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Stop reading these comments and get to work. You don't have time for both.

I'm working on a few side projects with the intention of launching them as small businesses that will hopefully generate some cash flow. The long-term plan is to get enough of thes…

To me, this means asking the following: when you do something, do you feel guilty after? Do you hate yourself for playing 5 hours of video games every night when you know you could…

If front-end MVC Is too much for a given use case, then Twitter's Flight.js[1] seems like a great way to keep jQuery well organized. It defines a way to write jQuery components tha…

That sounds like a problem with your particular work environment, rather than a reason to not learn design

Sometimes I see a Show HN or product launch and think "wow, I'd love to do something like that", perhaps as simple as changing the target customer. Is it okay, for example, to take…

This is somewhat minor, and a bit tangential to the article, but worth noting nonetheless. The title on HN is misleading. Dev Bootcamp is a company whose name in the general sense …

You have 10 reasons. Your numbered list has 7 twice. Also, the reason is very simple: there's no money to be made in building a Hyperloop. There's a good reason Musk didn't (and wo…

How often are (production) mobile apps using these types of BaaS providers rather than being custom-backed? Is this a tool mostly used for test/toy apps?

I'm surprised more public projects don't run as bounty-style "build x and get $1 million" type systems. Rather than picking who's going to do what (or worse, building all in-house)…

Yeah I got that feeling. I've used and like Angular, but can't figure out why I'd want to use this instead.

Can someone explain this to me like I'm a 5 year old and have no idea what any of it means? What will it help me do that I can't otherwise? What tech does it compare to, if any (di…

Agreed - came to comments to say the numbers aren't necessarily, and the navigation is unclear (though I just used keyboard arrow keys)

Is the color not brown? Perhaps I need to calibrate my monitor

Would love to be able to try it out without having to sign up. Guest account?

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Recently I discussed with colleagues why Ruby on Rails succeeded where no Python framework did. One hypothesis put forward was that there was 1 popular Ruby framework (Rails), but …

What's most impressive to me in Penn & Teller's work is not just that they put in extraordinary amounts of time perfecting a trick (giving themselves a barrier to entry), but that …