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I'm not sure why I got down voted to eternity. If you have a great dev box with a ton of ram then using docker or a VM is irrelevant. You can just set the whole thing up in a ram d…

I almost got excited but then yawned. It's nice but it still doesn't fix the issue with people who have medium end machines where you develop in a VM full time and want to be able …

I wouldn't sweat it too much. I've also noticed that really in depth questions with a lot of code examples and explanations doesn't help either because then they get no responses o…

I wish Netflix would just deny access to every Comcast subscriber. Maybe that will knock Comcast into reality after like 20% of their subscribers instantly cancel their account.

You can't ignore things until it's a huge problem, that would be a mistake no matter what. Do you have a real code example from a non-trivial domain?

The menu I was talking about wasn't the typical channel listing. That's even worse to the point where I never use it. When I goto my friend's house where he has a ton of premium ch…

I never tried accessing it through a console. Only through a fairly modern $40ish DVD player and a web browser, no complaints. I'd drop them instantly without thinking twice if a b…

Are you a Netflix subscriber? Their interface is pretty good. It's about as good as you can ask for given the technology we have and the selection that Netflix has. Things are brok…

A beginner with a passion and goal to improve will eventually become a professional. You don't get to professional status by just research and reading, you have to actually do thin…

He never said don't learn patterns. He said it's not worth spending all your time trying to memorize them before you even write a line of code. Memorizing about 20 patterns for 3 m…

This is the best keynote he's ever given. It boils down to actually writing code and forget memorizing patterns. That can't be more true.

It's not as simple as you think it is. You mentioned wanting to allow farmers to make an account and add in their details of various stuff along with having their own profile. That…

Comparing an e-commerce site to what you want is like trying to compare a tarantula's fangs to the rudders on a speed boat. I'm not trying to bust your chops but I'd be curious as …

Safe isn't immune, also people are really strange around money. What if I set a goal for 2 years from now. Suddenly I'm forced into maintaining a friendship with my accountability …

It doesn't matter where the money goes to in the end, the only thing that matters is the risk taker loses the money. There's a very big difference between "internet friend I've kno…

What makes you think someone will do this for free for you? You're asking for a custom site with custom data that is searchable in many different ways. You're asking someone to com…

The big problem I see is how do you pick the accountability partner? It needs to be someone who you would trust with an arbitrary amount of money because as soon as there's an ounc…

For some reason your "I had taken an hour out of my day" comment really bothers me. The guy you interviewed probably spent ~4 hours preparing for the interview and then all of the …

Most people do need simple. Just having 2 or 3 servers is enough to handle quite a bit traffic and you can always vertically scale up to a certain point. Once I recover from burn o…

I spent months working with Chef and made a good amount of progress but I feel like it drained years off my life. It's not because "devops" is even hard, but it's because the tooli…

I think you're missing an important option. If an issue is on github then I'm much more inclined to report any bug I come across. If it's on some obscure bug tracker that I don't h…

I skimmed it honestly, it didn't hold my attention long enough but your opening paragraphs were good and I definitely agree with what the article was saying. Also the current dev h…

I think the problem with web versions of excel-like apps is the lack of trust when it comes to hosting your private information on the sites that would run them. Do you really want…

Because it has mechanisms in place to make server side driven templates feel like they are client side for most use cases. I carefully included "such as rails" because I'm not sayi…

Why limit yourself to a client side JS framework? Certain server side frameworks such as rails let you build apps that feel very similar to client side js apps without having to us…