atheken

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by atheken 4y ago
They said 33MB of code for a function . That is an enormous swath of code.
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by atheken 4y ago
$20M/yr, 3 devs, "And post COVID, budget is really tight" WHERE IS THE MONEY, LEBOWSKI?!!?! Seriously, WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING? I'm all about keeping a tight small team, but where is the money going? Even paying for a m
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by atheken 5y ago
Nobody mention the gui toolkits for Java or desktop window managers for Linux…
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by atheken 7y ago
Yes, we are. :-P
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by atheken 12y ago
Access is great as a personal, single-user database, but how much software has been written to expand it past that limitation in small businesses? Also, Access isn't available for Mac. And Access doesn't run on your iPhone/iP
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by atheken 12y ago
From another perspective, one repo should allow you to gain more traction as all stars/forks/pull requests/commits will be aggregated on it, and thus produce higher visibility on GitHub (and probably anything that scans githu
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by atheken 12y ago
This is interesting, but I am not sure that I would have done it with multiple repos. Why not build a single repo with a convention for adding/updating works. As it sits right now, there are 2100+ pages of repos. It also means that i
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by atheken 12y ago
I am friends with some of the folks putting this together. Now that that's out of the way... I am excited about the conference because I think the human factor is often missing from software development, and one of the hardest skill-se
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by atheken 15y ago
I'm flagging this post.
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by atheken 15y ago
Only n00bs use if statements. :-p
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by atheken 15y ago
The cliche here is that the real test as to whether you can start your own successful company hinges upon what you do now that you've had your first "failure." If what you truly want to do is to change the world through software that people
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by atheken 15y ago
(years ago) I would read the site compulsively. Now I need an article link to it from HN or reddit or X that reminds me that the site even exists. So it goes.
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by atheken 15y ago
Although, I think that click-once solved the deployment problem (mostly?) for .net apps on windows. If you want something that works for both mac and pc, obviously silverlight solves it, too.
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by atheken 16y ago
You can host them from a private repo.
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by atheken 16y ago
Just pushed something more generic to heroku last week.. Http://jsonr.heroku.com Converts any XML feed to JSON or JSONP. Docs coming very soon.
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by atheken 16y ago
I think we all read his email and understood it. The point is that this is not reasonable. The gift card was purchased in good faith that it could be used to purchase whatever products Apple sells, on demand. I have some gift cards that I'd