For many of us, there's no real reason to work full-time, cutting your expenses and working less is great. Also: it's economically irrational how little time we spend optimizing our investments vs. our salary/work-skills (i'm still a sinner).
I'd say all the terms are wrong: you've covered maker, hacker also has nothing to do with this, as well as indie, which means being alternative, outside the mainstream. I believe you're looking for "Independent Developer"
I do something similar, but my flow is around feature branches: I create a branch, dumping TODOs in the code as I work out the feature, then progressively fix them before merging the branch. Wrote a little script to highlight TODOs created in current branch (vs base) if anyone's interested: https://github.com/yonilevy/branchtodo
Coincidently I just started working on a drawing app, specifically an iPad app with figure drawing as the main use case. If you could share more details on the kind of drawing you'd like to allow it'd be easier to help. In general, as others said, there's a big difference between vector and raster based drawing apps. In vector drawings, you need to capture the mouse/pen/touch input and fit the points to a bezier curve (google "An algorithm for automatically fitting digitized curves"). Then you have a bunch of bezier-curve objects and draw them to the screen, any 2D graphics library will support this. Raster based drawings are more tricky, you usually paint with a brush, which is a bitmap that gets blended to the existing drawing, possibly affected by the input (pressure, angle, etc.). Here your focus is on performing graphics operations efficiently, as there are many of them per second, and they should appear to occur in real-time. A GPU is very helpful to this kind of drawing.
Another big aspect of this sort of app is undo/redo support. Again it's gonna be different between vector and raster, but I find that in any undo-supporting app, figuring out how the undo mechanism will work can guide the rest of the software design quite effectively, so give that a thought.
If you're willing to share more details here I could probably help more concretely.
This. As an iOS user / developer who isn't too familiar with Android, I also don't get it. Either these reports are lacking, and there is in fact a vulnerability being exploited down the line, or Android is completely broken. I find it odd that this important detail is being ignored in the reports/discussion.
This question seems to pop on HN every other month. I very much share the frustration- after trying every product under the sun I always end up coming back to Sketch, which is suboptimal to say the least. I tried to think what is it about Sketch (which isn't meant for diagraming) that makes it the best tool for the job, this is what i came up with: (1) it's native/fast (2) keyboard shortcuts (3) simple shapes / no "component overload" (4) pretty results. So for fun (and profit) I decided to write my own diagraming tool, with those points in mind. It's Mac only, very much work-in-progress and built specifically to replace Sketch in my workflow. If anyone's interested (in working on this, testing, whatever) - hit me up at my username here @ gmail.
I'm not looking at the keyboard when hitting those keys (I've been using this exact keymap for over 8 years), touchbar support isn't helping, I need tactile keys.
As a heavy IntelliJ user - I use the function keys all the time. Some examples: F1: show file in project view, F2/Shift F2: next/previous error, Ctrl+F2: stop process, F3/Shift F3: find next/previous, F6: move/rename, different F7 variations: find usages, F9/F10: run/debug options, also F8-F10 - step over/into/out/continue, F12 - toggle maximize editor, etc.
I don't understand what I'm supposed to do with a touchbar, or how to otherwise remap all of these shortcuts... Sticking to my 2015 MBP for now, but I really hope Apple get their act together and release a developer-friendly model (because otherwise I'm a huge fan).
Out of curiosity- why is detection of fake videos a hard problem? It sounds like a classification problem that a simple NN with enough data would be able to solve(?)
Not sure what that is, but probably not -- it should be able to detect simple geometrical shapes (and label them), lines/arrows between shapes, and ofcourse text. Perhaps I'll try to build that :)