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ses

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About ses

developer of a few web and mobile apps outside of the day job as an software engineer.

Have skills and experience in many Java technologies and starting to deal increasingly with search technologies. Interested in Prolog and logic programming also.

stewart@ssims.co.uk

Recent public activity

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    Comment #7633516

    This indictment of angular and 'enterprise' frameworks is pretty one-sided and self-righteous. I hate the bureaucratic and restrictive nature of some frameworks too, but you can't …

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    Comment #7546454

    Hi, I haven't had much of a close look at the site. I quite like the initial design, but one thing I think it would really benefit from is a simple search interface on the home pag…

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    Comment #7427502

    Its interesting to hear from someone who's more of a hobbyist programmer. You don't meet so many, mainly I think because once you become half-decent at programming you have access …

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    Comment #7385395

    I think it is nonsense to say that what doesn't work for one person won't work for another. The whole thing is completely context dependent. Here in Europe most people feel cubicle…

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    Comment #7372125

    I think one of the first things we need to look at is the poor quality of a lot of new housing developments and the number of unoccupied / 'brown-field' that could be renovated and…

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    Comment #7360046

    I fully agree with most of what you're saying, but I'm not sure where the degree of capitalism involved comes in. I think it has much more to do with the lack of creativity in gove…

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    Comment #7360000

    The lack of a combination of affordable property and decent jobs in areas within a reasonable distance is definitely causing increasing problems in this country, and only worsening…

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    Comment #7359977

    Acorn machines were great.... ah happy days. The A3010s with their stylish green function keys! On a serious note, I dispute that government can't have a positive impact in stimula…

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    Comment #7340037

    No worries, I am just one person who doesn't fall into the target market for your product - there may well be many valid scenarios where a having template, particularly with a good…

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    Comment #7333520

    Honestly - nothing... I think having a template (beyond perhaps styling and branding which most companies have already defined) for a presentation of any kind seems wrong. Any pres…

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    Comment #7251998

    I think improving on relevance ranking configuration would be a big boost to this product as well as offering some ability to cross-search multiple indexes. Both are quite difficul…

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    Comment #7231078

    sounds a lot like gearman...

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    Comment #7217505

    Would you not be curious what people were saying about you and your app? And would it not be advantageous as an app developer to know the feedback you are getting and be able to im…

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    Comment #7217487

    This article definitely rings true. As someone who has published a few apps in the past, not even games, 90% of feedback received was negative and completely nonconstructive. It ta…

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    Comment #7150312

    Projects like this confirm my suspicion that traditional academic publishing is going to take a nosedive in the next few years. Working in this industry as I do, I don't see commer…

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    Comment #7107914

    I hear you on the lack of focus on modern technologies in universities - but the same is true here in the UK for the most part. It's understandable with the European economy being …

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    Comment #6717580

    'For its day'? GWT lives in many forms, most notably Vaadin: http://vaadin.com Vaadin is consistently rated one of the best web app frameworks. Why its not more widely known is bey…

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    Comment #6166125

    Not sure HN is the best place to report it, however working at a company that extensively uses github on a large scale, for the business I think even an outage of 5-10 minutes coun…

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    Comment #5750065

    This is a really interesting product - I can see how it would be useful to a wide audience. However IMO I think you may be pricing a lot of customers out of using your product. I d…

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    Comment #5649432

    Boo! They've missed http://www.textrazor.com - a very scaleable and interesting API service.

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    Comment #5643924

    http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/200028/council_tax/5615/ge... 404 - not so sure

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    Comment #5569877

    Its easy to bash something someone's posted on HN. Having said that I think this is a really poorly thought out business proposition that is executed pretty badly too. Sorry to be …

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    Comment #5557147

    That's interesting, I think Rails has been overrated in the past but this is exactly the kind of project I think Rails is great for - where you've got a very clear simple aim, and …