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For a application that mostly does CRUD stuff (no offense) this seems a bit pricy. Anyway, good luck!
Re:WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @02:49PM (#11433225)
Does this include file transfers, if so, how?

Curious because when sending a .webm video from an Android device to a iOS device, the video file was transcoded on WhatsApp servers and then delivered to the iOS device as H264/mp4 (since iOS can not play .webm files)

This should no longer be working.

God i hate Spotify Helper
Python+Flask is awesome

so lightweight, yet extendable... some extensions that might be worht looking at: Flask-Login, Flask-SQLAlchemy, Flask-WTForms, Flask-Admin

Re:NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program? on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @07:20PM (#11349162)
> There’s a package called isArray that has 880,000 downloads a day, and 18 million downloads in February of 2016. It has 72 dependent NPM packages. Here’s it’s entire 1 line of code: return toString.call(arr) == '[object Array]';

How anyone can deal with JavaScript for more than 5 minutes is absolutely beyond me

Re:Ask HN: How much do you make working as a CRUD dev? on Monday March 21, 2016 @04:38AM (#11326824)
For bay area standards, you are underpaid.
Re:Ask HN: What's your primary development laptop? on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:13PM (#11315621)
A 15" maxed out Macbook Pro from 2011.

The day there is a Laptop with specs comparable to the Apple MBP (in terms of battery life, build quality, screen resolution etc.) that runs a major Linux distro out of the box with full hardware support and no pain in the ass, i am switching.

Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:23PM (#11241804)
Don't see that one happening. Exchange is too tightly coupled with Active Directory and IIS.
Re:What Is the German Equivalent of Hacker News? on Monday February 22, 2016 @02:29AM (#11149168)
heise.de (tech news)

golem.de (like heise, but worse)

gruenderszene.de (startup news)

deutsche-startups.de (like Gruenderszene, but worse)

Re:WINE 1.9.4 Released on Saturday February 20, 2016 @08:57AM (#11140037)
Photoshop. The only reason i am still running OSX is Photoshop.
Re:Building Large Flask Apps in the Real World on Thursday February 18, 2016 @07:25AM (#11125254)
Flask actually performs better on CPython than PyPy as of right now
I think the conclusions drawn in this post are outdated.

The german real estate market was undervalued for a very long time. In the last 10 years there has been a very rapid (100%+) rent increase in the cities and a massive property rush from foreign investors in the in major cities (especially Berlin). Another factor to consider: seeing that 1.5million+ "refugees" came to Germany in 2015 alone, these increases will become even sharper over the next few years.

4. is the only solution.

Politicians can put as many fancy well-intended laws in place as they want. All these laws will have only have minimal effects on the underlying supply and demand market forces. In fact, chances are that those laws will even increase the overall average rent due to the added bureaucratic overhead und regulations that are indirectly passed on to the tenants.

Re:How Wired Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @08:13AM (#11065010)
Dear Publishers, i do not have a solution for the general problem.

But, the one thing i can tell you: there is no way i will manage premium subscriptions/accounts for 20 different sites. Not only does this get costly very fast... but even if it was only $1/month each (it's not!) - handling 20 incompatible logins on 5 different devices, most likely payed via different payment methods... that is just absurd.

This is not the way to go.

This is HackerNews. He is a Frontend developer. He mentioned Google and Apple. So please...

There are many "old school" software development companies out there that do excellent work with established technology (ASP.NET Stack, whatever..) and deliver great products. But it's just a other culture.

This is a question that will result in highly opinionated answers, but here is my shoot.

First of all: a good company will let you choose your own tools, whatever you feel the most productive with.

So why Apple? The hardware is nice but i think the key here is the operating system. It gives you a painless UNIX experience out of the box, without the Desktop Linux quirks (driver incompatibilities, multimedia issues etc.).

What are you using right now? Windows? The majority of "modern" software development seems to happen on UNIX-based systems (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3786674), so Windows is often treated as a second class citizen. It misses many essential command line utilities and in general simply does not encourage a command line workflow. Setting up a decent Node/Ruby/Python/whatever environment can be a real pain on Windows. I'm not saying it's impossible, just very painful. So unless you are working exclusively with Microsoft technology, Windows seems to becoming worse every year in regards to software development.

By the way this is coming from someone who has used a Debian/Windows dual boot setup for many years and switched to a MacBook just two years ago.

comfort
It does look neat, but what would the advantages be over using the SQLAlchemy tools (not the ORM)?
Re:Pepsi Design Strategy (2008) on Sunday February 07, 2016 @07:40AM (#11052662)
Oh boy did the Da Vinci Vitruvian Man reference made me cringe
If we could all grow up and act like professionals, that would be great. I have a hard time understanding why the tech industry always tends to create this much drama.

At the end of the day, this is about software, not about your genitals. I don't care if you're liberal or conservative, black or white, straight or gay, or anything in between! In fact, i won't bring it up, or ask. I simply do not care, the only thing i care about is your pull request.

How any company can include a slide like the one in the article (backup link here: http://i.imgur.com/p5zwScc.png) is absolutely beyond me. I am paying you to make a great product, not to make daily diversity meetings.

It is not about the software.

Github has become the number one place to show of your portfolio. Half of job postings these days encourage you to include a link to your GitHub profile.

Re:Ask HN: Why does Java continue to dominate? on Friday February 05, 2016 @10:01AM (#11041801)
Never ever use or trust TIOBE
Re:DigitalOcean lost our server on Thursday February 04, 2016 @03:51PM (#11037116)
I had two DO machines with a unrepairable file system after a crash and reboot. Shit happens. Never rely on a _any_ VPS. I treat them as throw-away boxes that can fail anytime.
Re:$250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups on Thursday February 04, 2016 @07:58AM (#11033629)
I use OVH and i find it horrible. The user interface is a total disaster. At times, it is half-french, half-german, half-english. Plus they redesign it every ~6months.
Re:The Rails Doctrine on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @12:39PM (#10932302)
Funny, everything in this post is exactly why i prefer Python(+Django/Flask) over Ruby(+Rails). Too much magic happening everywhere, a gazillion of built-in methods, weird shit happening all over the place, all that combined with all the syntactic sugar Ruby offers.

Granted, it might look "beautiful" in the eyes of a experienced RoR developer, but personally i find it just makes code very hard to read. Just my 2 cents.

Re:Etsy stock has lost 76% of its value in 9 months on Friday January 15, 2016 @05:15PM (#10912618)
And Box? They had a simple, clear defined business model.
Re:GoPro cutting 7 percent of its workforce on Thursday January 14, 2016 @02:08AM (#10900025)
I just watched a side-by-side comparison here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RemeuGprSq0

I have no use for actions cams and am not an expert in any way, but the quality of that $20 camera looks amazing, in some scenes it actually looks sharper and better than the GoPro that costs 5x as much.

Re:What was your best passive income in 2015? on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @10:35AM (#10887964)
How do you make money with w3counter?

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