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Stripe is cheaper than most other processors and charges a flat rate for the transaction, regardless of the upstream cost. Amex is more expensive than Visa for example. A fact of d…

I'm always surprised by the things people have built using Google Sheets or on top of Google Sheets such as sheet2site or Tiller. It made me wonder what other things people have bu…

I am the CTO of a semi-successful startup but I believe, this is actually my biggest cause of stress and depression. I have been a software developer for roughly 8 years so I am st…

I have never been a fan of the take home development test when your interviewing for a job. After hiring over the last few years I see the importance now. What are some good proble…

Is it just me or this is thing ugly? I think the price tag associated with it will make it hard for most to justify when you can, in my opinion, get a much better-looking car for l…

I use a Mac because they come with a bunch of tools that I need out of the box and are easy to use. The interface is nice and I am comfortable with it. On top of that, I have had t…

Add 1000ms to all of their requests

I recently went through a change where I manage people but still try to code and I don't enjoy it at all. I also prefer to code rather than manage the politics and emotions of the …

We use a fair amount of React at my current job but it tends to be either a page fully built in React or a page rendered by Rails using ERB. I am curious how some sites like GitHub…

I’ve read it’s common for the employees to realize that they are working on world changing projects and thus work the crazy hours. They believe in the greater good and give their t…

I have been interesting in Domain-Driven Design using Rails but I can't seem to find a consistent pattern or setup of libs and directories. Some people use CQRS others user service…

Now that they have this fixed, I hope they are working on a solution for all of the clone accounts that pose as Elon Musk or Charlie Lee and others.

Of course they do, that is the hipster capital of the world and hipsters need everything to be retro.

Our app, CompanyCam, is entirely React Native. We did write some bridges for our camera, but you can still lay it out in React Native so its mainly React Native.

I’m looking for a large Rails app to reference for some design patterns. I have grow a Rails app more or less on my own and it now handles millions of requests per day. The problem…

Not to mention he could probably have f-you money if he accepted an acquisition. So I would say that he is double smart for not doing that and continuing to build.

What I want to know is why more blogs aren’t don’t resort to mining crypto using their users browser. It can be light weight and less intrusive than an add and you still get paid w…

Equity aside I don’t see any good reason to go public other than raising some capital. You no longer are free to operate as you wish and instead have to focus on dividends and plea…

The title feels very clickbatey. I did overlook the Show HN part but thought it was going to be an interesting article, not an event system for emails.

I quit buying American cars because they are always a "me too", this seems like another case. Every American made car that I have boughten in the last 10 years has crapped out way …

I would also add to my previous post to read through open source projects. Simpler projects are better. You probably don't want your first dip to be a web framework or anything tha…

I've been programming for several years professionally now and the things I noticed make a difference between good and mediocre developers are: - Always be reading, you should alwa…

Two shitty companies merge. I can only imagine what Microsoft has planned for LinkedIn. Hopefully this is one of those acquisitions where they purchase it and shut it down months l…