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by mikeokner 11y ago
Hell, I wish everyone would provide a nice API.
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Then there has to be a whole backend infrastructure, though. Lots more time/effort/money involved in that solution. Right now there's no recurring cost for the developer.
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by mikeokner 11y ago
> we would've had to achieve an insane growth to be worth anything to my co-founder and me due to the dilution of our shares. Seems like that's the bigger lesson in this situation. Never give up so much equity that you cease to
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by mikeokner 11y ago
> I'm starting to feel that the only way to get fluent in Django would be to get a job in an experienced Django shop, which IMO should not be the case. Like learning any serious language/framework, it requires a relatively larg
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by mikeokner 11y ago
But taxi drivers are usually W-2 employees, not independent contractors AFAIK.
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by mikeokner 11y ago
If BuzzFeed could rip off the top few answers and combine them into one article "The 8 greatest discoveries of the past few years!", then it's probably not a great HN post.
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by mikeokner 11y ago
Yeah their API updates a few years back were a huge pain in the ass. For a good 6 months every twitter widget I saw was broken. I replaced widgets on a few sites, and the official replacement always looked & felt shoe-horned because the
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by mikeokner 11y ago
I think the author gets closest to the mark in the Conclusion, but still falls short. Go is very attractive as an "upgrade" from Ruby/Python or Java. It's a good replacement for the interpreted languages when speed/