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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 Ohio bill would allow students to be scientifically wrong due to religion
It looks like local12 reached the wrong conclusion. I doubt they read the law in question.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Bamboolib – A GUI for Pandas (Python Data Science)
Error loading 8080labs/bamboolib_binder_template/master!
ddgflorida··on Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study
Did you also read the study that said you may live longer if you retire earlier? I think the key is to stay physically and mentally active.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?
2001 - out of work for a year and sending resumes everywhere. I'd call and ask "Did you get my resume"? The reply - "Yes, your resume and a thousand others".
ddgflorida··on Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
Very useful - anyone using oracle should try to use ANSI keywords now to avoid work in the future, always use COALESCE instead of NVL, use ANSI date functions, etc.
ddgflorida··on What men eat and drink may affect their babies’ health
The low-fat diet craze you used as an example originated from "scientific study". I'll stick to common sense and moderation.
ddgflorida··on Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
This is discrimination and yet Harvard is a private school and should be able to make its own admission standards. Taking federal money complicates that.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList
You have a bug in your CSV export. The header has 5 fields and you export 6. You are missing "#" as the first header field.
ddgflorida··on Earnings Ceiling for Tech Professionals over 40
Googling "Senior Developer Salary" you'll see 120K +- 10K on average.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Old guys, what do you miss about development in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s?
Yes!!! You could build nice software in DOS with this.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: jTools – a collection of JavaScript web components with MIT license
You have a bug on this page: https://bossanova.uk/jexcel/examples/table-styling under "HOW TO SET GLOBAL CSS RULES FOR YOUR JQUERY TABLES". Double click on Price twice and the top row displays an error.
ddgflorida··on Millennials and Gen Z Increasingly Pessimistic About Their Lives, Survey Finds
Have some context - you are better off living in this time/place than any other time and your future children would probably be too.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Please help me, I'm a bad developer
If you decide the developer role isn't for you, there are other roles you may excel at- QA, Testing, BA, DBA, Data Analyst, Networking, ...
ddgflorida··on BASIC Computer Games
Same here - 16K Tandy Color Computer I from 1981-2. It was great for doing Numerical Analysis homework.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking
Excellent example- it will be interesting to see if they win their defamation lawsuits against CNN and the Washington Post.
ddgflorida··on Dry Water
This was 40 years ago but we were taught: Antidisestablishmentarianism
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book
Doesn't work on Chrome for me - Version 67.0.3
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell
ConvertCsv.com - converts delimited data to/from JSON, XML, SQL, HTML Table, XML, and more. I built it because I work with data every day and need these tools. API coming soon.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my content and ranking higher
Almost the same here - they copied my whole website, improved the user interface, and added a little content. Luckily I still outrank them :)
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Simple and distraction-free offline-ready Notepad
This is great - I literally started writing one of these yesterday. Mine was going to use a WYSIWYG editor like Medium Editor and be more of a WIKI.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Make a business model canvas in your browser
This project could easily use FileSaver.js to download the JSON locally. You could then easily read it back. This is how I do it for my site that runs locally only.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What were/are you doing at age 25? What would you change?
Advice to younger self - take the boring Federal Government job and in 30 years you'll have a pension and can "retire" at 55 and do whatever you want - hobbies, travel, second career, ... You'll find out they call it "work" for a reason. I've had exciting and boring jobs - but at the end they all felt the same.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What’s some favorite recollections of your earliest days of computing?
In college I was able to use my Tandy Color Computer BASIC for Numerical Analysis instead of fighting for a terminal and using Fortran. It was great time saver, plus it had games.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: StreamingPivot – pivot and visualize CSV data purely in the browser
I import a small CSV file and nothing happens - screen stays exactly the same. ? Using Chrome 6.2
ddgflorida··on Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall
Reminds me of the "Toy Yoda" lawsuit back in 2002 when a lady thought she won a Toyota but instead got a yoda toy.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: ThemesForApp – Free bootstrap themes for your startup and side-project
This is very useful - Thanks!
ddgflorida··on Show HN: FinTECH Report (MVP Launch)
iPhone browser failed to load fintechreport.info but www.fintechreport.info loaded fine.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: File format like JSON/YAML that allows tables to be defined like CSV?
And of course you can do that same format with JSON output - have a columns array and a data array.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What was your first computer?
Tandy Color Computer with 16K of memory. I did my Numerical Analysis homework on it - early 80s.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: GameOfCoins.de – Virtual Cryptocurrency Trading
Fun! It would be nice to see what price we bought the currency at in Trade History, plus what our current profit is per currency.
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