branola
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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Any developer who was burned by App Engine pricing in the past is likely to take the lure of a "70% off" discount with a grain of salt because of the much higher cost of incorrectly relying on Google's pricing pledges.
In case anyone forgets, the pricing changes on Google App Engine caused many developers to abandon apps they had developed on the platform because of hundreds of percent increases in pricing:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/rSh...
Comment · 12 years ago
Stopped clicking with a mouse completely and never looked back. Dwell clicking apps are a godsend for anyone with mouse-related injuries.
Comment · 14 years ago
Is this something one could use as an alternative to "HTML5 Boilerplate" or does it serve a different purpose?
Comment · 14 years ago
Sierra Nevada will receive $212.5 million
Didn't realize beer was such an integral part of space exploration.
Comment · 14 years ago
I prefer Mousetool (on Windows at least):
Comment · 14 years ago
I agree that the post is mistitled and should be called Why you need side projects. The two quotes at the end of the piece support this:
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert.” - Australian psychiatrist W. Béran Wolfe
“Find a happy person, and you will find a project.” - Sonja Lyubomirsky
Comment · 14 years ago
Reminds me of Stewart Lee's standup bit on "the values of the Carphone Warehouse" (a British mobile phone retailer):
Comment · 14 years ago
Not bad. But I prefer WiredDeals:
The advantage of WiredDeals over DealsFerret is you can run searches and see the latest activity on the big deals sites without needing to sign up for an account. And, like DealsFerret, you can sign up for an account if you need alerts. I'm not associated with WiredDeals, by the way. Just an avid user for several years and like not having to dig through the big deals sites to see what's happening on a regular basis.
Comment · 14 years ago
Love it! . . . But . . . I have Chrome set to delete all cookies whenever I close my browser and to save session cookies otherwise. So this extension works as long as the browser hasn't been closed once. But after the browser is closed and cookies deleted, the extension forgets what has been read when HN is reopened.
During those 3 years no warning was given that the pricing changes were going to be of such a magnitude.
As a result people had sufficient time and not enough warning to build entire businesses on an infrastructure that they later had to abandon.
That's unforgivable.