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Re:F# 3.0 Developer Preview Now Available on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @11:18PM (#2998777)
I find F# very tempting as a gateway into .NET. Anyone used it with MVC?
Re:Ask HN: Best practices for supporting extensions to your web applic... on Saturday September 10, 2011 @08:46PM (#2982899)
Ideally build some of your main functionality as an extensions. You'll quickly discover pain points if you have to live with the same API and contexts as a 3rd party. I just recently rewrote TaffyDB to a version allowing extensions and a key goal was to build most if not all of the public default methods as extensions.
Re:Anyone know of an app that provides daily check marks? on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @07:58PM (#1634584)
Thanks for the bump. Creator here, feel free to ask me anything.
Re:Ask HN: Do you donate to any charities? on Thursday August 12, 2010 @12:34AM (#1597226)
My wife and I give. I think it is one of the most positive things you can do. We give to several faith-connected charities, children's hospitals, etc. My new "favorite" charity is charitywater.org. They have a lot of good things going for it not the least of which is that they are about as close as it comes to a "startup" charity in terms of innovation, marketing, etc.
Re:Node.net - Node.js implemented in Javascript on the .NET runtime on Monday May 24, 2010 @02:07AM (#1373917)
Thanks for this!

Ask HN: Where do you find talent to work on one-off tech problems?

Posted by typicaljoe on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @11:49AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've used 99designs for graphics design and I like it. But now I have a programming problem that is beyond my own skill and simply not practical for me to spend many hours trying to figure out. Where would you go to hire someone to solve a one-off problem in as direct a way as possible? I know of eLance but I haven't heard the best things.-the problem--I want a working demo of using Adobe's...

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Re:JSConf2009 Wrapup on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @02:37PM (#583732)
JSConf was a blast.I walked away with the feeling that JavaScript was going somewhere beyond the web. With Canvas, Server Side, DBs, etc it feels like JavaScript is slowly and irresistibly going to take over everything.
Re:Ask HN: Review my relaunched startup on Sunday March 22, 2009 @02:38PM (#527311)
What browser are you using that the editor stopped working? You can do any subject you want, in fact I may even add it to the list. I added the box on the left to give the site some initial focus.

Ask HN: Review my relaunched startup

Posted by typicaljoe on Sunday March 22, 2009 @02:24PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi Hacker News,This past week I re-launched my new web project called mostrecent.net.I'd done a small launch for feedback in December with mixed results. I got very little user interest but I did get some good feedback. Overall the site needed to be easier to use and their needed to be more of a "hook". In this case the hook is being able to use Adsense to make money.The basic idea of the site...

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Ask HN: Why not prepay groceries?

Posted by typicaljoe on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @01:02PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Standing in Costco I suddenly had an idea that seemed like good fodder for a Hacker News thread. To put it simply, why not prepay groceries? I know my food budget each month and I know where I liked to shop. Why not simplify things a little bit? I"ll pay up front each month and maybe in return I get better prices, special programs, etc. Thoughts?Prepay groceries seems like it could be an ideal...

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Re:Rate my product - mostrecent.net on Monday December 29, 2008 @12:39PM (#413190)
Yeah, the reason "why" is something I've struggled to communicate. The core idea is that if you personally are a power web user and are interested in a topic (let's say apple products) than you probably filter through a lot of feeds, videos, news stories, social links, etc. Much of that content isn't worth paying attention to, but some of it is gold. If you could find the apple "gold" and put it on one page it would be a very valuable and useful page. Consider the fact that any time an Apple story breaks all the major tech blogs fill up with posts and commentary. Little of that commentary is original or useful, but some of it is. If you regularly filter the Apple news feeds to find the good stuff then creating a page to highlight this information would be very useful to folks who don't want to do the same filtering.

Rate my product - mostrecent.net

Posted by typicaljoe on Monday December 29, 2008 @12:13PM
from the self-post dept.

http://mostrecent.net/My idea: to build a community of topical-hand-edited news pages. I want to start in the tech community working to recruit editors/experts to build pages covering programming languages and popular technologies. Think of it as an alternative to blogs, tweets, and social link sites. Here an expert can build out a page with the most useful links and highlight news items that...

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Ask HN: building a database middle layer to work of ODBC?

Posted by typicaljoe on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @12:55PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Ok, so here is the basic problem a friend and I are trying to tackle. We want to build a service that will appear to our customers as a MySQL or PostgreSQL but would in fact be an application layer. The application (perhaps coded in Python or Ruby) would take requests over ODBC such as inserts and select statements and give expect ODBC responses. Before we try and reinvent the wheel, are there...

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Re:Posterous: I went to etc., can I still work for you? on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @04:08PM (#314005)
Being degree free myself (and knowing others in the same boat) let me put it this way: with four years of school you may be able to start at $50K a year. With a good head and practice you may be able to get a job at 20 for $50K. With 6 years of school you may be able to start at $60-80. Again, with practice, a good head, and a good company you can be in that range by the time the schooled person is ready for the work force and you don't have the debt.

By and large programmers solve problems. If you can solve problems well enough they'll pay you. They may pay you more when they see that magical degree on your resume, but that doesn't mean you can solve their problem any better than the person without a degree. Likewise if by the time you are 30-35 you can be at or near 6 figures the actual pay difference you could earn matters less and less.

There is a lot of value in a formal education in computer science or software engineering. So much so that I am tempted to go and attempt to get a degree in one or the other. But it isn't so I can work in the field. There are so many lazy people that if you just show up and dig ditches you'll find work and become important to the company. If you think a degree (or even the ability to do things text-book right) means anything to a firm that just needs an apt to store customer contacts than you are fooling yourself. I doubt I could ever work at Google, but I really don't care that much about missing out on that rat race.

Re:JavaScript Reusability Is A Quagmire on Monday August 04, 2008 @07:27PM (#266921)
JavaScript really isn't that bad. It is different to be sure and lost when it comes to OO. But like "The Good Parts" book explains, JavaScript really isn't about OO. Or strong typing. It doesn't need to be. It would be nice if the certain features worked correctly and it worked the same in all browsers, but I'd rather have less features and not more. With closure and first class functions you can get most of what you need once you learn a basic model for building apps.

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