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by jeffreportmill1 2y ago
Having a corporate job is usually a 'mediocre success'. If you strike out on your own with something that involves your passion and you earn a comparable income, you are a stellar success. Don't let a nepo baby tell you other
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by jeffreportmill1 2y ago
I'm building a Java IDE for education in the browser: https://reportmill.com/SnapCode I'm mostly doing it as a labor of love, though I have no real users so far. Not sure how to properly get the word out.
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by jeffreportmill1 2y ago
This new book explores the complete change we have made in how we raise our kids in the last 30 years: The Anxious Generation: https://www.anxiousgeneration.com It's really been one domino after another: Overprotecti
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
Stock buybacks are a great way for executives to further line their pockets inconspicuously and to allow shareholders to dodge corporate and dividend taxes. It does nothing for the health of the company. There should be a cap on executive c
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
Misled? They were self dealing. The board returned 750M of stolen funds just to avoid prosecution. Friends and relatives of Elon, awarding themselves billions because they were guarding the vault and they could.
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
I’m an actual shareholder, and I was furious over the 50B compensation package. Musk was already an investor with billions of dollars of incentive to do a good job. It was nothing short of fraud to pack the board with friends and relatives
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
And another 28% lied about it. I regularly ask people “Read any good books lately?”, half as a joke. Nine out ten people just stare at me blankly.
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
SnapCode is actually using SnapKit ( https://github.com/reportmill/SnapKit ) which can run on either WebAPI/DOM (in browser) or Swing (desktop). In the browser this helps slim the download and improve performance by
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
I found and fixed the major FireFox issue and put out the update. There is still another issue I'm tracking down, but it's much better.
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
Thanks! SnapCode is actually 100% client based right now. It downloads the jars and the CheerpJ JVM browser runtime and runs on the local machine. Files are stored in the browser index-db. There is a preview feature for using drop box and I
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
Oh right! I forgot to update that link, thanks for the report. I've updated it now.
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
I think this is some kind of CDN caching issue - that reference was removed from the launch file last week (but I've gotten a couple other reports). How did you work around it?
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
Yes, every window is a canvas. All painting is done with an adapter so it uses DOM painting in the browser and Java Swing Graphics2D painting on the desktop. It's pretty much pixel perfect identical though.
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
The browser certainly has unparalleled deployment advantages. Though for sustained use, I would recommend going desktop (there's a download link on the page). Java still does good desktop. :-) Or maybe using new "Web Apps" fe
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
My apologies to FireFox users - it quickly hits an exception. Will fix today if I can, but still fine on Chrome and Safari in the meantime.
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Show HN: SnapCode – a real Java IDE in the browser(reportmill.com)
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Show HN: SnapCode – a real Java IDE in the browser(reportmill.com)
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
CheerpJ uses http byte range requests which reduces the amount of necessary downloads. My full featured Java app downloads < 20 mb with CJ, which is about the same as hitting the front page of NYTimes.com or spending 20 seconds on YouTub
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
Congratulations on a great product! I've played with it quite a bit and we finally have a great version of Java in the browser!
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
I have a theory that one-pedal driving also improves traffic conditions by reducing the over correction inherent to two pedals. In traffic we hit the accelerator when space opens up in front of us, then switch quickly to brakes when the bra
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
I got 79% with: a red BMW in front of a field of trees under a starry sky
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
I have been a huge Tesla fan - we own 2 (model 3 and Y). I think Tesla perfectly executed the barn raising of a new EV car company: (1) Build a premium roadster (2) Build a premium sedan (3) Build a mid range sedan. Each step allowed them t
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
Wow, I didn't know about that one, but just watched a video. I wonder if it was inspired by the Mac game from the late 80s.
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
I am so thankful for this project - for years I have been obsessed with a game I loved on my old Mac SE, but I couldn’t remember the name and only remembered that it was like Asteroids, but in a maze. I found it on several of the releases a
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
I highly recommend this book as well. I am always on the lookout for technical books that have a good mix of history. One of my favorite examples is the "Disappearing Spoon", which is an engaging exploration of chemistry with stor
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
I am not against the general AI hysteria, but I don't think we should let it jump the line. There is plenty else that will likely get us first: the internal combustion engine, micro plastics, forever chemicals, nuclear weapons, social
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by jeffreportmill1 3y ago
Did they ever make things right with the creator of Box2D? https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/28/creator-of-angry-birds-phy...
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
Congratulations, looks like a great release! I'm a big fan of CheerpJ - these tools are making web development from other languages a reality.
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
Boy this is really apropos of Alvy's book "Biography of a Pixel" (which I loved), and Alvy does such a thorough job of documenting the contributions of so many people, flying in the face of our tendency to sweep the accomplis
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by jeffreportmill1 4y ago
If this project is mostly JavaScript, why isn’t there a browser version?

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