I moved from India to Thailand to Sweden. And I feel I will stay here for few more years now. Started at a well known global consultancy (ThoughtWorks) which gave me opportunity to travel world for different assignments. Then in Thailand chose to stay for extended period because Thailand . Eventually got kids so was looking for more stable country. Got offer with Spotify and now here since 2017. Didn't took lot of effort moving different countries since I am working on DevOps/SRE/Agile/Cloud which has been in extremely high demand last few years. I think moving to Sweden was very good decision since it gave more stability as I got my first house here and kid loves the country and snow.
From: Turtle Creek Software via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 13:14:44 -0400
Sadly, we just decided to abandon the Cocoa update for our app. It's not
easy to walk away from 3 years of work, but better 3 years lost than 5.
Time will be better spent on our Windows version.
TurtleSoft started Mac-only with Excel templates in 1987. The first
prototype of our current stand-alone accounting app was in the early 90s.
Since then, programming for Mac has gone through four primary programming
languages (Pascal, C++, Objective C, Swift). Three, soon to be four chip
architectures (680x0, PPC, Intel, ARM). Four frameworks (MacApp or Think
Class Library, PowerPlant, Carbon, Cocoa).
Microsoft and Adobe are big enough that they've survived the many pivots.
They can just throw 100 programmers at it. Intuit has barely kept up. For
anyone smaller, it's hard to justify the constant need to rewrite code just
to stay in the same place. Return on investment is just not there. Seems
like each new update is more difficult.
Many good apps for Mac have died in one pivot or another. We managed to
lurch through most of the changes, but not this one. Thinking ahead to the
consequences of Marzipan was the last straw.
Meanwhile, our Windows version hasn't needed any work since 2000. It
probably will take less than a year to get it updated to 64-bit and a
better interface.
I ctrl-f'd for something else and had to do a double take when I saw that. The worrying part is presumable someone actually does that job - which seems to only involve sticking tubes into people, never mind which hole.
I've thought that inserting IVs is something that nurses struggle with a lot and maybe could be automated. It would be an absolute nightmare to develop that robot though, as you'd have to go through all of the medical device certification on top of dealing with all of the edge cases of human anatomy.
Probably just volume of traffic rather than the size of the assets. Not everyone's personal site is hosted on auto-scaling could services et al. So often you'll see stuff get "hugged to death" (as it's affectionately known) just due to the site's own popularity.
It's 5,000 words and 2,000 lines of javascript, plus a few fair-size images, which may explain the long TTFB. But most of the delay is not bandwidth limits but PHP and SQL. The site runs on a creaky WordPress implementation. Someday I'll fix that, if I live so long.
The concept is good but the website is not mobile friendly. I would love find a book but apparently there is no search book functionality. Also it would be nice to view details and comments about book when I click the cover thumbnail, right now it takes me to amazon which somehow feels like promotional.
The title of the book will take you to the book's page.
Maybe I should add a label on hover to indicate that the book cover goes to Amazon, the idea was just to have quick access if you were interested in the book.
And yes it's not mobile friendly yet. I figured the HN crowd mostly browsed on desktop so it would be fine for now (maybe I was wrong)
