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Blackberry designed their whole OS and app development ecosystem around Flash / AIR. It performed surprisingly well, but obviously their devices was not successful in the marketplace.

Android was hit or miss depending upon the specs of the device.

Flash was a complete security nightmare.

However, as a platform the player was lean and optimized. A lot of people wrote horribly inefficient things with it, which gave it a reputation for being power hungry and slow.

There were additional performance issues on Mac desktops where certain APIs for video playback were blocked.

I'm sure they could have worked w/ Adobe to create a version of Flash Player for iOS; just like Adobe did for Android and Blackberry.

You're aware of Adobe AIR, right? It supports cross platform AS3 development to both iOS and Android.

I think it could have been a contender for winning the 'cross-platform-mobile-dev-tool" war; but Adobe abandoned it along for the most part.

There is a button on the calculator to change your settings.

It sized my roof at more than 2x the square footage of my house.

It also estimated my monthly electric bill at 4x what I pay on a monthly basis.

Changing those numbers put them to something closer to a new roof; and is definitely competitive with putting on a new roof and then paying for a solar panel installation.

Search for UI Developer job with a distributed / remote team; and React jobs are significantly easier to come by.

Granted, by limiting to distributed / remote teams may not be indicative of the whole market.

Prednisone is common to reduce inflammation in patients with Crohn's disease or Ulcerative Colitis.

I think my dad also takes it in much lower doses for asthma.

But, it has horrible affects both long and short term.

Also a song by the Hooters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LE0KpcP05I

SSN = Social Security Number.

Basically, an identification number used by US Citizens.

My office 365 Home install is not cloud based in any way as far as I can tell. All the 'traditional' office programs such as Excel and Word are installed locally.

There may be some cloud integration to OneDrive or something similar, but I haven't used that. It is nothing like Google Docs.

Is your number crunching program geared towards a mass market; or a 'once in a while' report run by a single company?

I would expect the two markets to have very different requirements.

I have a CS Degree; my most growth as a programmer was when I got a job at a business to business consulting firm. Putting a lot of the theory into practice in a professional setting was a trial by fire, so to speak.

In my version of the world; most people tend to specialize and know their area very well; but often do not know the breadth of technology very well.

If it is an option; you can try to go back to school for a programming degree. Or you could go to a conference for something different than your day to day job. Or you could work on an open source project using different technologies than the one you work on in your day job.

Bubble Sort is a common sorting algorithm. I would expect anyone w/ a CS degree to know sort of what it is.

But, for the most part; I can't imagine anyone ever having to write it on the job unless they are doing super low level stuff. All the 'current' languages provide sorting algorithms built in.

I read they are just changing their versioning structure; sort of like Chrome and Firefox do.

So, the major version number update will really be a 'minor' update that is not expected to break backwards compatibility.

I used to dream in code all the time. It was when I was tackling a programming problem I was having trouble with. My mind would often solve it while I sleep; and I'd be able to solve the issue quickly in the morning.

It happens less these days. Either because I am more experienced or because development tools have improved; I no longer get stuck like I used.

Find a local lawyer.

Beyond that; look for specific information in your state. My state, Connecticut, has a government web site that gives you step by step instructions on setting up a company in the state; including what paperwork to file and how to get taxID Numbers...

ColdFusion! It's been dead longer than I've been developing with it; but is still going strong. :ha, ha:

Seriously, though, I would not say there are any core technologies; but rather core programming concepts.

Variable memory management is one example. Knowing the difference between passing parameters by value, or by reference, when writing Lotus Notes applications actually helped me understand the difference between a variable assignment and creating a deep copy in JavaScript.

Less specific; If I had to guess--in 20 years; I'll still be working in technology that supports things like MVC(S), Dependency Injection, Singletons, Factories, etc....

Learning basic encapsulation techniques, and design patterns, is knowledge that will apply to lots of programming languages.

I didn't see anyone say it yet; so The Old Republic is the name of the story-line that exists 3,000-4,000 years before the time of the Star Wars movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Old_Republic

The appearance of the Death Star plans in the prequel trilogy is not proof that development of the Death Star was started during 'the old republic'

This page is linked to from:

https://www.greatagain.gov/

I assume that is how people found it in the first place.

4-5 years ago when I was building AIR mobile apps; you could build iOS apps on Windows.

You can do everything you could do on a Mac except upload the final build to the iOS app store.

To my knowledge there is no way to use native Apple tools to build iOS apps on Windows; but I haven't kept up with the tech.

That was my second thought. My first was "when did Microsoft enter the revolution"

Primarily I use touch in games; often casual games gotten from the MS store.

Or scrolling when web browsing.

The writing w/ the Pen in OneNote is great; but I don't use it all that much.

Yes; the SurfaceBook still has a trackpad; I don't think a touch screen is a replacement for it.

For me; I use a mechanical keyboard; and have not found a laptop w/ a keyboard that offers that same feel.

However, that is a preference; when traveling I have no issues doing work while using a laptop keyboard.

Programmers have very different requirements for computers than non-techie users.

I use the TouchScreen on my SurfaceBook way more than I thought I would--just not for programming.

The post from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8960933

Cycles...

It doesn't seem too long ago when Java Developers rushed to Ruby because it wasn't statically typed.

Now, TypeScript is better than JavaScript because of the opposite reason...

I've seen this sort of pendulum swing a few times in my career.

No notification was sent to my client who is using them.

The response to my support ticket on the subject was "things are working".

Is it worth noting that Snowden didn't release anything publicly? He only leaked info to journalists. All public exposure was done at the discretion of the journalists.

I quit my only professional 'full-time' job on the spot. It was a very emotional decision. However, even then I gave two weeks notice. After a week off, they hired me back as a consultant [which was a bit rocky; but at least I got sent home after 8 hours]. Since then they've hired me as a consultant multiple times and I'm glad I didn't burn that bridge.

In the past 20 years; I have had more than 10 different startup ventures; all with varying degrees of success; none of them were the "Golden Ticket" that allowed me to retire.

All were self-funded if that makes a difference.

It has not hurt my chances of finding paying consulting clients. Many of my clients like that I have that experience; and business experience is awesome when you're talking to small business owners who are not tech people and just want someone they can trust to build their project. Often the startup venture / project can be used as 'proof' of technical skill.

If you choose to list the startup company on your resume, you can easily give yourself a title / position relevant to the job you are after [programming / management / CTO / whatever ]

I haven't been in a traditional 9-5 employment situation in a long time; so I'm not sure about that area.