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Show HN: TimeFerret – Schedule meetings from your keyboard on iOS

2 pointsby vendakka9 anni fa1 comments

Show HN: Stencil – Simple code templating for Go

11 pointsby vendakka9 anni fa5 comments

What to Test? Using callgraph to prioritize test writing for Go code

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3 pointsby vendakka9 anni fa0 comments

Show HN: Lint – run linters from go test

2 pointsby vendakka10 anni fa1 comments

Show HN: GoJava – Server/desktop Java bindings to Go packages

52 pointsby vendakka10 anni fa14 comments

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9 anni fadiscuss

Hi HN,

TimeFerret is a beautiful calendar app for iPhones and iPads. It comes with a custom keyboard that lets you access your calendar from any app.

How TimeFerret is different from other calendar apps: 1. Quickly see how much time you have between meetings in the 24-hour "Daily Donut" 2. Calculate Meeting Cost 3. Mark certain hours of the day as "Me Time" and flag meetings that interrupt this time. 4. Carve out a few hours as "Meeting Time" and flag meetings that are outside these hours.

We are happy to answer all your questions about TimeFerret and would love any and all feedback :)

9 anni fadiscuss

Stencil implements GoImports formatting which is basically GoFmt with a slightly different import ordering. And yes, it would be useful to standardize this somehow, the way go generate is standardized.

10 anni fadiscuss

The go vet integration with go test looks interesting. I'm currently using github.com/surullabs/lint [1] to run vet and a few other lint tools as part of go test. It provides a nice increase in productivity for my dev cycle. Having vet + other lint tools integrated into my dev+test cycle has caught a number of bugs before they hit CI.

[1] https://github.com/surullabs/lint

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the above library.

10 anni fadiscuss

Ah right.

10 anni fadiscuss

I wasn't very clear. A hypothetical conn.Read(w Writer) would call Write on w instead of filling a byte array. Write in turn allocates as needed. WriterTo is a cleaner way of doing this.

10 anni fadiscuss

Exactly. The sync.Pool will only be useful if net.Conn.Read accepted a Writer instead of []byte.

10 anni fadiscuss

Hi,

I'm the author. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

This library allows you to run a variety of linters as part of go test. It also supports whitelisting false positives. It reduces the need for build scripts, makes CI integration easy and lets projects enforce linter usage without extra scripts. I built it while working on our mobile app (which is written in Go) and have found it useful so far.

The below example test will check for gofmt usage, run go tool vet --shadow, golint, errcheck, gosimple and gostaticcheck

  import (
      "testing"
      "github.com/surullabs/lint"
  ) 


  func TestLint(t *testing.T) {
      if err := lint.Default.Check("./..."); err != nil {
          t.Fatal("lint failures: %v", err)
      }
  }

Please let me know if you find this useful and if you'd like any features added/removed/modified.

10 anni fadiscuss

This is something I definitely agree with. I've sometimes found that taking a few seconds to cache state in a notepad before responding to the interruption helps a lot. Having times of day dedicated to meetings also helps reduce fragmentation. At the risk of being overly self-promoting, solving problems with fragmented work days is something my cofounder and I are working on now with TimeFerret (https://www.timeferret.com).

10 anni fadiscuss

This is very good advice. I've had trouble with flexibility for as long as I can remember. I've recently started some light exercise again and including yoga for just 5 to 10 min has made an enormous difference.

10 anni fadiscuss

I've used git subrepo [1] for vendoring and been quite happy with it. Doesn't seem to have the problems of git submodule and it's easier to use than git subtree.

[1] https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo

10 anni fadiscuss

Would you be interested in trying our beta [1] once it's ready? We're working on the hypothesis that bad meeting schedules can result in a large drop in productivity, especially for software related jobs.

Our current solution is to make it easier to cordon off blocks of time and easily reschedule disruptive meetings using a mix of auto-suggested times and meeting polls.

[1] http://www.timeferret.com

10 anni fadiscuss

Thanks for letting us know. I've updated the quota so the website is up now.

EDIT: Changed it to say the website is up, where it said the website will be up shortly.

10 anni fadiscuss

Slightly shameless self promotion: If you're looking for an Android solution, we're working on TimeFerret, a calendar app that helps you reduce fragmented meeting schedules and track productivity. It's not released yet though. The iOS version will be out first, followed by Android.

[1] http://www.timeferret.com

10 anni fadiscuss

Regarding generics: the tool generates Java bindings from Go code. Since Go doesn't have generics we just generate non-generic bindings.

10 anni fadiscuss

Yes. The only constraint is that the jar will only work on the architecture it was built on.

10 anni fadiscuss

Yes this is definitely a little limiting. I'm also experimenting with a slightly different binding method, where passing pointers to structs is disallowed (gobind currently allows pointers to structs). All structs are only passed by value, which solves a lot of the underlying problems and allows for slices and nested structs. I'll have something tangible in a few weeks and might switch out the dependency on gobind.

EDIT: edited for clarity

10 anni fadiscuss

Yup. I'll put together some more docs and usage examples this weekend.

Edit: https://github.com/sridharv/gojava/issues/6

10 anni fadiscuss

This exists for Python [0]. The reverse is also interesting (Go -> Java/Python/Ruby) and once I get some spare time, I'll play around with using libjvm to load and call jar files from Go.

[0] https://github.com/go-python/gopy

11 anni fadiscuss

I've set up a business here without knowing German (I'm Indian). I moved here from the U.S and what worked for me was to pass all of this off to people who know how to deal with it. My lawyers handled the company set-up and my accountant handled everything else. It is pricey (thousands of euros) but worth it in my mind.