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Hello! IO is an experiment. It's a free, lightweight editor for creative and authentic publishing. ️ It's extremely easy to use and allows you to publish anonymously, under a pseud…

Thanks for the heads up guys! We spent a good amount of time compressing our blocking bundle size (html, JS, CSS), which actually is JS for the entire app, not just that page. Cert…

It's not just routing. It hS to read modify write from DB first

Clarified the 1MM number in the post.

Your point is valid. This isn't ultra-high scale, just the name of the series I intend to publish more into. It's more about building a simple service for instant usage upon launch…

Secret, San Francisco, CA http://secret.ly https://angel.co/secret/jobs work@secret.ly Come change what people share. We've built a platform that brings more authenticity, self-awa…

That was caused by a bad link in the recode article. The journalist fixed it.

I think FB is simply transitioning from product to utility, like electricity. Just one example is its utility to sign up and log in to other services, which is 95%+ of my FB activi…

Yes. It will.

Simple: I was honest and direct with them. I told them I had an opportunity that I could not pass up and had to put in two weeks. In the end, I was savvy enough to know that the ra…

TopCoder problems quickly become pattern recognition and that becomes (brain) muscle memory. Knowing exact solutions to exact problems is not helpful.

Hard to quantify really. Often, it's not the exact knowledge that you use, but the byproduct of knowing something that helps you learn something new. For example, learning the nuan…

As long as it's a multi-paradigm language. I'm not a huge Ruby fan, and you're right, Ruby at Google is almost non-existent. But I know a lot of developers like it, and a lot of co…