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Show HN: Firebase drop-in replacement for Android/Java (built with Meteor)(github.com)
1 points by whatts 12y ago|0 comments
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by whatts 12y ago
Can you explain why you would suggest CouchDB? Of course, it seems to be a great project. Nevertheless, it has no built-in support for publishing and subscribing, and real-time notifications. We would have to built this ourselves. However,
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by whatts 12y ago
Independently, without seeing this thread, I had already posted this today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8563103 I would definitely participate as a contributer, if it's open-source. I'll email you. By the
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by whatts 12y ago
100% agreed. Consider this to prevent the lock-in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8563103
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by whatts 12y ago
Well, it is. Just like Meteor. There are dozens of possibilities how you could do it nowadays. You can even use your own Node.js server with WebSockets, use CouchDB, etc. But nothing comes close to the first experience and ease of developme
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by whatts 12y ago
Maybe Meteor would work as well. But they don't have any client libraries ready, in contrast to Couchbase.
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Let's build an open-source Firebase with Couchbase
17 points by whatts 12y ago|7 comments
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by whatts 12y ago
Okay, skobbler has now published an update for its Android app where the "Scout by TeleNav" brand is introduced.
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by whatts 12y ago
Well, skobbler did all this for iOS and Android. And TeleNav bought skobbler for $24M in January [1] -- so it's obvious why TeleNav might be able to do this now. But will skobbler support stop? Why switch from skobbler to TeleNav'
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by whatts 12y ago
90% of people write DropBox, as well ;)
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by whatts 12y ago
You can still count clicks without associating it with the user who clicked. Anyway, the "doesn't track you" part is the whole point of DDG. If you don't like/need that, you can simply use Google.
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by whatts 12y ago
The question remains whether we (or rather you, the Chrome team) should leave such a decision to some "metrics". What has happened to smart decisions, bold moves and instinct?
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by whatts 12y ago
Apple has all the resources, and they had the "goto fail". You should not underrate open source. Bugs are shallow, but that can never mean every single bug. Some bugs will always be overlooked, no matter if open source or closed
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by whatts 12y ago
Me too. And I feel they won't be the fastest here ... Certainly a downside of Heroku, where you cannot just re-compile and fix things yourself.
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Google Play's single biggest problem
1 points by whatts 12y ago|0 comments
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by whatts 12y ago
Agree in general. This is worrisome. However, (1) is most probably exaggerated. On mobile, you have an unbelievably broad selection, this will never become an oligopoly. But big players will get bigger. Anyway, Firefox OS may become a promi
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by whatts 12y ago
That's Apple's system, right? Android does have a different one. Fortunately or unfortunately, I'm not really sure. Android's system definitely has advantages as well. But it goes without saying that there are serious is
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by whatts 12y ago
Well, you're right, but Apple's model is fundamentally different. I don't think Android will switch to such a model in the (near) future. That would mean a lot of things have to be changed, and hundreds of thousands of apps w
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by whatts 12y ago
Auto-updating without asking if the user is okay with the new permissions? How should this work?
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by whatts 12y ago
Android just needs App Ops back -- all privacy issues solved. But it seems this won't happen. Pressure from Facebook etc.?
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by whatts 12y ago
That depends. If we talk about high-quality apps, innovative applications, products used by millions of users, I'm sure you're right. And I guess most HN users (if involved at all), will probably doing these things. But for smalle
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by whatts 12y ago
Sort of, because I'm sure he/she knew exactly what the title was referring to ;) Anyway, that's not really important. By the way, it affects Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Blackberry -- what platform are you using then?
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by whatts 12y ago
Yes, definitely. And we can see that 1,000+ apps per week, maybe even growing, can quickly result in 47,000 apps here as well.
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by whatts 12y ago
I knew that some nitpicker would discuss exactly this phrase ;) It's the appstore that "you are using", or the appstore that is "installed on your phone", in case you don't know what I'm referring to, othe
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This developer is flooding your appstore with 1,000 new apps per week
21 points by whatts 12y ago|8 comments
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"Secret" app: Here's the open-source Android clone after 50 days(github.com)
3 points by whatts 13y ago|0 comments
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The mainstream does not care if your cryptography actually works
8 points by whatts 13y ago|1 comments
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by whatts 13y ago
Pure's stylesheets are already minified, the only result of re-minifying them is that the copyright will be removed: http://yui.yahooapis.com/pure/0.2.1/pure-min.css
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by whatts 13y ago
Cool guy, is an "open-source advocate" but removes PureCSS's copyright notice: https://github.com/yui/pure/blob/master/LICENSE.md
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by whatts 13y ago
Actually, their Developer Program Policies prohibit "a webview of a website not owned or administered by you": https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html But this is only a rule, that does no

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