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Maybe off-topic but I don't know where else to turn: a couple of years ago I discovered a JavaScript graphics library that took a shape drawn roughly by hand (e.g. a square raster …

I'm 57 and still programming for a living. Currently I'm involved with a startup building an iOS app, and am building am Apple Watch app on the site. I've been programmimg for 41 y…

Yep, I got a Bachelor's in Physics, minoring in Computer Science, and did independent study in computational physics, so lots of numerical-analysis type of study. Career paths - wi…

Hunter, Thank you for a most thoughtful reply. We are actually current Heroku customers, and my issue (a simple one to solve) is that our new app has the same name as our old app (…

Yep, DO is a contender. I like the "hands-on" aspect of their interface - a lot of control, but a little squirrely on the interface. Still, they're growing fast and clearly appeal …

Yes, you're right. Doh! Don't know why I omitted AWS; certainly know about them. Thanks for the reminder!

For those deploying apps built with Node.js, who - in your experience - provides the "best" hosting service? By "best" I mean reliability most of all, good/fast support, reasonable…

Attention Developers in the Payments Industry: Take a 10-minute survey to shape payment data security on mobile devices. Here's the link: https://getfeedback.com/r/QacF8a6J. By way…

Ionic is OK but has its limitations. Its CSS components are not all that pretty, compared to those from, sat, SemanticUI or other CSS frameworks. And it's not easy at all to integr…

Attention Developers in the Payments Industry: A leading payments-industry analyst firm is conducting an online survey among developers, seeking to better understand what it takes …

For real-time aspects, have a look at PubNub: lots of features, very low latency, many global data centers, SDKs for every language/platform, good docs and support. You can easily …

Thanks for all the good suggestions. Appreciate it!

Where else, apart from HN, do developers tend to hang, to get news, etc.? Are Reddit and StackExchange good places? Can anyone suggest other places?

Yeah, me too. Have been for many years. And I lived/worked in India building education products. Feel free to contact me as well: me (at) lewhollerbach.com.

You might want to check out a "one-member LLC". Some/most U.S. states should have a provision for this type of corporate structure. It's an LLC (limited liability corporation), so …

Hi all, Does anyone know of a service that, for a fee and with well defined parameters, will gather a bunch of users to perform beta testing on a product? So, say there's a browser…

NPM seems to be down. Unable to build any Node.js projects that involve basic core components. Seeing "registry error parsing JSON" for components that have been fine the last coup…

Nope, no joy - 30 seconds or otherwise.

The status page says that "Code Downloads" is "Normal". How do you get to the downloads page for a given repo? Is there some canonical form for a URL for repos? Maybe while they're…

Love how you do the text handling - click, with little draggable, resizeable text area with handle; how did you build that - jQueryUI with lots of mods, or something even lower lev…