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I thought Phabricator was open source?

Lyrebird (https://lyrebird.ai/) is trying to the voice imitation component.

Very interesting article with rational points but felt too short. Would be an interesting tech talk for Dmitriy Zaporozhets to do going in depth (I searched but couldn't find anything).

I can't imagine this will work for too long, also will you be able to use external services?

If money is an issue Bitbucket and Gitlab both have free private repos, just use one of them.

Edit: Typo

In this situation, wouldn't it tell you the package had a version bump?

My apologies, I assumed you meant ones with known vulnerabilities. Given OP's link that was a bad assumption to make.

You could run NPM Audit (https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/audit)

In regards to needing CI, it appears your project is open sourced. Both Travis [1] and CircleCI [2] both have free tiers for open source projects, worth a look!

[1]: https://travis-ci.com/plans

[2]: https://circleci.com/pricing/

Edit: Add in links

I believe for a while when you typed something in, Google Instant would start Googling things for you and show the results.

Having worked with remote developers and freelancers both in employment and on side projects. Most important thing is making sure your requirements are clear, this will take time and might take a fair bit of trial and error. Just remember the requirements are crystal clear in your head but might not be obvious or straight forward to someone else.

Interesting idea, I find the last 30% of a side project is always the hardest.

Like what OpenAI is doing with Dota? Except maybe between companies/countries?

"Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, it made me learn to start questioning my own thought processes.

It seems nearly every year people ask the same thing.

I volunteered overseas in a developing country as an IT consultant. I was responsible for building a new website for a school, looking at their IT costs (I was able to stop 50% of costs by removing unused services) and training of staff.

It was an amazing experience which allowed me to learn a lot. I grew a lot as a person, but I noticed two areas professionally/semi-professionally grow. One was that I noticed was outgoingness, I become a lot more outgoing because of my experience and better at socializing. The other area was being in an environment with severe limitations on bandwidth and availability, taught me to take a lot of problems like page size, etc. seriously.

Looks like the website's bandwidth limit hit its limit. Google Cache link for those who still want to read it http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Z6cJ7kw...

Was about to say, this gets posted every few months.

I always learnt that if a business model doesn't work with tax, it isn't a successful business model.

Specifically in regards to the article, the fare meter requirement sounds reasonable. Both the driver and the passenger have a phone, I am assuming as you travel your fare will go up so why not show it on that? The seat sensor requirement might not be so easy to get around.

I believe mc42 wants to know why your JavaScript files are so big. E.g. why are you using the full jQuery library AND the minified library? All your JavaScript should probably be minified.

A lot of OSX programs have this. Makes using a lot of IDE's very easy.

Read history, whenever an industry gets too distasteful for IBM they sell it. E.g. Desktops/Laptops and more recently servers to Lenovo. The products might be supported by a lot of services, a mainframe might not be cheap but nor are mainframe consultants. A lot of large corporates still use mainframes and some probably have no plans to get rid of them.

Edit: Grammar mistake

Whenever I read articles about Rails performance I often think about the saying from the early days of Twitter, "Rails doesn't scale". However as most of the comments have said here, the biggest factor that typically affects an app is I/O.

There are plenty of large companies that run Rails and for most up and coming startups Ruby on Rails is probably enough to validate your idea.

Maybe part of these frameworks (Rails, Flask, etc.) reputation comes from newbies doing a lot of database calls because the framework makes it easy for them to do it.

Edit: More clarity.

Not only JavaScript, looks like there is some CSS and HTML stuff there too. Regardless, looks like a very good list.

It would be interesting if style guides were also integrated, e.g. you have a non-standard variable name it highlights the background in a striking colour, or the Word style red squiggly underline.

Do many of them have the option to change the colours?

I am not quite sure which part of it you are asking about. However in general I find syntax highlighting useful, helps quickly get the gist of code. I am indifferent on colors, as long as they are consistent.

A very good idea, I just hope it isn't abused with Tweets full of links.

I am not saying that their policy is good or that I agree with it. I just think there are two sides to the picture.

Many countries have protectionist policies, in particular in the automotive industry. The United States even had limits on Chinese parts imports[1]. China had an interesting policy to allow its automotive industry to grow through joint ventures with foreign companies (e.g. Hyundai[2]). They have done somewhat similar things with tech companies like Google and Microsoft, to nurther talent and guanxi[3].

Also in regards to Malaysia, the government has threatened to ban Facebook before[4], however not as a mean to allow local competition to grow.

[1] http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/protectionism-cannot-save... [2] http://repository.brynmawr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1... [3] http://www.amazon.com/Guanxi-Art-Relationships-Microsoft-Gat... [4] https://globalvoices.org/2014/08/13/malaysian-government-thr...

Edit: Changed tense in regards to America's policy on Chinese imports.

> But if you are just a Chinese citizen, what do you gain?

Apps that are localized to their needs.

> Inferior substitutes for the Google/Facebook/etc infrastructure?

They aren't necessarily inferior. WeChat for example has a very intuitive privacy settings, which make a lot more sense than the complicated Facebook ones.

> Isolation from the rest of the world?

Many of these apps are expanding outside of China (To mixed success).