oaksagelew

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Ask HN: Searching for a specific JavaScript graphics library
2 points by oaksagelew 9y ago|0 comments
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by oaksagelew 11y ago
I'm 57 and still programming for a living. Currently I'm involved with a startup building an iOS app, and am building am Apple Watch app on the site. I've been programmimg for 41 years, starting in high school with FORTRAN IV
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by oaksagelew 12y ago
Yep, I got a Bachelor's in Physics, minoring in Computer Science, and did independent study in computational physics, so lots of numerical-analysis type of study. Career paths - without a PhD - were limited, so I got into programming,
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by oaksagelew 12y ago
Hunter, Thank you for a most thoughtful reply. We are actually current Heroku customers, and my issue (a simple one to solve) is that our new app has the same name as our old app (which is running on Heroku now), so i wanted a different hos
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by oaksagelew 12y ago
Yep, DO is a contender. I like the "hands-on" aspect of their interface - a lot of control, but a little squirrely on the interface. Still, they're growing fast and clearly appeal to a lot of devs. Thanks!
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by oaksagelew 12y ago
Yes, you're right. Doh! Don't know why I omitted AWS; certainly know about them. Thanks for the reminder!
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Ask HN: Best Node.js hosters
9 points by oaksagelew 12y ago|9 comments
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For Developers in the Payments Industry
1 points by oaksagelew 12y ago|0 comments
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by oaksagelew 12y ago
Ionic is OK but has its limitations. Its CSS components are not all that pretty, compared to those from, sat, SemanticUI or other CSS frameworks. And it's not easy at all to integrate other CSS frameworks. Also, current Ionic does not
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Looking for developers in the payments space for quick survey
1 points by oaksagelew 12y ago|0 comments
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by oaksagelew 12y ago
For real-time aspects, have a look at PubNub: lots of features, very low latency, many global data centers, SDKs for every language/platform, good docs and support. You can easily replace FireBase with PubNub (I did on a project and re
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by oaksagelew 12y ago
Thanks for all the good suggestions. Appreciate it!
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Where else do developers hang out?
6 points by oaksagelew 12y ago|6 comments
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by oaksagelew 12y ago
Yeah, me too. Have been for many years. And I lived/worked in India building education products. Feel free to contact me as well: me (at) lewhollerbach.com.
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by oaksagelew 12y ago
You might want to check out a "one-member LLC". Some/most U.S. states should have a provision for this type of corporate structure. It's an LLC (limited liability corporation), so you get most of the benefits of a corpor
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Beta Testing as a Service
4 points by oaksagelew 13y ago|1 comments
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Is NPM down? Is the NPM registry down?
2 points by oaksagelew 13y ago|0 comments
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by oaksagelew 13y ago
Nope, no joy - 30 seconds or otherwise.
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by oaksagelew 13y ago
The status page says that "Code Downloads" is "Normal". How do you get to the downloads page for a given repo? Is there some canonical form for a URL for repos? Maybe while they're fixing it we can still download code...
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by oaksagelew 14y ago
Love how you do the text handling - click, with little draggable, resizeable text area with handle; how did you build that - jQueryUI with lots of mods, or something even lower level? And have you seen paperi.st? ( http://paperi.st/ ) Simil