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This made me happy. I also (obviously) have a soft place in my heart for pushing the boundaries of old / limited tech.

I updated the README with instructions on how to download the file, review it, and alias it locally. :-)

I made around 200 QBasic games when I was a teenager with no internet to help me, and it gave me so many amazing skills that I still use today!

Hey, fun to see my fun little project showing up on HN! Yes, aliasing the CLI command to a remote script is not exactly best practice. My casual question to myself when I made it w…

Don't tempt me.

I love this so much. I got my start on QBasic and made hundreds of games between 12 and 19 years old. I eventually left it behind, but always had a fond spot in my heart for it. La…

I had the same experience as a kid. Probably built over a hundred QBasic-powered games with no internet to help me. I missed it, so last year when I rebuilt my website I built it i…

This is one of the big problems App.net always had, in that it wasn't at all intended to be a "Twitter alternative". Alpha was supposed to be an example of what could be built on t…

It's relatively large for a Phoenix web app, given that there aren't that many out there yet.

At Infinite Red we chose React.js over our previous choice of Ember not because it was objectively better at web, but because it lowered the context switching when our devs would s…

Portland is amazing in the summer, so if you get a chance to come visit us and attend this conference, please do!

Sorry to hear that, but thank you for being forthcoming.

I should also mention that we've found React Native to be far more productive to use than Appcelerator or Xamarin. Not sure what the author used to determine those charts near the …

Complaining about longevity of React Native and then recommending two proprietary, non-open-source competitors is, frankly, absurd. If Facebook ever abandons React Native we have a…

One of the slides shows "Rails is still the best choice for entire classes of apps." "Best" is of course usually subjective, and this could spawn huge internet arguments back and f…

I would start with LearnElixir.tv (disclaimer: Daniel Berkompas works for Infinite Red, which i own). It's very good though! > Does anyone know if there is any support for isomorph…

Rarely are we in a position to "accept" or "deny" changes in language. They just happen, with or without our consent. All we can do is try to keep up and make some sense of the cur…

Will there be RubyMotion iOS & Android CI support?

Makes sense. For the record, I don't know much about the issue at hand, was specifically talking about one-word contributions (which I encourage on my project).

@buckbova, what's wrong with one-word changes? I run a semi-popular OS project and accept them all the time. It makes the newbs feel good and encourages them to explore further int…

I wouldn't do a project rate as a freelancer. I own a design/development studio and encourage my employees to do side work if they want to, in order to get some experience in areas…

It's too bad that keyword arguments are semantically opposite between CRuby and RubyMotion in Ruby 2.0+. It'll cause a divergence and makes it a little more difficult for Rails+Rub…