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841.
by borplk 10y ago
Does Shadow DOM have any significance on other things like React? (for example performance gains or similar?)
842.
by borplk 10y ago
Sadly it's a bit of a race to the bottom and for people who live in expensive countries it doesn't work.
843.
by borplk 10y ago
Stop picking up their work.
844.
by borplk 10y ago
but where though?
845.
by borplk 10y ago
One danger is people will interfere with the initial vision for the product if a solid character/foundation is not developed yet. If you take the time to set the tone for the project you have more room to resist change requests that ar
846.
by borplk 10y ago
Firstly as others noted you can use a transport-layer level compression mechanism like gzip. The other bit sort of comes down to application level logic. You can filter down to the unique items and store them in a json array (or object) and
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by borplk 10y ago
What makes a technical interview crappy? An insensitive asshole who makes it his/her mission to make the candidate feel inadequate by asking trivia questions. A mature interviewer holds the hand of the interviewee and makes them feel r
848.
by borplk 10y ago
Thank you for inspiring me :)
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Ask HN: SaaS idea that is simple enough for a one-man-shop?
2 points by borplk 10y ago|4 comments
850.
by borplk 10y ago
How do you find the freelancing stuff? I get tired of having to deal with people pretty quickly so I'm a bit worried I couldn't do it.
851.
by borplk 10y ago
Well done. If you are happy to expand further on how you managed to set aside the 7-8 months of time on this I'd be interested to hear. For example did you do consulting on the side or something? I want to do the same thing but I don&#
852.
by borplk 10y ago
Wow. That just gave me cancer. Why do you even do it?
853.
by borplk 10y ago
Can you elaborate on the "bullshit is epic" part?
854.
by borplk 10y ago
Well done, looking into it now. Edit: holy mother of god the philosophy page is so scarily close to my thoughts, very happy to see this happen, I kept them in my head you have implemented it!
855.
by borplk 10y ago
Maybe compiler-related stuff. Create a small dummy language that compiles down to JVM bytecode and things like that (learn about tokenizing, parser, abstract syntax tree, type checking, operator precedence, code generation, etc...).
856.
by borplk 10y ago
This is the equivalent of RTFM or the 15 page terms of service documents that no one can possibly read. Sure it makes sense in some cases but you can't use it as an excuse to shift the burden to the consumer however you like.
857.
by borplk 10y ago
/* Smart enough to not want to work for you sick bastards */
858.
by borplk 10y ago
15 percent from India are probably the growth hacker and SEO expert firms spamming.
859.
by borplk 10y ago
I don't know much about it however do look into Apache Samza.
860.
by borplk 10y ago
It is standard, that's what they're paying for unless you are providing it strictly as a service that you own.
861.
by borplk 11y ago
Ah changing the world here we go. A lot of Quora answers look like this nowadays: By Johnny Johnson - Chief Ninja Growth Hacker at SaaS HQ Disclaimer: I work at hip SaaS business. { fluff about how there are multiple choices and e
862.
by borplk 11y ago
I can't give you specific advice. However DO NOT FORGET that HR has the company's best interest in mind, not yours.
863.
by borplk 11y ago
High six figures as in close to seven figures? As a programmer?
864.
by borplk 11y ago
PostgreSQL. Avoid exotic databases they will come back to bite you. Throw some RAM at Postgres and tweak the config values and it will fly.
865.
by borplk 11y ago
I'd suggest people bake in an archival process during their deploys so you always have a zip/tarball of the entire source code and node_modules that you deploy, but still use npm install during development.
866.
by borplk 11y ago
I've seen this in airport toilets before
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by borplk 11y ago
They are raising $10M Series A lead by Sequoia
868.
Ask HN: A bite-sized problem in your company that I could turn into a tiny SaaS?
23 points by borplk 11y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: What software do you use that you wish it had a pretty web dashboard?
14 points by borplk 11y ago|9 comments
870.
by borplk 11y ago
If you look back through the history people have always said that. People were saying headphones will never become a thing because no one likes to put something clunky like that on their head and ears. Now it has become a fashion item too.

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