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Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas by classics2 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @03:23AM (#23914733)
Is it really so hard to spin up an aws machine with a plain old lamp stack to serve this kind of content? Its incredibly cheap and simple to do.
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Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas by ethiclub on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @03:51AM (#23914868)
Yes, for many (most?) non-technical folk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

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Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas by nickcotter on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:27AM (#23915027)
Even if you are well-versed in how to do it, it can still be a time sink you may not be able to afford.
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Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas by ethiclub on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:39AM (#23915079)
And you wouldn't even know that another solution necessarily existed.

And you wouldn't necessarily know where to start.

And you would have the mental hurdles of "where do I start", "who do I listen to", etc.

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