16:[[18132736,{"by":"donkoz_ab","descendants":312,"id":18132736,"kids":[18132886,18134760,18133748,18133003,18134000,18133056,18133746,18132989,18132844,18133772,18133086,18132838,18133053,18132832,18133079,18133458,18134600,18134678,18132859,18133026,18133260,18134351,18133061,18132907,18132897,18132874,18133717,18132941,18132910,18133019,18132981,18133128,18133000,18133032,18133366,18133048,18132846,18132972,18132980,18133123,18132905,18133200,18132890,18132854,18132962,18134738,18133767,18132953,18132961,18133077,18148326,18134745,18133194,18133005,18134441,18134106,18133984,18134193,18133110,18133633,18134292,18132971,18135423,18133149,18137388,18133887,18139483,18134572,18132994,18133399,18133025,18134005,18133139,18134265,18134251,18133988,18134825,18137781,18148840,18133336,18134445,18141304,18133939,18138640,18133369,18132878,18134027,18132824,18157431,18132995,18133686,18137447,18132973,18133323,18137763,18153775,18134285,18132951,18132938,18133441,18153549,18139498,18134673,18133004,18135940,18133351,18133258],"score":241,"time":1538588931,"title":"Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?","type":"story"}],[18097402,{"by":"phonebucket","descendants":11,"id":18097402,"kids":[18097466,18097515,18099983,18107110,18104323,18102266,18101196,18106491,18098097,18120241,18105370],"score":18,"text":"There are plenty of companies viewed as contentious within the HN community which nonetheless seem to be very desirable to work for. I wonder how strongly people consider morality as a factor in their career choices.","time":1538171883,"title":"Ask HN: Would you reject a job offer on moral grounds?","type":"story"}],[18115156,{"by":"golem14","descendants":10,"id":18115156,"kids":[18116329,18116152,18115830,18118873,18118750,18115710,18120206],"score":19,"text":"I'm looking for good pointers on visual application builder tools.

It's been a long while since I needed to build relatively simple apps, and much has since changed (cloud computing, webapps etc).

In the past, things like Borland Delphi were a good starting point. Recently, I played with Google App maker, which seems almost 100% perfectly suited to build simple, SQL backed applications. It's reasonably expandable with server side and client side snippets, has a decent number of widgets and a decent deployment framework too. The fly in the ointment is that AppMaker only works for users in the same Google GSuite domain, so I cannot use it for general app building.

I'm loathe to start dealing with UI details in code and really like a visual tool that helps me focus on application logic.

I appreciate any pointers to such application builders. Ideally, they are free/open source, work on a Mac or linux or don't have heavy license handicaps.

Thanks!","time":1538416989,"title":"Good Overview of Modern Visual Application Builders?","type":"story"}],[18114691,{"by":"philliproso","descendants":12,"id":18114691,"kids":[18116607,18115370,18132032,18120106],"score":22,"text":"I recently had a moment where I really appreciated running most of our stack on open source system. Needless to say it was a weird interaction with the way flask handles files, boto/s3, flask admin, and a core mimetype util in python. A name was being set on a file stream as an integer which triggered a mime type check in boto, which caused the mimetype check to error because it expected a string. (I still have not figure why that name is being set on the stream of mostly excel file uploads.)

Needless to say, if I needed to go through some recent support hire from some enterprise service, it could have taken a long time to figure it all out. Reading the source made actually solving this much easier.

This is obviously not unique, as it is a core part of why open source is successful.

It would be great to hear of any other stories.","time":1538414238,"title":"Ask HN: “If that was not open source, I would be screwed”","type":"story"}],[18104814,{"by":"lainon","descendants":272,"id":18104814,"kids":[18109588,18110383,18109110,18109801,18109651,18110434,18109528,18110852,18109089,18110280,18112937,18109306,18112735,18110979,18109335,18110633,18111853,18110456,18110428,18109133,18110384,18110279,18110806,18109596,18111863,18109800,18110520,18114891,18110811,18110218,18109091,18110079,18110295,18111090,18114072,18110402,18111044,18113959,18113253,18113088,18110080,18111437,18111818,18111581,18112232,18110471,18110229,18113655,18109887,18110344,18113997,18111540,18112108,18113269,18109544,18110654,18111846,18118646,18110326,18112835,18109788,18111376,18109881,18111999,18116975,18111610,18111565,18110011,18109925,18113140,18110932,18110036,18113741,18110955,18110977,18113703,18111089,18112394,18119337,18118020,18120092,18150570,18110616,18111974,18112053,18109933,18115565,18110484,18110264,18110709,18110256,18110019,18117007,18110112,18111495,18112126,18115680,18113320,18112779,18113615,18118679,18118683,18111699,18110497,18111628,18112596,18109286,18110168],"score":850,"time":1538288855,"title":"Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?","type":"story"}],[18095579,{"by":"lenova","descendants":273,"id":18095579,"kids":[18095881,18095961,18095877,18096254,18096249,18095914,18096576,18098484,18095921,18096308,18095782,18095928,18095946,18096225,18096142,18097162,18095850,18095965,18097048,18096390,18096201,18095779,18097553,18095910,18096663,18096138,18096133,18095912,18096023,18095829,18095887,18096234,18096078,18096155,18095884,18095808,18096174,18095840,18095990,18097171,18103905,18096408,18095795,18096126,18096042,18096290,18096223,18095901,18097306,18096839,18099411,18097404,18098130,18106895,18095855,18096033,18095995,18097795,18099791,18097806,18095620,18096085,18099338,18096923,18098384,18096725,18097495,18095787,18099789,18096785,18097749,18096055,18096098,18096207,18096550,18100127,18096013,18097111,18098851,18095968,18096004,18103966,18098784,18107340,18097638,18096519,18096781,18096431,18096052,18097752,18097842,18096005,18097597,18095634,18096396,18097607,18105777,18096701,18104421,18102211,18096688,18095762,18098895],"score":329,"text":"Looks like Google is rolling out the new Gmail UI to users, and removing the option to revert back to Classic UI.

The new UI is painful to look at, to be honest. Anyone from Google here want to mention to the Gmail team that the new UI is going to chase long-term users like myself off the platform?","time":1538158014,"title":"Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful","type":"story"}],[17879184,{"by":"n0pe_p0pe","descendants":2,"id":17879184,"kids":[17881062,17883618],"score":3,"text":"I'm looking for the best books, articles, essays, films (?) about OSS: its philosophy, history, and so on.","time":1535652827,"title":"Ask HN: Best reads about open source movement/philosophy?","type":"story"}],[17868896,{"by":"larryfreeman","descendants":16,"id":17868896,"kids":[17869008,17884130,17883582,17869552,17874634,17870566,17886102,17888252,17871764,17871318,17871233],"score":8,"text":"Didn't realize how much I loved Safari Books Online until it went down:

http://safaribooksonline.com

The service went down for me last night. I spoke to a rep and it should be back up in the next hour.

What do folks think about Safari Books Online?

For me, it's a great deal that saves me significant bucks and book space. It is my go to source for content not available on YouTube.","time":1535556102,"title":"Ask HN: What do you think about Safari Books Online?","type":"story"}],[17870663,{"by":"siruncledrew","descendants":24,"id":17870663,"kids":[17871301,17870758,17872119,17881819,17878996,17876824,17872587,17874645,17889005,17873968,17891559,17876644,17881346,17871602,17885872,17882523,17883549,17875595,17873975,17888844,17874738,17881597],"score":11,"text":"I always hear people say “I’ll talk to you offline” during meetings, but logically it never made sense to me.","time":1535568800,"title":"Ask HN: What buzzwords or expressions do you dislike the most?","type":"story"}],[17478133,{"by":"andyjohnson0","descendants":312,"id":17478133,"kids":[17480377,17480753,17481959,17480983,17481286,17480596,17481024,17479914,17479828,17480134,17481287,17480819,17481279,17480189,17481900,17480478,17480717,17480844,17481469,17482052,17480849,17480409,17480541,17484303,17482733,17481030,17480829,17484106,17481194,17481663,17479879,17481483,17482022,17481087,17479962,17483142,17481724,17480394,17480585,17481721,17480105,17482429,17480535,17481699,17480345,17480581,17484375,17481790,17482868,17482686,17480437,17482794,17481928,17481485,17483431,17480619,17482370,17480759,17481695,17480927,17480401,17482112,17482369,17481897,17480170,17480592,17482496,17481727,17481789,17482141,17480422,17480023,17480138,17480726,17480589,17480287,17480943,17480498],"score":730,"time":1530964911,"title":"Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design","type":"story","url":"https://brutalist-web.design/"}],[17445280,{"by":"notaplumber","descendants":118,"id":17445280,"kids":[17446058,17445492,17445878,17445880,17445777,17445860,17445428,17445609,17445542,17445965,17445419,17445784,17446462,17445850,17446869,17446208,17446570,17445887,17445882,17445563,17445633,17446781,17449985,17445402,17446979,17445914,17445458,17446683,17445977,17446486,17445955,17454186,17446274,17477866,17446191,17445593,17446614,17460433,17445822,17446607,17445830,17445398],"score":177,"time":1530565025,"title":"Ask HN: Who are some unsung heroes in open source that need more support?","type":"story"}],[17431465,{"by":"sergiotapia","descendants":4,"id":17431465,"kids":[17431619,17431778,17434381,17440428,17431564],"score":5,"text":"Medium keeps making steps that push me away as a developer.

What alternate sites are there for developers? I'm particularly interested in the network effect where you can post something and people interested in that topic would see your article.

There used to be https://tech.pro but they closed up shop years ago.

It seems there really is only Medium in this space?","time":1530376796,"title":"Ask HN: Medium.com alternative for developers?","type":"story"}]]

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