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by rpeden 8y ago
Right, that makes sense. It's not the right fit for every business idea. If you could find yourself a 5-10 beta customers, perhaps launching to them before billing is ready might work? You could even perhaps set a cap on how many SMS m
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I've heard of quite a few products that launched without billing in place yet. They gave users a 30 day trial period, so starting on launch day, they had precisely 30 days to get billing sorted out if they hoped to be able to charge an
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The downside to this approach is that it can kill the passion for the thing you were passionate about. Also, I've noticed that real world solutions to problems tend to include lots of schleps that are excruciatingly boring, but necessa
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There are lots of companies that don't do these kinds of tests. It's been a while since I've done a job search, but several people I know have done them recently. And they've all found that some companies - mainly big te
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I'm guessing it was a bug, because now the page you linked to says: The majority of mobile and desktop apps are still built with native languages like Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, or Swift. NativeScript has its own separate page.
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And my biggest surprise is how Javascript turned from one of the most hated programming language ( besides PHP ? ) into being acceptable and loved. I enjoy modern JS myself, but I'd be careful about coming to a conclusion like that b
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First, see if you can figure out how to animate the boxes the way they are when you're not hovering over start: they're moving around the screen in a straight line until they reach the edge of the screen. The animation we're
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Sure it did. Classes in PHP showed up in version 4.0 18 years ago.
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...that's what the app is doing. It was just opening the links in a webview inside the app instead of tossing the user over into Safari every time they click a link. There was no scraping happening.
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That's a fair point! I suppose I don't see Intellisense as something that's IDE specific anymore. It's available in plenty of editors that aren't IDEs, and I think that's a very good thing. The line is pretty b
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A couple of observations: - Something like Light Table would probably seem like a step up for repl.it users, instead of a step down. - It can take a long time to reach the point where it feels like there's a big payoff from using IDEs
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There were a few well known companies that were merged into IG Farben, and they were split back out after the war. Several of them still exist and are very well known. There were also spinoffs and mergers that happened later, and bit sand p
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I got a used Surface Pro earlier this year for exactly this purpose. It was the previous gen at the time - Surface Pro 4, instead of the newer 2017 Surface Pro. It looks the same as the 2017 model and the new SP6, though. Since I mostly wan
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For an interesting take on this, I'd recommend reading The Alchemy of Air . It's not specifically about either of the world wars. It's about the work that led to the discovery of the Haber-Bosch process that makes it possibl
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Maybe store a hash of the values in the struct and check against that too see if anything has changed? If you're doing lots of dirty checks, that might be too resource intensive, though. Or just use getters and setters and if anyone ca
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A few developers stand on the shoulders of giants and try to see the future so they can shove the state of the art forward a little bit. Some developers stand in the footprints of giants and complain about the view. Many developers stand in
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It's not like they didn't deliver at all, though. They raised funding for Light Table via Kickstarter, and they then delivered Light Table. I don't think that the $316k raised should require perpetual commitment from Chris Gr
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For Microsoft, at least, take a look at work done by Leslie Lamport and Simon Peyton Jones while working for Microsoft Research. Look at the papers they've published, and also what they work on - things like TLA+ for Lamport and Haskel
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Have you tried Envy apples? I like them a bit more than Pink Lady or Honeycrisp, though they're all pretty tasty. They can be a bit hard to find. Here in Toronto I've only seen Envys from New Zealand. They grow a decent number of
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It's not just a cargo-cult mentality. There's a decent amount of research that has found that putting things in non-standard locations impairs most users' ability to accomplish what they want on your website. The Nielsen No
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Both WPF and WinForms will be part of .NET Core 3.0. They've done a few demos of it already, and were able to port over existing apps without any changes to the code. This even worked when using third party controls like the ones you c
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The MacBook Pro with function keys does have the trouble prone keyboard design. The MacBook Pro with touchbar received a slightly updated keyboard that is supposed to fix some of the issues people had with the old one.
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Xamarin Forms also has WPF, OSX, and GTK renderers, so it might be an option. Based on GitHub activity it looks like they're being worked on fairly actively, too.
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It seems like the kind of thing that should be possible - after all, Mono has had System.Web for a long time, and can run both MVC and Web Forms apps. I don't know anyone who has actually done so in production, though. But although it
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If you're running from an IDE and want to inspect values, why not just set a breakpoint?
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I've always found WinFS[1] to be a pretty interesting attempt at a relational filesystem. Although it was probably a bit too ambitious, which led to it being cancelled. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
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Whenever I read about Roman graffiti, I can't help but think humans have't changed all that much over time: http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%2...
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Canadian Government Bans Settlement Demands in Copyright Notices(michaelgeist.ca)
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I don't think it's true that there's no consensus around how to programatically handle monetary values. Maybe there's no consensus around how to do it in JavaScript. In the Java world, there's JSR-354: https:/
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I'm not sure how it is in other industries, but in automotive this is usually referred to as badge engineering. It results in some interesting vehicles. In the US, GM used to sell Toyota Corolla badged as Geo Prisms. And in Japan, Toyo

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