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by ses 12y ago
This indictment of angular and 'enterprise' frameworks is pretty one-sided and self-righteous. I hate the bureaucratic and restrictive nature of some frameworks too, but you can't dismiss the entirety of them and the problems
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by ses 12y ago
Hi, I haven't had much of a close look at the site. I quite like the initial design, but one thing I think it would really benefit from is a simple search interface on the home page.
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by ses 13y ago
Its interesting to hear from someone who's more of a hobbyist programmer. You don't meet so many, mainly I think because once you become half-decent at programming you have access to a range of well paid jobs. Of course as you say
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by ses 13y ago
I think it is nonsense to say that what doesn't work for one person won't work for another. The whole thing is completely context dependent. Here in Europe most people feel cubicles are so isolating that you might as well be worki
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by ses 13y ago
I think one of the first things we need to look at is the poor quality of a lot of new housing developments and the number of unoccupied / 'brown-field' that could be renovated and provide much more affordable housing than th
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by ses 13y ago
I fully agree with most of what you're saying, but I'm not sure where the degree of capitalism involved comes in. I think it has much more to do with the lack of creativity in government that you mention. Ultimately it does feel l
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by ses 13y ago
The lack of a combination of affordable property and decent jobs in areas within a reasonable distance is definitely causing increasing problems in this country, and only worsening social inequality. Remote working is one solution that I th
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by ses 13y ago
Acorn machines were great.... ah happy days. The A3010s with their stylish green function keys! On a serious note, I dispute that government can't have a positive impact in stimulating the technology industry in the UK. In fact if we h
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by ses 13y ago
No worries, I am just one person who doesn't fall into the target market for your product - there may well be many valid scenarios where a having template, particularly with a good design could be useful. There are all kinds of differe
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by ses 13y ago
Honestly - nothing... I think having a template (beyond perhaps styling and branding which most companies have already defined) for a presentation of any kind seems wrong. Any presentation, whether it is a pitch or a technical seminar, shou
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by ses 13y ago
I think improving on relevance ranking configuration would be a big boost to this product as well as offering some ability to cross-search multiple indexes. Both are quite difficult problems to solve well in search, but if a simple API serv
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by ses 13y ago
sounds a lot like gearman...
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by ses 13y ago
Would you not be curious what people were saying about you and your app? And would it not be advantageous as an app developer to know the feedback you are getting and be able to improve your app? I think these are the sort of reasons combin
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by ses 13y ago
This article definitely rings true. As someone who has published a few apps in the past, not even games, 90% of feedback received was negative and completely nonconstructive. It takes a while to realise it is nothing to do with the quality
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by ses 13y ago
Projects like this confirm my suspicion that traditional academic publishing is going to take a nosedive in the next few years. Working in this industry as I do, I don't see commercial publishers moving quickly enough to change. Really
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by ses 13y ago
I hear you on the lack of focus on modern technologies in universities - but the same is true here in the UK for the most part. It's understandable with the European economy being the way it is, and some countries really suffering, you
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by ses 13y ago
'For its day'? GWT lives in many forms, most notably Vaadin: http://vaadin.com Vaadin is consistently rated one of the best web app frameworks. Why its not more widely known is beyond me.
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The why and how of Measuring Software Quality(blog.ssims.co.uk)
2 points by ses 13y ago|1 comments
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by ses 13y ago
Not sure HN is the best place to report it, however working at a company that extensively uses github on a large scale, for the business I think even an outage of 5-10 minutes counts as serious. I'm amazed that people seem to find down
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by ses 13y ago
This is a really interesting product - I can see how it would be useful to a wide audience. However IMO I think you may be pricing a lot of customers out of using your product. I developed a scheduling / booking app ( http://www.meetingshed
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by ses 13y ago
Boo! They've missed http://www.textrazor.com - a very scaleable and interesting API service.
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by ses 13y ago
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/200028/council_tax/5615/ge... 404 - not so sure
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Agility – process improvement is part of what makes us human(blog.ssims.co.uk)
1 points by ses 13y ago|0 comments
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by ses 13y ago
Its easy to bash something someone's posted on HN. Having said that I think this is a really poorly thought out business proposition that is executed pretty badly too. Sorry to be so harsh to those that have probably put lots of hard work i
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by ses 13y ago
That's interesting, I think Rails has been overrated in the past but this is exactly the kind of project I think Rails is great for - where you've got a very clear simple aim, and you want to quickly develop an app people can play around wi
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by ses 13y ago
that's a cool idea and looks well executed, I'd be interested to know what technologies you are using?
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by ses 13y ago
Wow, off topic I know but this is the kind of question and responses that give me faith in HN (and online communities in general) being a useful resource for people to participate in. This is a real world problem of someone who has had the
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by ses 13y ago
This resonates a lot with some experiences I have had, and the reluctance to take a very small risk on whether someone with talent will be able to pick up a new technology is something I do feel a lot of companies are losing out from as a r
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by ses 13y ago
One of the problems with using a self-hosted alternative like this is the fact that Google open up a lot of their services through APIs which other applications then consume. A web app I wrote a couple of years ago is one example (meetingSh
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by ses 14y ago
Being a big Prolog fan, I think this looks like an awesome product. This sort of textual analysis will become more important as time goes on. As the interest in search technologies grows, I think intelligent search (contextual queries, quer

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