.com/ ). The dictionary entries are based on Wiktionary ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Ma
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by rrevo 5y ago
Context matters. I think kotlin definitely works for android developers but other cases need more thinking. If you're building webapps in smallish teams then maybe those work too. Some reasons against Kotlin are- * If you are working i
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by rrevo 5y ago
Completely agree on aspect of kotlin being an evolutionary dead end. For anyone interested in looking at C#, look at https://rahulrevo.substack.com/p/language-ecosystems-net and how they have evolved differently.
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by rrevo 5y ago
You're right on the benefits of a combined strategy right from the government to personal responsibility by citizens. Indians complied with most of these in the early phases of the pandemic but got complacent later on. I wrote about so
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by rrevo 5y ago
I was traveling to India during March (Mumbai area) and immediately concerned about the lack of masks and possibility of super spreader events like kumbh - https://rahulrevo.substack.com/p/indias-covid-conundrum . Unfor
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The most important soft skill is writing(rahulrevo.substack.com)
4 points by rrevo 6y ago|0 comments
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by rrevo 6y ago
Hey HN, Bardun is an iOS app that merges a contacts app and notes app functionality to better manage relationships. From a feature perspective notes can link to contacts. Notes are freeform and can be searched. You can add contacts data lik
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Show HN: Bardun – Contacts and Notes iOS app focussed on privacy(bardunapp.com)
2 points by rrevo 6y ago|1 comments
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by rrevo 6y ago
Monica looks great. I had the same pain point and built Bardun ( https://www.bardunapp.com/ ) as a iOS app instead of a website. Bardun brings together freeform notes and contacts to capture relationship information. For priv