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by pm 12y ago
I used Fossil for a while, and I liked it a lot. But after using it with my team, and having to host it internally (something I didn't have the time to do properly being a startup), and programmers complaining about the conflict resol
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by pm 12y ago
I do remember that line - Bill Bryson is gold. The other fact I remember is that Slipknot originated there.
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by pm 12y ago
I had this problem at high school, and it's taken me years to undo the expectation that everything should be easy. It happened to my brother too, except if something's too challenging for him, he just quits. If you're gung-h
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by pm 12y ago
I don't come to HN looking to generate new ideas. I come to be exposed to things I might potentially be interested in, and to learn from those who might know more than me. If I generate any new ideas at all, it's outside of the
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by pm 12y ago
$750-$900 daily (don't do hourly). Developer/Designer. 8 years experience. Much ado about iOS, Cocoa, etc. Bit of web and Windows. Anything that needs to be done, really.
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by pm 12y ago
I like much of Mark Suster's writing, but I agree with you on this point wholeheartedly. Not all companies are built the same. There are lots of unhappy people pissing their life way doing shit they don't like - I don't int
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by pm 12y ago
When has Mark Suster said that?
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by pm 12y ago
You said you couldn't see how the code was more relevant, which I interpreted in another context; ultimately gamers won't care as long as it's a good game. However, I don't see any value in following that line of reason
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by pm 12y ago
Game code has to be performant first, readable second.
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by pm 12y ago
Sure, break things when you're trying out a lot of new features. I get that, and for the user-facing side of Facebook, it makes sense. It doesn't make sense (and is extremely frustrating) when you apply the same principle to you
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by pm 12y ago
Perhaps, but when it's applied companywide, it's a bad idea.
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by pm 12y ago
Move Fast (and Break Things) is the unwritten motto of every mediocre dev shop out there (breaking things being an unintended side effect of moving fast). It's not controversial.
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by pm 12y ago
No, OP will have to focus on one thing at a time. So it's going to take longer to begin, but sometimes these things can't be helped.
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by pm 12y ago
It may sound obvious, but I would (besides the customer development which has already been mentioned), begin looking for a job at a place which gives you more latitude. There are some companies who get it, and some companies who don't
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by pm 12y ago
I'm in no hurry, and I'm sure most people would agree that they'd rather see a database improve stability than branch out too fast to new platforms. Keep up the good work!
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by pm 12y ago
I'm using Realm on iOS at the moment for a reasonably large application. I originally had a C cross-platform core based on SQLite, but I found it too difficult to maintain and threw most of it out after attempting to make what should&
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by pm 12y ago
I certainly have that tendency, perhaps the external chaos is a result of my decision-making, and not out of my control as much as I think.
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by pm 12y ago
I get that. There are times I need to relax by being alone. Then I'm the Earth flipping magnetic poles and being alone irks the shit out of me. It is most annoying.
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by pm 12y ago
I dunno, I'm supposed to be an introvert but I'm chaos incarnate. What does that make me?
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by pm 12y ago
Jay's a legend - worked with him on one of his indie games back in 2004. I remember this doing the rounds a while back and am glad to read again.
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by pm 12y ago
As much as I don't like the .NET stack myself, you should go with what you know, unless you're specifically looking to learn something new. There's enough risk in starting up as it is without burdening yourself with learning
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by pm 12y ago
I had this exact issue - my entire workflow revolves around GitHub (and by extension, GitHub Issues). Eventually found waffle.io and have been using it ever since, as it's quite Trello-like.
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by pm 12y ago
That's the part I don't get about the grandparent's post. I've never had problems with outages on App Engine. It went down during the massive outage where half of Google's services went down. Other than that it&#
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by pm 12y ago
I've had the exact opposite experience, and the experience you speak of is the one I had with Microsoft Azure PaaS. The only discontinued runtime was Python 2.5, and admittedly because of the lack of threading support it's cost we
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by pm 12y ago
Bad designers love the swoosh. It's a "graphic element", for when you're too lazy to think of an idea.
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by pm 12y ago
Honestly I think these logos are low-quality, because there is no thought put behind their creation.
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by pm 12y ago
4 weeks of annual leave, plus a ridiculous amount of public holidays in Australia. We'd be pretty close in standard.
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by pm 12y ago
Cheers, just been looking for this kind of thing, seeing as my workflow is centered around GitHub.
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by pm 12y ago
I'm quite sure that Context.IO does the same thing, as I've used it before (although they directly interfaced with IMAP).
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by pm 12y ago
I don't remember the source, but I read an article a couple of years ago that linked that statistic of plummeting death rates in Norway during WW2 to high consumption of cod liver oil, which apparently was readily available. Take that

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