DarrenZ

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by DarrenZ 8y ago
What no one has mentioned so far is that this will have a direct impact on any sites, forums, apps, etc. that use Google+ Oauth for Google log in. My own support forum does and I received my first email about this only a couple of days ago.
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by DarrenZ 8y ago
Desktop one off purchases: Clients for MySQL and SQLite (prettier and easier to use than free alternatives). Snagit for screenshots Desktop subscription based: Devexpress Winforms and ASP.net component suite (best Windows component suite o
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by DarrenZ 8y ago
I’ve built a dozen apps over the past 10 years, most of them commercial, and I always encounter this dip that you describe as I approach the finish line. A number of commenters are suggesting it’s the fear of what comes next that is causin
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Ask HN: An alternative to mailing lists – a news feed inside your product?
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by DarrenZ 9y ago
Unless your potential product is for tech users, I don't think IndieHackers is a good place to discuss your idea. If you're building software for cafe owners or dentists, then you need to be talking to groups of cafe owners or den
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by DarrenZ 9y ago
Leave out the bottom 10 years and leave out your degree years -- if you have one. My software development career began at age 28 (I'm now 45). My CV begins in 2001 and makes no mention of what I was doing from 1990-2001, and makes me a
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by DarrenZ 9y ago
4 years ago I was broke and considered myself unemployable. I’d been out of the job market for 6 years as I tried to start my own software business, releasing one failed product after another. My skills had stagnated, I was in dept, and had
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by DarrenZ 9y ago
I can't say if this works in China, but Astrill VPN have a number of ip addresses that they label "China Optimized." I use them to access Netflix in the US from Ireland, but don't know if they work in China or not.
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by DarrenZ 9y ago
Got an email from Techsmith (Snagit and Camtasia) a few days ago about a Cyber Monday sale. No figures mentioned, but the above 2 products were mentioned.
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by DarrenZ 9y ago
>the dot net world lacks any sort of real UI building capability Off the shelf, yes. But third party providers like Devexpress and Telerik have stepped into that gap and now produce some very polished component suites that sit on top of