karlhwhite

Agreed. Eventjoy Developer/Co-founder here. During early stage development, you can't afford to optimize too heavily for technical debt, especially since some features may be thrown out or re-written entirely, but a lot of technical debt is avoidable, and can be mitigated with a few simple practices. My personal top two being:

1. Despite being the only developer, I comment. A lot. We have a large codebase, and I need to be able to understand code I have not touched in months at a moments notice.

2. Modularize. Even if something is being thrown together quickly, I make future-me happy by keeping things as modular as possible from the outset. This allows problems to be isolated a lot faster, and for individual pockets of code to be replaced more easily.

I'd love to hear others' thoughts on managing tech-debt!

Other Eventjoy founder here... I have no shame about my whiteboard writing. I try not to spend time worrying about my cursive handwriting these days :D

Hey this is Karl, the other Eventjoy founder. I actually spend a lot of time working on couches, so I was actually pretty happy :) Besides... we didn't have time to fetch another chair

...or were they well-written and well-received, signaling the reasons why this choice makes sense?

Seconded. Motion carried.

I'd be a little sad if that were the case. Not because I desperately like PHP (I don't), but it has its uses (and it's pretty prolific), and sometimes that best tool for the job is whatever tool does the job.

Awesome product! Don't give up hope, I can really see it doing well. One of those links I click and instantly see the appeal and benefits! Great job!

Definitely an important observation, but I am very intrigued as to how this will progress in the future. If the level of accuracy can be determined by gamification of known protein structures, then I would love to see some metrics.

I would certainly love to see a world where complex problems are solved with the aid of the collective pursuit of very skilled and bright laymen/gamers. There are a lot of very clever and talented people in the world who, due to varying circumstances, are not in a position to put their problem-solving savvy to good use.

I will admit to also trying @hotnail and @gmial in the newsletter subscription box and chuckling to myself.