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I'd love to know where the fact(s) that support this "majority" come from.

I disagree with the principle that we should make more things to reduce waste. I'd much rather take the 800$ I'm supposed to spend on buying this phone, and give it to someone tryi…

I really, needed to read these exact words this morning. Thank you to the author. Now time to refocus!

wahoo!

Sounds like solid logic to me. Glad to have that one explicitly worked out :)

I;d say, it's his wedding. The answer to "Why not do it this way?" is that as a couple, that's not what they wanted. This only looks "faked" is because we have no personal connecti…

+1 I think many of us would pitch in on a hacked-together version of this just hosted on github. The repo that builds this out could itself be a testing ground for the project.

find of the week.

What a fantastic method for making technology seem less daunting.

Thanks Twillio for a proactive response to a horrible situation.

I humbly disagree. Building a company to be the size of Microsoft is not a trivial matter, no matter how you stretch it. You'd need to catch a VERY big wave of innovation. I'm tota…

I think this serves as a great testimony to just how homogenous / under-considered the "flat" aesthetic has become. For crying out loud, flatUI is a kit for replicating this appear…

I've been using HAProxy in the interim.

I agree, but think the issue is slightly deeper. The branding lays the sass / pass / social elements on a little too thick for my taste. I immediately get the sense that this softw…

Because in Canada it's impolite to be number one :)

So excited! Thank you Stripe!

first. world. problems.

+1 Backbone. For me the more open-ended approach has allowed space to try different approaches to see where they fail, and refactoring. This open-ended approach seems to jive well …

Couldn't Agree more. A professional dev should know one of these languages well. They should be judicious enough with their time to know that it doesn't make sense to "just pick up…

Absolutely agreed. Given the magnitude of the platform at this point, I'm assuming some of the 'MySpace vibe' is a necessary byproduct. Pruning overgrowth from companies like Zynga…

If you're still complaining about this, I'm here to tell you to move on.

I really like the general theme of pointing the designer into the core of the startup, and think a lot of this is very good, accurate advice. As a long time designer turned develop…

+1 Twilio!

So good!