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The side-by-side diff feature is buried at the bottom, and the whole page seems to imply that there are other features within somewhere, but I can't figure out what they would be (I would love to see screenshots of them!).
Ask HN: Contributing to open-source vs. startup projects
I have always been interested in doing my own startup, so I constantly have side projects, but because of this, I struggle to find the time to contribute to open-source.Is it overblown how much employers look for open-source contributions? Do they give any respect to closed-source (potentially profit-driven) side projects? Or might they even see a startup on the side as a negative? Does this...
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Launching HealthCare.gov (2013)
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Maybe it's important that eBay is "real time" in the last 5 minutes of an auction, but the rest of the time, the vast majority of the content is relatively static. A seller might update the description of a listing a couple times over a two week auction, for example. And while it sounds great to immediately update my search results when a new listing goes live, in reality, I already have 40 pages of results to look through, and that listing that just went live 5 seconds ago probably isn't much more relevant than any of the others I'm sifting through.
I'm not opposed to client-heavy apps where it makes sense. When done well, it can create a really responsive user experience. Gmail is great at this; I have no desire for it to be "real time" -- not any more than it already is.
Do we really believe that one day cnn.com will be "real-time", with article updates and errata popping up inline as we read?