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by dham 13y ago
> "The chances that the most elite squad imaginable of Googlers, Facebookers, NSA geeks, and Government-of-China attack hackers all laid end to end could have made this work at startup? Zero." Yes they could. Look, one of my g
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by dham 13y ago
This really hit home with me, because I used the Verizon business website for a few years with my company. Managing the account was so tedious, and broken with the website, we ended up going to a BYOD setup because of it. You couldn't
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by dham 13y ago
http://www.name.com
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by dham 13y ago
What like Twitter? You could win the lottery 10 times before having a chance at starting a company that has scaling problems like Twitter. Besides Rails still exists in there stack. Don't even mention LinkedIn, they don't even k
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by dham 13y ago
I don't really understand it either. When I was switching jobs I just bought insurance for $110 a month through Blue Cross Blue shield. It was a co paid plan with relatively cheap co pays. Under Obamacare I would pay $240 a month.
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by dham 13y ago
I think PHP is good for some stuff definitely, and if you know it then by all means use it. > Yes I can learn a new language basics pretty easily, but am I gonna be able to write a complete app in say RoR with very few google
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by dham 13y ago
Same could be said about Ruby. PHP and Ruby are both "General purpose programming languages". I'm not sure Matz saw creating iOS apps when he created Ruby in 1995. Sure it's not fair to gripe about the language. It&#x
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by dham 13y ago
This is my biggest gripe. PHP just does one thing. You can't really use it for much more then building web pages. Yes, you can use it for scripting but Ruby and Python are much better at this. You have things like Rubymotion(to buil
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by dham 13y ago
No the buyouts are the exception.
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by dham 13y ago
Yes, the main evidence is Xbox. Bing is an ok example. It has a little market share where Google dominates(I think around 15% to 20%). I think they would be happy to have that in mobile.
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I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but they have a reputation of throwing money at something for a long period of time and it succeeding.
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by dham 13y ago
First of all you still get html in the end. So whether you get the slightly reduced json payload size and use the users cpu to generate html or just get cached html from the server you still end up with the same thing, and arguably, simil
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by dham 13y ago
There's a plugin for Adobe Brackets too. https://github.com/tomsdev/brackets-typescript-code-intel Still early
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Yea true. I'm just saying there are tons of things to be done even if it's not coding. I agree with you on the coding productivity but if you walked into a company the first day and said "Oh I'm just working 11 to 2 ev
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by dham 13y ago
What planet do you live on? In the USA 8-5 or 6 is the norm.
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Ask HN: Shouldn't 4 spaces be the standard instead of 2 in Coffeescript?
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