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visualR··on Before Detroit Can Move On, It Needs to Upgrade from Windows XP
Part of the problem is a lot of IT talent is more interested in building the latest social networking gizmo than solving Detroit IT problems.
visualR··on Thank you Apple for rejecting my app
Relying on App Store reviewers for feedback is a bad idea. The whole process is capricious. It's likely had he submitted at a different time and gotten a different reviewer, the app would have been approved.
visualR··on Ask HN: What to work on?
They are quick to respond up until the point where you've paid. But, their interest drops off pretty steeply after that point.

Thanks, you just saved me 2k. Please write up a blog post, you may save others.

visualR··on Poll: For your startup, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
Groovy/Grails here.
visualR··on Percentage of Bachelor's degrees conferred to women by major, 1970-2012
What I think the point was there is no outrage in the blogosphere/twitterverse about the shortage of male nurses.
visualR··on Percentage of Bachelor's degrees conferred to women by major, 1970-2012
Whats important is that any woman who wants to do CS or Engineering is able to. Equal ratios for its own sake isn't important. If these percentages are the result of the choices of individuals Im not sure what you can to to change them.
visualR··on Groovy Now Runs on Android
This is really cool.
visualR··on Cross Platform Development with Mono
That's why you'd use monomac, mono touch or wpf on osx,iOS and windows, respectively. Xamarin also has a solution for android.
visualR··on Cross Platform Development with Mono
The problem with this is you only get 1 thread for the UI and other stuff to run on.
visualR··on Cross Platform Development with Mono
yeah you can. The whole native vs non native is about whether the UI is native and directly integrates with the platform, not the language or whether there is a runtime.
visualR··on Cross Platform Development with Mono
If your app is something others will use, for the best experience you write your app in such a way that the UI is as swappable as possible. Then write a Mac UI with monomac and a Windows UI with WPF. If it's just you who needs it, then Gtk# might be ok for standard things. But don't expect good os integration without work.
visualR··on Cross Platform Development with Mono
No but you can wrap native UI libraries, the most critical piece that needs to be native. Contrast this with an HTML CSS UI.
visualR··on Cross Platform Development with Mono
If you were going to develop a mono app on osx you'd be better off using monomac than gtk#. Mono develop is written in gtk# and cut and paste works just fine on osx.
visualR··on Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
Xournal
visualR··on NetJs: A .NET to TypeScript and JavaScript compiler
Excellent. How did you know I wanted this? =)
visualR··on Brendan Eich, We’ve Failed You. I’m Sorry.
You have to differentiate between individuals deciding for themselves to go elsewhere and organized boycotts designed to ruin a person. I would hate to be a minority business owner in a society that condoned flippant use of organized boycotts.
visualR··on Brendan Eich, We’ve Failed You. I’m Sorry.
> If the business wants to succeed, it has decide whether it will be more profitable to capitulate or not.

economic blackmail is wasteful and silly. I'm an atheist are you ok with the religious attacking my livelihood as a small business owner? That's not capitalism that's the dark ages.

visualR··on The Next Mission
Revenge never works.
visualR··on The Next Mission
Maybe. Or it could just anger the other side to push back harder. Education and time are the forces that will cause an LGBT victory, not these boycott games.
visualR··on The Next Mission
@SolarNet You seem pretty absolute in determining who is a bigot, and do not recognize that there is a spectrum. Obviously one's religion does not justify bigotry. But it does distort one's world view and can explain why someone might support Prop 8 without being a person who hates and is disgusted by homosexuals. Education is the best response to this, not economic sanctions.
visualR··on The Next Mission
My point is there are degrees of badness. LGBT supporters look like bullies when they don't moderate their response to someone who disagrees with them.
visualR··on The Next Mission
@SolorNet Let me rephrase, would you be ok if the Catholic Church used its members to lobby for a person to be fired for their stance on abortion?
visualR··on The Next Mission
What if his religion tells him, gays OK, but marriage is only for opposite sex?
visualR··on The Next Mission
How does punishing Eich help the cause? Is it trying to scare people in to agreeing with the LGBT cause?
visualR··on The Next Mission
It is. But we're definitely not comparing apples to apples
visualR··on The Next Mission
The only reason you suspect that is because of his contribution in 2008.
visualR··on The Next Mission
Liberals would not like it if the Catholic Church used its members to lobby for a person to be fired for their stance on abortion. Don't use Firefox, fine. But actively lobbying to take away someone's livelihood is not a proportional response in this case.
visualR··on The Next Mission
Maybe he thinks marriage should be between opposite sex for religious reasons but has no problem with civil unions that grants the same legal benefits. While not a progressive view, not the same as a Klansman.
visualR··on The Next Mission
No, I just dont go around assuming things.
visualR··on The Next Mission
Yeah, I agree. But is the boycott activism a proportional response? I think we should leave people jobs out of these things.
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