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   by xcambar 5y ago

   Thanks for the very sensible quote.
2. 512.▲
   by xcambar 5y ago

   No 5 year old would understand that. I'm way past 5yo and I do not understand.
3. 513.▲
   by xcambar 5y ago

   The more experienced I become, the more such down to earth solutions seem OMG SO MUCH MORE reasonable than all the bells and whistles of "modern" engineering practices.
4. 514.▲
   by xcambar 5y ago

   > I hope you have everything redundant, including the CEO Made me laugh, I'll sure reuse it!
5. 515.▲
   by xcambar 5y ago

   I know. That was the joke. :shrug:
6. 516.▲
   by xcambar 5y ago

   As in traffic. And yes, I'm French. Damned, I am démasqué.
7. 517.▲
   by xcambar 5y ago

   Which also opened right on time before the pandemics, so that it feels huge since there was almost zero circulation.
8. 518.▲
   by xcambar 5y ago

   The harsh truth: there's too much in this position to be handled by a single person. Ideally, you'd want a single person with a great tech background, solid product understanding and all the additional soft skills in between. Thes
9. 519.▲
   by xcambar 5y ago

   Wholeheartedly agree. Graph theory is probably one of the most relatable, accessible theories available. It is a fantastic tool to discover algorithmics, as you can visually apply your thinking. FWIW, I personally wrote my master thesis on
10. 520.▲
    by xcambar 5y ago

    I have some rather complex technical documentation and guides to write, and this strikes me as the perfect tool for this purpose. I'm starting over tomorrow.
11. 521.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    Same for me. I will add to this that probably very few know how to implement GraphQL on the server-side *efficiently*, or, put differently, most have a gut feeling about how hard to manage it can become. While frontend implementations look
12. 522.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    "I have 10k followers on FaceTwitterStagram but my family is only 4 members. Yes, people love me more on social networks than in my own family." In other words: apples and oranges. :)
13. 523.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    I fully agree on the analysis. I can't say I'd have done a better job at phrasing, but I would have emphasized on the balance between business and contributions, rather than (from my reading) insisting on the business implications
14. 524.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    Try not to sound like you're diminishing the efforts and accomplishments of others. This is tremendous work, they're running their business and come up with generic/generalisable solutions instead of narrowing the outcome to
15. 525.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    I don't think you're a troll, but I think you know your community well-enough to trick it into a clever karma-hoarding move ;)
16. 526.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    That's the answer. It encompasses every aspect: familiarity, usability, low learning curve, low time to market, enablement, and, eventually, greater margins.
17. 527.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    This is incredibly useful, a lot of my peers will certainly love it for quick prototyping data manipulation and exploration. I know I will. This is a very clever/usable implementation of flow-based programming (FBP), which is dear to m
18. 528.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    This is great! Make me laugh and educate me at once? I'm sold!
19. 529.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    Indeed!:p
20. 530.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    Thanks for the honest story, congrats on pulling yourself out of debt and into (quoting you) privileged life. I see the HN crowd as rather monotonic, and thanks to stories like yours, it shows me wrong, and that’s for the best.
21. 531.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    Estimates are here to fail, but they're nonetheless crucial: * set an estimate, you'll deliver in 1.5x your estimate * don't set an estimate, you're losing total control over delivery (rarely for the better, even though
22. 532.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    > build apps that scale easily to hundreds of thousands of users I don't understand this. Frontend dev is about writing a portable software to run on as many runtimes as there are users. There is literally nothing to prevent any fro
23. 533.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    I love fzf and tend to use it whenever repeatitive, non-static behavior is in play. Replacing Ctrl-R with fzf is the most basic and most useful usage. Basically every git command involving history, branches etc have fzf wrappers in my setup
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    by xcambar 6y ago

    From the top of my head, I can mention 2 (local, EU) examples: * https://ebay-kleinanzeigen.de * https://leboncoin.fr Interestingly, both are platforms for individuals to sell goods to other individuals. And both int
25. 535.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    ha ha, thanks, I knew the HN crew couldn't disappoint on this :)
26. 536.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    I used to think that about Shazam. I had no reasonable idea about how it worked, so much so it really felt like magic (there's a quote to be put here, which I can't find the author here. HN help me). My 2c of an advice: uncover th
27. 537.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    Same story here. When the kids get older and start to have a more regular night schedule, it gets easier to find some time to read though.
28. 538.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    I second this recommendation. The whole series is amazing. I doubt though that Bernie would appreciate to be said to "end up in the SS" :)
29. 539.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    as for the original project, the hard part will be to build incentives to contribute updates to the maps. that’s where I imagine Google’s commercial incentives to be hard to build, but I’m not really versed in the topic, so maybe that’s jus
30. 540.▲
    by xcambar 6y ago

    it still lacks behind in terms of speed and QoS compared to other EU countries but it’s clearly improved in the last 3-5 years.