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by aaroniba 18y ago
As the CEO of AppJet, I can tell you authoritatively that this is exactly the direction we are heading in.
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by aaroniba 18y ago
The whole point of our releasing appjet-in-a-jar is that if we go bankrupt, you can still host your app yourself. We'll definitely charge money at some point, but right now we're focused on improving the platform for developers. Also, we h
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by aaroniba 18y ago
From MAIN.PRN: ; Prizes ; These are shoved into players; left-bottom justified in 8x8 ; There's some confusion as to what to call the damn things....so I'm ; gonna do what I like, here... ... ; The "Birthday Cake" [I think...]
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by aaroniba 18y ago
> Body building and power lifting routines involve rest between sets. I thought this whole thread was about bodybuilding. That would be the target market for the app that was posted. I claimed that a logbook is useful for bodybuilders
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by aaroniba 18y ago
Genetics has a huge influence over your physique. For example, if you take a random sample of people who do not exercise regularly, there will be a wide variation in their bicep sizes. Genetics also controls things like metabolism and how
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by aaroniba 18y ago
Without some kind of logbook, how do you even evaluate how well you're doing? In my experience, most successful bodybuilders take a scientific approach to their training. The main variables that affect physique are genetics, diet, and rout
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by aaroniba 18y ago
I think the user interface for data entry is the key problem in using software to track gym workouts. I lift 4x per week and have tried various workout logging software, but have yet to find anything that works better than a simple noteboo
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by aaroniba 18y ago
The short answer is that we see problems with all the existing ones, and we think we can do better. The longer answer will be the subject of blog posts as we roll out milestones along the way.
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by aaroniba 18y ago
We do think AppJet will be the platform/framework of the future, but in the present it's a little early to compare the AppJet Framework with PHP, RoR, Django, etc. AppJet was designed to be easy and make it possible to write cool little web
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by aaroniba 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Omitting semicolons early in the guide was an intentional choice. We wanted to ease people in to the JavaScript syntax gently, so we decided to start without semicolons. (We introduce them in the "good habits" sec
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by aaroniba 18y ago
You do if you want to share something you create with other people.
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Build and host a processing.js app in your browser with AppJet(processing.appjet.net)
15 points by aaroniba 18y ago|8 comments
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by aaroniba 19y ago
appjet.com has an editor (written in javascript, for javascript)
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by aaroniba 19y ago
In what way does Java provide sandboxing of untrusted code?
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by aaroniba 19y ago
Out of curiosity, why don't you want to learn PHP?
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by aaroniba 19y ago
See also http://philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit.html
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by aaroniba 19y ago
I am a long-time kinesis user because I find the kinesis i the best combination of speed and comfort. But once I head really crippling RSI, I switched to the safetype keyboard (www.safetype.com) for a few weeks, and found it even more comf
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by aaroniba 19y ago
Yes, emacs with a kinesis keyboard is great. Hitting the modifier keys with your thumbs instead of your pinkies makes a big difference because thumbs are your strongest fingers.
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by aaroniba 19y ago
javascript: it's "like scheme with syntax", necessary anyway for cool web apps, expressive, has closures, lexical scoping, and with Rhino you can access any of the Java libraries (without writing Java code) and run it efficiently on any pla
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by aaroniba 19y ago
I looked at EditArea before building the AppJet Code Editor (ACE). (See our in-browser code editor with syntax highlighting at appjet.com). The problem with EditArea is that the overlay method causes visible ghosting when you insert newlin
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by aaroniba 19y ago
Someone did this outside my dorm at MIT: http://aaroniba.net/misc/nerdxing.jpg
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by aaroniba 19y ago
"Aaron Iba has released" should read, "David Greenspan, JD Zamfirescu, and Aaron Iba have released..." I just happened to be awake when ajaxian emailed.
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by aaroniba 19y ago
We don't want to get in the way of people hosting their own apps. We will at least release binaries for doing your own app serving and local development. You can already grab the source to the JS micro-framework. More details in our inte
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by aaroniba 19y ago
I don't see any practical limit to the set of interesting apps that can be written in 100 lines of an expressive programming language like JavaScript. Of all the programs I have ever written in python, for example, I would wager that most
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by aaroniba 19y ago
I just remap/unmap the ion shortcuts to get out of the way of emacs. I have a friend who swears by setting ion's Mod1 to capslock, but my pinky just can't handle that.
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by aaroniba 19y ago
+1 for ion! brilliant window manager. I don't know how I could be as productive without it.
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by aaroniba 19y ago
Does this mean new engineers who join facebook will get stock options with a strike price reflecting the $15B valuation? Won't that make it harder to recruit people?
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by aaroniba 19y ago
We use Helma for our (unlaunched) YC startup, and we love it. It's faster than rails, and IMO nicer to develop with. Having all the Java libraries without having to code in Java is sweet. The ORM is really well-designed and the built-in o
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by aaroniba 19y ago
I like ambient electronic music for coding. Check out: http://www.limbikfreq.com/
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by aaroniba 19y ago
that includes the purchase price of 2 iPhones.

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