django, I think that is the perfect tool to build MVP
Ask HN: Which boring technology do you still use?
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#12Email.
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#13Microsoft Paint. Yes, photoshop can do 10,000 more things, but sometimes you want quick and dirty and it has all the basics you need.
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#15django, I think that is the perfect tool to build MVP
Could not agree more. Sure, full stack JS might be nice and fancy but sometimes good old web technologies do the job.
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#16Lamps and light switches without wifi or bluetooth
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#17django, I think that is the perfect tool to build MVP
Django is not boring
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#18Boring technology? Well, a drill of course.
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#19Microsoft Paint. Yes, photoshop can do 10,000 more things, but sometimes you want quick and dirty and it has all the basics you need.
I wish Mac and Linux had some equivalent to MS Paint. It seems like such a pain just to try to draw crop screnshots and draw circles sometimes.
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#20CLI over browser apps. There is simply less latency than doing anything using browser tech, and sometimes less clicking than with GUI apps.
The ext4 filesystem. Yes, there is no bitrot protection and no snapshots etc, but it's rock-solid as a main OS partition.