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_random_on How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework

Yeah, anything HTML5-related and stable is always just a few years away.

_random_on Encounters with the Posthuman

Gaining a better understanding of how a bacteria works? They are kind of alive yet much simpler than brain.

_random_on Investigation of an Airborne Aircraft Carrier Concept (1973) [pdf]

Avengers did that :).

_random_on Fast immutable vectors in C#

"If there’s interest in a full featured production quality version, I may implement that."

That would be great.

_random_on MozVR

It's useful for low-fi demos of actual nice native stuff.

_random_on The Rise and Fall of the Full Stack Developer

C#/F# .NET:

- ASP.NET WebAPI : web server

- Xamarin : iOS, Android

- Azure : cloud

- Akka.NET : actor model

- XAML/WPF : enterprise LOB, Windows Phone

_random_on Xamarin is now free for students

Better than nothing. Lower prices for independent developers would be awesome though. Let the enterprise pay.

_random_on Urban Onshoring: The Movement to Bring Tech Jobs Back to America

Moving IT jobs to Europe should be easy. Salaries are stagnant which is surely a sign of oversupply of workforce.

_random_on The future of C# and Visual Basic [video]

> "With C# I can get all the goodies on customer projects. "

And F# can cover the rest if needed.

_random_on The future of C# and Visual Basic [video]

It's like Java 9. That hasn't been released yet. But so is C# 6.

_random_on The future of C# and Visual Basic [video]

Which language did you switch to?

_random_on Massive: The asm.js Benchmark

NaCl was basically trying to open web to any language.

_random_on Massive: The asm.js Benchmark

> "Mozilla is the one that wants to limit everyone to Javascript..."

True, and they dare to call this "Open Web".

_random_on Learning Rust

Syntax colouring would greatly improve readability.

I completely understand author's frustration. Modern language is done once there is something like ReSharper for it. Rust is far from being done.

_random_on Ask HN: Remote ROR developers, how much per hour you make?

I wanted to say he could be from any country, but actually this shouldn't be a reason to pay less.

_random_on A father's scars

People immigrate/emigrate all the time.

_random_on A father's scars

> "in exchange for greed"

That's pure capitalism by design. Simply move to a more socialistic country. Having even a small safety net helps piece of mind.

_random_on Ask HN: Who is using the .NET stack for their startup?

> "Some less-popular-but-wow-that's-useful Javascript libraries don't come as NuGet packages"

The good will become perfect soon enough:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingGulpGruntBowerAndNp...

_random_on Ask HN: Who is using the .NET stack for their startup?

Also it seems new versions of F# are released much more often than those of OCAML. Corporate backing is important.

_random_on Ask HN: Who is using the .NET stack for their startup?

You seem to be coming from an admin/ops perspective.

From developer's perspective it's two modern mainstream languages - F#, C# - that can be used on Windows, Azure, Mac, iOS, Android, WP as a well-defined workflow.

The best IDE - Visual Studio + ReSharper + soon Roslyn. Second best ecosystem of libraries, that is picking up.

There are some missing bits that are coming: docker and containers, dynamic compilation (of static typed code) when building web sites.

It might not be the best choice in individual "disciplines", but it's the best overall.

_random_on The Two Pillars of JavaScript

Yes, I guess the biggest problem is that writing JS manually is still mainstream. Perhaps browsers should somehow detect such code and forbid/warn it as unsafe.

_random_on Introduction to Reactive Programming

> "Reactive Manifesto sounds like the kind of thing you show to your project manager or the businessmen at your company."

> "FRP is programming with asynchronous data streams."

So, is Akka reactive or not?

_random_on A Programming Language for Games: Demo [video]

All I am saying is it's better to communicate along the lines of "let's also explore this way of building games" rather than "nobody is doing anything worth looking at, garbage collection is a no go, too much safety is bad and it's a first initiative ever just like the moon landing (which was kinda secondary to actually going to space first time anyway)".
But he is quite smart, so some arrogance could be forgiven. He is also not afraid to say some fair and true things out loud:
> "...the web is a giant pile, I don't want anything to do with it, it's all horrible; it's not an exaggeration, anything to do with web is like so broken and it's so nasty and it's so hard to do good things...".
Maybe it's a correct attitude if we ever want to get rid of legacy crud like JavaScript and HTML...

_random_on A Programming Language for Games: Demo [video]

Maybe it's like Fortran: Proglanforgam.

_random_on A Programming Language for Games: Demo [video]

I am unsure of his rhetoric: "...everything we can do to move forward in games... (1:41)".
He is not a messiah, it's already happening, people are using C#, Scala, Python, Haxe, Elm, Rust, D, Haskell to move game programming forward. E.g. Minecraft was built in Java, not C++. Game programming of today are those thousands of small indie developers experimenting, not the several hundred of bigger traditional C++ projects making big bucks.
Besides, there is not much focus on parallelism and concurrency for a performance-oriented language. By the time it hits it's first stable release the 8-core smartphones will probably be quite common.

_random_on The Two Pillars of JavaScript

Actual two pillars: massive user-base and a fear of change.

_random_on Why talent agents for engineers don’t exist

It sort of happens for freelancers in UK. Recruiter gets the cut of what employer is paying, frequent job changes are very likely (2 years in a "worst" case) so good candidates are worth taken care of.

_random_on Jisp – A programmable language that compiles to JavaScript

> "would be a bit more precise"
I agree and stand corrected.

_random_on Ask HN: How Would You Improve Stackoverflow?

Find a way of having re-occurring persistent subjective discussions that would still be a part of SO. Chat is a rubbish idea for this because it's transient.
Find a way to dis-encourage posting a first question and then disappearing without accepting the answer. Mandatory registrations? It's popular enough already.
Allow accepting multiple answers.
Make answering questions worthwhile even if a decent points outcome is not likely (new user, specific question). Mods awarding extra points?
Fix the problem of fastest answer typically getting the most attention: "the post-first then improve if popular" strategy.
Make points more meaningful, like reddit gold maybe. Reward not just total reputation (there is no catching up with some early members) but reputation spikes as well.
So many things to improve, but some could be risky.

_random_on Assembly for XML

Well, no worse than transpiling to JavaScript.