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901.
by abraae 9y ago
I'd be intrigued to know what caused those spikes in your download volumes.
902.
by abraae 9y ago
> What if you're offering a SaaS product that no one there (but everyone on HN) gets When you feel you're in this position, you should possible reevaluate your offering or the way you think about it. Although all of the things
903.
by abraae 9y ago
Yep, your upstream lake should also be saltwater.
904.
by abraae 9y ago
Your lower pond could be the sea.
905.
by abraae 9y ago
But failed to also add INSERT.
906.
by abraae 9y ago
obligatory http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/
907.
by abraae 9y ago
Since the article referenced "Louie"building out his product in a 3 months Ramen-fuelled binge, I don't think he's talking about SaaS like Workday, which is basically a gigantic ERP, just delivered via the interweb.
908.
by abraae 9y ago
That certainly used to be the way. But these days the employees who work in HR, finance, accounts receivable spend their downtime locked into very sophisticated, mobile-friendly apps with user interfaces we could only dream of in past - eve
909.
by abraae 9y ago
Yes. This sort of cost-benefit analysis also ignores some intangibles such as: "When we're interviewing people and they find out just how backwards our CI system is, the smart ones will laugh at us and work somewhere else and we&#
910.
by abraae 9y ago
Lead-acid batteries are the poster boys of recycling.
911.
by abraae 9y ago
Well perhaps an alien child would assess us like that.
912.
by abraae 9y ago
#36 - believing that slavishly adhering to simplistic lists can help you write solid code.
913.
by abraae 9y ago
Steve Jobs.
914.
by abraae 9y ago
Was she a slave? When travelling in Vietnam (and probably plenty of other places) its pretty common to find the staff at little hotels all sleeping on mats on the floor in the kitchen. Its not a big deal - to get to the fridge you might nee
915.
by abraae 10y ago
I'd keep the second key and use it as a backspace. (scratch that.. some googling shows there is a backspace in morse - it's "........")
916.
by abraae 10y ago
So disappointing! I thought I was going to read a call to arms to stop building systems as web applications, and move to the venerable window protocol.
917.
by abraae 10y ago
Discussion != likes. If someone twigs that they could cycle to work instead of driving - win.
918.
by abraae 10y ago
The goal should also be sparking discussion. If a few guests starting having the same thoughts that are going on here, that would be a win.
919.
by abraae 10y ago
Except that Youtube's position is that they will host anything, of any quality, unless it crosses one of their red lines. Whereas NYT will only publish stuff of high quality.
920.
by abraae 10y ago
Well the engine rechipping industry is somewhat similar. But indeed, this is hypothetical - but maybe more likely than the OP's desired outcome that "manufacturers of capital goods such as tractors are by law required to fully doc
921.
by abraae 10y ago
Rather than adding laws, another good market-driven outcome would removing any laws that inhibit a healthy industry in providing plug-in replacement kits for the brains of the tractor. Yes, official warranties would be voided, so new provid
922.
by abraae 10y ago
Harsh but so true.
923.
by abraae 10y ago
Depends what you mean by "off the grid". I've been working on something that has some similarities. Its a mesh network of pest traps in the New Zealand bush. Battery life is very important, so each node sleeps most of the tim
924.
by abraae 10y ago
Because people don't want bullet proof. They want quick wins that work straight away.
925.
by abraae 10y ago
We have hundreds of APIs, and we use RAML + json schema. Since Swagger (OpenAPI) seems to be gaining ascendancy, I recently (some months ago) looked at migrating off of RAML, but at that time the Swagger guys had a philosophy that they woul
926.
by abraae 10y ago
What's old is new again! Beautiful and reminiscent of old school mainframe systems in CICS. When system users were mainly roomfuls of data entry staff (universally female) these systems were absolutely optimised for power users banging
927.
by abraae 10y ago
Why do people use this phrase? Yes the planet's going to be fine, in the sense that a spherical mass will continue to orbit the sun. But if every species but the cockroach is wiped out from runaway biological ecosystem collapse, is tha
928.
by abraae 10y ago
We're still absolutely aware of how much we pay (it's on your payslip). There's just no end of year filing process.
929.
by abraae 10y ago
Fascinating but flawed. > By targeting internet companies in particular, I’d chosen an industry with a high likelihood of reliance on resume-processing algorithms. Internet companies hire knowledge workers/creative types/snowfl
930.
by abraae 10y ago
I don't usually find arguing over names to be productive. Your "smaller monolithic" application is my microservice. What's in a name? But as a customer, if I have a HR app from vendor A, and then I want to add a pet insu

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