wesleytodd

With the MBP's the extra size really isnt a big deal because they are so light and thin. And with the 15" you can get a MUCH better dual graphics setup which helps with all the other non-coding things you might want to do (gaming).

TBH you probably done need the power you will get, but it is nice to have.

Another anecdote: a friend of mine just picked up a 15" MBP after having a 15" dell for ever. He loves it and was amazed that he could actually run Photoshop without closing other things. And if you have to do any graphics like that the extra space of the retina 15" is really good.

Didn't read the article, but couldn't help but comment on the title, good laughs.

The backend part of it is just ffmpeg, which can do pretty much all of this for you. The scaling is just a matter of throwing more servers at it, which is relatively trivial, expensive but simple. Admittedly my 1.5 days was not including generating the thumbnail sprites. But if you include that we had 2 programmers work on this for a total of less than a week.

EDIT: FWIW, we also implemented this feature on our last site which was the #63 most visited site in the world at its height. So we have done it "at scale"

Note: this did come up in the TC meeting if anyone listened in. And they are keeping the branding alive and will decide what to do with it in the future.

I find it interesting that everyone always assumes that working more hours means less quality of life. I thoroughly enjoy my job, so spending more time doing it does not detract from anything.

"Hey guys, I know we are an non-profitable early-stage startup, but do you think we could all try to stick to 8 hour work days?"

My goal as a manager is to promote better work hygiene in my employees. Which was supposed to be the point of my comment, probably should have left off how I personally have dealt with this.

I have been giving this advice to quite a few people lately, both inside and outside my company.

As a manager I feel that my team's productivity benefits more from "work hygiene" than from long hours, but we have a few team members who have come under scrutiny because of perceived short hours.

My advice to them is always, "I trust that you are doing your best as a part of the team. But remember, the teams perception is what matters. And when you leave at 3 it looks like you are slacking. No one knows you got here at 6 because they weren't here. So rather than changing your behavior, work on changing their perception."

To give some background, I started with virtual-dom when we were transitioning away from angular. I built a bunch of "proof of concepts" with it, and tried to build out a micro-framework around it for our company. Then we had a quick meeting where we presented quickly on react, mithril and my homebrew. The guy who did the react example had done it in like 20 minutes, and it was WAY more elegant.

So my point here is that, yes, virtual-dom is a great project, but it just doesn't have the "full package" like react. So we chose react and haven't looked back.

The actual search I did.

Also, good/real SEO usually requires content writers. Which is an ongoing process, and is probably not worth the cost to most small businesses.