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Neither, really. I'm a developer and nothing in front of me is completely new, but taking a product from idea to completion has a fair amount of Coastline Paradox involved. Not loo…

I'm at the feeling-out part of Yet Another Project Idea, trying to wrap my head around with level of effort required to build out a relatively straightforward web app with user acc…

This is one hell of a strawman. You know the "carefully donated" money doesn't just end up in a black hole, right?

It's telling that you conflate basic safety and healthcare rights with "envy". And that someone stuck in a poverty cycle, working multiple jobs for less than a living wage, is some…

Do you mean the Industrial Revolution? I think there were other factors at play besides the amount of public spending.

You say "welfare" like it's a bad thing? Like, yes, give money to people who need it? I'd be more than happy to decimate the warfare budget. But that's an entirely separate convers…

Being an expert in one domain (pg: startups, presumably) doesn't make you an expert in all domains (finance, tax systems). I'd be more interested to hear from someone who true expe…

Agreed. If someone's barrier to creating a startup is "but when I get unimaginably rich, the government is going to take some of my money!" then good riddance. Take that self-cente…

"Society creates government, not the other way around..." And government supports and enriches society. It's symbiotic, not parasitic. "claim credit for what people have created on…

If your tofu is tasteless, you're doing it wrong. One of the major perks of tofu is that it absorbs flavor really well.

"The cravings are a psychological reflex of remembering something you liked the taste, nutritious or not." Nailed it. We used to have summer dinners at my grandparents when I was a…

I'm hoping the Burger King trial goes well so we can get nationwide expansion, in large part to help bring the price down. That premium is still a little rough, Impossible is in a …

"First: The vegetarians that I know don't like meat." Hi, nice to meet you! Vegan for almost a decade, the smell of a burger on the grill in the summer gives me hella cravings. We …

Yes, it is better! Part of the goal is to provide a "gateway patty" to make it easier for meat-eaters to reduce their consumption. Good for their health, good for the environment, …

This is false and serious FUD. There are a handful of vitamins/minerals that aren't found in meat-free diets (B12 is the big one) but they're all easily covered by fortified foods …

"It's going to annoy everybody who likes things to happen fast all the time because Face ID will definitely cause a delay and frustrate every user at some point." It doesn't. FaceI…

> Cherry-picking one profession to claim low salaries are because of gender is absurd. Community/support roles are still widely considered "soft skills", and thanks to a century or…

"Pay for average or above-average tech support." Yes! "Those you can train in less than a month." Can you train a senior developer in a month? Can you train a true full-stack devel…

"The difference between an average support person and a really great one can be millions of dollars of revenue. But they are paid peanuts because it's women's work, not like the ma…

"You want mobile notifications? Sure, but not on mobile Safari." You can do this with PhoneGap. "Multiple line ellipsis? Sure, but only on webkit." Okay, yeah, this sucks. "Consist…

"some rather expensive fruit branded laptops" So do some rather expensive shiny-metal-branded laptops.

I'm willing to retract that entire line of thinking, because the author never ever actually said anything about designing for Retina hardware, so why are we talking about it in the…

What does this have to do with the article? [Edit] I'll be less terse. Yes, I know computers are more expensive in some countries. Are you accusing the author of being, in some way…

You're being disingenuous. For starters, from the second paragraph: "In between Roboto on Android, San Francisco on iPhones and Macs, and Segoe UI on Windows..." Clearly, they're t…