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Just because you can't give a $ amount for the costs saved by reducing complexity, doesn't mean it doesn't have value. Simple is good.

Is Elm open source? If so, couldn't the author implement the feature themselves? If the maintainer doesn't want it, then idk, fuck off? Nobody said he had to use it. When did open source turn into "Do whatever random people tell you to do, for free"? Talk about entitlement....

They better, because if they try to adapt skype for business (a.k.a lync), they'll fail miserably. That app was terrible

Had you made Tetris before? Or used an external resource to see any pseudocode? Reason I'm asking is, I was doing a similar thing with Snake and it took me a bit longer (probably 4 hours) because I messed up the basic mechanics in the beginning (I didn't think of how to structure the growing body as a linked list). I want to gauge how much I suck (at least at games programming) lol.

Agreed, look at Google. Monopoly on search, and has definitely built some cool stuff.

This. And what everyone else is pretty much saying. If you only read tech blogs you'd probably think the only companies in existence are Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, etc. The world is big and you can have an impact in places that will probably never get press, because they aren't sexy enough. Take healthcare, Google keeps trying to break into that industry, and kinda failing miserably. Partially because the problems in that industry are more related to regulations and people, stuff that machine learning isn't going to solve anytime soon.

I really liked the "features" section. I've seen some weird things done in the wild to obtain some of these features. Like building a multi-SPA to obtain code-splitting where a site is split up into multiple pages each acting as their own SPA. But it does seem like things are settling down. Envious of all the people starting now. As someone who started web dev in 2010, anything I learned that was framework-specific then, is almost completely obsolete now lol.

Yeah the negativity here is overwhelming. Which, isn't surprising, HN's comment section isn't the cheeriest place on the internet. But seriously, for a tech news aggregator you'd think more of the users would appreciate at least the difficulty of scaling an app from nothing to THE most popular app ever, in a matter of days. Yeah they had/still have issues that they could've mentioned in the article, but it doesn't take away from what they DID do.

There are already companies that do this... Today they are called innovators, tomorrow they'll be called money-grubbing, unethical, anti-FDA maniacs for do the same thing.

Linux was started by one dude. Good software is not dependent on the amount of developers. In fact, in my experience, more cooks in the kitchen just causes more fires.

What games are high reward? In terms of getting you a skill that causes "fulfillment" outside of the game, or gets you money?

Its a DaaS. That's literally what it's for. That's like saying, why would you use the cloud? That's silly. Host it in your closet like we all did in the 90's, because that never caused any problems... Or what, use firebase only for chat data? So when you leave the company, some junior has to figure out 10 different places that the data is coming from when his boss starts breathing down his neck? Sounds like a freakin nightmare. There's nothing wrong with trying to keep things simple.

Except for us with oddly shaped ears, where ear buds have always been the bane of our existence. They won't stay in my ear, no matter what. Call me a neckbeard hipster all you want, I still like over-the-ear headphones, and Apple's "revolution" can suck it.