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by stackthatcode 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Chicago, IL | Contract | Full or part time I'm a Chicago-based, full stack developer, and my forte is developing web-based systems that enable organizations to achieve more. With 20+ years of experience, I have
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by stackthatcode 5y ago
Happy birthday, Y Combinator. Thank you for existing.
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by stackthatcode 5y ago
My Dad brought the 994A home while I was in elementary school. He later became the chair of the Chicago TI Users group for a while. I learned to program on Extended Basic, made a couple of extremely primitive games. I remember dictating gam
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by stackthatcode 6y ago
Find an experienced business person to work with. The ideal person would be someone that is successful at what they do, and that also understands the potential for technology to transform their business. It certainly helps if they have seen
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by stackthatcode 7y ago
Every time that I fly now into Vegas for business or competitions, it's a matter of routine for me to drive up to Charleston peak, and the Red Rock area - it's only an hour away. It's all too easy to snub one's nose at t
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by stackthatcode 7y ago
Beat me to it. I can vouch for this book as being completely amazing. It teaches you the fundamentals of how to see design, which in turn contributes to learning how to produce your own designs. Or evaluate someone else's. If you re
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by stackthatcode 7y ago
Oh, good on you for posting this. This takes me back to childhood summers spent hacking away at TI Extended BASIC trying to write my own games - with admittedly humble results. Or the evenings spent reading dot matrix printouts of other gam
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by stackthatcode 12y ago
Remember when people used to clap or cheer at the movies??The don't make 'em like they used to. Even with its moments of campiness, there's a certain authenticity, even nobility to Raiders. To this day when I watch the ark-op
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by stackthatcode 12y ago
I really like KnockoutJS, having used it on multiple projects, both personal and professional. Many will say that it can't really be apples-to-apples compared with Angular since it's technically MVVM, it lacks many of Angular&#x2
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by stackthatcode 12y ago
I think the article was painting with a broad brush. Saving money for clients adds to their bottom line and is therefore valuable.
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by stackthatcode 12y ago
Open question: how do you look at the equity where one of the co-founders (Founder A) does not have to work for X number of years, since they've cashed out of another company. They have the capacity to work full time, whereas the othe
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by stackthatcode 13y ago
There's no such thing as C# 2.5. You must be referring to 2.0. Anyhow this may be true of financial institutions, but to say that it's a norm... is not my experience at all. > 15 years of experience.
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by stackthatcode 13y ago
Rant excused. While some of your points are more or less correct, would you care to elucidate on a few of the others? 1. You mentioned Oren Eini, who is the author of Rhino Mocks and contributed heavily to Castle and NHibernate. Apart fro
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by stackthatcode 13y ago
Your point about having his girlfriend's labor as a huge contribution to his venture is pretty correct. I don't think it down plays his success at all... but it's certainly a significant contributor. If my wife would embrac
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by stackthatcode 14y ago
As a KnockoutJS fan, this is completely awesome to hear. It's nice to see my technology of choice pushed to the limit. You guys have really delivered some phenomenal work.
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by stackthatcode 14y ago
Impressive. Congrats on shipping and launching. Constructive criticism: it looks like something I could actually use i.e. automation, server-side rendering, useful for SEO. But, I left the landing page and couldn't tell you exactly wh
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by stackthatcode 14y ago
Indeed - or WatiN, the .NET port of WatiR. I've done some pretty heavy duty scraping and automation with WatiN, which included building a OO framework that trivialized writing scripts. Good stuff.
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by stackthatcode 14y ago
Fricking impressive, dude. I tried it and can immediately see the value. Some constructive criticism: the scroll bar for the toolbox is too narrow for my personal taste. Gmail does this and it drives me crazy trying to actually grab it.
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by stackthatcode 14y ago
Indirectly. He's referring to developers, like you and me. But, Apple, being one of the smartest businesses on the planet, is playing the exact same game. If you actually strike gold with your app/unicorn, they win. If you don't, they'r
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by stackthatcode 14y ago
Ok. I definitely respect any hardships the author has had to endure - I've had a few of my own. I also appreciate being frugal, calculated and managing risk in one's career. OTOH, I am hearing echoes of what sounds like a textbook case of
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by stackthatcode 14y ago
After seeing the trailer, all I can say is: wow, just wow. The mood is a post-modernish film noir mixed with vintage 8-bit style. And the visual effects are striking. Very much looking forward to buying and playing. Lately, I've been spe
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by stackthatcode 14y ago
Haven't used Telerik's decompiler, yet, but there are several other alternatives to Reflector: open source ILSpy and JetBrains dotPeek. Both are free, since I last checked. The moment Telerik attempts to charge a penny for Fiddler, I'm bet