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by jpobst 4y ago
Most consumers no longer purchase desktop apps, so there's no way to support desktop development. However, for some reason, many consumers will happily subscribe to SaaS apps. So developers go where the customers are.
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by jpobst 5y ago
Ironically, TN just announced a new plate that looks very similar to this design (which says it is from 2014). https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2021/10/5/gov--lee-unveils-... It even has the ~same &
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by jpobst 6y ago
Indeed. One of the main reasons we abandoned Pinta ( https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta ) is we had to rewrite a significant portion of the app if we wanted to move to GTK3, as we had many custom UI needs. See also:
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by jpobst 7y ago
Many comments (probably correctly) point out that SQL can't be displaced because it is ubiquitous and "good enough". I wonder if there is room for a "TypeScript" of SQL that would allow developers to opt-in to whate
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by jpobst 8y ago
Seems like there might be more to it than that, since Slack is written in Electron and is in the Windows Store.
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by jpobst 8y ago
It's amazing how often perfect storms happen, since every outage is apparently caused by one.
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by jpobst 8y ago
Particularly because the linked post calls it "Creative Common" twice and "Common Clause" elsewhere.
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by jpobst 8y ago
It depends on what you consider the goal of the F-35 to be. If you believe it's to build a next generation fighter plane then yes it's a disaster. If you believe it's a way to funnel trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to
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by jpobst 8y ago
Ultimately there is very little consumer grade software anymore because modern consumers won't pay for software. The only people who pay for software are enterprises and they aren't going to skimp a few hundred dollars on software
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by jpobst 9y ago
"No more games. Save real money with Bolt's simple pricing." Followed up with "Get a Quote" rather than displaying simple pricing...
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by jpobst 9y ago
Thanks! Yeah, GitHub is definitely the way to go for OSS or projects with technical users. This is designed more for things like closed source apps or SaaS.
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by jpobst 9y ago
I built https://communiroo.com because I couldn't find a quick and simple single website to expose bug/feature tracking + SO type questions + forums + support requests for my other things I was building. It seemed (
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by jpobst 9y ago
I have a friend who is a medical researcher and it definitely seems they are stuck in the past. In order to study something, he has to: * Come up with a hypothesis that X may cause Y * Request access to data about that hypothesis * He is on
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by jpobst 10y ago
Tennessee has no income tax, so I'll gladly take 9.46% sales tax and no income tax over California's 8.48% sales tax plus 1% - 13.3% income tax.
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by jpobst 10y ago
Author here. Communiroo grew out of a need after I had created my first hobby mobile app. I wanted a single place where users could file bugs, make suggestions, have discussion forums, and get support. The only option I could find was to
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Show HN: Communiroo – Single site for interacting with your app users
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by jpobst 10y ago
Forgot to mention I also ported my personal side project to ASP.NET Core and had the same experience, it's a fairly decent sized live site. https://communiroo.com
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by jpobst 10y ago
I work for a very mature startup, and recently led our first site on ASP.NET Core. The framework itself is very nice and very solid, basically a "do-over" of all the previous ASP.NET frameworks with the benefit of hindsight. Alt
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by jpobst 10y ago
https://communiroo.com - I created a mobile app and wanted a single, easy-to-set-up site to direct users to for bug reports, feature requests, forums, and support, but I couldn't find one. I built Communiroo to provide a co
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by jpobst 10y ago
The solution that we use for this is to have a separate domain for dev with its own wildcard certificate, like company-dev.net.
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by jpobst 11y ago
The issue is more that companies should pay US taxes on profits made in the US. However they can use IP to move those profits to countries with lower tax rates. The way it should work is: - Apple makes an iPhone for $200 in China - Apple s
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by jpobst 11y ago
It depends. The reference source site code is MS-RSL (see the License link in the upper right). Some of the source is additionally available under MIT from the github repository, but the reference site includes things that are not "op
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by jpobst 11y ago
From next year's Call of Duty: You were killed by L33TGUY37. You are out of lives for today, would you like to: - Purchase 5 more lives for $2.99? - Spam your social media for life requests?
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by jpobst 11y ago
Nice! If you're interested in pixel manipulation in .NET, there's also Pinta.ImageManipulation built out of the source code for Paint.NET and Pinta. https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta.ImageManipulation
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by jpobst 11y ago
"Nobody's Going to Steal Your Idea" That sounds suspiciously like what someone who was going to steal your idea would say...
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by jpobst 12y ago
They are unable to prohibit OEMs from installing whatever they want as part of the antitrust settlement.
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by jpobst 12y ago
I worked for Novell/Xamarin for almost 7 years and this was a large part of why I eventually parted ways with them. I spent a couple of years on Windows Forms, a couple years on Mono Tools for Visual Studio, and a couple of years on M
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by jpobst 13y ago
Nashville, TN. Nissan's North American HQ is here, so they are all over the place.
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by jpobst 13y ago
Hah, that's exactly why I did it. :) I couldn't easily associate .xml with the designer in VS since everyone uses .xml.