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The author isn't wrong that "Senior" is probably a bit of an inflation for what it means in the industry - competent enough to work on medium to large projects with little oversigh…

I'm not sure what your environment of choice is, but I use Python with Django which has great built-in email/password auth and a really nice user admin tool[0] if that's all your l…

Great to see this happen again after the original "The New Deal" in 2014[0]. I'm a big believer in having enough capital to not have to worry about day-to-day costs so you can focu…

Thanks for noticing! The templates on the page are adapted from the actual tools in the app. They use sample data that has dates that are updated whenever the page is rendered. It'…

Hey HN, I've been building Intuition as a side project for a few months now to scratch my own itch. I believe that there are a ton of valuable insights sitting in the meta data in …

If you are already in the Bay Area, I would recommend that you probably just stay there unless you don't plan on raising VC. It's certainly not the only place you can start a compa…

Hey, I just went through your signup questionnaire to test it out (I work in a similar space in the US). It felt very long to me in comparison with most services I've looked at. I'…

This seems like a poor choice of technology rather than an outright nefarious decision. Polymer [0] uses the shadow dom api [1] extensively, but shadow dom v1 still isn't fully imp…

Tell the product owner what the situation is and collaboratively come up with either: a) a new timeline that you believe you can meet or b) a list of tradeoffs that can be made to …

For the sake of adding to my own discussion, my issues (specific to AWS) were: 1. Installing dependencies became complicated. When Chalice worked, it was great. Certain dependencie…

I've seen a ton of write-ups on the benefits of serverless computing (AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, etc.) and spent a decent amount of time playing around with the Chalice fr…