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by practicalpants 12y ago
> Anyone who is technical enough to use Heroku effectively can charge AT LEAST $84/hour for their time This is very off base in my experience. I know countless beginner devs who swear by Heroku, because it's designed to be tha
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by practicalpants 12y ago
Isn't this 350 hours of 'awake' dynos per month? I get more than 1 visitor on all of these sites per hour... Thus, this will not be fine at all. I will be moving everything off Heroku and investing in a new platform for my wo
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by practicalpants 12y ago
If Heroku actually does make the free tier unusable (12 hours a day availability), and if custom domains aren't free anymore... then Heroku, time to part ways, and no more referrals to others. This is the reason I chose Heroku as my pl
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by practicalpants 12y ago
Their drones could easily be $30k+ a pop, and if they crash, need maintenance, irretrievably fly out of range, or simply become targets of angry people wanting to break them... all problems frequently encountered with high grade hobbyist dr
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by practicalpants 12y ago
Really, front end JS frameworks don't make sense for an app like this (I would only use a JS framework if there was a significant amount of rich client interaction; in your case there is not, you're justing searching from a form).
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by practicalpants 12y ago
Which is why I said "getting drunk regularly," which is the implied activity in a business built around a guy getting drunk. Either way, amusing to see someone compare getting drunk to running a marathon.
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by practicalpants 12y ago
I'm assuming this is just attention grabbing for this guy's personal brand. Always interesting to see what kind of marketing stunts get you to the front page. If this were to be taken seriously, a guy regularly getting drunk is ju
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by practicalpants 12y ago
>death... It's a stupid, terrible, senseless thing. And what is life then? Is it rational, great, makes sense? I do agree with you that viewing death as 'natural' is part of a questionable ideology about human nature, a ki
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by practicalpants 12y ago
From some people I know and even have consulted for, who have applied (and not been accepted), there seem to be many who do it for the status. They went to a prestigious school, they don't like the idea of doing something which isn&#x2
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by practicalpants 12y ago
It seems wrong for this guy to generalize entirely about remote work arrangements based on his experience with 2 guys. I've been a part of 3 teams, that each were rather different, with significant remote reliance. It was great each ti
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by practicalpants 12y ago
Yep, I have something vaguely similar to this which I've built over the years for my own projects, essentially generators for boilerplate for back end stuff, written with preferred libraries, coding styles, testing approaches, etc. Fro
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by practicalpants 12y ago
I think your point goes without saying, code that actually works is the first thing. But a dimension you've missed... Code that works but isn't readable, testable, maintainable, will end up costing your business dearly. It's
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by practicalpants 12y ago
This is the elephant in the room in these open office debates. Yes, for programming at least, concentration and productivity is better when you move from an open office to something slightly more insular... But you're still thinking wi
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by practicalpants 12y ago
Knowing your age and stage in career would make it easier to give a helpful response. I can relate to that anxiety when I was first getting my career started, but it all lessened as I aged a bit and became more competent in my domain. But i
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by practicalpants 12y ago
I think in any real life scenario I would have an idea about the number of records in my table, or could figure that out very cost effectively. So to follow in OP's example with Rails, I would just do Table.where(id: [array_of_random_i
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by practicalpants 12y ago
To be fair, a lot of marriages and exclusive relationships are also predominantly about the money, or the social status, or the social pressure, things that also have nothing to do with 'love,' yet they also get 'romanticized
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by practicalpants 12y ago
> Do we tell cancer or AIDS patients their only hope is to change their outlook on life? No. We know the physiological cause and treat it. Well, this is the worst possible interpretation of my point, or whatever they call that in debate
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by practicalpants 12y ago
> The literature review found sufficient evidence that ME/CFS is a disease with a physiologic basis. It is not, as many clinicians believe, a psychological problem that should not be taken seriously It feels so weird to separate the
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by practicalpants 12y ago
I doubt the MVC JavaScript fad will last much longer, but JS for just manipulating the DOM and basic web stuff won't go anywhere, especially because of the necessity of browser tools for webdev.
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by practicalpants 12y ago
AirBnB is fine how it is now (for me), I'm pretty indifferent to the 'community' aspect... It's just funny (and, well, dishonest) that they market it like it's so community oriented. Maybe it was community oriented
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by practicalpants 12y ago
I like AirBnB a lot, but the whole marketing it as a community thing just seems... weird, and a little disingenuous. Granted I've only stayed in entire-appt bookings, but every single one of them has been run by a real estate person(s)
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by practicalpants 12y ago
I couldn't disagree with this characterization more. They will need human intelligence overseeing the majority of the cases, and those that they try to automate will be fraught with difficulty and take a long time to iron out. Even the
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by practicalpants 12y ago
Wow... really? It's absolutely viewed as low prestige in my experience. I mean our culture has an ingrained stereotype of the socially awkward, maladjusted engineer, that's definitely out there. The jocks, "cool kids," e
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by practicalpants 12y ago
Agreed, this has obviously got some nice buzz, but never would I want to be the person having to run this business. Lots of manual work for little fees. They could hire/ outsource, but the quality will drop and prices will hike. They m
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by practicalpants 12y ago
> So why did Superfish not just present itself like a browser plugin They did this for years, actually. They paid add-on developers to bundle their shopping app with the developer's app. I remember this going on ~2010/2011 at l
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by practicalpants 12y ago
Well, I hope your aims are sincere... I am getting a little annoyed with these digital nomad 'startups' that just want to make money off of other digital nomads, like they're any other market segment to fit a product to. &quo
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by practicalpants 12y ago
I spent some time on Quirky ~3 years ago, trying to push designs for my desk 'leg hammock.' At the time it suffered from the problem of everyone ganging together to only vote for people who were regular users in the community who
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by practicalpants 12y ago
Argh, this is in the territory of click bait. I thought it would be about building side projects, but it's actually about making marketing-based choices for wording and UX. (And that's not really about 'building a product&#x2
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by practicalpants 12y ago
I think this might appeal to first time nomads. I haven't found living life as a digital nomad too challenging. The biggest hurdle is just meeting cool people you want to spend time with, but that works out as long as you go out enough
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by practicalpants 12y ago
I strongly disagree with your characterization. MJ has even said he wasn't sure who'd win him vs. Kobe. There is plenty of debate. Don't forget the league-wide diluting effects of the '89 and '95 expansion drafts, s

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