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by davidpolberger 4y ago
Thanks. I did lots of other things in parallel during the early years. I left my last consulting gig in 2014, so I have been doing in full-time since then. Yeah, it takes a lot of perseverance to get a startup going. (Or rather, a lifestyle
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by davidpolberger 4y ago
My father asked me to create Windows apps for the hospital department where he worked as a doctor (calculating drug dosages and the nutritional needs of preterm infants). I figured that there might be others with a similar need and eventual
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by davidpolberger 4y ago
Works for me, on Firefox and Chrome on Fedora 36, without ad blocking, and Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled on Firefox.
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by davidpolberger 4y ago
The archive.ph link does not contain any videos. Refer to https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/27/world/asia/hu... to access the original article (unlocked).
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by davidpolberger 4y ago
Unlocked link (with videos, unlike the archive.ph link): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/27/world/asia/hu...
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by davidpolberger 4y ago
I bet big on Java/Jakarta EE, and the open source application server WildFly, years ago when the web version of Calcapp was born in 2014. I have been very happy with that decision. JAX-RS is a great way to build annotation-driven REST
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by davidpolberger 5y ago
(Sorry about the late reply, I suppose I stopped monitoring the thread after a while.) If memory serves, XPCOM was fairly derivative of COM, but fully cross-platform. (It had to be, as Netscape's browser and its open source successor r
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by davidpolberger 5y ago
Boeing is a military contractor[1], and Lego appears to have a strict policy against doing military sets[2] (unlike Cobi[3]). Here's another company which makes Lego-compatible military sets[4]. [1] https://www.boeing.com&#x
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by davidpolberger 5y ago
I submitted this essay in 2018 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16792375 ), but it didn't get any traction. As people still appear to enjoy it, and today seems like a slow news day on HN, I'm submitting it onc
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After 15 years, I’m finally ready to launch our SaaS product (2018)(medium.com)
2 points by davidpolberger 5y ago|1 comments
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by davidpolberger 5y ago
It all depends on how you define a software component. I use one definition in my thesis, and I argue that .NET assemblies satisfy that definition, as do OSGi bundles (but not plain JAR files). (There have been many, many attempts at defini
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by davidpolberger 5y ago
Nice, let me know if you have any questions or feedback! (Email in profile.)
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by davidpolberger 5y ago
I spent a couple of years (while working a full-time job) writing my master's thesis on "component technology" -- COM, CORBA, .NET assemblies, OSGi and the COM-inspired object model developed at Ericsson and Sony Ericsson for
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by davidpolberger 5y ago
He or she is probably referring to Jeffrey Friedl's classic tome: http://regex.info/book.html
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Ask HN: Overcoming visa issues when moving the family abroad, working remotely
2 points by davidpolberger 5y ago|1 comments
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by davidpolberger 6y ago
The flowchart you link to looks a lot like the workflow editors offered by no-code and low-code app designers: https://docs.bettyblocks.com/en/articles/998093-what-are-act... https://www.zoho.com/c
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by davidpolberger 6y ago
As a result of this HN post, 158 people visited the blog post I linked to, and only 112 people visited the Medium story. This is despite the fact that the blog link is buried in a child post, and only appeared later. Moral of the story: whe
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by davidpolberger 6y ago
Thanks for your kind words. :-)
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by davidpolberger 6y ago
If you don't like Medium, here's a version of that write-up hosted on our blog: https://www.calcapp.net/blog/2018/04/09/launching-after-15-y...
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by davidpolberger 6y ago
I wrote about my experience creating a SaaS product in 2018: https://medium.com/@david_39141/after-15-years-im-finally-re... Like the OP, the first version of my service launched to crickets (though I had spent almost
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Flutter Plasma: Showing the capabilities of Flutter on the web(flutterplasma.dev)
2 points by davidpolberger 6y ago|1 comments
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Tribaldata: Voluntarily share your data for ads, get trees planted in return(tribaldata.es)
2 points by davidpolberger 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidpolberger 6y ago
Thanks!
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by davidpolberger 6y ago
The compiler is for Calcapp, an app designer for Excel-savvy users. Our aim is to offer a function library that is easy to pick up for our target audience. That means that we generally follow Microsoft's lead in terms of naming and par
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by davidpolberger 6y ago
I have just spent the last 13 months significantly reworking a compiler that turns Excel-like formulas into JavaScript. The compiler is used by an app designer, and the formula language is meant to be easy to pick up for people used to spre
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by davidpolberger 6y ago
For what it's worth, I e-mailed the author of the spreadsheet, Jose L. Jimenez, a couple of days ago and offered him free use of our calculator app builder Calcapp. This spreadsheet in particular works poorly on mobile devices, and wou
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by davidpolberger 6y ago
That's what we do. At www.calcapp.net, our main call-to-action is "Start app builder (no sign-up required)". Visitors are then informed that they'll need to create an account before leaving the service, otherwise their w
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by davidpolberger 6y ago
I was disappointed to learn that https://pwabuilder.com can't process the PWAs that are produced by our app builder Calcapp, erroneously claiming that our PWAs have no manifest. I dug into pwabuilder-lib and found the culpr
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The Obscuritory: For Games Unplayed and Unknown(obscuritory.com)
1 points by davidpolberger 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidpolberger 7y ago
http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/shame.htm

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