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I wonder if there is room for a "TypeScript" of SQL that would allow developers to opt-in to whatever new language features or paradigms we feel SQL is missing.

It would then transpile down to regular SQL to be executed.

Comment · 7 years ago

Seems like there might be more to it than that, since Slack is written in Electron and is in the Windows Store.

Comment · 8 years ago

It's amazing how often perfect storms happen, since every outage is apparently caused by one.

Comment · 8 years ago

Particularly because the linked post calls it "Creative Common" twice and "Common Clause" elsewhere.

Comment · 8 years ago

It depends on what you consider the goal of the F-35 to be.

If you believe it's to build a next generation fighter plane then yes it's a disaster.

If you believe it's a way to funnel trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to private defense companies then it's a rousing success.

Comment · 8 years ago

Ultimately there is very little consumer grade software anymore because modern consumers won't pay for software.

The only people who pay for software are enterprises and they aren't going to skimp a few hundred dollars on software that makes their $X0,000 creative workers X% less productive.

In this space there is basically Pixelmator and Affinity trying to eke out enough sales to keep their developers paid.

Comment · 8 years ago

"No more games. Save real money with Bolt's simple pricing."

Followed up with "Get a Quote" rather than displaying simple pricing...

Comment · 9 years ago

Thanks! Yeah, GitHub is definitely the way to go for OSS or projects with technical users. This is designed more for things like closed source apps or SaaS.

Comment · 9 years ago

I built https://communiroo.com because I couldn't find a quick and simple single website to expose bug/feature tracking + SO type questions + forums + support requests for my other things I was building. It seemed (and still seems) like it fills a need for mine and everyone else's side projects.

I think the biggest issue is marketing. I tried a few Twitter/Facebook ad campaigns that didn't really pan out, and an HN submission that didn't make the front page. But really I haven't done much to market it, and it just sits there chugging along with few users other than myself while I work on other stuff.

Comment · 9 years ago

I have a friend who is a medical researcher and it definitely seems they are stuck in the past.

In order to study something, he has to:

* Come up with a hypothesis that X may cause Y

* Request access to data about that hypothesis

* He is only given the data regarding his hypothesis

* He can then study whether his hypothesis has merit or not

We should be dumping these whole datasets into machine learning and having computers give us potential links to explore. Obviously there will be plenty of things that turn out to be unrelated, but it's also very likely the computer can find links that a human would not have considered.

I don't see it changing any time soon in the US, but I suspect other countries with this data will use it, and we'll find the next generation of medical breakthroughs no longer come from the US.

Comment · 9 years ago

Tennessee has no income tax, so I'll gladly take 9.46% sales tax and no income tax over California's 8.48% sales tax plus 1% - 13.3% income tax.

Comment · 9 years ago

Author here.

Communiroo grew out of a need after I had created my first hobby mobile app. I wanted a single place where users could file bugs, make suggestions, have discussion forums, and get support. The only option I could find was to use a myriad of different services like Bugzilla, UserVoice, Discourse, and ZenDesk. That seemed like a lot of extra work for both me and my users.

Communiroo provides a single site and a single login for:

  - Bug Reports
  - Feature Suggestions
  - Discussion Forums
  - Questions (StackOverflow style)
  - Support Tickets

I thought others might find this useful for their apps and services, so I made it into a service.

Communiroo runs on Microsoft's new ASP.NET Core, which has been a pleasure to work with.

Would love some beta users and feedback!