Again, I’m not an expert on d3, just someone who spent ~12-18months maintaining couple visualizations (among other things)

The reason is probably explained somewhere in the article, I just can’t find where

FTFY What if general demise of startups (due to funding drought, covid, market saturation, bad timing aka world wasn’t ready for our idea, or leave your favorite excuse in comments) also impacted open startups? And what if they weren’t successful because open but because market was easier?

Few key learnings I had about code vs visual (tldr it's complicated):

- It works great for flat laser cut assemblies, but once you start doing t-nut and finger joints you really need to see your pieces rotated and aligned in 3D. and that's a lot of extra code

- Writing a geometry library from scratch is really hard. I tried multiple newer JS libraries (that aren't ports of OpenCASCADE / CGAL) and all of them had numerous bugs in boolean operations, offsets, etc. There's just too many corner cases, compounding errors, APIs that haven't been thought thru and became a tech debt, etc.

- Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places or building a wrong thing, but there aren't that many users interested in "writing code for a 3d printer". Very few people dropping complex code cad projects on github. It feels like everyone who does is also building their own CAD platform ;)

[1] https://scriptcad.com , https://scriptcad.com/paulftw/OpenSCAD.Tutorial

I don't know why the article makes it sound like cadquery is superior in every way possible. Sure BREP is a lot more powerful than CSG, but with extra power comes extra learning curve. If all you ever design is 3d prints for reprap (and I'd guesstimate 95% of hackaday audience falls into that category) cadquery may be an overkill

Usually they ask you to fill an online form and attach any evidence. After that it always felt like a call center employee decided whether to start the refund or not. If you write something smart, well researched, polite, and long, chances are that poor person will just skim through it and click “accept”.

Then on the other side the company has 30-45 days to object via their bank.

With big companies they probably think it’s not worth their time.

With small companies the bank notices about a new dispute probably go to an inbox nobody monitors.

I'm super curious what technical reasons mandate that there can be only one 4G license in a country with 1.4 billion people. And how that affects competition in a country that has Corruption Perception Index equal to that of Morocco, Ghana, China or Benin.

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Then DOJ would have to reveal their sources, wouldn’t they?

It also talks about building a personal data center quite a few times (at least that's how I read it).

K8s is likely to replace EC2, ECS, and all other unusable amazon bloat to become the default AWS API. But it's not going to damage AWS, it's going to enhance it and become part of it.

With Windows vs Linux the premise was you install absolutely free software on a computer you already own and you end up with a superior computing and programming environment.

With k8s - you switched to it, now what? You have to buy server hardware, rent or build a room, run wires for electricity and broadband, build cooling, physical security, etc etc etc. You will stop paying hourly rate to Amazon, but all the upfront and recurring costs will chew into that saving and you'll question whether it was worth the drill. Foremost, it will all take days and weeks, but with AWS it takes intolerable 20 minutes to spin up the k8s control plane (did I remember the term right?)

Even if you do all of that and blog about your great success, what's your plan for when it goes viral and visitors flow in to leave accolades on your visionary move?

With AWS, you could just spin up more servers to deal with extra traffic. With your own datacenter, you'd have to order new servers, perhaps from Amazon's same day delivery...

(i'm the person who implemented that widget)

This story only made the front page because of the name confusion. Other comments claim that name choice to be intentional

The latter is harder, so engineers tend to avoid it, often subconsciously.

Second step - twitter bootstrap and admin templates for it are the little known secret of fast and cheap and good looking UI. Good templates are under $50, recently some nice ones started popping up on github under open source licenses.

One aspect that is hard for me and probably requires another half of the brain is making it “pretty” (or graphic design). Good news is there are tons of UI freebies, UI kits, free app templates shared on behance and dribble. Basically it’s pretty app designs created by people who don’t have skills to convert them into code. So they give that stuff away for free. Taking one of those goodies and using for your side project will make your project stand out without dropping a cent on professional designers. I always recommend freebies designs for MVP even when it’s more than a side project.