BillySquid

28 karma · joined June 4, 2012

Software Engineer

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BillySquid··on Show HN: Runway – Release apps with less bouncing between Jira/GH/CI/Apple/Slack

Looks promising,but good luck keeping up with the appstores' unannounced changes. Btw what kind of metrics would be available for users?

BillySquid··on Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf]

My first programming gig was Lotus Notes developer (v4.3). It was ahead of its time

BillySquid··on Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

Coursera Calculus 1 - https://www.coursera.org/learn/calculus1/home/welcome , Jim Fowler makes Calculus a very entertaining topic.

BillySquid··on Tell HN: My own version of the American dream

Connect with US companies that have dev teams in Colombia and be careful with shady headhunters.

BillySquid··on How the Colombian army sent a hidden message to hostages using a pop song

About one per squad (1/13)

BillySquid··on How the Colombian army sent a hidden message to hostages using a pop song

Former Colombian soldier over here, at that time, only radio operators were trained in Morse code; regular soldiers would have a hard time to get the message.

BillySquid··on Microsoft's developer crusade

He might be a little biased "CEO of Blue Badge Insights, an analysis, strategy and advisory firm serving Microsoft customers and partners"

BillySquid··on Facebook buys Parse

Good news for the Parse team, but not so good for Parse users.

BillySquid··on WWDC 2013 – June 10-14

Something about AppleTV

BillySquid··on Helios

is really hard to release a new product running for both environments in the first try. Give it some time for android.

BillySquid··on Got an I/O ticket...only to have payment gateway fail?

got the ticket but my wallet throw an NoFundsFound

BillySquid··on In the future, all space marines will be Warhammer 40K space marines

How about to kickstarter to buy the company and open source the game, like people building their own armies with 3-d printers!!!

BillySquid··on In the future, all space marines will be Warhammer 40K space marines

It's a shame, warhammer40k has an interesting plot (including horus heresy) but this kind of corporate bullying plus the ridicule pricing are making fans to leave the lore.