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by tropshop 9y ago
Did the massive regulation on the taxi industry stop Uber? If you build something people find genuinely useful, you will become a force that causes the market to adapt. Regulation follows innovation.
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by tropshop 9y ago
I recently found https://svelte.technology and looking forward to trying it out. It has no run-time like React or any other virtual DOM engine, but instead does compile-time static analysis. It is a Rich Harris project (authored
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by tropshop 9y ago
> It is not, however, pedophilia, or in any way behavior associated with pedophilia Sorry that the general public does not follow the guidelines of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). He/she is not jus
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by tropshop 9y ago
I'm throwing out a generalization, but developers tend to have destructive personality traits when it comes to collaboration. I've never seen mentorship discouraged for those who work well with other people. It can level up a team
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by tropshop 9y ago
I'm not on Facebook, but from the outside, it sure looks like pure evil. A tool for the state and other powers that be to gauge the pulse on what is culturally acceptable so they can further shape the narrative of underlying agenda. Th
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by tropshop 9y ago
Just wanted to note that I found myself nodding as I read through almost all your recent comments. As someone just starting to bootstrap a business, I'm curious about yours. Care to share?
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by tropshop 9y ago
E-commerce is unique in that it has such a massive impact on revenue generation, but the skills needed to effectively manage it are rarely inline with the core competencies of the business. Most companies attempt to tackle this problem in h
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by tropshop 9y ago
> Bulletin makes it effortless to put a spotlight on inspiring stories that aren’t being told. Bulletin will never take off with this as a core objective. Consuming stories and producing ever increasing click bait material is what drove
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by tropshop 9y ago
Why must this quality be present at the founding table? I work with small businesses (<50M revenue) who have software needs to better connect with customers. The company leaders and stakeholders have successfully grown a business through
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by tropshop 9y ago
What you described is a hiring problem. Marketing is knowing who your buyer is and finding creative ways to get their attention.
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by tropshop 9y ago
Try working on your positioning so that you are not hitched to the <JS framework of the year>. You will forever be competing with the low end of the market if you cannot market yourself.
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by tropshop 9y ago
Strong technical leadership and defining clear code boundaries is the secret sauce to scaling successfully. The shiniest tooling will not save your team.
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by tropshop 9y ago
Hi Kabir, Everybody here seems to want to dish out advice, but I'd like to turn the mic to you. I'm a new parent with two kids under 3. I also started my career my learning HTML/CSS on my own in the early 2000s. It was a diff
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by tropshop 9y ago
I left mithril for domvm. It has a smaller focus and less magic. https://github.com/leeoniya/domvm
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by tropshop 9y ago
Or, the group of four writes something an order of magnitude more complex. It becomes difficult to make changes, estimates grow, and execution is consistently buggy. With the right unicorn, one can act swiftly, groom a lean architecture, an
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by tropshop 9y ago
Then I guess this market is ripe for disruption: aka a boring CRUD app that eliminates paper and increases network visibility.
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by tropshop 9y ago
What do hyper-productive teams look like these days? I've always been part of small teams, with only a few true workhorses, joined by other filler bodies. Productivity was mostly a mystery to management. I do not understand team sizes
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by tropshop 9y ago
In production, I have a horribly designed schema running couchdb 1.6 and node. It is serving a few thousand users, but has serious architectural issues. I started in freelance php web development, then switched to Ruby/Rails in 2006 an
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by tropshop 9y ago
> So, systems with many users (tens of thousands -> millions) would be stuck replicating an equal number of couch databases constantly I also ran into this when using `continuous: true` to create persistent replication, which suffers
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CouchDB 2.1.0(docs.couchdb.org)
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by tropshop 9y ago
Code is a liability.
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by tropshop 9y ago
I used to think the evenings when the whole family is asleep was the best time to get in the zone as well. But then I would be up until 3am and have a hard time sleeping. Grogginess would linger around the next day, and my wife and kids wou
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by tropshop 9y ago
I thought this was a native app?
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by tropshop 9y ago
I haven't used Mongo before. I have always been a Ruby/SQL shop, but now using Elixir/CouchDB. It was an awkward transition away from SQL, but I'm betting on this as a future stack. Most notable: You write your logic in
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by tropshop 9y ago
He is not talking about a pure web app, he actually explicitly said _hybrid_ Hybrid definition: a thing made by combining two different elements; a mixture. Using a cordova plugin to tap into native code while developing with web standa
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by tropshop 9y ago
> This is the kind of polish that's really hard to do in hybrid, especially power efficiently. Actually, CouchDB is great at supporting offline-first, local data that syncs behind the scenes. Here are two mobile implementations that
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by tropshop 9y ago
Or more people are just moving on from Rails. I used to religiously follow every release. That ended shortly have the first few 3.x releases
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by tropshop 9y ago
Would you elaborate on what makes a disease a good fit and these grand-challenge class problems?