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Scalable system does not imply needing many machines. There is no reason you can't just deploy your entire system on a single host, but maintain the ability to reconfigure exactly …

I agree with the general premise of avoiding premature optimizations, but designing systems that scale is important for several reasons: - Startups grow exponentially, if you're pl…

Google Play supports splitting APKs on density. Its a little bit more work but can cut down the binary size if you have significant assets.

I like Heap's ( https://heapanalytics.com ) approach - capture everything, query later. Depending on your needs (Heap is front-end UI oriented), might not be the right fit.

I don't think it is as simple as learning that you can talk about it - you have to learn who to talk about it too. Not everyone wants to hear that things are not working quite as p…

Changes the color temperature.

Is there evidence to support that accelerators are pre-selecting based on elite backgrounds? It would be really interesting to see YC's % of founders from Ivy league + Stanford ove…

Are you saying that these accelerators are not increasing the founders' chance of success?

You can use cross-language templating options - personally I use mustache. No disagreements on multiple solutions - definitely a cool approach.

Time till the page is usable comes under consideration. You can load the relevant html then begin the bootstrapping of the app. If I recall correctly, Twitter had this problem. The…

What he's saying is that the views you want to be SEO'd can be generated server side and bootstrapped into Backbone (hook backbone views into an element that is rendered server sid…

http://thepicrain.com/planets%C2%B3-an-open-world-voxel-base... I think it is bad practice - users cannot type it out if needed

A cheap recruiting tool for these companies. Get top recruits through the door when the difference in a few K still matters to them.

It sounds more like "if you are going to do mobile, don't execute poorly" vs "don't have a mobile version because mobile versions are awful".

I too would think that the redirect links from Google are search-instance specific.

Good points here, especially on session length when related to logging users out. I do however disagree with: "Anyways, the point of this is that in almost all uses, mobile site ve…

Where do we draw the line as companies in terms of user data collection? Should we stop tracking our users entirely? Government eavesdropping aside, I see the internet as just anot…

This is an issue of disruption that can cause a large, politically entrenched gun market to fail being disguised as a gun control issue. What steps need to be taken so that we can …

If you are in a crowded space, UX differentiation is a feature. In the case of close.io, they are competing against well entrenched market leaders. Making a high quality, easy to u…

Absolutely. I'd be really interesting in seeing if the energy cost is lower than the average long term output. I'd be perfectly fine with leaving my iPhone plugged in all night if …

Sure, but could the work not be distributed amongst many users? How many concurrent users would it take for it to be useful? Would likely demolish battery life and data caps, but I…

Is this a viable revenue stream for free app developers? Would it ever make it past the Apple review process?

Has to do with URL character count - Twitter limit is 140.

If the problem you are trying to solve is inaccessibility due to prohibitive cost, you'd have to at least show that there is market at that lower price point. With regards to matla…

I'll argue that signage and marking is already very well standardize and optimized for low ambiguity for human vision, but we are able to build things that humans cannot see but te…