friendly_chap

I'm sorry you are getting downvoted. 17 years of practice is no joke.

Would you be so kind and explain what you mean?

My flight just got cancelled by Wizzair due to "weather problems" officially but I hear lot of rumors that something is brewing over there too.

This is the first time I experience a cancelled flight. It is absolutely disastrous. I could not make it to my holiday since they provided 0 communication and the next flight was in 5 days...

This will surely affect there bottom line. Right now I'm considering buying a car and driving 20 hours when I want to get home instead of taking a plane.

Given that we are probably heading into an economy where energy will get more and more expensive (at least temporarily, due to a potential oil crunch coming), not sure how flying will be an economical way of transport.

I believe he is out now but yes! Been listening to his crazy stuff next to campfires last summer... Epic.

This completely misses the point. Perhaps recruiting people from Facebook is not the best way to find humble people.

A lot of people I know use meditation or even spiritual advancement as a way to treat their inferiority complex.

After they fail to realize success in other areas of life they hang on to their egos and find a false sense of superiority in the fact that they are spiritual ones.

Some of these people are the hardest working Buddhists I know. What they truly lack however is empathy and and the desire to face themselves.

Wanting to love oneself and other living beings is more important than any other aspect of the spiritual path. Without that, every teaching is just a string of empty words.

Why? I just don't want it to be persisted. I don't seem to be alone with that need https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nuke-reddit-histor...

Well, I like having discussion with people, especially thoughtful people like here on HN.

That does not mean that I want to persist said discussion.

Who is hating what exactly here? I hold no hate in my heart for any human being. I do disapprove of the debt slavery taking place in much of the world right now, causing suffering to countless of lives who would otherwise be happy and decent humans beings.

I do not even hate those who are greedy and bring this suffering on the innocent: I'm sure their soul is tormented and void of loving kindness.

I just simply disapprove of their action and wish there was a way to stop this madness.

Many of my ancestors are. Though not in terms of religion. I do not follow any religion apart from Buddhism which I don't consider a religion.

You equate usurers with Jews. Who is the racist here? I have an axe to grind with bankers, not Jews.

It is not, but I appreciate your self confidence. I guess I'm secretly a self hating jew.

Don't worry, I will delete it a bit later anyway, I don't like to leave political comments behind. But thanks for the ad hominem.

While I agree with the drive to stay healthy these dudes sounds like they are incredibly detached from reality.

Candy will be thrown away? Dude, take it or leave it, no one is forcing you to eat crap in any office.

Logging back to the computer at 8/9? Sure, man, that sounds extremely healthy.

That's a good way of looking at it, thank you.

I agree with you 100%. It's the same old thing with barely any changes. There is truly nothing new under the sun and we keep reinventing the same things.

I like to think this industry is full of smart people, but it always makes me surprised how willing are we to drink the kool aid.

Guess being smart and having a herd mentality are not mutually exclusive. (Perhaps they are actually correlated? :P - Ie. my professor advised me to use the Linux Distro my friend uses, because then I get ask for help from someone.)

I think that's a perfectly reasonable explanation (obv. not the only one though).

The downvoters should explain themselves.

Hi there!

Thanks for the encouragement. To be fair we at 1backend don't consider the field that new at all. It's just the old PaaS concept with some twists and reworded marketing!

I personally spent years building microservices platforms at various places and after years of not implementing my insights I decided now the time is right and people might adopt it given the current hype cycle =)

Self plug but https://github.com/1backend/1backend literally needs just 4 docker containers to run.

They are in the ReadMe, let me know what you think of it.

It contains a bunch of unique features, so it's not your typical serverless platform, but the core is the same if you don't want to go crazy with the web framework like features.

The snapchat for databases one caused me to laugh for at least a minute. Thank you!

Shameless PR piece. I wonder how much do you have to pay to get fluff articles in the NY Times? Does anyone know, even if just approximately?

London right now. 3 developers at the moment, we used to have 2 more members (non devs).

That's great advice, thank you! I never thought about that yet. I don't clearly understand the reasons behind it but I will definitely research this.

Thank you.

> You need a technology or skillset to sell

Can you elaborate, please?

Thank you for the heads up! We will have a look, we definitely like the industry, that's for sure :P!

That might not be a bad idea at all. Haven't thought about face 2 face selling but might be just what we need.

Sure, tech wise it's mostly Angular 2 and Go, but we range from infrastructure to product design. We are also into automation testing a lot (nightwatch, protactor).

We have 1 senior developers and the rest mid level.

I personally know of a somewhat successful AI company that was built by my coworkers while they were employed at our current company.

They eventually got caught and fired but that didn't stop them from raising a couple of hundred K seed round.

You are definitely not the only one.

Well, yes. This is why we are building a solution that you can install anywhere https://github.com/1backend/1backend

You might jokingly say we are reintroducing the servers into the serverless concept :D

But I think we are just giving freedom back to the users.

I think it's Haskell.

I know sometimes it gets some hype but Haskell and its ilk is just so above the quality of any other language it's mind bending. Whenever a hard language design problem comes up in any new language, Haskell has solved it more than 2 decades ago.

The ecosystem (Hackage etc) is pretty bad though.

We are exchanging ideas here. I'm sure if the parent wanted to avoid getting armchair analysed by strangers on the internet then he would not post his story to strangers on the internet.