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Twilio | Senior Software Engineer (JavaScript SDKs) | ONSITE @ San Francisco, or Mountain View CA Twilio is looking to expand its JavaScript SDKs team. Currently, our team works on…

DigitalOcean has recently updated their ToS such that any credits granted expire after 12 months. If you were credited $5000, what would you do with it? Would you spin up servers f…

Good idea for my next topic. ;) For the record, I didn't post my article here, but if I had I would have specified the language.

My baby DigitalOcean droplet was not prepared for HN traffic.

Maybe fewer people would be complaining about opt-in filtering if the thread were titled "Watch movies with the freedom NOT to filter". This protocol would actually help those that…

There's really no reason it needs to be this way. Obviously, some games require controllers with their complex controls and aren't a fit for mobile gaming. But there are so many gr…

As a side note, if anybody wants to support a couple awesome indie devs (and play a sick mobile game) check out http://subterfuge-game.com/ Just started playing a week ago, already…

This article and the comments here saying "This is common knowledge in the industry" and "I'm getting tired of people saying this is a bad thing" are a beautiful illustration of wh…

Why Gold? Why not Silver? Gold isn't useless, as others have said. Silver's a lot less useless; it's used in so many useful things, and both gold and silver are currently undervalu…

This sounds a lot like gloating. I'm sure a lot of us would like to find consulting work but don't really have an inkling as to where to find it. It feels like more of a matter of …

What other definition is there for "most"?

How many sales have you had so far? I can see the "DVD player" logic working for DVD player, cars and other possessions that are expected to lose value over time but I don't see th…

I got excited thinking this was a way to either: A) Recruit other developers onto your side project or B) Hire other developers to help with your side project. I'd be interested in…

Keep in mind that your return is based on the current net hash rate of all mining computers, everywhere. Combined with the 6+ month wait time, you can buy a $20,000 rig that would …