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The article makes this very point. From the article: “software has been industrialising for a long time: through reusable components (open source code), portability (containerisati…

Genuine question, not being sarcastic: why would someone want/need these downloads?

My wife and I tried making reward charts for our kids. We never could make paper rewards charts last long. So I built an app. We've been using it at home for the last few months, w…

I’m building a reward chart app for parents. See link below. I just submitted it yesterday for review the App Store and Google Play. Now I wait. Fingers crossed. https://whirl.digi…

> You can write simple, readable, and maintainable code in C++ without ever needing to use templates, operator overloading, or any of the other more advanced features of the langua…

In the USA, the postal service picks up outgoing mail from your mailbox. I wish they would do that in the UK.

An app for parents to motivate their kids by awarding them points for good deeds. There are existing apps out there, but I tried them and didn't like them, so I'm building my own. …

@Tomek_zemla: The people in this thread are trying to help you. We are taking the time to tell you about our experience using your app. Feedback is a gift. Be grateful for it. Do n…

Speaking as a native English speaker from London: I can assure you that most Brits would get this question wrong. It is true that Brits use "jolly" to mean "very" but it is, as you…

I think your game has potential but, at present, the questions are too hard and the answers are sometimes simply wrong. Example: Q: Find the noun matching the following definition:…

Ahhh. Proper noun though right? I would suggest excluding proper nouns.

It was fun. Couple of suggestions: - It gave me “TCAAN” which stumped me. Afterwards I pasted it into the Internet Anagram Server, which failed to find any acronyms for it. So I ca…

Yeah Nvidia and Linux don’t play together nicely. I discovered that the hard way too. I switched to AMD and it’s been smooth sailing ever since.

I’m currently coding a Flutter app on a 15-year-old Dell desktop, running Linux. The experience is great. I’m running latest versions of VS Code, Flutter, you name it. It’s nice an…

I don't think this article provides enough context to draw conclusions about why sales are down for Boeing. Are airline sales down for everyone, or just for Boeing? Is Boeing losin…

Would love to try it but, knowing nothing about Java, I don't know how to run it. Could you add instructions to your github page on how to run it?

Exactly this. It's all about trade-offs. You need to pick the right tool for the job. Sometimes the right tool is dangerous. Knives are dangerous tools, but you need them if you wa…

And it's a perfect match to Sun's slogan: "The Network is the Computer."

Downloaded it. It wants my email, date of birth, full name and access to all my photos, before it will let me use it. Way too much info. Delete app. Shame because it seems like a n…

I want to be a bit contrarian here. I buy books on my Kindle all the time. I always download a sample before buying. I do recall a couple of occasions where I got a sample that was…

I used Pandoc recently to convert a large Word document into markdown. It took a lot of babysitting and manual tweaking to get to the final result. Overall it probably still saved …

As others here have noted, the challenge with paying salespeople to close the deal is that you create perverse incentives. In enterprise software sales, the salesperson has every i…