yasoob
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Comment · 9 months ago
Another personal example. I spent around a month last year in January on this application: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/salam-prayer-qibla-quran/id674...
I had never used Swift before that and was able to use AI to whip up a fairly full-featured and complex application with a decent amount of code. I had to make some cross-cutting changes along the way as well that impacted quite a few files and things mostly worked fine with me guiding the AI. Mind you this was a year ago so I can only imagine how much better I would fare now with even better AI models. That whole month was spent not only on coding but on learning Swift enough to fix problems when AI started running into circles and then learning about Xcode profiler to optimize the application for speed and improving perf.
Comment · 2 years ago
So a few reasons come to mind. Firstly, these projects usually do more than one HN posts. And by the time they have thousands of users, they have already done quite a few HN posts by then. Additionally, if you follow a particular scene (JS in this case) then you can hear about these projects quite a lot on tech Twitter. Adonis was being actively discussed a few days ago after Theo posted a video about why there is no Rails alternative in JS-land. I personally remember hearing about Adonis when I searched for a Rails alternative in JS a long time ago.
And lastly, this project specifically has been in the making for a good number of years now. So it makes sense that there are quite a few people out there using it.
Comment · 3 years ago
I am assuming it would completely prevent ads (so no need to figure out how to filter/block them) as the name of this field suggests that it might be used by YouTube to figure out if someone has a premium subscription or not. Toggling this field would not have led the author to the later protobuf rabbit hole as there would have been no need for it.
From personal experience, we programmers/hackers sometimes like to make things more complicated than they need to be just for the fun of it (and learning experience too!).
Comment · 3 years ago
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Comment · 3 years ago
I was curious about the same thing. But turns out you can download (export) the video without paying anything for now. Maybe it will become paid in the future?
Comment · 3 years ago
I didn't feel as if it was a ripoff. It didn't even register with me that you were referring to Vimeo until I read the comments. Slightly similar font with a different name altogether shouldn't count as ripoff in my opinion :)
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