jamon51

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   by jamon51 13y ago

   The issue with simplicity is that computing is a complex problem. It's all well and good to say "Just keep it simple!" It's another to implement that. I built and maintain a fairly popular RubyMotion library. It's g
2. 32.▲
   by jamon51 13y ago

   Interestingly, Les Schwab (the dominant regional tire company here in the Pacific Northwest) advertises that if you buy snow chains and don't use them, you can return them at the end of snow season. Of course, once you have the chains,
3. 33.▲
   by jamon51 13y ago

   I've been using this for a few months as a beta tester and it's awesome. Definitely the best way to browse HN.
4. 34.▲
   by jamon51 13y ago

   $1.99 now.
5. 35.▲
   by jamon51 13y ago

   The Onion was in print??
6. 36.▲
   by jamon51 13y ago

   The word "Microsoft" tends to evoke emotion, highly irrational in many cases, despite any actual facts present. With that said, I know a lot of devs who hate almost everything about MS that actually do like C#.
7. 37.▲
   by jamon51 13y ago

   I don't know...seems far fetched. You should be able to sniff that out when talking with the dev about their code. And if someone at oDesk or Elance does that nice of a job you should just hire them.
8. 38.▲
   by jamon51 13y ago

   There's pretty much nothing you can do in Objective-C that you can't in RubyMotion. RubyMotion exposes 100% of the Objective-C runtime with virtually no performance penalty. They are very on top of new iOS releases (released full iOS 6 supp
9. 39.▲
   by jamon51 13y ago

   It's like feeding the troll...in reverse.