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Slightly off-topic, but once ActiveRecord(Rails) - always ActiveRecord. After years of developers complaining about SQL DBs being "difficult" and MongoDB allowing to "easily protot…

Nothing comes for free. If your schema doesn't live in your DB, then it lives in your app code. In the end of the day, you have to handle data model changes.

Well, I'm with Apple now.

Last time I've used Ubuntu was about 5 years ago. And it seems to look the same now. I wonder if anything meaningful was achieved during that time in terms of UI/UX besides switchi…

Not the military.

Are there more products with the same model as Sidekiq which have the same level of financial success and are one man show?

I worked with only one, the one my partner foolishly chosen before I've joined him. Issues we faced: - Developers were almost completely illiterate when it came to basic things, li…

Because often there's no correlation between engineering culture and business.

I'm from Crimea and I don't get this either.

Yeah and apparently Germany has only two of them.

I once saw an apartment for rent where host mentioned only vegans are allowed. I wonder if accepting people regardless of their food preference should be part of Community Pledge.

Still cheaper than paying rent in Bay Area I assume?

If you can't make money, entrepreneurship is not for you.

No, just put aside some money before quitting your day job and you're fine. Again, if you can't manage to fund development of your MVP, then maybe entrepreneurship isn't for you. I…

I've met his followers in Berlin once, "naive" - the best word I can find to describe them. In the end, they struggled to answer the core question: "Why would anyone take seriously…

Anyway I have very bad news for new, I have a feeling your phone might have GLONASS in it.

Yeah because russian military strategy is based on photos and videos teenagers share in vk.com

It's named after an island, don't see why it's reasonable.

That's the biggest BS I've ever read on HN.

Out of interest, why can't they?

I suppose there's a correlation between country of residence and education/communication skills.

I'm sorry, you're somewhere around fake news-level in your argumentation.

Wait what? Isn't he innocent until proven otherwise?

Well yes, we complain about lack of housing but want to keep a giant airfield in Tempelhof, well, because we like to hang out there.

This reminds me of "Javascript everywhere". Technically yes, but I don't think that language is a main issue for being able to develop both client and server part of the app. Langu…