Hacker News: visualR

New comment by visualR in "Before Detroit Can Move On, It Needs to Upgrade from Windows XP"

visualR — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 03:54:37 +0000

Part of the problem is a lot of IT talent is more interested in building the latest social networking gizmo than solving Detroit IT problems.

New comment by visualR in "Thank you Apple for rejecting my app"

visualR — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 22:20:27 +0000

Relying on App Store reviewers for feedback is a bad idea. The whole process is capricious. It's likely had he submitted at a different time and gotten a different reviewer, the app would have been approved.

New comment by visualR in "Ask HN: What to work on?"

visualR — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:49:33 +0000

They are quick to respond up until the point where you've paid. But, their interest drops off pretty steeply after that point.

Thanks, you just saved me 2k. Please write up a blog post, you may save others.

New comment by visualR in "Poll: For your startup, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?"

visualR — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 01:08:40 +0000

Groovy/Grails here.

New comment by visualR in "Percentage of Bachelor's degrees conferred to women by major, 1970-2012"

visualR — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:33:16 +0000

What I think the point was there is no outrage in the blogosphere/twitterverse about the shortage of male nurses.

New comment by visualR in "Percentage of Bachelor's degrees conferred to women by major, 1970-2012"

visualR — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:02:11 +0000

Whats important is that any woman who wants to do CS or Engineering is able to. Equal ratios for its own sake isn't important. If these percentages are the result of the choices of individuals Im not sure what you can to to change them.

New comment by visualR in "Groovy Now Runs on Android"

visualR — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 23:17:25 +0000

This is really cool.

New comment by visualR in "Cross Platform Development with Mono"

visualR — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:16:12 +0000

That's why you'd use monomac, mono touch or wpf on osx,iOS and windows, respectively. Xamarin also has a solution for android.

New comment by visualR in "Cross Platform Development with Mono"

visualR — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:59:40 +0000

The problem with this is you only get 1 thread for the UI and other stuff to run on.

New comment by visualR in "Cross Platform Development with Mono"

visualR — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:58:03 +0000

yeah you can. The whole native vs non native is about whether the UI is native and directly integrates with the platform, not the language or whether there is a runtime.

New comment by visualR in "Cross Platform Development with Mono"

visualR — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:38:09 +0000

If your app is something others will use, for the best experience you write your app in such a way that the UI is as swappable as possible. Then write a Mac UI with monomac and a Windows UI with WPF. If it's just you who needs it, then Gtk# might be ok for standard things. But don't expect good os integration without work.

New comment by visualR in "Cross Platform Development with Mono"

visualR — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:34:06 +0000

No but you can wrap native UI libraries, the most critical piece that needs to be native. Contrast this with an HTML CSS UI.

New comment by visualR in "Cross Platform Development with Mono"

visualR — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:13:57 +0000

If you were going to develop a mono app on osx you'd be better off using monomac than gtk#. Mono develop is written in gtk# and cut and paste works just fine on osx.

New comment by visualR in "Ask HN: What source code is worth studying? "

visualR — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:05:07 +0000

Xournal

New comment by visualR in "NetJs: A .NET to TypeScript and JavaScript compiler"

visualR — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:16:48 +0000

Excellent. How did you know I wanted this? =)

New comment by visualR in "Brendan Eich, We’ve Failed You. I’m Sorry."

visualR — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 12:52:16 +0000

You have to differentiate between individuals deciding for themselves to go elsewhere and organized boycotts designed to ruin a person. I would hate to be a minority business owner in a society that condoned flippant use of organized boycotts.

New comment by visualR in "Brendan Eich, We’ve Failed You. I’m Sorry."

visualR — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 12:38:36 +0000

> If the business wants to succeed, it has decide whether it will be more profitable to capitulate or not.

economic blackmail is wasteful and silly. I'm an atheist are you ok with the religious attacking my livelihood as a small business owner? That's not capitalism that's the dark ages.

New comment by visualR in "The Next Mission"

visualR — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 02:09:40 +0000

Revenge never works.

New comment by visualR in "The Next Mission"

visualR — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 01:27:04 +0000

Maybe. Or it could just anger the other side to push back harder. Education and time are the forces that will cause an LGBT victory, not these boycott games.

New comment by visualR in "The Next Mission"

visualR — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 01:23:13 +0000

@SolarNet You seem pretty absolute in determining who is a bigot, and do not recognize that there is a spectrum. Obviously one's religion does not justify bigotry. But it does distort one's world view and can explain why someone might support Prop 8 without being a person who hates and is disgusted by homosexuals. Education is the best response to this, not economic sanctions.