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by thedevil 11y ago
Anyone here have any thoughts on AppEngine vs Heroku? I use AppEngine for my experimental projects because I can get a simple data model and some handlers running in minutes and a (supposedly automatically scalable) useful backend up in les
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by thedevil 11y ago
My first thought exactly.
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by thedevil 11y ago
I thought that was funny wording too. I wonder if the person whose money was "forfeited" finds the sharing to be equitable.
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by thedevil 11y ago
I love the site, but fyi the teardowns are hard to work with on mobile (android chrome nexus5). It jumps around when I hit next, the icons are very small and require a zoom each time, touch gestures on the images do seemingly random things
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by thedevil 11y ago
I'm seriously bummed. I don't trust Facebook and by extension, Zuckerberg. But what do we lose by supporting this move? He's made charitable efforts at improving the world before, and making an announcement puts pressure to f
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by thedevil 11y ago
Yeah, I would guess that the huge overhead is still more efficient given how poorly some would use the money, but that's just a hunch. I have nothing to back that up (and would love any argument on either side of that)
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by thedevil 11y ago
Awesome, a real counter argument. I can't believe that worked. Hacker news rocks. Edit: Seriously I'm shocked. I wrote in hopes of getting a good response and figured this was the best chance, but the political environment lately
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by thedevil 11y ago
The idea of handing out cash has become popular lately but I'm skeptical. Does anyone have an argument why handing them cash would be better than paying for needs? It seems to me (less restrictive) housing subsidies, food stamps for ev
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by thedevil 11y ago
I agree with you, it does look like insecurity. But just for clarification: sometimes it was my fault. And when it wasn't and the partner was a beginner, I pretended it was my fault so that the beginner wouldn't feel bad.
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by thedevil 11y ago
This might get a negative response, but let me present a contrarian view: apologies aren't always wise, even when you screw up and feel bad about it. To explain with an example: I learned to dance salsa a few years ago. I wasn't
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by thedevil 11y ago
I've just read a couple of Don Norman's books and I felt like my eyes just opened up.
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by thedevil 11y ago
"very silly. In fact if you do this, I think you're vapid and I lose respect for you." I used to agree with you. And I still would feel someone is silly for paying so much for a watch or a handbag (because we have different
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by thedevil 11y ago
"software generally should be seen as a lever to solutions that are much more meaningful to customers" I always assumed that software developers were underpaid relative to the value they create. Now, I worry that it's the de
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by thedevil 11y ago
I definitely agree.
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by thedevil 11y ago
To clarify: I don't think Paul Graham meant ramble, use "uhs" and "ums" and expletives as some commenters have said. I think the point was to use common and simple wording so that people can understand without doing
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by thedevil 11y ago
I don't think Paul Graham meant ramble, use "uhs" and "ums" and and expletives as you and other commenters have said. I think the point was to use common and simple wording so that people can understand without doin
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by thedevil 11y ago
This is a no-brainer. At first, I thought it's not worthy of an essay because it's so obvious. But then I read the comments.
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by thedevil 11y ago
We'll never know 100% but Ukraine controlled the air so only the rebels had motive to shoot down planes, and had bragged about it on social media. It's possible that Ukrainian forces or someone else had a conspiracy to frame the r
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by thedevil 11y ago
If there was YC best comment ever award, I would nominate this.
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by thedevil 11y ago
I mostly agree. Although I'd say it's radically tolerant in some ways and very intolerant in others. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say that most inhabitants are very tolerant and a few extremists are not.
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by thedevil 11y ago
Many, if not most of them, are indeed immigrants.
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by thedevil 11y ago
It might not be obvious right away, but San Francisco is really tolerant and open minded. That picture looks like yet another hate rally targeting a specific demographic, but it's really a welcoming party for new arrivals to the city.
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by thedevil 11y ago
Thanks. I was wondering why this guy was so extremist. But now it makes sense.
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by thedevil 11y ago
"Google is like a convenient highway" If I have an idea for a better highway and money to build it, I still can't just build the highway. If I have a better idea for a search engine, I could wipe out Google. Google is expose
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by thedevil 11y ago
This makes me sad. The title sounds promising, as if the article contained interesting analysis. But it doesn't. The author doesn't understand economics... Or anything. He peppered in a few facts and statistics to sound credible,
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Scrum and Technical Debt
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by thedevil 11y ago
There is lots of time to browse the web between compile time and startup time of slow programs, and waiting for meetings, and making changes to environment, and waiting for environments to be brought up, and sitting in meetings. I don'
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by thedevil 11y ago
Thanks. That's encouraging.
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by thedevil 11y ago
I do feel bad for complaining. My job is not bad and they treat their people, especially software engineers, pretty nicely. At the moment, I usually give up on adequate sleep to work on my apps and other projects. I hope that doesn't
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by thedevil 11y ago
I'd like to know how to find jobs that do intersect between fun and pay. I'm okay getting paid less, actually, as long as I can pay my bills. I took a 50% pay cut to change to software engineering.

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