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Yes, the website starts to build slower with growing number of pages. I'm using Metalsmith static site generator for https://www.visualwatermark.com/ The website currently have about 400 pages and it takes 60-70 seconds to build it. Part of the problem is Metalsmith itself - the code in some parts is awful. I had to make some changes to make it work faster. Unfortunately, it's impossible to solve the underlying problem - you have to build the whole website at once, while WordPress builds pages on-demand.

Also static generators aren't as convenient as WordPress is. I'm OK working with markdown or hacking the code, but it's too difficult for my wife, for example. So, she's running a WordPress blog.

Commenting is also better on WordPress. She used to use Discuss for commenting and people are more to reluctant leave Discuss comments than to leave WordPress comments. I believe that's because you don't have to register to leave a comment in WordPress - just type your email and you're ready to go.

My site hosted on S3 is also running.

GC's CDN doesn't cache files bigger than 4Mb. No Windows VMs. Bound to AWS for these 2 reasons.

It's unclear whom will they charge: writers or readers?

do you have experience with other stacks (e.g. Play, Node, Ruby)? What's your experience with them?

@pbiggar Hi, Paul! Could you elaborate on poor scaling and concurrency bugs, please? From my understanding Closure's functional nature and immutability should minimize concurrency bugs.

There are companies who build commercial products from that open source projects. The most obvious example is format converters. There are tens of products build around free ImageMagick and ffmpeg.

The BCC was never profitable enough with constantly declining revenues. Patrick ended 2016 with $120,000 in debt and working in Stripe to pay it down.

Probably, revenues started to decline after bragging about them.

Will do:)

From my experience copying a feature is about twice cheaper than trying different approaches. You may not figure out a good way to implement it until you build first version and let people try it. You may need re-iterate to find perfect implementation. The copy-cat will come later to see what you've done and will implement the good solution without iterations.

The copy-cat may have more developers too.

You're talking about acquisition channels. Community, blog or webinars are great channels, but there are also organic search, paid search, traditional advertising, native advertising, bundling, paid promotions, upselling. If the copy-cat is better at these, their product will out-sell yours.

Most of the businesses in the list are very easy to copy. There are neither rocket science, neither patents to protect them, neither big money to pay lawyers to protect their work.

Knowing how well the product sells, you can copy it piece-by-piece by saving a lot of time trying different approaches. Author of original product already did all the hard work guessing what will work the best. You just come, copy and profit from his work.

Good for customers but not for business. Competition tends to minimize margins and profits. While main business goal is to make money, competition is against business goals.

Why people share their revenues? Every product can be copied. If you know revenue, you know what product you should copy.

Google quite frequently lose photos people store with their services: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/QuKiYj... https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/bNSFIy... https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/photos/7Xf0Cj6_... https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/njdwFPaq...

Personally, I lost photos of my kid's Sep 1.

Why are you ok with renting?

Another point is that you cannot afford living in Paris with just one working. Even if he's working as a software developer. How a city can be "liveable" if you cannot earn enough to live there?

I use both depending on inter-teeth space. There are different techniques of flossing and different floss types. So, trying different may solve the problem with flossing itself. For those who cannot use interdental brushes. Some doctors suggest moving the floss up and down along the teeth. Others to put it inside teeth and the pull to the side. I found the second more convenient and less traumatic at the same time. But you need a wider floss to make it work. Try different. Me and my wife use different: one brand works better for her, but is too narrow for me. Experiment. I had chronic inflammation since school. Flossing completely solved the problem in a month or two.

Opposite experience with their paid service. They respond quickly, even during the night.

Klipfolio?

Have you used any tools built on top of DevExpress BI? How did they feel?

Artsy.net home page weighs 5.2Mb compressed. Less than 20% of that is JavaScript that is fully cached between page views. Let's suppose average visitor will watch 3 pages on average visit. He'll consume 800Kb of JavaScript and 12Mb of images. Most likely, next visit visitor browser won't download any JS at all. If people are OK browsing so image-rich website on their phones, developers shouldn't bother about 140Kb of Ember.JS if it helps them deliver app faster. JavaScript is less than 10% even for the first time visitor.

How to protect access keys to S3 and RDS in this approach. Everyone can extract them from your HTML/JS code and use for their own purpose.

I work for a company with a fully transparent salary ladder in development department. We know how much every team mate earns. Still negotiation skills come to play. Those with better skills get promoted _faster_.

Good point. Free trials are currently available for Newsstand apps only: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Langua...

Freemium isn’t the only option to allow people try the app before buying it. There are free trials that allows to use the app for several days and then asking to pay the full price to continue using it.

There is Windows Marketplace for that.

It's a question on where to spend funds. There are so much more important things to do that will have more impact on our society.

This may seem like an opportunity for active plumbers who will adopt faster and get more orders.

The main question is pricing. If it will be cheap or free (who knows?), it will be an option for hosting micro-services on myriad of VPSes. A probably a resurrection of interest for ASP.NET framework.