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by jasim 10y ago
Valley-returned entrepreneur community doesn't mean anything in terms of innovation. App-powered logistics companies are no longer innovative; the wave was in the realization that commerce can be driven through smartphones and the inte
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by jasim 10y ago
The xBase family of languages/development environments. They are still around - Harbour (open-source multi-platform Clipper implementation) and Ashton-Tate dBase which changed many hands and is now dBase LLC. They were one of the fast
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Q&A with Nine Great Programmers(dodgycoder.net)
2 points by jasim 10y ago|0 comments
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How Bloomsberry designed their chocolates(behance.net)
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Yukio Mishima’s enduring, unexpected influence(japantimes.co.jp)
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by jasim 11y ago
- Fifty percent is already huge. We're starting there, but our larger goal is to make web development easier and faster. This is but a long journey, and we’re doing this one niche/tool at a time. - We already have a rudimentary bi
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Apply HN: Protoship.io – generate entire front end (HTML/CSS/React) from designs
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by jasim 11y ago
Javascript has an excellent standard library - lodash. Here is its string padding: https://lodash.com/docs#pad . Lodash also ships hundreds of independent npm modules for those who don't need the entire package. Here is
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by jasim 11y ago
I wasn't making a value judgement on complexity. That can't be helped. And yes, writing clarifies, and todo lists are a great way of mapping an uncertain future and reducing anxiety.
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by jasim 11y ago
Most todos are meant to be recorded and discarded. They are just a psychological mechanism to cope with the anxiety of an overly complex world. The todo-list of an average home-maker today would be more complex than that of the princes from
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57 startup lessons(defmacro.org)
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The Enchiridion(classics.mit.edu)
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The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Starting and Running a Business(jamesaltucher.quora.com)
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by jasim 11y ago
https://protoship.io/#products Protoship converts designs into code and generates full-blown web application front-ends. HTML, CSS, SASS, React, the works. And not the typical auto-generated crap, but real clean code as goo
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by jasim 11y ago
We're building something like it - https://medium.com/@jasim_ab/code-generator-to-create-react-... . Also - https://protoship.io/story
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Sketch – Professional Digital Design for Mac(sketchapp.com)
1 points by jasim 11y ago|0 comments
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Code-generator to create React projects from design, with clean HTML and CSS(medium.com)
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Welfare is not Socialism(zatavu.blogspot.com)
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by jasim 11y ago
This kind of reasoning has a certain universal appeal at first blush. Something deep about calling out the hypocrisy of those who profess to disdain the very thing they are co-opting. But it is a vacuous and illogical argument and subtracts
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30 Years Ago: The Rise, Fall and Survival of Ashton-Tate's DBASE(eweek.com)
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by jasim 11y ago
Thanks for this response. Completely agree that we need to build things that give us quick-wins. Writing a quick script that does something convenient illuminates the joy of programming like no other. My point was of a more general nature,
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by jasim 11y ago
Stop, stop! Don't learn anything new. Go build something substantial. Write a compiler, build a database, create a browser renderer, make a game engine. Build something that is not CRUD, and is over ten thousand lines of code, somethin
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by jasim 11y ago
What are some recommended books on this topic?
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30 years since Lotus 1-2-3(danbricklin.com)
2 points by jasim 11y ago|0 comments
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XBase(c2.com)
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DBase(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jasim 11y ago
Even the full-blown xBase languages (dBase, FoxPro, Clipper etc.) is so much easier to quickly manipulate data than SQL. The concept of a persistent data-store is built into the language, or rather, the language revolves around data access
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by jasim 11y ago
No. I'm bootstrapping a product startup, and the only thing I care about now is whether it works and whether people find _value_ in it. Its logo doesn't matter, the copy doesn't matter, glossy startuppy pictures don't ma
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Protoship.io – magic for designers and developers. Our Story(protoship.io)
4 points by jasim 11y ago|0 comments
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by jasim 11y ago
Awesome! A lot of smart people have been saying good things about Cycle.JS, but I unfortunately have been unable to wrap my head around it. The idea of putting stream of user-generated events front and center appeals to the puritan in me, b

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