joeblau

Here is the genesis of this blog post: CppCon 2014: Alex Allain & Andrew Twyman "Practical Cross-Platform Mobile C++ Development[1]. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcBt…

> when you give away something completely for free, people aren’t that motivated to pay for it. I created gitingore.io about 8 years ago and it's almost at 5000 stars. I had nearly 100k MAU&#x…

Facebook and a lot of others are listed at the bottom of Googles page.

I feel like the Java community will step up and refactor this to be as robust as Enterprise Fizz Buzz [1]. [1] - https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris... …

Yeah maybe — it should really just be the entrepreneurial economy. I think one of the big challenges is that most people jumping into this type of work want the freedom of an entrepreneur and the &quo…

I'm not 100% sure on this but I think when you start a franchise, the model is that you pay an huge up front price for being able to use the brand. I think that's kind of what the New York t…

Can someone who is educated on the subject help me understand what the sanctions are about? I've tried Google, but I'm sure HN'ers have a higher IQ/EQ on average than whatever is o…

Hehe. Packages are the developer term for a reusable piece of software that usually solves one problem.

I recall a time when Google's SVP of Engineering saw some of us in the cafeteria and congratulated us on a release; this was surprising since we hadn't released anything recently,…

My question to the op is: Where were you for the few years of posts when other people wrote the same thing, yet you stuck with PayPal? It feels like people don’t want to actively move their payments p…

Azure is currently experiencing DNS issues in all regions which is actively causing downtime for my GitLab repos[1]. Whether it feels like advertising or not, their numbers seem to support their clai…

This is going to be spectacular to watch.

John didn't invent it for everyone to implement it on everything on the internet. He invented it for him to use on his blog because he's a writer and wanted to focus on his content, not on w…

Markdown does have a spec created and posted by the person that invented it, John Gruber[1]. The problem is that people keep adding features to it and no one follows the actual markdown spec. [1] - h…

What platform? In iOS, you can make a button in a few lines. There is more code to add it to the View Controller.

Every single time I watch a successful SpaceX launch I get chills and also get so excited. Congrats to everyone who has worked on this.

The title should say: Google plus cannot be used.

There is a book called Personality Plus[1] that you should definitely read because you're most likely a very detailed oriented person. I have friends that are not as diligent as you are with plug…

That just may be worth it :).

How do I sign up for the “mistakenly deleted” profile service that’s not backed up on Facebook? I would pay for this.

Apple’s multi-device Qi charging mat.

No need to apologize. I'm actually not using a generative classifier like Bayes. I'm using Conditional Random Fields which is a discriminative classifier. I found that based on my training…

I wrote something that was trying to do this a back in January that was called desational[1]. What I did was very basic but the process I did went as follows. 1. Break up news articles into sentences…

Thanks for the advice — I'll try that.

Not yet but I'll try that.

It doesn't look like Kickstarter will have a CEO anymore either[1]. [1] - https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/19/18273318/kickstarter-ceo-... …