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I clicked through to the technical intro, and it says you’re using AntidoteDB for the top-level replication https://electric-sql.com/docs/overview/technical-intro I happen across A…

The further you get in physical/geopolitical distance from the US the more you invalidate assumptions that many US sites and services make. I've had sites fail because my local tim…

Spending the night hanging out with people from Syria I think they might disagree with your depiction of US cities. Measurements in mm are different than those in lbs.

If it's feasible to write (most) all of your app backend in Elixir, then I think it's a pretty great option. I feel like language context switches tend to be very expensive and err…

How long you live(d) there? It freak me out at first, like many things that are different, but after getting acclimated for a few years I actually think it works out pretty well. I…

I'll just say this... I still have 2.7 as my base install... for Ansible. Because they haven't switched yet. Ansible is owned by... Red Hat. They acquired it in late 2015. Seems li…

Whether they respond with process and patience or not, I’m hard pressed to think of powerful states that abide “f*ck yourself” once they’ve started to think national interest/secur…

I live in Beijing, and the bike and scooter shares are everywhere , including blocking sidewalks and in huge piles and it’s absoultly great. They’ve been a terrific improvement. It…

I think that he's kind of right about the problem. In my opinion, Python's primary business value has been that sweet spot it occupies. It's not the most fun, but it's pleasant. It…

It's cool. It's creative. It's different. Things that do not often top you're typical Hacker Newsie's values list, but - hey - if making software's a means to an end I never unders…

Yeah, I when I thought about it I realized when I say "SV VC" I mean probably only the top 10-20 firms or so - the "top tier" or whatever, Sequoia, Accel, KPCB, Benchmark, etc. (hi…

I don't really understand your question... this is the favored approach of many Silicon Valley VC firms, and they are widely considered some the smartest tech start-up investors in…

I'm sorry if my wording was confusing; the company in these both situations is convincing people (investors) that they can become those things in the future, not that they are at t…

I think all of those services are cloud-based, yeah? Cloud services are a great option to have available, but there are many reasons organizations choose to manage their own instan…

Trying to get big. The conventional wisdom is that it works better to get big with an unsustainable revenue model and convince people you can make it sustainable than to stay small…

NoSQL has real use cases. The model is much closer to how you usually are structuring and handling data in your application. If you application is handling hierarchically structure…

Many of the top-dollar patents in FB's chest are likely very broad / fundamental to the modern web. If you implicitly or explicitly retain a license to use whatever's needed for Re…

One of the big failing of Jinja in my opinion is that it's Python with only instance methods, but Python has a weird, arbitrary-seeming historic division between basic functionalit…

Check this fiasco out for starters: https://github.com/pallets/jinja/issues/659 > It was never documented that you can override variables from higher scopes But you could, and peop…

yeah... are their any success stories with regards to these kind of post? all the ways i play it out in my head don't seems great... 1. someone at exec/board/mgmt-level somewhat de…

hey Josh!

i am the original poster. i was clarifying the compassion.

it's a business decision comparison, not a technical categorical comparison. you need something to receive http request and return http responses, and you're comparing different po…

as the other commenter said, php is a web framework... and it's what we were using. it's actually more of a web framework than a language in my opinion (or at least was at that poi…

it's the "good problem". and the good problem can always be solved, though lack of reliability can seriously hurt your growth. but that doesn't mean that it's as easy as people mak…