ewoodrich

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   Lokus, my online collaborative atlas project, has been updated.(lokusapp.com)

   1 points by ewoodrich 15y ago|1 comments
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   by ewoodrich 15y ago

   My grandfather was a reservist and a chemical engineer -- so I think you're overestimating your own qualifications to think the military would not be able to utilize them adequately. And as an example of a possible use for your "media techn
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   by ewoodrich 15y ago

   I dunno. I had some success with the platform, porting a Phonegap based Android/iOS application. I'm still working out the tweaks, but Microsoft's support of Phonegap has really been an incentive to consider supporting the platform.
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   by ewoodrich 15y ago

   I did, but only on the landing page of the OP's link, which was forbidden based on my dev membership. Thanks, that's what I was looking for.
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   by ewoodrich 15y ago

   I wish I could find better documentation for this. I'm curious how their sandboxing implementation will work. I guess my "membership level" can't see the tech docs.
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   by ewoodrich 15y ago

   Not really. Most NAND flash use floating gate-mosfets (a type of transistor), which work by storing a very small amount of electricity within a high resistance material to prevent dissipation when in the "on-state". But this charge is extre
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   by ewoodrich 15y ago

   I, speaking as a consumer, love this. When iBooks was released, I almost gave up hope on ebooks, as Apple's platform dominance could squash competition. But as Amazon has expanded their offering with their same price model, and Google and o
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   by ewoodrich 15y ago

   I think your observation that "social, search and cloud" as you point out, are extremely over-saturated is especially relevant. One of my main draws to programming was the extremely law barrier to entry -- a weekend spent with a Python comp
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   by ewoodrich 15y ago

   I ran into a problem not dissimilar to this when doing freelance programming on a hacked together VBA project for score tabulation. I would recommend a redesign in at least VB.net (as he wrote some custom VB libraries that he was hesitant t
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    by ewoodrich 15y ago

    Personally, I've never had the incentive to move to a more native framework like Appcelerator. As a Phonegap enthusiast, I may be a tad biased. But a common codebase is hard to pass up, and I'd rather write a plugin in Java or Obj C++ than
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    by ewoodrich 15y ago

    I would argue that this semantic debate over the meaning of "programmer" is getting a tad tired. The author description would be more aptly described, in my opinion, as an entrepreneur. Conflict management, and the other business-focused ta
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    by ewoodrich 15y ago

    I think this article is somewhat based on a misunderstanding of HTML5. I've developed an "HTML5" application using Phonegap for Android and iPhone. But the difficulties he described is more of a UI issue better handled by responsive framewo
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    by ewoodrich 15y ago

    I would say (at least from personal experience) that the funding issue is a bit of an easy culprit (especially since the article highlights three tech companies in the graphic). In my experience, the barrier to entry for a sufficiently skil
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    by ewoodrich 15y ago

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that current dynamic JVM implementations had relatively similar performance to newer JVM versions, so for some that use the JVM for specialized parts of the application i.e. app engine
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    Show HN: Lokus - a collaborative online atlas built on App Engine(lokusapp.com)

    1 points by ewoodrich 15y ago|0 comments