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It reminds me of early 20th century footage of barnstorming aircraft inventors. Now it's just Boeing and Airbus and precious little in the way of real innovation.

I think it was the fall in oil prices in the late 70s/early 80s - combined with a ruinous invasion of Afghanistan - that finally did in the Soviet Union economically. Putin should …

Typically deployment is a "solve-once" problem, even if you don't use docker. You set up chef, puppet, ansible or fabric to handle deployment, installs, database migrations and so …

How do I know that? What is the interviewer looking for? Maybe in company A they are looking for developers who come up with a solution on their own and don't rely on external libr…

Hiring right now is a shitshow of old wives' tales, cargo-culted practices from big name tech companies, shady recruiters, mismatched incentives, interviewers who have no experienc…

He's a developer, not a telepath. In tests like this you make it clear what's allowed - "use the standard library, no external dependencies" etc. Because in a normal working situat…

Interviews like this are a two-way thing. In this case, I'd pick up the vibe that this was a company cursed with NIH and withdraw my application (unless I was desperate for a job o…

Are people using React starter kits? The major issue I'd see with React at hackathons is the large amount of configuration you typically need to do before you get started. I dislik…

NodeJS + MongoDB is this generation's Laurel and Hardy stack ("look at this mess you got me into"). Last generation's was PHP + MySQL.

How about vimperator? Vimfx is OK as a stop-gap but that's one extension I wouldn't want to lose permanently.

Perhaps it was written on gold-lined vellum? I'm assuming the plan required the input of lawyers or other expensive advisors. Still it seems excessive for a bootstrapping company.

> This is true unless you have a very popular app and a very large team. Or you have very important and lucrative clients in government, healthcare, or some other crusty large orga…

Take away templates and add Django Rest Framework and you have a very capable platform for building large CRUD APIs complete with models, permissions, serializers and so forth. Is …

This is one of the best things about Django - outside the admin interface it's not opinionated about your frontend setup.

Just ask them simple questions about their code. "Why did you use a class here? What does this function do?". Or even what motivated them to do the project or what the hardest chal…

IIRC Twilio use Flask, and contributed the flask-restful library [1] [1] https://github.com/flask-restful/flask-restful

Often the founders have trust funds and connected families, so never have to worry a day in their lives about missing rent or going hungry.

> There is nothing forcing you to use all the extra dependencies This right here is a major problem with a ton of apologists. "You don't need to use X and Y, just start with barebo…

The anger in this thread does not bode well for the future of React. I predict big, complex, arcane React stacks will be a punchline in a few years, much like J2EE/EJB is today. An…

Zamenhoff lived in a part of the world where the Russian, Austro-Hungarian and German empires intersected, and Esperanto reflects that. Although the vocabulary is largely Romance, …

His point though was that SF isn't particularly suitable as a city for startups; there's no magical "tech gold" that you can't get elsewhere, like West Virginian coal - people go t…

We could only wish to be as socially mobile as the Victorians http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/1/1.abstract EDIT: from the paper, it appears that mass education in England…

Moving to the Latin alphabet must have been quite a shift as well.

To what extent are many languages today "artificial"? Modern Hebrew was resurrected from a language unspoken for millennia outside of religious services and given an up-to-date voc…