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Exactly as you say: if customers (that is, the people paying for the software, not necessarily the people filling in forms) need it, then it's a requirement. The point is that whil…

> What do you really need a first and last name separated for anyways? Sorting?... Sorting by last name isn't usually important... When paying customers / clients want to sort by l…

I am from Minneapolis. I’m trying to imagine a fast rail connect to Chicago as being better than driving. Once in Chicago I think I’d like to have a car? It’s only a day’s drive aw…

It seems however that 2018 was a “record year” so maybe it’s just back to “normal”?

CA, USA. To be fair it’s not like everyone is smiling all the time! But I genuinely feel that my neighborhood is a great community mostly consisting of interesting and friendly peo…

This feels like hyperbole. Instead of saying you are wrong objectively, I’ll say instead that my subjective experience of “the city” is in stark contrast to this. Green spaces and …

Why would they line up to work for you of all people? They can work for anyone they want, it’s somewhat of a seller’s market when it comes to programming. I imagine just about noth…

Exactly. Admire traits, but don’t (or, try not to) envy. Admiration, and the motivation that can come with it, can be good! But blind envy or jealousy can overlook the negatives th…

Still cool.

It seems to me that is how my eyesight works, too, so it’s unsurprising that’s how my mind’s “eyesight” works as well!

I found this to be a very interesting survey of the different things affecting the SF housing market. Whether you agree with all of the points brought up it's hard to deny that it'…

> is this not evidence of incomplete requirements? Yes! But there will never be a complete set of requirements — indeed if you think the requirements are complete, you spent too mu…

The article states that by not coding at home you can “have a life, too”, implying you won’t have one if you code at home. This idea is repeated in the article, suggesting to me th…

That website is very bad at conveying what it actually is to someone that might want to use it.

99% of the job building the core tech; the other 99% of the job is sales, support, account management, marketing, etc. It’s never just the product, no matter how much we builder ty…

> ignoring the many many people who turned $15,000 loans into failed businesses. As far as I understand it, most (VC-backed, tech) companies that raise millions of dollars manage t…

Not quite the timespans some folks have mentioned, but I’ve been at my company 6-7 years. I helped start it, and it was recently acquired. It’s still super fun to work on. That’s e…

I love how “boring” this stack is; great job just shipping the damn thing!

The same mechanism that ensures that the local coffee shop isn’t charging so much that the owner has a second house in Bermuda — if you raise prices that much you won’t be competit…

I was looking forward to reading this article as the concept (even just the name, identify diversification) immediately resonated with me. What I found was an anecdote followed by …

Hey this is neat! Re: injecting into Slack.app, you're right, it's a pain. I had a simple approach here: https://zachsnow.github.io/slinger/ but it needs to be updated for every ve…