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catwork
12y ago
Thank you - I appreciate the explanation and guidance. :)
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catwork
12y ago
- Both Angular and VB make it easy to get a "pretty" GUI up and running quickly. - Both Angular and VB require quite a bit more knowledge to make a more sophisticated application beyond a simple interface. - There are plenty of o
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catwork
12y ago
Kind of thought that Angular is a bit like VB <cue shrieks and screams>. Both allow relative novices to produce sophisticated GUIs rather quickly. Both require a fairly high level of understanding discipline, and organization to prod
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5 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application
(digitalocean.com)
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Longshoreman
(github.com)
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catwork
12y ago
The problem with spreadsheets is not a simple issue of good vs. bad. Spreadsheets have an extremely flexible and well accepted if not intuitive interface. The problem is that they do not provide visibility into what processing is occurrin
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catwork
12y ago
Bach is great on many counts - I did a visualization ( https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/wiki/Bach-2-Part-Invention... ) in R awhile back of a Two-part invention that reflects how well structured his counterpoi
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12y ago
Reminds me of another quote from C.S. Lewis (who was cited in the article) on the subject. "Even on those rear occasions when a modern undergraduate is not attending some such society he is seldom engaged in those solitary walks, or wa
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12y ago
Part of Chrome's appeal is its as an IDE for web development. Technical support is also more difficult where an end user cannot easily locate a URL. Hiding URLs by default is going to detract from the value of Chrome for a technical
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catwork
12y ago
The "HN is not like the good old days" refrain has been around for years of course. But seeing a comparison of HN from a few years ago compared with a recent front page is pretty stark. That's why - though what is a politic
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Ask HN: HN Political Headline Filter?
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Getting By on a Writer’s Income
(authorems.com)
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catwork
13y ago
The fact that you are a programmer is exactly the reason R feels funny. Its predecessor (S) was originally just supposed to be an interactive interface for some Fortran libraries. It turned out to be useful to folks doing mathematical app
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13y ago
Ah OK: Ah OK - I see where you can submit games there: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/about/?appid=765§ion=... Also noticed Gog: http://www.gog.com/indie And Desura: http://
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Ask HN: Best Way to Distribute an Independently Developed Games
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TransLattice Elastic Database
(translattice.com)
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13y ago
This book-in-progress has the best explanations of the syntax of R that I have seen. For example: - R has no scalar, or 0-dimensional, types. All scalars (single numbers or strings) are length-one vectors ( http://adv-r.had.co.nz
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Advanced R Progamming by Hadley Wickham
(adv-r.had.co.nz)
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Thorax: Backbone + Handlebars
(thoraxjs.org)
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13y ago
Except for kids and parents who saw "Tangled."
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Inventor's Paradox
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Heisenbug
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13y ago
Fun - kind of reminds me of cowsay ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay )... command lines aren't just for work :)
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Plasmid.js
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Upsalite: Most Absorbent Material Accidentally Discovered
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Reactive JavaScript
(dailyjs.com)
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Good essay - as all PG's are. One critique - a scientist's identity can be in science itself (or its latest set of widely-held beliefs), which itself can also result in a essentially political/religious response wrapped up i