FROM BUILDERS, FOR DOERSVOL. 03 / QUALITY-FIRST DISCOVERY

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Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation

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I'm pretty sure the Philippines is a pretty big hub for moderation because they are low cost and know the language quite well.

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Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer

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I'm working on a Rails and on a Django project for two different customers and I've been doing that for years now.

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Dear Apple: I give up, WireframeApp will become open source

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The first time I wrote a major software business project for myself I saved up $50k (To cover rent, living and utilities), resigned from work …

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How and why the Relational Model works for databases

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Maybe we modeled our data wrong or there is some inherent complexity you can’t avoid, but I mostly blame sql the language.

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Ask HN: Is Xamarin worth learning?

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our of first options, right after using the native frameworks (which ensures the best results, but drastically increases the costs). …

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Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?

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We wrote our own db which stored XML (but was mostly in memory), our own frontend language in XML.

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The Apps are Too Damn Big

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The link is specifically complaining about resource files, which are probably easier to manage than libraries, but it's still probably not worth the effort for …

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React/JavaScript fatigue

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My team has been using Clojure for the past 5 years and we've never had trouble hiring people to work with it.

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Kotlin for JavaScript

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We have an API client and some other functionality that we use across JVM on our server and kotlin-js.

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