Are backup stored to Glacier is my house-burned-down archive for about $5/mo. It may cost a lot to get out, but at that point our family pictures and movies are gone anyway, so it would be worth the cost.

This is one of the epiphanies on the path to becoming a senior developer - new is not always better.

One of the biggest problems I've noticed in junior developers is the urge to recreate the wheel. Which is useless 99% of the time. It's a battle, but someone has to lead the fight.

> once the first million pours in

That was the point of the article, saying that it’s harder to get to "once" if you write "sufficient test.

"I learned to trust my instincts and they aren’t telling me good things right now."

Why doesn’t anyone ever ask why people are expected to work an extra 10 hours for free? This assumes that 40hrs/wk is standard, but that doesn’t seem unreasonable.

Try securemyemail.com?

The chances of you building something worth suing is probably small, so don’t worry about it for now. You’re probably better off spending time choosing the color of your new Ferrari (paid for by your new startup) than worrying about how someone is going to sue you.

"An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth A Pound of Cure."

That's what I used to think but post like this make me feel otherwise. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27579693

(OP in that post was "a one person company")

This is true for a clapboard, but not for a wood window or doorframe

I've replaced some rotted windowsills. You can patch them up to a point, but it's a losing game. In particular, replace any rotted casing or casing which is splitting at the bottom due to dry rot. You have to keep the water out. Prime new casing pieces six sides and be sure to flash the tops and caulk the verticals against the clapboards.

Except this clock has told the time accurately for a long time....

This is definitely useful but why are we still using instance variables in Views vs parameters? Missing instance variables don’t throw errors so they are easy to miss.