hboon

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   by hboon 8y ago

   Jeff Bezos certainly wasn't thinking small. We wouldn't know if he chose to start with books or if was he only thinking of selling books, but he chose books because there was a great demand for it worldwide, they were cheap and th
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   by hboon 8y ago

   I don't know how entertaining they are for adults, but I enjoyed reading Boy and Going Solo when I was younger.
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   by hboon 8y ago

   Oracle DB supports Java stored procedures. I wrote a couple back in the day. I'm not sure we want to go there :P
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   by hboon 8y ago

   For your own classes/types and factory for every other class that you can in “client” code, yes. But harder or impossible with most languages for builtin types that you don’t instantiate directly.
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   by hboon 8y ago

   The #allInstances method would be a gift in many languages for debugging purposes.
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   by hboon 8y ago

   That Objective-C behaviour is called Message eating nil (or null in other languages).
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   by hboon 8y ago

   Good old EDI. I last worked with it more than 15 years ago. I used to have several thick, bound EDI specs for each message my team was working with on our desks. After a while you get really good at counting the number of separators... For
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   by hboon 9y ago

   You need to if your product is a macOS or iOS/watchOS/tvOS app.
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   by hboon 9y ago

   To be far to FiftyThree, between the 2 of them (and only the 2 of them), FiftyThree used it first https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7171724
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    by hboon 9y ago

    Off-topic, but maybe because of this thread's context, I recognise your name from my time on Aardwolf ~20 years ago. Thank you!
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    by hboon 9y ago

    17 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. These are examples of how we can work together: * You want a part-time CTO * Take a p
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    by hboon 9y ago

    Actually, it's not uncommon for enterprise sales to involve signing an MOU/contract without the software being ready. You don't even need an MVP. Maybe a POC or strong reference customers of related nature.
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    by hboon 9y ago

    Replied above.
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    by hboon 9y ago

    Forgot something: One benefit with marking tasks with a @@. I move the current project I'm working in wip.md to the top, so if I do a search from the top for @@, the first hit will be the task I am currently working on. I wrote a plugi
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    by hboon 9y ago

    Sure, here's an example from 2 days ago. During the day, my wip.md file looks like this https://gist.githubusercontent.com/hboon/cd7ffa9ed94ce3a8bc8... I abuse the Markdown format: * "projects" mar
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    by hboon 9y ago

    I do this too, but I have 1 file for everything, with each project having a section. At the end of the day, I rotate the file and archive it in a directory. I can run a script and figure out how much time I spent on a project over several y
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    WIP(wip.chat)

    1 points by hboon 9y ago|0 comments
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    by hboon 9y ago

    There are a bunch of us at http://chat.coreint.org
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    by hboon 9y ago

    17 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. These are examples of how we can work together: * You want a part-time CTO * Take a p
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    by hboon 9y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely, across timezones 17 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. These are
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    by hboon 9y ago

    I just let them soft wrap.
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    by hboon 9y ago

    If you compare Singapore's MRT system to similar systems in every city in the world, it will rank among the top. But it's a matter of expectation. But if you include the massive hype and expectations set over the years — and the p
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    by hboon 9y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 16 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/macOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. These are exampl
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    by hboon 9y ago

    https://www.seatguru.com maybe
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    by hboon 9y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 16 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/macOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. These are exampl
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    Show HN: Simple API to look up Apple device names (iPhone10,6 → iPhone X)(appledevicenames.com)

    2 points by hboon 9y ago|0 comments
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    by hboon 9y ago

    Early this year, they switched to their own navigation library. The issue they had with React Native's navigation components was they have a React Native project that used to be a native iOS project, so they had to navigate across &quo
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    by hboon 9y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 16 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/macOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. These are exampl
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    by hboon 9y ago

    I was with FAST. Were you there, by any chance?
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    Ask HN: iPad app for prototyping ideas

    1 points by hboon 9y ago|0 comments