evanspa

9 ms·

31.
by evanspa 9y ago
Because I'm still working on the Android / Android Wear version, I haven't done a ton of marketing yet. I did have business cards printed up with the URL, logo and some screenshots, and have been handing them out to random p
32.
by evanspa 9y ago
Yes - that's what I'm currently working on.
33.
by evanspa 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah - it's definitely a bootstrap design. The website is functional, but it's the mobile app that is best to use (has Apple Watch integration and offline mode).
34.
by evanspa 9y ago
I couldn't find a workout app that I liked. The ones I tried just didn't fit the flow-of-use I wanted. I just wanted something to track my weight lifting, and wanted it to be super simple. So, scratched the itch with Riker. ht
35.
by evanspa 9y ago
I built an app for it to track my weight lifting (not aware of a Fitbit or Garmin that does that). https://www.rikerapp.com
36.
by evanspa 9y ago
Thanks for checking it out - really appreciate the feedback. Some responses: "the web version costs money after 90 days but the app is free. Why the differences?" Because the web version stores your data on my server (and thus ma
37.
by evanspa 9y ago
Looks pretty cool. I also recently developed an app to track strength training workouts. I also used React/Redux for the web app. The iOS app is native though (supports offline mode and offers Watch app) and Android is in-progress.
38.
by evanspa 9y ago
Really fun to read. I grew up in Schenectady, played Schenectady youth hockey and later got a job with GE in downtown Schenectady. It was there I started using Java (v1.0.2) building rich client apps using AWT (Swing didn't exist yet
39.
by evanspa 9y ago
Developer here. Thanks for checking out my new app. In case anyone is curious, the iOS app is native, written in Obj-C. The Riker web app is written using React and Redux. The REST API is written in Clojure and the backend is Postgres.
40.
Show HN: Riker – An app to track your reps in the gym(rikerapp.com)
1 points by evanspa 9y ago|1 comments
41.
by evanspa 9y ago
Blatant self-promotion. I just finished initial development of a web app [1] for tracking your reps, and have just submitted an iOS / Watch app to the App Store (currently in review). [1] https://www.rikerapp.com
42.
by evanspa 11y ago
Really though, it's better to think that Lisp has no syntax, and that really you're writing your code directly in the parse tree that other languages compile-to. The parens are simply to define the boundaries of the trees. And be
43.
by evanspa 11y ago
So I worked exclusively in the statically typed (and imperative / OO) world for the first 10 years of my professional career. Several years ago I decided to learn functional programming. I started with Scheme and moved to Clojure. I
44.
by evanspa 11y ago
I've been a lot of programming in both lately (Clojure and Objective-C), and did a ton of Java earlier in my career, and I find I like both. The biggest pain point for me in Clojure is the inability to easily refactor. To overcome the
45.
by evanspa 11y ago
Not in my experience for what it's worth. Every software dev position I've held in the last 10 or so years offered 4 weeks.
46.
by evanspa 11y ago
Keep. I have a iPhone 5S and with the original markup, I'm unable to read the site in portrait.
47.
by evanspa 11y ago
Clients of a hypermedia REST API are supposed to have a priori knowledge of the link relations (the "rel" attribute). The fact the rel in this example looks like a URI is sometimes used as a convention (i.e., if the API supports
48.
by evanspa 12y ago
Pretty ironic you've been posting here for 4 years to a site built with a language that's not useful.
49.
by evanspa 12y ago
Based on your username, I'm not surprised you like the time-traveling angle.
50.
by evanspa 12y ago
Or, they could do it lazily. I.e., only force the 2FA at the time of money send / receive.
51.
by evanspa 12y ago
gadders was being sarcastic.
52.
Samsung announces “Samsung Pay”(samsungmobilepress.com)
1 points by evanspa 12y ago|0 comments
53.
by evanspa 12y ago
I watched for a couple minutes, and started to feel a little nausea. Anyone else? Not sure how this bodes for the general concept of helmet-attached GoPros. (the Checkers are my home team! - cool seeing them in this vid)
54.
by evanspa 12y ago
Yup. Good catch :)
55.
by evanspa 12y ago
"If it's possible to keep the super intelligent AI in a virtual environment, but it can't detect that it's virtual." They did this in a Star Trek TNG episode ("Ship in a Bottle"). Data accidentally endows
56.
by evanspa 12y ago
* It gives me hope. It's the only activity (for me) that may one day lead me to fully control my destiny (i.e., side project -> lifestyle startup) * I can be god-like. When working on a side project, I get to make ALL the decision
57.
by evanspa 12y ago
This. Like most folks here, I like learning new things. I learned Ant a long time ago, and then Maven (to GP's point, learning Maven was NOT trivial). When I started through the Gradle docs and realized that it's a DSL written
58.
by evanspa 12y ago
No, I wouldn't say I'm doing anything specific. No on NDK. It's simply that Eclipse/Maven serve me well (I'm even able to create/run Android unit tests with the android-maven-plugin). In short, so far my ent
59.
by evanspa 12y ago
I'm in 2 minds regarding Studio. On the one hand, I'm a whiz at Eclipse and Maven, and because time is so precious, I have no motivation to learn Gradle, and so I use the excellent android-maven-plugin[1]. (I'm also depende
60.
by evanspa 12y ago
To build on what you're saying, one could argue that functional programming also is a way to model the world; that is, if you're model of the world is that of a series of snapshots of instants, as opposed to mutable stateful objec

More ›