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ttrashhon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

I'd love to try it out too.

ttrashhon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

https://flipcompare.com

Realize that I'm really bad at marketing. Trying to work on it.

It lets you take a picture of video games and shows price comparisons for the major buy lists.

ttrashhon OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network

Cancel your subscription. It's the least you can do.

ttrashhon The Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT

You read her qualifications and history? You still decided to write this comment?

ttrashhon Let's talk content. AMA

I consider your comment harassment. I think it should be removed.

Slippery slope don't you think?

ttrashhon The JustDecompile .NET decompiler engine has been open-sourced

I had the opposite experience. DotPeek created much better code. using statements were decompiled as usings, JustDecompile produced try/finally blocks.

ttrashhon Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X

One of JetBrains primary products is Resharper. It's a must have add on for Visual Studio. If we're going to be subjective I'd say no other IDE gets close to the combination of Visual Studio and Resharper.

ttrashhon Introducing Aurelia

We use Durandal as our SPA framework and we love it. So glad to see this. Rob knows how to write a framework.

ttrashhon Restart: Microsoft in the age of Satya Nadella

He is saying that real time text translation has been there. Microsoft has the translator app that will display the translated text as an "augmented" overlay when you hold the camera up.

ttrashhon All About Angular 2.0 (2014)

Rob is a brilliant guy. We've used his WPF/Silverlight mvvm framework for years. Our consulting company uses durandal.js for current projects. It looks like Durandal v2 is now called Aurelia. I have high hopes for it, he knows how to write a framework.

https://github.com/aurelia

ttrashhon Microsoft Build 2014 Day 1 live

They had Windows 8. Then Windows 8.1. Now it's Windows 8.1 Update 1. (Another terrible name in a long line of terrible Microsoft product names)

ttrashhon Angular Vs Knockout Final Thoughts

I'm not sure why he is comparing knockout to angular. Angular is an entire framework and knockout is a small piece for binding. Seems like Durandal vs Angular would be a better comparison.

I just finished a large project with Durandal that went great. I fell in love with it. I'm eager to try Angular on the next one to see how they stack up.

ttrashhon Angular Vs Knockout Final Thoughts

If you don't care about IE8 you can get rid of the observables on your models with the ES5 plugin. http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2013/05/20/knockout-es5-a-pl...

ttrashhon Hands On With The New And Improved Screenhero (YC W13)

We use this working remotely but we use it just as much sitting side by side in the office. Love this app.

ttrashhon Javascript Framework Popularity graphed by Github Archive

Using Durandal/Knockout on our current project. Entire team is very happy.

ttrashhon Goodbye Silverlight

Many window users faced Silverlight quality issues themselves due to their .Net frameworks not being up to date. For the best performance, they needed to download the .Net 4.0 SDK in Windows, which is something the average Netflix customer would not be willing to do.

Silverlight doesn't require the .Net framework on the machine. Not sure what performance issues he is talking about but Silverlight has better streaming features and performance than flash or html5.

ttrashhon Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project

Chrome for iOS is just a wrapper around Safari.

ttrashhon Ask HN: What JS framework do you use for web apps?

knockout.js

require.js

durandal.js

ttrashhon IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Microsoft

DRM, better streaming, C# and the .Net framework

ttrashhon CSS Flexbox Please

Really enjoying grid layout. I wish it was well supported. Makes so much more sense than what we have today.

ttrashhon Ask HN: reading list for high school students interested in CS?

Neuromancer and Snow Crash always inspired me.

ttrashhon Microsoft Open Sources their Entity Framework ORM

Entity Framework has entity sql right? You don't have to use linq?

ttrashhon Ask HN: What Windows 8 Metro apps are you working on?

I'm working on a Reddit app in Xaml.

ttrashhon Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

I have the Samsung reference tablet from Build. The stylus works very very well. Being able to lay my hand on the screen and write accurately is great.

ttrashhon GitHub for Windows

Nice work xpaulbettsx! Great to see a Caliburn.Micro getting some props. We're using it on a large WPF app now.

How many people were on the team? Did you let Phil write any Xaml?

ttrashhon Microsoft Is Writing Checks to Fill Out Its App Store

I always shake my head a bit when I see people mention Zune like this. The hardware (and software on device) was fantastic. Much better than the iPods at the time imho. Look at the reviews on Amazon sometime. http://www.amazon.com/Zune-Video-MP3-Player-Platinum/dp/B002...

The Zune software is beautiful. It's a little heavy on occasion but much better than iTunes (again heavy imho). Zune pass is a great music service as well. It's not as unique as it once was since Spotify and others let you play what you want on demand but it's price similarly and you get to own a few of the songs each month.

ttrashhon Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

The new await/async in C# 5 is beautiful. Just try/catch around an await and suddenly async is easy to read and handle errors.

ttrashhon Submitting your Windows 8 apps

Wonder how are they going to keep people from gaming the name reservation system?

ttrashhon Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture

Apple wouldn't release something like this because they are a black box. At least Microsoft is blogging about the process and eliciting feedback along the way.

ttrashhon Windows Azure to support node as a first class platform

How is Azure less secure?