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It became difficult when your 'database' turned into exabytes of random files in s3.

Where's the social engineering part? Trying to convince people you aren't a scumbag so they become your friend long enough for you to swipe their password?

Actually, they don't use Slack because Slack would be the most expensive piece of software they license. The enterprise model from Slack is so prohibitively expensive it's like the…

I had an extension a while ago that I was attempting to publish to the Firefox app store and it was rejected on grounds of using eval. I don't remember why I needed to use eval, bu…

Not really. These things aren't pain points in the browser the way they are in Node. I have never felt the need for an ORM in the browser. I have never dealt with client-side code …

It's like you've never heard of an acquihire before. Companies do this all the time.

At a previous company, we initially set everything up at Heroku. As things got cost prohibitive, we moved them one by one to AWS. Since Heroku is setup on AWS, it was easy enough t…

It depends. I tried to switch to Simple, but at the time I was working as an independent contractor. The maximum size of a check you can deposit without mailing it to them is $3k. …

I'm guessing MySQL doesn't support this (hence the need for a cron job), but postgres lets you set a statement_timeout on the connection. It will force kill queries that go beyond …

Do you doubt your skills? Why are you interviewing if you're employed at a good company? I hear this position often when people talking about contract-to-perm, and I just don't see…

You forgot the '#gamergate' at the end of your post.

SEEKING WORK - Remote / Seattle I'm an engineer with 15+ years of experience at all levels of the stack. Have worked both for, and at, a handful of YC companies. Currently have abo…

And no dilution is not realistic given that they haven't even raised a Series A yet.

You know what isn't setup the way my normal editor is? A fucking whiteboard.

I noticed a few hours ago that I wanted to listen to a bunch of acts at Coachella that were on different channels. I didn't really want to have to remember to switch, though, so I …

https://github.com/Eonblast/Emysql for example, was originally written at EA.

If you visit the Sandlot at Coors Field, you can actually have 'original recipe' Blue Moon. They have a handful of other beers that are only available there, it's a cool spot to ch…

Sometimes people just talk too fast. To you, it's mumbling. To them, they're just conveying a lot of information quickly and you're struggling to keep up. Don't assume malice in th…