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That’s true in America, but the word government is applied more narrowly elsewhere, including in the UK.

About to embark on a similar project. Would love to hear any insights you can share!

As someone also behind corporate barbed wire and responsible for some build tools, I’m interested! What in particular makes life easier for you?

Phoenix (web framework for elixir) famously has the meme out there that “Phoenix is not your application”, with various articles etc explaining that the web interface should be a l…

I’m sure I’m missing something, but equity of £1.4bln sounds like a decent business to me. I’d have given at least £3!

A big part of the difference has to be that if you have a small number of developers (esp. n=1) and you can deploy everything at once, then those layers just get in the way of fast…

Weird in general maybe, but I got the point: if they didn’t store the data, then future people couldn’t sell the data

Not an expert but the transaction log is in another file and you’d need both to be in line with each other and backed up, so perhaps that’s a factor

If you’re among those others, I’d be really interested to hear a critique of the article. It seemed pretty convincing to me, as well as constructive by suggesting that green invest…

I used to work in an overseas office and quickly learned the ping times to the other branches worldwide so got a “feel” for how long things should take. 10/10 would recommend

I’m doing this right now and it’s a lot of fun and very accessible. I saw there’s a highly rated Coursera version too (I prefer books to videos so I haven’t looked at it)

Interesting to note that cloud storage and realtime collaboration isn’t 100% tied to a browser-based interface though. Even though many existing apps work like that, there are desk…