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I'm glad they didn't because my own bias likely would have caused me to skip it. I was pleasantly surprised by the blog post.

Not expressly mentioned anywhere that I've seen: the Free plan now includes custom domains + SSL cert. Under the previous firebase.com, that was $5 a month.

Sounds good to me!

Oh sweet, I just noticed that under the new pricing, the free plan includes a custom domain and ssl cert. This was literally the only reason I updated one of my legacy hobby apps to the old Spark ($5 per month for the uninitiated).

I don't think it was explicitly mentioned in the keynote, but it looks like they updated pricing:

https://firebase.google.com/pricing/

Can't find the old pricing now, but it seems similar, but with less plan types.

I assume you just pulled a comically-large lever in your office, because it just worked!

Thanks, and congrats.

New dashboard look & feel is awesome. Lots to digest from that short keynote, but I'm excited to see Google double-down on its investment (Hi, Facebook).

Looks like https://console.firebase.google.com is getting slammed. All of my attempted imports are failing.

I love Firebase, but this is very exciting. Congrats on 1.0!

I suppose they are referring to Developer Tools + Toggle Device Mode. Less feature-complete than what Blisk is claiming, but seems to handle at least some of the device resolution-related things.

Anyone with experience with Electron and NW.js have an opinion on which is better?

My guess is that there is a test scenario in which they don't want google analytics to load?

Excellent reply, thank you.

To me, it still seems more about people's gripe over the very existence of interfaces.

If anything, using IUser in lieu of User is a pretty clear signal to, say, an uninitiated developer, that you shouldn't be attempting to create an instance of "IUser."

I don't think they were implying it's an alternative, but rather very foreign-feeling.

From: https://angular.io/styleguide#!#style-03-03

> Consider naming an interface without an I prefix.

They give the same recommendation in the Typescript style guide, but I still don't understand why.

Yeah, I guess. This is art, not software, IMO.

Only 191 bytes, nice job NASA.

That's a fair point, though my threshold for fast is probably a bit higher than 100ms. That might be a conditioned thing, though.

Because we can! Games were slim back then because they had to be. Webpages are fat now because our computers are fast.

Now, if a webpage were to approach the size of a contemporary game...

Before everyone jumps onto the JQuery/Bootstrap/etc sucks bandwagon, just a reminder that the minified jquery from cdnjs is 84.1kb. Bootstrap is 43.1kb.

If you want your page to load fast, the overall "size" of the page shouldn't be at the top of your list of concerns. Try reducing the # of requests, first. Combine and minify your javascript, use image sprites, etc.

Looks like d3.js -> https://d3js.org/

No no... as you can clearly see, the buttons on Gitbucket have a border-radius of 6px while Github is 5.

Summary: Jason Bradbury feels generally threatened by something he's unfamiliar with.

From the VirnetX website:

http://virnetx.com/company/virnetx-promise/

"Cutting-edge secure communications technology is only one of the essential elements of our products – another is integrity. ..."

lol, what products?

So excited to see another round of YC Fellowship! Excited to get a chance to apply, but more excited that this likely means that the Round 1 experiment has worked to a degree.

This is a good high-level overview of the sort of people/things they are looking for: http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/#whowefund

The auto-upload to imgur is a nice touch!

This is me: http://i.imgur.com/5JUJt5g.png

For the most part I agree. However, part of the reason why other professions like "doctor" or "architect" don't permit crash course bootcamp-style training for its entrants is because, for the most part, the stakes are much higher. Sure, there are lots of high-stakes programming jobs, but for the most part, being a bad programmer won't kill anyone.

Perhaps, but honestly I doubt I would have considered this as a career path without the early "break."

Lots of luck + some hard work.

Graduated from a decent state school with a degree in English and started working for a small publishing company as an "editor." The luck part was that the company was so incredibly cheap that rather than hiring a person with real programming skills, they opted to repurpose a young person (me) with some technology knowhow to do some programming for internal stuff at a fraction of the cost. Went back to college for a few semesters (on their dime) for a CS degree but never finished.

I built-up an okay portfolio + work experience and landed a job at a very small software company. Worked there for a while, landed a better job at a bigger company, rinse, repeat.

I'm making a good living now doing something that I really enjoy. I still can't believe this is how things turned out.

I use it purely for its Git integration. Nothing fancy, just implemented very well.

HONK! HONK!