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astannard

221 karma · joined December 4, 2014

software developer, dad, runner
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astannard··on Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale
The Orange Pi 2 Plus has sata and about the same price
astannard··on Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
It was the per platform pricing that killed it for me. I was so annoyed that a solution for multiplatform development made you pay twice. I liked their T-Shirt promotion idea with the tshirt store demo, but that errored out on me and it was their code.
astannard··on Huawei launches Matebook
Looks great to me! Very tempted to buy this. The new Surface book looks amazing but this beats it on price massively and it looks almost as good. Not sure on the specs though I think the surface book winds that game
astannard··on The Pixel C was probably never supposed to run Android
I bet the android fork, remix OS would run great on it!
astannard··on Google and ASUS Launch the $85 Chromebit, a Chrome OS Desktop on an HDMI Stick
Check out the Remix Mini
astannard··on Flutter – Cross-platform mobile framework from Google
This is very new from the looks so who know how it will play out, at the moment I am not excited about it. Sounds like Java swing where you could create cross platform apps but the UI was not the platforms native components and so never quite felt right.
astannard··on Crystal, iOS ad blocker, to accept money to let ads through
Sounds like a protection racket
astannard··on Volkswagen Chief Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal
Will that leave the car with less horse power or reduced fuel consumption? If so more lawsuits around the corner
astannard··on Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK
Generally you would start a Business Account, Barclays are good. You then pay yourself from your company but at a much lower rate than your company gets paid say an annual salary of £10,000. This will cause money to build up in your company account which you pay to yourself as dividends which are more tax efficient to get your money out. This is why most contractor use an accountant to manage the payroll etc
astannard··on How Amazon Deleted Me and All My DRM Without a Second Thought
Hope this gets sorted, Amazon clearly need to improve how they handle such situations. If all else fails complaining to your credit card company should get a refund.
astannard··on Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK
inniAccounts are good too but I am very biased as I work for them.
astannard··on Fundraising While Female
I can see why you're annoyed and have every right to be at investor behaviour. Lack of investment though, could that be due to scalability of the product? Reading between the lines as you take on more users will you need more staff to be matchers? This seems to put off some investors looking for a unicorn. It's a shame their are not more female VCs around. Hope it all goes well
astannard··on Supersonic: New UI Hybrid Framework – Ionic, AngularJS, Cordova
Yeah I was wondering about what's different between this and ionic. Looks like some of the elements are 'native' rather than html representations of native elements such as tabs and slide out menus are done with native elements for performance reasons.

I like ionic but this looks pretty good, its forked from ionic. Will give it a run on my next project

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