funkysquid's comments

What are some good Amazon Prime (shopping) alternatives? Yearly fee for low cost or free fast shipping, with an inventory of pretty much everything?

Looks like they include instructions on how to build in SOURCE.md (https://github.com/delight-im/FreeGeoDB/blob/master/SOURCE.m...) - would be great to have that linked in the README though.

It seems like OpenStreetMap is not actually the source for the data - https://github.com/delight-im/FreeGeoDB/issues/1#issuecommen...

I keep gatekeeper disabled because I don't want app developers to have to sign up with (and I believe pay money to) Apple to setup a Developer ID.

(but I also don't download Xcode from random places)

Is "Christina Warren, writing at Mashable," with no link, actually considered an acceptable way to quote an author online? It's sort of attribution, but it feels obfuscating.

The article they're referencing is here http://mashable.com/2015/09/10/iphone-6s-rose-gold-is-the-ne...

I think another question to ask yourself is, why do you feel this isn't normal?

If others claim they could do the task faster, consider that programmers chronically underestimate.

If you've seen others do it faster, it's possible that they are taking shortcuts, making quicker decisions that will involve more work later. From your example, you've carefully picked a library and thought through how to integrate it properly into your code - these steps can be skipped for speed, but the cost usually isn't worth it.

There are always going to be better programmers, but they're often not the ones who claim to be great, or fast, or rockstars. So I'd just check to make sure you're not making unfair comparisons of yourself.

I know that Kickstarter's policy supports this thinking, but I've always disagreed.

The thing that made me excited about Kickstarter was people doing projects crazy enough that you couldn't guarantee they'd be successful. I never got the feeling that I was buying something, or that anything could be "crowdfunding theft"'d from me. The whole point was that I was giving to a creator to hopefully make something cool.

This all goes away when you tell creators, "hey, you better know your dream WILL work, because you'll be held legally and financially responsible for it if it doesn't". It reduces Kickstarter to a platform for preorders, instead of a place where crazy things can happen.

I find it strange that large companies envy the things smaller shops are able to do, and they'll spend the money to buy them up, but they won't spend the time to understand the culture that let them build what they built. Put employees first and you'll find they can do some pretty amazing things.

If you're trying to relieve fears, the first paragraph does not help.

"IBM has identified Node.js as an important part of the future of enterprise middleware and StrongLoop’s technology and expertise as pivotal to their strategy to help companies fully unlock the value of their existing IT investments and legacy data with APIs."