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>> Web development takes the lion's share of computing people pay for which translates to the work people will do (we need money for survival) This just isn't true. There are so ma…

2-stroke exhaust and new tires... Maybe it's the association with memorable activities like visiting a motorcycle dealership with my dad as a kid, or a mowed lawn and warm summer r…

forget about that - they're doing a cryptocurrency!

Maybe the "we love ads" argument is gone, but I still see the "I've trained myself to ignore ads" line of reasoning, which is countered by dark patterns exploiting thousands of yea…

Just a single data point warning: I've had nothing but bad experiences with blacklisted, shared IPs from SES. Everything gets flagged as spam.

You didn't seem to get much of a reaction, probably because of your recommendations to go with proven (read: old & boring) tech, but I appreciate it. Front-end churn is real and, c…

Sending via SES and WorkMail ALL of my emails are flagged as spam, including replies to the original sender and things as benign as accepting meeting requests. We use it primarily …

I understand where you're coming from, but you don't have to pursue your absolute best in everything you do. It's fine to just "do" things casually. I think people would be much ha…

>> 1-2 months is a more reasonable tiny project timeframe. It gives you enough time to build something with substance, and test the idea thoroughly. This is a similar timeframe tha…

Maybe he meant "reputation for ridiculously bad drivers going crazy fast"?

the math is still incredibly lopsided. Your secretary can pay off her mortgage or buy a new car; the founders get FU money. This is just how it works; hate the game not the player.…

The HN community is full of incredibly intelligent but often young tech-centric people. I used to be part of the latter, but the reality is they lack a huge amount of context and e…

He mentions his VCs have always been available and engaged, so I think it's reasonable that they knew he would be open and public about the deal; he always has in the past.

Am I the only one who immediately thought of this episode of community (Digital Estate Planning)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 1fgR7oeIXFA

if it's before though, then how would isolation after symptoms prevent the spread? I think the original post stand if perhaps overstated.

>> only to find out later there's no way to add an Outlook calendar. I haven't even looked at it but seeing this in the comments means I can't use it. Many (most?) of your target "…

I'm getting there, plus old enough that FB and twitter never made any impression. Google apps is hard to cut off when you have school age kids though.

This seems similar to how I felt when consulting and knew I was billing at a much higher rate than others. Even if there is some form of value-for-money angle you feel like you hav…

wouldn't the wage fixing scandal, which was essentially illegal oligopolistic behaviour, be an example of how a larger market, wider area supply/demand relationship would look more…

When there are 100 jobs and only 10 qualified people in SF ,all paying huge cost of living, they can command very high salaries to cover COL plus more. When there are 10 Million pe…

>> this makes zero sense to me, the value you add most likely doesn’t change because of where you live Salaries were/are so high because of the limited supply of qualified labour. …

How would his PA log him into twitter when he's sitting on the toilet @ 2am sharing his deep wisdom? Can you imagine the hissy-fit he would throw if required to use a strong passwo…

>> Mozilla and Google are implementing to the same standards and specifications; problem is, Chrome's a better implementation, for speed and stability, in the average case and the …

I'm probably tilting at windmills, but I develop in Firefox, then spend the extra effort to make it work in Chrome for the few areas where behaviour is different. I tend to build s…

Well if you've hurt your career with in-person failures, wait until you experience the context-free over-reaction that come from a faux pas made in a faceless medium that keeps rec…