burkestar

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by burkestar 4y ago
This survey was based on 258 developers responding from the UK. I don't recommend making sweeping generalizable claims about all developers in the world from it.
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by burkestar 6y ago
If you find the content useful there, maybe consider paying the $5/month to get access? Sounds like you place enough value that it would be worth it to you, and you can feel good knowing you're helping contribute a small way back
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by burkestar 6y ago
Can you please prioritize stability of your SaaS offering for paying customers? Our dev team and infra gets impacted seemingly every week with github outages, and it especially seems to correlate with delivery of new features. Thanks!
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by burkestar 8y ago
It actually gets a lot better at categorization the more you use it. It has at least some primitive machine learning (possibly rules engine?). Categorize a transaction once and it usually gets it right subsequently.
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by burkestar 8y ago
I started this right after college after reading "Automatic Millionaire" that advocates for "paying yourself first" and automating your finances. Money goes into checking then automated to online savings accounts, one ac
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by burkestar 11y ago
Just like the chicken and egg, it doesnt matter which comes first, code or test. The key is that both are written, ideally around the same time and part of same changeset. Refactoring posthoc for testability is tricky and often brings to t
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by burkestar 11y ago
The best book on this subject is Lean Startup. Build, test, iterate. Put something out there, gather feedback and adjust. Also consider the "show HN" to get feedback from the hacker news community.
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by burkestar 11y ago
There are a ton of SBIR rules so you'll have to be prepared with your accounting system, timekeeping policies for employees and other legal contracting. First, check your company's eligibility. If you're VC backed then I&#x2
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by burkestar 11y ago
I think comparing feature for feature isn't the right way to understand why Slack is a disruptive innovation. Often it's an innovation along some other dimension - process, business model, etc. In this case it's Slack's
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by burkestar 12y ago
Disruptive innovation is often more about a superior business model than better technology. Technology is an enabler.
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by burkestar 13y ago
Disagree. Language is not an immutable thing and is always evolving in its use to reflect the concepts of the people using it. I think capitalizing Agile as a noun makes it a "thing" that we can refer to collectively and ultimate
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by burkestar 13y ago
Let's just jump to the Wolfram Language! hehe, that would be awesome.
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by burkestar 13y ago
Cool, didn't know that. But HTML5 will enable this in a platform-indepedent manner which is good for the web.
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by burkestar 13y ago
2 things: 1) With the overload of information, we've adapted to skim not only sentences but skip over entire sections of content because we instantly perceive them as not having valuable information. Factoring this in, I would think o
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by burkestar 13y ago
It's going that way. Hopefully not some annoying icon featured prominently on every page, but instead a subtle browser-based recognition that the site also has a web app and puts a tiny mobile icon in the browser bar that will launch
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by burkestar 13y ago
HTML5 isn't just about the tags. It's an ecosystem of technologies that are breaking down the barriers of the browser to enable more native-like experiences over the web. Take for example how Google Maps in the browser can &quot
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by burkestar 13y ago
Yes, but I think the transition is happening rather fast (not relative to our newly wired brains perception of "web time", but like in normal human time measured in decades and life experiences). It's actually pretty amazing
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by burkestar 13y ago
It seems that the line between native app and web will increasingly blur as HTML5 matures to the point it obviates whatever advantages remain with building native apps. I think this will mean a better end user experience as there will no l
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by burkestar 13y ago
I think OP should start to learn computer science and not just programming languages and frameworks to truly understand the major concepts that he's wrestling with. There are good books and online videos on object-oriented design that