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by acoard 10y ago
Maybe you're thinking of the famous quote from the Saudi ruler in the 60s: "My grandfather rode a Pony, my father rode a Pony, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride
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by acoard 10y ago
Shopify's EmbeddedSDK does plugins (or "apps") very securely, but it comes at a development price. Instead of getting write access and running code on the server directly, you basically interact with an API via an embedded w
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by acoard 10y ago
Reliability != stability (in this context). I can reliably ssh into pretty much any server and use default vim. I cannot rely on a given plugin to be installed on the server. The more you customize vim, the less universal your knowledge o
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by acoard 11y ago
Non-standard tags generally work in all browsers modern, but they aren't part of the spec. It's just like custom attributes which don't start with `data-`. They're recognized and work, but not strictly speaking legal.
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by acoard 11y ago
1,000,000 / 1,000 = $1,000. Hardly golden. Still, I take your point, with a million eyeballs you don't have to monetize much to make a pretty penny.
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by acoard 11y ago
>Lua has a significant strike against it in being 1-based when everything embedded you'd want to put Lua on is 0-based. Why is being 0-based more important on embedded compared to other contexts?
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by acoard 11y ago
Eternal September doesn't have to do with new users to the internet, but new participants within a community. It's essentially the problem of digital immigration (which is much easier to do than physical immigration).
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by acoard 12y ago
When you're just starting you have to take any opportunity that comes your way. For me, that meant freelancing until I could land my first job. That likely means the same for you. There's a lower barrier for entry for getting c