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SEEKING WORK | Remote | Chicago, IL | Contract | Full or part time I'm a Chicago-based, full stack developer, and my forte is developing web-based systems that enable organizations…

Happy birthday, Y Combinator. Thank you for existing.

My Dad brought the 994A home while I was in elementary school. He later became the chair of the Chicago TI Users group for a while. I learned to program on Extended Basic, made a c…

Find an experienced business person to work with. The ideal person would be someone that is successful at what they do, and that also understands the potential for technology to tr…

Every time that I fly now into Vegas for business or competitions, it's a matter of routine for me to drive up to Charleston peak, and the Red Rock area - it's only an hour away. I…

Beat me to it. I can vouch for this book as being completely amazing. It teaches you the fundamentals of how to see design, which in turn contributes to learning how to produce you…

Oh, good on you for posting this. This takes me back to childhood summers spent hacking away at TI Extended BASIC trying to write my own games - with admittedly humble results. Or …

Remember when people used to clap or cheer at the movies??The don't make 'em like they used to. Even with its moments of campiness, there's a certain authenticity, even nobility to…

I really like KnockoutJS, having used it on multiple projects, both personal and professional. Many will say that it can't really be apples-to-apples compared with Angular since it…

I think the article was painting with a broad brush. Saving money for clients adds to their bottom line and is therefore valuable.

Open question: how do you look at the equity where one of the co-founders (Founder A) does not have to work for X number of years, since they've cashed out of another company. They…

There's no such thing as C# 2.5. You must be referring to 2.0. Anyhow this may be true of financial institutions, but to say that it's a norm... is not my experience at all. > 15 y…

Rant excused. While some of your points are more or less correct, would you care to elucidate on a few of the others? 1. You mentioned Oren Eini, who is the author of Rhino Mocks a…

Your point about having his girlfriend's labor as a huge contribution to his venture is pretty correct. I don't think it down plays his success at all... but it's certainly a signi…

As a KnockoutJS fan, this is completely awesome to hear. It's nice to see my technology of choice pushed to the limit. You guys have really delivered some phenomenal work.

Impressive. Congrats on shipping and launching. Constructive criticism: it looks like something I could actually use i.e. automation, server-side rendering, useful for SEO. But, I …

Indeed - or WatiN, the .NET port of WatiR. I've done some pretty heavy duty scraping and automation with WatiN, which included building a OO framework that trivialized writing scri…

Fricking impressive, dude. I tried it and can immediately see the value. Some constructive criticism: the scroll bar for the toolbox is too narrow for my personal taste. Gmail does…

Indirectly. He's referring to developers, like you and me. But, Apple, being one of the smartest businesses on the planet, is playing the exact same game. If you actually strike go…

Ok. I definitely respect any hardships the author has had to endure - I've had a few of my own. I also appreciate being frugal, calculated and managing risk in one's career. OTOH, …

After seeing the trailer, all I can say is: wow, just wow. The mood is a post-modernish film noir mixed with vintage 8-bit style. And the visual effects are striking. Very much loo…

Haven't used Telerik's decompiler, yet, but there are several other alternatives to Reflector: open source ILSpy and JetBrains dotPeek. Both are free, since I last checked. The mom…