There is a place in hell for people that recline in coach. The 2" of reclining doesn't help anyone's comfort that much. It's the difference between being "mostly miserable" and "pretty miserable", like the difference between lowering the air temperature in a hotel room from 79 to 78 on a summer night.
I never recline (6'1) if I have to fly coach. It's disruptive to the person behind me, either their legs or if they are trying to work on a computer. Saying "it's their right!" is just a proxy for doing the reasonable and personable thing.
It's not just the space; reclining can be the difference between being stable or not. Often when sleeping in an upright seat, my CoG is such that I'll lean left/right/forward. Reclining at even a small angle prevent this.
How can you feel entitled to tell another passenger what they can and cannot do with their seat? I don't like coach class anymore than the next person but I prefer my seat reclined so I can sleep. Sorry if that encroaches on your space but take it up with the airline not the passenger using their seat as provisioned.
That logic doesn't apply on HN because of the damage such comments do to the commons. Even if you don't owe better to the other commenter, you owe it to the community not to post like that here.
Same. Replaced my MacBook with a Surface Book. Why? Tns of reasons, not the last of which being that the M processor I have is so underpowered that it's an embarrassment that the company offered it in a laptop. I can use two of Chrome, Excel, Outlok and Spotify. Open one more and I get the beach ball.
I also find that Microsoft is at least trying to make quality products even if they will never be mainstream (like the Surface Book). Very happy y have made the switch.
Uh, AWS is absolutely known for being cheap. I'm in the hosting business as well and our AWS offerings are a fraction of the cost of other solutions, especially when you consider what you get.
The VAST majority of startups never make $37,000 in a year. I wouldn't be so quick to look down my nose at someone who has indeed been successful at taking "nothing" and making it into "something" and getting someone else to give them money for it.
Agree completely. I'm primarily in sales and have owned businesses in the past. The number of web developers and designers I work with who have amazing talent and skill and absolutely no business acumen is staggering.
I think putting your hopes and dreams on something like this - your own fortitude, determination, creativity, and aptitude - is EXACTLY what you should do.
I think you're overstating the enormity of building a SaaS. "Support, billing, failed charges, churn, and thousands of other things" are easily managed when there is 1 customer. 2 customers is a little more difficult. 3 even moreso. But most SaaS founders I know of would agree that in the early stages, the "I am not sure if this is actually going to work" stages, managing things that become a headache at scale is actually quite manageable.
You don't start with 1,000 clients thankfully. You start with 0. And then 1. And so on and so forth.
because not everyone has the ability to build a SaaS, I would encourage everyone to try and build something using the skills they do have and then fill in the rest later.
I started WP Extra Care (www.wpextracare.com) because I love WordPress but my skill as a developer and designer was mediocre. So I thought "I know a lot more about security for WordPress than most people, I'll offer that up." Now I've been able to add in extra skills that have been fun and also allow more of the business to run on auto-pilot. "Can you help us setup backups to AWS instead of them running on our production server?" "Yeah, I can help with that on Monday" :spends weekend learning:
TL;DR - build and launch what you can. Listen to customers and learn how to do what they will pay for. Then try learn that. You'll come out on the other side having gained both money and knowledge.
The value goes up - sometimes way up - if you have even one paying customer. It isn't a "minimum viable product at all." It's a non revenue generating website with no users which makes it a hobby, not a product.
I never recline (6'1) if I have to fly coach. It's disruptive to the person behind me, either their legs or if they are trying to work on a computer. Saying "it's their right!" is just a proxy for doing the reasonable and personable thing.