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Re:Ask HN: What stack should I use for my mobile app? on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @05:38PM (#22939598)
In the last 6 months, I’ve built 3 mobile apps using React Native with Django Rest Framework. I can’t be more satisfied.

We tried GraphQL, it added a lot of complexity on the backend that you don’t really need

We like to keep things simple, so we avoided state management libraries and all we needed was https://github.com/async-library/react-async

We also liked onesignal to manage push notifications

Ask HN: How to Process Millions of SVG to PDF

We’re building an API in Django that’s responsible for converting millions of SVG images to PDF. The current implementation is slow where tens of thousands could take hours and I am wondering if you have experience with a low level library that could improve the performance

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Interesting read, it contains some good stories that I didn't know before.

"Remember a few years ago when Netflix thought it would be a good idea to change the name of movie-by-mail division to Qwikster? It was a move criticized by Mashable as perhaps the worst product launch since New Coke. More than 23,000 people commented on a blog post by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announcing the change, and most of those comments were ruthless in their criticism. After massive backlash, Netflix decided to abandon the changes."

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage software engineers' time? on Saturday March 11, 2017 @04:25PM (#13847349)
From my experience I see managing output is far better than managing time. Also, it's showing bad attitude when your team is playing games.