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This is the route I've gone. The core CRUD part of the app is PHP, and the real-time chat and document collaboration aspect of my app is node. Works beautifully. I've had so much f…

could you give more details of your diet please?

It's a shame you don't have a reproducible test for the rendering issue in Chrome. Until you can reproduce it there's really no telling what is going on. Do you have any links to s…

Seems like about half the issues you've mentioned relate to differences in syntax/behaviour. This is to be expected. That is what vendor prefixes are for. They are a known (and nec…

No offence taken. Sounds like burnout was the wrong term to use. Maybe I staved off actual burnout from developing later on by taking this time off. Either way some manual labour f…

I was starting to feel some burnout a week ago after a couple of months of 10+ hour days 6 days a week. Refurbishing my roof worked wonders for me. Spending 3 days pressure cleanin…

It reads like a newspaper. You read one column at a time. No hopping between columns.

A few people have mentioned information density as being important. I've got the 'Stylish' chrome extension installed with a userstyle for hn which looks like this: table > tbody >…

How was the original author acting entitled? He's merely saying that instead of insulting his intelligence just give him some screenshots and info about your app in the noscript. I…

That's an important question to answer. Creating a site that works sans js then layering on js is great, but it does entail duplication of effort, a larger testing burden etc. It's…

the problem isn't whether ie10 is good or not. It's that microsoft's update schedule runs at a glacial pace compared to chrome and firefox, both of which are on a 6 week(!!) rollin…

I've not used the Rails ORM so I can't comment on how good it is or how easy it is to debug queries (peer behind the magic). *The ORM automates things like tersely expressing the o…

Yeah, said much better than I could. I don't regret any of the time spent with these frameworks because it really broadens your horizons and makes you think in new ways. Lots of th…

Such a great question. I spent a lot of time working with ExtJS having been lured in by all those great, straight out of the box components which had their own healthy dose of adde…

Awesome! Must be such an amazing feeling to receive that first payment. I'm about a month away from my first launch and I'm terrified of launching and then hearing.... crickets. So…

Seems win-win to simply use chromeframe. Given this is a web app which presumably customers are already invested in using (since they're paying for it), requiring a 60s one-time in…

Supporting IE means taking on board a technical debt that will follow you for the life of the project. There are lots of things that can be accomplished in ie6 but then you need to…

Choosing not to develop for IE makes perfect sense if you're building an app. Here's my own little anecdote: In the last 4 months or so I've written around 10k loc for a JS app. an…

Yeah that's a fair enough comment. The truth is that I'm probably using more like 2% of the program. I think for someone like me the perfect balance of features/performance was at …

hehe touché

yeah I'm really starting to realise that I'm using the wrong tool for the job. I only use it for web design, so from my pov all the photo features are bloat.

Photoshop is a classic example of bloatware taken to the extreme. I'm running CS5 and routinely run out of RAM with just a few modest files open. It's ridiculous. I'm going back to…

I agree with you that browser support sucks. the technology itself is really cool though. Scriptable, heirarchy based vectors. What's not to like?

painfully fake. i'm surprised that there is even any discussion as the whether it is fake. putting aside the breaking of the laws of physics the actual cgi shots are c-grade at bes…

I don't think you've used svg before. It definitely does not suck.