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by jakejake 11y ago
This appears to be a half-functioning project by an inexperienced but enthusiastic young person that has gotten way more attention and been taken more seriously than he imagined. I can see myself having done something like this when I was 1
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by jakejake 11y ago
I've tried and failed many times to keep IRC in my workflow. I always wind up opening it for a few days/weeks then eventually just kinda fizzle out. My company installed slack and it was just like wildfire - the whole team was on
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by jakejake 11y ago
Before bootstrap and the like came along, all of us developers were creating web apps just as we do now. They just looked like crap! The CSS frameworks have evolved everything form "ugly" to "boring" which I guess is som
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by jakejake 11y ago
I've worked at bootstrapped companies where we were always squeaking by every month fighting to become profitable. But at least you are in control of your own destiny. Nobody can force you to shut down as long as everybody wants to kee
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by jakejake 11y ago
I got my start in the 90's and there has always been a bit of arrogance in programming and IT. Saturday night live used to have "The IT Guy" who was a rude, arrogant support engineer. I write it off a lot of times as social a
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by jakejake 11y ago
Startups often being 2 college buddies with a bright idea - healthcare is a tricky one because it can require credentials and legal expertise in the field. It's a lot safer to build a delightful todo app.
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by jakejake 11y ago
25 years and going strong without being jaded here. I'd guess if you are jaded it's either that you need to find another company, or perhaps you're in this business for the wrong reasons. Perhaps you were lured by the idea of
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by jakejake 11y ago
I personally think the "crazy" label kicks in when the person has severely diminished their actual, real life in order to prepare for an unlikely future scenario. Especially when that scenario is strangely specific and seems more
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by jakejake 11y ago
In my experience you pay a ton more for the same amount of resources when it's PaaS so it makes sense that providers are going to push that over just configuring your own blank VMs.
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by jakejake 11y ago
+1 for just starting with bootstrap - which will introduce you to a little jQuery. That'll be a good foundation and will allow you to have some fun without being overwhelmed. Once you have that in your pocket you'll be ready to t
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by jakejake 11y ago
I wouldn't really make the judgement of "hipster doofus." But surely the author gets some kind of kick out of using retro tech. I don't find anything wrong with that at all but I would at least have admitted that I like
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by jakejake 11y ago
That's fair at least you got recognized with a salary increase. Just curious, would you have been a little upset if everybody got bumped up $9 and you didn't get a raise so you stayed there at $9 with everybody?
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by jakejake 11y ago
The hosting costs appear to be about $70 ($30 for the hosting and $50 for the DB). That doesn't seem excessive to me. The other expenses appear to be various other services (slack, support site, logging service, etc). Lot's of 3rd
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by jakejake 11y ago
I think to there is also an attitude about minimum wage going up that - hey it's great they get raise. But if 75% of the country is getting a raise why am I not getting a raise as well? Or for some people who worked hard to get up from
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by jakejake 11y ago
This whole VC mentality of a company having to explode with growth reminds me of shows about the old day traders snorting coke and running out on the trading floor, crushing deals. It seems short-sighted and aimed only at huge payouts for t
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by jakejake 11y ago
There's plenty of people willing to invest in things that are legally in grey areas. If the company takes off then the hope is that they will have an opportunity to influence policy. Basically if a company has a lot of money to throw a
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by jakejake 11y ago
Not sure about OP but I find the swiping to be somewhat nonsensical as far as allowing me to have a mental map of where I am in the app. Sometimes I almost think they were having a laugh with the UI and saying "swipe up here to exit&qu
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by jakejake 11y ago
The one-stop-shops are definitely slick and easy to get started. But when you start doing serious amounts of transactions you really have to shop for competitive rates and consider other less sexy gateway providers. I don't know anythi
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by jakejake 11y ago
If I had only ever seen racing in TV I would have no idea what you were talking about. But I did have the pleasure of watching a few Indy 500 races in person. It is hard to describe the sound and feeling of the solid dirt/grass vibrati
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by jakejake 11y ago
This doesn't strike me as a developer tool (though it could obviously be used by developers). It's for consumers. I don't know of many consumers who want to receive notifications via webhook. If they did do webhooks then you
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by jakejake 11y ago
It's an interesting idea and one that I find to be true, but also complicated. We're also trained as programmers not to reinvent wheels poorly. Or not install a library to do something that is already supported by an existing libr
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by jakejake 11y ago
Knowing nearly nothing about military culture in the US, let alone other countries, it would be interesting to hear a similarly well thought-out argument from the Egyptian side. I'm sure through their eyes our military culture must see
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by jakejake 11y ago
I could be wrong, but think the OP is talking about virtual assistant services like task rabbit since they listed many of their advertised tasks. As far as a "real" assistant goes, it can be easy to find one if you live in a city
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by jakejake 11y ago
I think it takes a technical lead who has the vision & skill to balance house-keeping work with new feature development. It can be both technical as well as political skill. One methodology that I employ is "visibility-based develo
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by jakejake 11y ago
I'm at a place where we have an extremely large app and there are probably a hundred features that are each used by 10% of our customers. It's a bit of a kitchen sink app for a vertical market. I certainly would not say that we &
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by jakejake 11y ago
Sounds like at least a few of those are legit concerns, if not bugs. Like I said, I don't really know much about Sails. I was just interested in the idea that ~10 commits per month would be insinuated to be an abandoned project.
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by jakejake 11y ago
I don't use sails but I found the criticism of the project interesting because it has somewhere around 80 commits in 9 months. I guess we are in a time where our tools are expected to significantly change frequently? It seems like I ha
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by jakejake 11y ago
12 resolutions is too many for me. Set 1 resolution and stick to it.
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by jakejake 11y ago
I think it's pretty simple - exercise requires physical effort and most people would rather sit on the couch.
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by jakejake 11y ago
Reading the reviews it's about 95% joke reviews with an occasional honest one about visitation or conditions. I doubt anybody takes them seriously.

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