waqas-

never using docker again...

This is the most important comment. Whenever i hear about someones saying that "XYZ should do something about fake news" i understand that they really dont understand the depth of the problem. Solving "fake news" is a non-trivial problem and no single arbiter of truth can tackle it, Facebook, twitter etc are claiming about "cracking down of fake news" but all that is just hogwash.

most tech companies are bubbles or at least unrealistically over valued. its just that if you keep believing the myth long enough, it starts being true.

> "You should not be down here, but hello"

this line sent shudders down my spine. does this happen to everyone?

yes we have permanent 301 forwards set up since day 0. but still it happened in the short run.

im talking about when microservices expose apis consumed via ajax. then https-http connections dont work.

im a lead dev for a large publisher. when we switched over to https we faced the following non-trivial issues:

1. a lot of third party advertisers/ad servers still run on http, these ads need to be embedded via DFP usually, which you can understand does not work out well. We made the switch months ago, to this date i am still making advertisers switch to https.

2. google says they give better ranking to https sites, thats simply not true so far as i have seen. in fact, in the short run your site takes a hit. not only that, in google webmaster console and google news, you cant shift from http to https, you have to make new accounts for ur https sites. to this day i do not know which ones is google crawling. For google news, my new https account has yet to be approved after months, it looks like google just magically shifts to https in google news. but if feels icky and hacky: explicit is always better than implicit.

3. microservices. remember those microservises that were all the rage? well, its a bunch of different servers and subdomains, you have to shift all to https when you shift the mothership to https.

while above points are valid, i still pushed in my org to shift to https. we now use shiny stuff like http2 and web push, which is awesome. i'd recommend all publishers to do so. but its understandable that management finds all this scary, esp cuz its sounds like a major overhaul of your web assets (which is everything when ure a web publisher) - even though it isnt really actually an overhaul or anything.

a kill button comes later in the process. on android apps start in the background without being initiated by the user. windows had the simple "msconfig" to change that, linux doesnt even lets apps get startup permissions without asking user to enter their password and agree. but on android its the opposite. every app will start whenever the app developer wants it to. it will start and it will use your internet and send your location and your messages and the name of your grandma to the developers server and google and whoever the developer wants it to. and i dont see any escape from this.

they DO hire more call center agents than engineers

if your clients cant understand the difference between post and page after 5 minutes of explaining, they are clearly nincompoops and no cms will ever be able to put them out of their misery.

i really believed in Symbian, but they fucked it up didnt they

this makes me a little wet

why isnt this exploding all over the web? this is highway robbery from google

hey. The good thing about a one man operation is that you dont have any overheads. I started my startup with 4 people, but later learned that one was enough to start off with and i should scale according to the profits im making - instead of putting my own money into it (which i didnt have much of anyway). My startups: (http://opensource.com.pk) and (http://sells.pk/) are web agencies specializing in different areas. The former provides managed freelance outsourcing for larger projects and the latter specialized in e commerce for small/medium businesses. The first few clients help you pay the bills and buy bread, but if you keep at it and be persistent after a year you will have more clients than you can handle, that is the time to get employees. I am almost reaching that point, and that is what excites me these days.

wow!

facebook has explicitly stated its policy that if a page or a person is involved in violence, or offers a credible threat of violence the page will be shut down. i did not make those rules, facebook did. and these people have nothing to do with USA, TTP and Taleban are completely different entities, TTP is not involved in any freedom struggle, it just routinely kill innocent Pakistani people and never harms any american soldiers.

well, that escalated quickly...

is it cool if the startup is in Pakistan? :P

hmmm..thats a very good point. also, i didnt notice that about RoR. altho, they do mention it once, ure right that they dont make a big deal out of it. so, we can change our homepage copy to be more focused on the clients and problems/solutions. the hairylemon site is a great example, it has very good flow and nice clean simple text. is this your company? thanks for the great advice robocat!

also, that is an interesting thread, will look into it more.

we will do a/b testing on the landing page soon so we will try a couple of things. we want both clients and freelancers so will mix it up :D yes, that is a good idea. we will definitely include those networks in our outreach efforts. what can we mention about RoR?

how awesome are you? thanks

sorry if i wasnt clear, im talking about pagination of lists on HN

north korea in not capable of complex engineering and manufacturing. developing a nuclear weapon does not illustrate anything in that regard, what it does illustrate is that any nation with enough paranoia (or valid external threats even) and craziness can develop a nuclear weapon.

its isolation was actually an obstacle in developing the said weapon and they had to collaborate<?> with china, russia, pakistan to develop them.