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FYI the author sells server hardware.

Seems somewhat disingenuous not to mention that up front.

This hits the mark.

Anyone can be moderately good at most things if they work and try hard.

But to be truly exceptional it often requires built in talent.

This is so true.

Ditch the toxic people in your life.

I thought VCs were interested in companies with superstar teams with a killer idea, an established and lucrative monetization mechanism, an established defendable innovative product, in a global market with hockey stock growth and for some reason still willing to sign ridiculously unfavorable investment terms with no downside or risk for the VC at a very low price, but at a very high price to the next round of investors to drive up ponzi scheme valuations. Oh and a CEO/founder who at first they love but later can be shoved out by the board. Or have I been watching too much Silicon Valley?

You’re in good company with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Larry Ellison.

Static site and docker shouldn’t be seen together.

Or put more positively:

“I shipped a hard disk formatting utility that doubled as a word processor.”

I wonder if Venus had a large moon if it might not be earth like.

A moon would be constantly stirring the magma which might have given it tectonics.

I love it that the web makes live edits possible.

If your making adjustments then I applaud you.

I wonder what is the shortest path to deploying a web application that is fully codable (as opposed to no-code), that includes user database/management/auth.

I suspect the closest is the old school libraries like Ruby on Rails and the equivalent in other languages.

Edit: Dan has edited his blog post to address this comment ... good luck dan with Nodewood! See comments below. We should support a fellow founder and HN community member who is here and listening and working.

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It’s not clear until the end of the long post that this guy is selling and all in one development package.

No problem with that but it feels disingenuous to make building a SAAS super hard THEN say “he he I have the solution for you!”.

He’d have been better to say up front his product solves the development complexity problem which looks like this....

Then at the end you’d say “gee this guy is right”, instead of “oh I’ve been played”.

That’s real fiction right there.

How did lambda manage to create this false idea that it makes everything instantly easy? If anything in many ways it makes things much more complex and harder and more expensive.

Cause it’s the finish of icann’s credibility if they do.

One of the big issues in the pandemic is the spread of misinformation.

I don’t think media channels ... and I’m including HN here ... should be giving a megaphone to random opinions. Now it the time for experts voices to be amplified, not random people with an opinion.

I notice in the comments dang supports this post which is a surprise.

This should be flagged.

Why is a software engineer qualified to present this?

Just misinformation spoken with a tone of authority.

It adds optional infrastructure at the back end.

Infrastructure has direct and indirect costs, must be built maintained scaled monitored paid for etc etc.

You need a very very good reason to choose to implement optional back end infrastructure.

None of these reasons would be strong enough to convince me to start building and maintaining and paying for that infrastructure.

The value of digital ocean used to be simplicity.

Vpc isn’t simple.

You can be sure because it says “experts” in the title.

He has a private train? What is this 1940?

Don’t know what you mean by havks to run Linux. Rpi has excellent Linux.

You’ll just find tons of things that don’t work when you use anything but rpi.

The software lets down all raspberry pi alikes.

Could someone tell me in Simple terms please?

What’s the benefit of arm cloud instances to consumers?

None I can think of.

I don’t agree with your response.

>> Do you also think that an alcoholic should just "do it" (i.e. stop drinking) or a depressed person should just "get over it"?

False equivalence.

Not doing work is neither depression nor alcoholism.

If you find you get to a point in life where essentially you have fallen into lazy habits then you fix it by taking action.

This may sound flippant but it’s deadly serious:

Just Do It.

Put your head down and do the work and stop not doing it.

I spoke to my counselor once about going to the gym and I was expecting to hear him talk about emotional issues that might be preventing me going etc and he said: “there are some things in life that you simply have to take action on. Going to the gym is one.”

Nothing more fancy to it that that.

Do the work. Take action.

“Socialist” societies have the things you’re asking for.

Do people really think the evil sorcerers at the twin towers of google and Apple rub their hands and laugh maniacally at the chance to build the ultimate evil privacy violation tool made only ever more fabulously evil because it is cloaked in goodness and brought as a gift to do good?

These are not the nine rings for mortal kings.

Do these people think that Larry and Sergei call a meeting of their most evil henchmen/project managers and say “gentlemen we have been given an outstanding chance to build something magnificently privacy violating! The coronavirus has driven people into our hands! We have waited so long for the chance to build such a system and because people think it’s for good, we’ll never be suspected! Go my minions, fly and build the dark software that will create us a secret and hidden trove of privacy data the likes of no other! Ha ha ha !”

The privacy nuts really think this way.

I only use celery for sending out emails. It’s overkill.

I wonder how many other people have celery just for email.

Whenever I hear/read lots of words about how secure something is and how strong their commitment to security I think “they don’t know what they don’t know”.

I’m reminded of packaging I’ve seen that claims to be environmentally friendly because it can be crushed up to be smaller. Because smaller takes less space which presumably takes less landfill.

Having said that, “recycling into a cat house” is probably just as valid as thinking you’re recycling but it just gets sent to China and presumably dumped.