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      Would it kill Dan to put a date on his blog posts?

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        Based on previous submissions and this confusing page I’m suggesting it’s from Oct 2016.

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        What does a date add here?

        Most of what Dan writes seems to be pretty insightful observations that are essentially timeless.

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          It adds that I read this when it came out but I can’t tell until I reread half of it to see if he’s revisiting a topic or it’s a repost.

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      Yes, you could (maybe) write a proof of concept in a weekend. Working that out to a nice smooth UI with a good onboarding process, documentation, getting decent hosting with good SLAs and speed across multiple regions, and building it out into a company that can market the product to end users so they will actually find you, have a helpdesk and legal team to handle the inevitable disgruntled user and so on and so forth and make it run in a way that’s profitable is nontrivial and requires skills beyond being a good coder and requires months, nay, years of work.

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        building it out into a company that can market the product to end users so they will actually find you…and make it run in a way that’s profitable

        IME: the engineering is relatively straightforward by comparison to this.

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        The execution is where the value to society is realized.

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      My dude.

      body {
          font-family: sans-serif;
          width: 60%;
          margin: auto;
          line-height: 1.4;
          background-color: aaaaaa;
      }
      

      Thank you.

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        Perhaps the whole site is a subtle trolling of people who don’t use Reader Mode in their browser.

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      I’ve used a whole weekend (or longer) to debug an obscure bug that turned out to be a one-line, or even a one-character fix. Sure, making that fix only took seconds, but finding where to do that takes a lot longer, and that time is also time that’s spent on the project.

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