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Many US citizens are dissatisfied with the current 2016 POTUS candidates, so (as a theoretical exercise) how would HN design a site that allows US citizens to share their picks and…

Presume you were born a slave. Your family had been slaves for 5 centuries. Slaves are taught in early childhood that walking is always the "honourable" thing to do - only free peo…

>Longer or harder than using Golang? Unlikely. Developer productivity is much higher with Golang.

Java takes longer to build with and it's harder for startups that are working on product market fit. Once we figure things out, we can rewrite in Java, but before then it's prematu…

Looking into it and setting up a sandbox. From a performance standpoint, how does Phoenix stack up against Rails or Node.js for you? I'm looking at benchmarks http://www.techempowe…

Our previous startup was with Rails and we did hit performance bottlenecks, even without Payments being involved. Consumers are very sensitive to speed, so that plays a big role in…

We would love to get your thoughts on GoLang in 2016. The language has spectacular speed and it is fun to work with but we're wondering whether to brave an entire FinTech site with…