What are /r/CoderRadio's favorite Products & Services?

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"Following news of the rejections, Apple told Business Insider that it's not rejecting apps or app updates that work with Pebble's devices. Pebble also chimed in on Reddit, saying it was working with Apple, which was being "super responsive" to concerns that existing apps might get the kibosh:

Update: Still a work-in-progress, but we're working with Apple to clear up any misunderstandings to make sure rejections like the handful of recent ones don't happen again—they're being super responsive the concerns that bubbled up (much appreciated!). Apps are still getting approved with mentions of Pebble support in the description or metadata (e.g. RunKeeper). For now, developers should continue with their iOS app update plans and approval submissions to the iTunes store as normal (i.e. include Pebble support in your app info if that was your original intent)."

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http://slexy.org/view/s2afeJUijq

https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/24/8493483/apple-app-update-pebble-policy

While reading the discussion on HN i found this comment relateable.

>> If you are anything like me, you want to become as good as TJ.

>Who? > If you pick up a guitar because you want to be better than Jimmy Page some day you're going to burn out. You might not even realize that you don't even like playing guitar until years later when it becomes apparent that you're not achieving the success and fame you thought you would. > We're all subconsciously reinforced to believe that with hard work, perseverance, and that hidden spark of special talent in each of us that we can achieve our dreams. This fantasy is the perfect entry way into our brains to implant desires and ambitions. You want to believe you're the hero of your own story because the reality is certainly not preferable. > Don't get caught up in it. Create your own narrative. If programming is only interesting because you want the attention showered on other people then programming is not going to be interesting to you in five, ten years when your fantasy fails to materialize. Programming will always have it's greats just as any field, industry, or art form. Learn from them. Don't try to be them. Many of them are about as talented, smart, and clueless as you anyway. > Donald Knuth didn't spend half a life-time and counting writing TAoCP just to speak at conferences. That kind of work takes dedication that only an intrinsic love of the craft can produce.

This guy hits the nail on the head about my burnout problem. Not being satisfied caused me to burn out a few times.

What have your experiences been ?

I am sorry if I missed something. But isn't one of the main points of Web Assembly writing in C/C++ and compiling to WASM bytecode? I get that it doesn't completely replace JavaScript, but couldn't whole elements of a site be replaced with C++ written WASM?

That least ways is what I am getting from their website... http://webassembly.org/getting-started/developers-guide/

[Listener Developed/Created] Hello fellow coders, long time listener from Paris, France.

I was looking at Ionic for some time, Mike's feedback convinced me to use this framework for a project. The app is a smart route provider for public transportation systems. The first version has the core functionality ready, I'll add new ones over time. The availability is limited to countries where the service is available.

Thank you for your time and, as OP said, feedback is welcome!

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.leanweb.transport.routefinder

While this offer is specific to YC we have other offers in cooperation with other startup programs and are happy to work with startups not in a program on a one-on-one basis. Any interested startup can reach out to us here.

Is this really true for most people? I spend no time in apps built by Facebook or Google, except for Hangouts. Hell, even the short time I spend in a Facebook app is the opensource Face Slim. Facebooks app is way to damn bloated and slow on my phone.

Hello, this is regarding the "C# is Java" comment by Michael :

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10135/Not-Another-C-Versus-VB-Article

> ... For Java was not perfect either, and by then the brilliant Hejlsberg was envisioning the next generation of application development language. Hejlsberg envisioned a language which would fully embrace the emerging component model for application development by making the three key constructs of component development—properties, methods and events—first class elements of the language. In Java, for instance, properties don’t really exist. They’re “faked” by using the get xxx and set xxx syntax. In a property inspector they show up as “xxx” and you have to know that you put the get and set in the right places. This and other anomalies made Hejlsberg the perfectionist uncomfortable. He felt that the ideal language would require no such kludges or workarounds, but should instead roll all of the core constructs right into the syntax, giving the programmer a “one stop” experience. The problem was that this would require fundamental rewiring of the compiler, and significant research and development expense. ...

via Guardian Developer blog. "A blog by the Guardian's digital development team, including software development tips, code examples, open source software and product development stories."

Another good one is "The best way to learn tech is to teach it." Plays very well into the pro-tip to start blogging/writing about you writing code, pet projects, open source contributions/participation and software developments at large. Puts you apart form others who just put their GitHub and Linkedin profile in their CV/Resume.

> How is VS community different VS express, which was always free?

The express edition doesn't support extensions, the community edition seems to support them

Edit: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event-2014/040 an introduction to VS community Edition

Hey Guys, I know Basic isn't all that cool anymore, but I do know that a lot of people have started on Basic in the past. Gambas is like VisualBasic but for Linux. It an IDE, GUI toolkit bindings, and tons of libraries to connect to databases and all sorts of things. I think that would be something for Doug's kid to check out. I never learned Basic, but sometimes I wish I had been one of those kids that did.

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

I just started a project in Qt at work recently and was starting to get good momentum when I listened to this show. I looked more into the licensing and immediately had to scrap the work I had done.

The application has to be released for Linux, so my options are kind of limited to write a GUI. My team has now decided to make an Electron app since the licenses are more permissive and the projects are still very active (Angular, Bootstrap, etc.).

As a side-note, does anyone have any experience with Ultimate++?

Uncle Bob trashes Objective-C, among others. YouTube description : > ... How did our industry start, what paths did it take to get to where we are, and where is it going. What big problems did programmers encounter in the past? How were they solved? And how do those solutions impact our future? What mistakes have we made as a profession; and how are we going to correct them. In this talk, Uncle Bob describes the history of software, from it’s beginnings in 1948 up through the current day; and then beyond. By looking at our past trajectory, we try to plot out where our profession is headed, and what challenges we’ll face along the way. Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) has been a programmer since 1970. He is the Master Craftsman at 8th Light inc, an acclaimed speaker at conferences worldwide, and the author of many books including: The Clean Coder, Clean Code, Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices, and UML for Java Programmers. ...

I prefer the best solution for the particular problem. But I prefer as less tools. So e.g. as Mac User the OS already can take screenshots, why should I install another program?

As developer I try to follow The Pragmatic Programmer: > Use a Single Editor Well
> The editor should be an extension of your hand; make sure your editor is configurable, extensible, and programmable.

So I'm using Sublime Text at the moment. I went from Notepad over some other editors to Netbeans, tried VIM, switched back to Netbeans and now I'm here. It's a fast Editor with many extensions and I can extend it with ease. I loved Vim, but it was a bit to heavy and complicated for me at this time. And now I'm in love with the current solution.

I always liked to try new things like Frameworks, Editors, IDEs to find a better and faster way to solve Problems. And I think everyone should follow this practice.

As OS I prefer Mac OS X as it's some of Unix but with nice UI.

In our company we just use PHP and JavaScript, so there is nothing about: "Best solution for this problem", but "How to solve this using PHP and JS?". So I prefer to become an expert on some small areas. Do little but well. But there is nothing wrong with others, who have the skills and pick the right language, framework, ... for the problem.

Everyone has gone his way and find his tools. There is nothing wrong, why else does the project, editor, ... still exist?

That should be an amazing monitor, they also have it in a 4K version.

Where the CodingHorror guy has an crazy nice setup with 3 of them!