Hacker News: kronholm

New comment by kronholm in "Nordstream: An Accident?"

kronholm — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:05:53 +0000

Article says two explosions, but there were four, afaik.

Edit, a source, well, says 4 leaks: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-29/sweden-sa...

New comment by kronholm in "WireGuard is now in Linus' tree"

kronholm — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 07:47:22 +0000

Not at all. Wireshark is for monitoring and analysis of network+hardware stuff, and WireGuard is for VPN stuff.

New comment by kronholm in "Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees"

kronholm — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:54:33 +0000

Once you get used to two panes, it's hard to go back.

From ~1990 to now (yikes, 30 years!), I've used these:

- Amiga: Directory Opus (DOpus)

- MSDOS: Norton Commander (NC)

- Windows: Total Commander

- Linux: Midnight Commander (mc)

- MacOS: Tux commander

Looking back at old Directory Opus screenshots tickles the nostalgic bone. I miss the colourcoded buttons.

I wonder if Directory Opus was the first 2-split navigator, but probably not.

New comment by kronholm in "Meta2 AR Goggles, preorder at 949$"

kronholm — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 17:22:34 +0000

Is this the same company that was at http://meta.io ?

New comment by kronholm in "Reflected hidden faces in photographs revealed in pupil"

kronholm — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:12:38 +0000

Isn't one of Nokia/Microsoft's phones, currently on market, at 42 megapixels?

New comment by kronholm in "4.3" Trio Stealth Lite Android 4.1 Tablet - $29.99"

kronholm — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 06:25:15 +0000

Capacitive touchscreens are the devil, ugh!

New comment by kronholm in "Smok.io’s connected electronic cigarette tracks your habit puff by puff"

kronholm — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:05:03 +0000

Janty has had something similar for a while, their Mid series. Hook it up to USB and you can program it in all sorts of ways, save/load profiles, change the puff LED colour to any RGB value, etc. It even has a joystick(!). http://www.janty.com/en/mid-series

New comment by kronholm in "Why are software development estimates regularly off by a factor of 2-3?"

kronholm — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:08:41 +0000

Same! And I'm sure the reason it didn't take that long with getting good at it, was it hurts like hell when you do the 33% thing on a couple large projects, when you're on your own.

New comment by kronholm in "Why are software development estimates regularly off by a factor of 2-3?"

kronholm — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 19:53:11 +0000

Been going at it for a couple years now with consulting and freelancing. I've finally gotten good at hitting my estimates. What worked for me was to keep strict time of everything (shoutout to toggl.com, love it!), so I could learn from my mistakes.

The trouble is now though, my competition seems to be underbidding me, but in reality they're providing those ~33% estimates they will never realistically keep, while I'm at ~100% estimates. Not really sure how to relay that to clients. One of the many reasons people like me need a salesperson in front, I guess.

New comment by kronholm in "Poll: HTML 5 or Native mobile development ?"

kronholm — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:17:16 +0000

There's a slight learning curve, but it's overall very nice to work with. Been making a living from it for a year now, so I'm rather comfortable with it.

You have to get in a kind of different mindset than with HTML, where you use div's for everything - here you create windows and views - but shouldn't take more than a couple days to get dangerous with it :)

There's a few quirks though - differences between iOS/Android for a small number of things, when coding, which can take up a lot of your time to troubleshoot.

An example of such an issue can be on Android, an imageView which you've applied rotation to, suddenly appears to be not rotated, if you put a backgroundColor on it as well as rounded corners. The fix here could be to use a regular view instead, and use a backgroundImage. Thankfully those kinds of weird things aren't as plentyful any longer, the company behind, Appcelerator, are in my experience pretty helpful and fast with bugfixes.

New comment by kronholm in "Poll: HTML 5 or Native mobile development ?"

kronholm — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:37:51 +0000

Maybe it's due to the phrasing of the question. I certainly prefer native (ok semi-close-ish native, I use Titanium), but I _will_ in the future prefer to be using HTML5, once it's ready.

HTML5 isn't ready yet in my opinion, as it takes too much effort (read: hours, money) and many workarounds to get a polished, fast and responsive app out of it to rival native. Sure it's awesome for fast prototyping, but it's still too hard to get "dat native feel".

New comment by kronholm in "Poll: HTML 5 or Native mobile development ?"

kronholm — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:32:33 +0000

I'm curious in how you put Titanium next to PhoneGap (Disclaimer: I may be reading too much into that, or not understanding your meaning - 2nd language etc.).

My experience with Titanium is that you code in js or Alloy, then when building and deploying, you get native code, with native elements and everything.

Comparing it to PhoneGap, which purely runs in a slowish WebView isn't quite fair I think. Or has your experience been different?

New comment by kronholm in "Poll: HTML 5 or Native mobile development ?"

kronholm — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:23:34 +0000

I define the line at webview = html, no webview = native.

New comment by kronholm in "MtGox launches Bitcoins.com, an information site for all things Bitcoin"

kronholm — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:51:34 +0000

Yep

New comment by kronholm in "Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles"

kronholm — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:41:38 +0000

Thanks for a much needed laugh. This one was my favorite: "Microsoft releases tool for humans"

New comment by kronholm in "Dear Spike Lee"

kronholm — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:13:34 +0000

Nice one, thanks!

New comment by kronholm in "Winning at Candy Crush"

kronholm — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:44:34 +0000

Very, very informative, thank you. I too have been wondering about this exact thing - if it's worth the trouble in the end, to do server checks and whatnot. Seems it's not, in these cases :)

New comment by kronholm in "Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location"

kronholm — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 19:19:16 +0000

He's serious, and so am I. Trains go on rails, so a driverless car can go many places trains can't. Can't wait for it to become reality either. Like in Children of Men, but with time better.

New comment by kronholm in "Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location"

kronholm — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 19:09:44 +0000

I wouldn't mind doing that, but not what sure you mean with "wifi hotspot functionality"?

New comment by kronholm in "Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac"

kronholm — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:14:54 +0000

I do see your point, but wouldn't dropping your car keys also allow someone to steal your car?