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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

Forgive me for jumping in with yet more unsolicited advice, but I can't help thinking that all your users should be paying at least $5 per month.

An example transition plan:

* switch new users to a free trial -> sign up to $5/month for continued access * observe conversion rate from trial users to paying customers * perform `conversion rate x existing active user base` calculation * send apologetic email to existing users pointing out that free != sustainable, with offer to grandfather in free access to any who feel strongly enough to send you a personal email about it

Wealth inequality may be seeded by value creation but it's perpetuated by (compound) interest. At the end of any time period, those who start with more money end with even more money.

Investing in startups creates wealth equality in so far that it increases the return on investment (interest) that investors (those who start with the money) achieve.

You're backfilling your standpoint and it's working!

But yup, different forms for different audiences and this works well as supporting material for an investment in GCP.

Style in writing is about standpoint. Where are you coming from?

Leading with:

> Google Cloud Platform delivers the industry's best technical and differentiated features

Is clearly the standpoint of someone trying to convince you of something and the tone certainly put my hackles up. It's often more effective [1] to adopt the position of someone sharing what they find most interesting about a topic.

Instead of:

> How can a cloud platform be both Better AND Cheaper? > Easy: it turns out that the same technology ...

Maybe something like:

> What's fascinating is that the same technology that allows cloud platform to perform better for these workloads also allows it to be cheaper.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Clear-Simple-Truth-Writing-Classic/dp/...

Try `git add -p`

I am staggered by how well this article describes the way I think, what i do and the impact of my work on my life.

The standing desk is sit / stand height adjustable.

It is quite heavy, realistically taking two people to adjust, so you wouldn't normally adjust it too often but it has three heights: standing, bar and sitting, as outlined in the description.

> Those who don't study Zope are condemned to reinvent it

http://dirtsimple.org/2007/01/where-zope-leads-python-follow...

https://github.com/zopefoundation?tab=repositories

We do an open source one you can make yourself https://www.opendesk.cc/lean/standing-desk

Tax.

You invoice £4k. It gets paid into your bank. Congratulations. You just earned £3k.

I'd hop on meetup.com -- most of the tech / startup events are around Shoreditch. Things like 3beards, open coffee (tot ct rd way), don't pitch me bro, etc.

Or see what's on at tech hub, innovation warehouse, etc.

The idea we had at my work was to setup a web service that just puts urls in your s3 bucket. Nothing more, nothing less.

Filepicker's storeUrl function without the baggage. Designed for server side apps that prefer to avoid streaming / download-uploading files locally in order to get them into a bucket.

Non trivial compute resource value add that would take very little time to code. Low risk for adopter: their files are stored in their bucket.

It's a meta point but the semantic of `go get` is so beautiful I'm profoundly disappointed that the tool isn't usable.

Being able to dispatch a co-routine with `go ...` is beautiful. Being able to fetch a dependency with `go get` is just as succinct and expressive.

I'm not up on Go language development but imho the world would be a better place if they could fix the behaviour to preserve the syntax!

This sounds very sensible. I would note though that equity % points are much easier to negotiate early on. If you have an opportunity to secure options at a low valuation now, even with a great big cliff / vesting term, take them in case the company is a success and use the cliff / vesting to persuade the current owners that it's a win win.

Not mine (but I am using it in production and it fits the brief down to a tee).

The world's best open source content management system https://github.com/SpontaneousCMS/spontaneous

I love the way the "as seen on" logos link to other invented startups.

If anyone's interested in modern Icelandic literature that echoes Laxness, I'd heartily recommend the recent novels of Jon Kalman Stefansson, translated by Phil Roughton [0].

You'll certainly get a feel for why they drink coffee.

[0] e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Hell-Jon-Kalman-Stefansson/dp/1...

For all the cliches and advice and supportive words here there's really only one thing you need to grasp.

No one's going to give it to you. It's like http://whoownsmyavailability.com but s/availability/life.

Learning and looking at the internals of frameworks like Rails and Pyramid can be useful.

There's a good book http://aosabook.org/en/index.html called the Architecture of Open Source Applications.

More generally, you might find it useful to read Christopher Alexander's Timeless Way of Building.

As a founder of https://www.opendesk.cc I think all startups should consider local manufacturing -- when they're fitting out their work space.

</tenuous plug>

Perhaps you could try the same with your obituary. Less work bound but perhaps a touch morbid.

I like .attribute syntax as much as the next developer but the mutate-on-get behaviour strikes me as... undesirable.

A couple of times, the article mentions using:

> services and object references to propagate object changes between scopes.

There are so many ways to wire things up in Angular -- references, watches, broadcast/emit -- that I'd love to see some examples from the author, who seems to really know what he's doing.

For example, say I have a `userService` that maintains a small `user` model with username, name and roles properties. What's the most performant and maintainable way of "binding" to changes to this object so when I call, e.g.: `userService.logout()` somewhere, some component I write can pickup the change and adjust it's state / UI accordingly?

Deis is, in a sense, a deployment framework that allows you to deploy your stack (basically a python app) in such a way that you can scale and configure it easily.

I deploy python apps (running behind gunicorn) on heroku and basically pay for the convenience of dealing with their client and ecosystem rather working with VM boxes directly. Deis provides similar abstractions without the per-process price tag.

If you don't have a problem manually managing / self rolling your app deployments, you don't need it.

When I was 12 I made a stop motion animated dizzy egg style adventure game in HyperCard. When I was 25 I remembered and thought, hmm maybe I should try and learn how to code. I'm now a professional developer.

As an aside, I sold it to my school mates for 50p a copy. When they asked why they couldn't just copy it themselves I told them I'd installed DRM on the floppy disks.

They believed me.

London, UK / Remote -- https://www.opendesk.cc

We're building a company that designs and makes work space furniture. We're looking for a Python developer to help abstract our systems into a general platform for open making.

Because our products are designed for digital fabrication, they can be downloaded and made locally anywhere in the world. This has allowed us to build global distribution faster than any other furniture company. We've been backed by the UK Government, Telefónica and https://www.crowdcube.com/investment/open-desk-15500

Some info on the founding team and company here: https://www.opendesk.cc/about

I'm the CTO and I currently work on web development with one other developer. We're using Python (Pyramid, SQLAlchemy) and Postgres with a Vagrant dev environment, currently deploying to Heroku in production. New feature development is through standalone WSGI apps, with API backend and Angular JS client. We need your help to build, improve and evolve our current website and systems into what we hope will become an Etsy-scale transactional platform delivering digital designs for distributed manufacturing.

We're based in London. You can work here or anywhere in the world, as long as you can be online for a good chunk of the UK working day. We're flexible on full-time vs part-time and salary vs contract. Email me on thruflo@opendesk.cc

The books referenced in this thread are no doubt great but I wouldn't read a book to get better at software design. I would design software.