jakestl's comments

jakestl | 2 years ago | on: Apache Guacamole: a clientless remote desktop gateway

Years ago I ported some of the Java to Go because we didn't need any of what the Java client was doing:

jakestl | 3 years ago | on: I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days

Same here, 2018. Last battery replacement was 6 months, let's see how long this one lasts.

jakestl | 9 years ago | on: Staffjoy is shutting down

Have you considered starting your next company back in St Louis?

jakestl | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Staffjoy Boss – Automated Employee Scheduling

How does it handle sick days? If I say I'm going to be sick tomorrow does it reschedule the entire next day or is that a manual process?

jakestl | 10 years ago | on: Cofactor Genomics (YC S15) plans to analyze cRNA for consumer diagnostics

Will you try to keep your team completely in St. Louis or hire out west?

How will you avoid giving patients medical information directly (e.g. 23andMe issues)?

jakestl | 11 years ago | on: Transducers now available for Java/JavaScript/Ruby

In python I can do:

  filter(lambda x: x%2==0, xrange(10))

Is this basically the same concept?

jakestl | 12 years ago | on: Go from C to Go [video]

I think he just meant it was hard to capture what it was doing in a brief statement like the others were.

jakestl | 12 years ago | on: Bringing Silicon Valley to the Midwest

Outsourcing usually means hiring cheap, low-quality third-party labor and firing/not hiring skilled, trained full-time employees. Whether this is from another country or not is unrelated.

The situation described in the article has nothing to do with outsourcing, but building a remote team, both foreign and domestic.

Using the term "outsourcing" does a disservice to those employees. Since the Midwest was mentioned specifically, I had a similar reaction to the one you had for my comment.

jakestl | 12 years ago | on: Bringing Silicon Valley to the Midwest

As a Midwesterner, I am slightly put off by the use of the term "outsourcing" in the title. Considering the term wasn't used in the article I feel it carries negative connotation. Maybe I am reading too deeply into this...

jakestl | 12 years ago | on: Why we left AngularJS

It's funny because I find myself going the other direction from server-side page generation to angular.

One of the main reasons is angular forces you to separate your controller logic from DOM manipulation. Without directives I tend to see a pile of jQuery on every page.

How do you address this?

jakestl | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Golang Angular Video Tutorials

OP and creator here. Any feedback is welcome.

jakestl | 12 years ago | on: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998

It installs if you set it to Windows 95 compatibility mode. The game runs too if you tweak the graphics settings.

For being a 15 year old game I'm surprised at the amount of features it has (instant replay, view from other trucks, etc.)

jakestl | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where to go for max profit? High coder salary, low cost of living

Wolfram Alpha is pretty good for things like this, though the data is a bit stale: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=computer+software+appli...

jakestl | 14 years ago | on: Beginner Flask/Python Video Tutorials

OP here, trying to get some feedback on these videos I made. They seem to be well received so far. I am trying to get newbies interested in web development with Python. Let me know how I did!