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it's always fear for me. I'd rather leave it commented out for a decade or so to be safe.
I'm a monster, I see code that's been commented out for more than 2 months or so and nuke it unless I know it's needed. We have Git, it'll be fiiine
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The more popular HN gets the more clickbait-y, attention-seeking and polarising titles and articles we're getting. I also think the more popular it is the less weight each down-vote/flag has, we will see more and more of such content being posted. I and most of the people I know or work with really don't care whether something is/was made by a man or a woman. IMO that's totally unnecessary part of the title and its s…
Pretty nice, 1 dev 3 team members in total and 1 million users? Are there any other products with such a small team and a huge userbase? Does this scale and when the business requires more coding and technical debt comes how do they manage it?
While not as tiny, Craigslist has a huge user base all over the world and still has less than 50 employees total (not just devs). IMO it's the poster child of being able to scale worldwide while keeping the product highly focused, highly operational, and avoiding feature and technical fluff.
And it has a founder who gives away most of his money instead of joining the monetize-everything-billionaire-$$hole club
(No affiliation with Craigslist; just like Craig's story, much like I do Nadia's).
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> But what is the point of bringing that up when someone explicitly asks for examples of small teams with big success? The point here is to explain how much of a risk these small teams are making. So that is the relevance of the example. It shows how much more difficult and risky these successes are, by pointing out that even if someone puts in a lot of work, it is actually more impressive because of the large risk.…
There are countless AAA teams that fail at game dev as well. It's just a really hard industry to garner success in. I'm not sure team size is the most relevant factor.
OTOH there are lots of little indie games… I mean, how are we going to count attempts, right? As an obviously not to be included extreme case, lots of games come out with a map editor, in some sense playing around with a map editor is “making a game.” But we wouldn’t want to include all the custom Warcraft 3 maps that were made as failed businesses, haha.
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I forgot if Anna's archive contains metadata but that'd be my free-ish solution
I thought Anna’s was dead?
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I think user "tomp" means that "a one man team" basically means "one person team" in English (and many other languages). Saying "one woman" is shifting the attention to the fact that the one person dev team consists exclusively of women. Which, I think, is pretty cool and note worthy because it is uncommon. Say a startup is run from an tiny island in the pacific, that would also be noteworthy. To me the thing becomes…
> To me the thing becomes "woke" when we are told not to use "one man dev team" to mean "one person dev team" call it what you will, but yeah, you shouldn't use the word "man" to mean "person"
or we should a it decided by politics that we dont use this word in this sense. these things are happening. that's okay.
and some will resist, which is also okay.
there should not be a PC police (this is an old theme, there's even a South Park ep about it)
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I think user "tomp" means that "a one man team" basically means "one person team" in English (and many other languages). Saying "one woman" is shifting the attention to the fact that the one person dev team consists exclusively of women. Which, I think, is pretty cool and note worthy because it is uncommon. Say a startup is run from an tiny island in the pacific, that would also be noteworthy. To me the thing becomes…
so you want the title to be one man dev team which is composed by one woman? this is conservative wokeness
I'm actually saying that saying women here is good, as it is special and you want a title to peek curiosity, right?
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> Are we not at a point where it would be vastly more appropriate to title this "one person dev team"? Sure! I just find it interesting that these discussions only happen when "woman" is in the title, and never when "man" is in the title. > There is definitely a certain subset of society that feels it necessary to thrust gender into discussions where they have no place - such as this article. As long as you feel the…
I agree with you entirely - however allow me to illustrate a point: I think the difference often is the intention of the writer. We get these types of headlines when people want to really promote how cool it is a female is capable of doing something - and we're all supposed to be amazed. That's pretty sexist if you think about it... of course a female is capable of writing high quality software! We should be amazed a…
I think you're reading way too much into it.
Maybe they're just a women, and they did a turn on the phrase "one man team" to acknowledge that they're not a man?
StoryGraph is an excellent tool and I continue to use it daily. I’ve also found Hardcover.app, which I quite like. It has an API and a slightly more refined UI, but it’s clearly more than one person working on it. Of course, if your focus is book clubs, Fable is likely the app for you
Solidifying my dislike of Goodreads, I got my “year in books” email from them today and the first thing that loaded, at the top of the email, is an ad. For pillow cases. Folks, don’t do that