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ddgflorida

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Creator of convertcsv.com, convertjson.com, prepayloan.com and a few others. Reach me at ddgflorida@gmail.com
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ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
I am definitely going to try this now.
ddgflorida··on Manatee county teachers close class libraries, fearing prosecution under FL law
A pure political stunt by the school district.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: 980k USA restaurants and grocery stores search via Zipcode
What is 25-55 min.? Driving time? Food Prep? Neither would be accurate for the sub shop or coffee shop in my area code.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: SPyQL – SQL with Python in the middle
Nice work. The closest tool I wrote for www.convertcsv.io is CSV Query Tool.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?
Turbo Pascal was a beautiful piece of software in the 80s.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: ConvertCSV – APIs for Data Transformations
The same conversions available at convertcsv.com are now available as an API at www.convertcsv.io. No user data is retained. Free trial conversions and no credit card required for trial. Most popular APIs are JSON to CSV/Excel, CSV to SQL, CSV to JSON. Excel supported as both input and output format.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Sync API data to PostgreSQL database?
perhaps syncinc.so, sonra.io, or hevodata.com. I've got a tool at convertcsv.com in testing now.
ddgflorida··on How to format text in Twitter
I wrote a WYSIWYG editor for Unicode formatting - https://www.socialmediaformatting.com/
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What is the worst bullshit thing you were asked to do at $JOB?
I got layed off and was told if and only if I do another 20 hours of work to finish documentation would I receive 2 weeks of severance pay. I tried to explain severance shouldn't require extra labor but I did the work anyway and received ZERO severance. I knew that outcome was a possibility.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: SQLite query inside a Bash function
This is a perfect use case for a shell script and sqlite. No need to complicate with anything else.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Transform a CSV into a JSON and vice versa
Shameless plug - I wrote convertcsv.com and it supports about everything you can think of as far as format conversions. JSON, XML, YAML, JSON Lines, Fixed Width, ...
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Is C++ a better language than C?
I never cared for C++. If C had a real string type it would've been so much better.
ddgflorida··on Zero2one – Pair Programming Curated List
I had a boss who thought it was odd that I was more productive when we essentially did pair programming though he wasn't a programmer. He did however know exactly what needed to be done. I asked him "did his input contribute nothing?".
ddgflorida··on Gron – Make JSON Greppable
JSON Path Names at https://www.convertjson.com/json-path-list.htm will do this too plus break down all the pieces in a nice searchable table format. Disclosure - author.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Lullaby, an open source treatment for Tinnitus
I'll give it a try. I have barely noticeable days and days that are annoying. It's worst at night and quiet rooms.
ddgflorida··on Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development
It works fine today!
ddgflorida··on Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development
In your Try it Online demo I could decrease (<) the dates all day long but not increase (>).
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What are your instruments for investment?
Investopedia
ddgflorida··on The problem with C
I've always liked plain C better than C++ yet I sure wish they would've had a true string type like other languages. Most bugs originate from the str family of routines.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: How / why did “newline at the end of source file” become a thing?
Keep in mind if you are writing software to read text files, that last newline may not be there.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library
Nice. I read a CSV file with one mutli-line column in the last field with no problem, but when I copied the data, refreshed the page, and copied to empty grid, now the multi-line field incorrectly was split to the next line.
ddgflorida··on Mastering Jq: Part 1
This online tool also produces assignment statements from JSON: https://www.convertjson.com/json-path-list.htm (note: creator here)
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
My wife and I BOTH have been programming over 40 years.
ddgflorida··on The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
I loved QBasic. Did Numerical Analysis homework in college with it and wrote a clone in the late 90s that integrated with the web/CGI. It was my favorite until Turbo Pascal came out.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Master of Science in Computer Science at Georgia Tech
You may want to check out the Online Master of Science in Analytics there also: https://www.analytics.gatech.edu/
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Aeon – a lightweight date picker built with web components
How about selecting a date by double-clicking on it?
ddgflorida··on Amiga Java
I've got one from an old S-100 system.
ddgflorida··on The Pentagon Says It Will Not Bomb Iranian Art Sites
No one would expect them to. The US is not the Taliban.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Do you still code in BASIC?
No, but hard to beat Classic ASP for simple web apps. I wrote a BASIC interpreter with built-in SQL that was very useful for scripting.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: How do you drive traffic to a website?
One obvious way to is mention the name of the website on here.
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