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It's curious how "best practices" would cost ~10x and require 5 devops. HN is crazy simple. Even $500/m sounds a bit high imo.
by shanebellone 4y ago
It's curious how "best practices" would cost ~10x and require 5 devops.
HN is crazy simple. Even $500/m sounds a bit high imo.
- ejb999 4y agoNever underestimate the tendency of many SWE's to make things more complicated than they need to be.
- shanebellone 4y agoMinimalist design obfuscates the maximalist manifesto.
- therealdrag0 4y agoNever underestimate the ability for a company to chase customers which turns into feature requests which turns into complexity which turns into revenue which turns into profit and nice salaries.
- sofixa 4y agoCrazy simple and thus misses a few rather basic features - like proper scaling (the icons for upvote/downvote and buttons for actions are too big for mobile, and also too small on big screens), and some basic late 2000s AJAX to avoid page reloads for basic actions such as adding/deleting a comment.