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Great engineers learn from mistakes, and it seems like you did. Formal training or not, we all make mistakes, but indeed a good approach is to take a step back and analyse _any_ issue or complex problem before implementing it. Sometimes prototyping separate from the main codebase helps.

This is potentially good news for Europe, as I am sure Germany will force other countries to follow suit. Most likely using a diktat given via the EU commission.

1.5 years from now they will dread the moment they moved to Rust. membe' guys, just because it's cool and trendy on HN it doesn't mean it's good.

“Mercedes-Benz is constantly at the forefront of automotive safety technologies” - not really. Rear wheel drive, which is common in mb and bmw cars are a real danger in winter. Volvo claims, and seems to be, a safer and more at the forefront of safe driving choice.

I agree with open source =/= free but what most comments like “open source alternative to” mean is exactly that. HN is a forum promoting ideas both for the benefit of everyone and / or commercial, yet each time someone showcases their work there is someone posting a “free alternative” post as if it’s meant to mean something. Cargo culting open source is really not doing anyone a favour and instead it is pushing more and more entrepreneurs types away from hackernews. Unless some drug maker made a commercial drug to cure cancer and someone else made a free open alternative to it, i really don't care about free github star whoring on hn.

Keep up the good work. Some HN types beg for freeware and yet wonder why they cant escape the rat race. Quality software should be rewarded and should not be free of cost.

Downvoting any “open source alternative” to anything as those are usually crapware.

I totally support facebook leveraging their tech and data, all i am saying is that it will be discredited day one given the media hostility against it.

Facebook should probably wait for a few years until it does it. Currently it is the main traffic driver for “news” outlets and they will likely try to discredit the search engine.

AI is absolutely an amazing tech feat and a major game changer. Cant wait for it to be discovered.

North European countries are a template of success. And this is just another example of it.

So the us doesn't end up like countries such as Romania, where the government can easily subdue its population with a simple good beating. It’s harder to subdue an armed population.

In some countries even with two or three providers you get a lot faster internet connections without limits.

My thoughts exactly, and i come from a country where 1Gbps is pretty standard.

It’s almost as if members of the society support dictatorships, making governments a reflection of those societies. I am originally from a former communist society and 30 years after communism fell people still vote strongmen in power.

Gents, we are the ones misreading Hong Kong.

China is now flexing muscles to show the US and the rest of the free world what they can do: they can destroy one of the richest areas in the world without a sweat, and they brutalise a group of young people who dare protest democracy, with impunity.

Showing military trucks and toys moving around the country, right in the middle of a dispute with the us and knowingly violating a treaty with the UK is China staring the free world in the eye and challenging their power and unity.

China can do anything and get away with it. This needs a strong response from the free world, which includes the EU.

Unlike the US tho the EU is more interested in selling German cars to China than protecting the freedom of those people and freedom generally speaking. It shows division and impotence on its part and the literally non existent power.

I just wish I could do something about it but i just can't and it feels like shit.

yeah best not to do anything because some fail. non-survivors bias.

For workers, yes, and that is quite expected. A company is profitable for as long as it makes games that go viral. And interest in those games fades in time, so it’s quite expected. As indie tho i know plenty of success stories out there to think otherwise.

I too would investigate an extremist site such as 4chan.

Thanks for this - added to my list.

There is always that one that spews negativity. Always. And always an employee.

Strange how putrid governments find members of society happy to oppress other members of the society. Such as those soldiers happily waiting to execute orders against the freedoms of their fellow citizens.

That is based on the assumption that jobs MUST be downtown, thus all traffic converging towards that area.

Historically people placed business like buildings around town centres, as these were easy to reach. Lawyers, accountants, doctors and so on were supposed to be within walking distance. But these days this is becoming less and less practical, as everyone including back office employees, software developers, analysts, and other non customer non reach essential staff is crammed in those places. I seriously think planning should be made such way that any non essential business activity should be done outside cities. Downtown areas should be focused on face to face essential staff and the rest of the city on life focused businesses (restaurants, cinemas, and so on). The cities are planned at the moment is archaic.

I think this points out the elephant in the room: why are so many people in supposedly high income cities not able to buy properties? This is an issue that needs to be solved hand in hand with pollution: less travel, less need for a car, and more living outside overcrowded cities means more living space. So how can we move more jobs to suburbs, where people can work at nearby or home locations and can afford more living space? I seriously struggle understanding why at least tech jobs are so centered around crowded cities, when these could really be located in tech clusters or tech cities on the outskirts.

That’s the issue. These are routing requests and not much more. I recommend looking around at java, node, php, c# web frameworks for more details on what a web framework should do. Sqlalchemy and other hobby libs can extend flask and django but those are similarly limited.

It appears tho the right tool for the task at hand, as a codebase grows, is NOT Python. A good starting point for someone fresh of off a university campus, and easily impressionable. An "object oriented" language without even the basics of scope visibility is not object oriented. Half done libs are not libs that one might consider production grade. Debugging tools where you need to dive into execution branches and heck knows what other archaic debugging techniques are not debugging tools. Lacking documentation or poorly written readme fiels are not documentation. This whole Python movement is gaining a bit of traction because it became popular in universities. The realities of real life programming will sway many religious programmers towards more suitable languages.

So yeah, fantasising about how Python "is eating the world" is a good dream, but the only thing that Python is eating is dust left behind by far more developed programming languages, surrounded by far more modern ecosystems around them.

Most of those enumerations are Flask, and the others are basically useless.

Well, that's what I said, there are plenty of packages for data science. For building APIs and web stuff usually there aren't. Python is nowhere near NodeJS for instance. But whatever suits, if you only know one language, it will seem like the best language out there.

I think the question should be more like "Which categories of seed startups are getting FUNDED" rather than "Thriving". Thriving means they will develop into sustainable businesses, and while most of the shown categories will, it probably omits startups in less trendy categories that are thriving but are not necessarily attracting funding at the same level as these. I understand it's great to chase billion dollar unicorns, but most of us here will probably only ever build million dollar companies. Would be interesting to learn more about their dynamics as well.