This looks really nice! I was looking at trying this out for the FP&A tool MODLR that I work with but I can't find a pricing plan. Without that, I don't want to invest time in a solution that we might be priced out of.
It's free for up to 3 people if you want to try it out, after that the pricing starts at $199/mo for 10 seats; we've been working with early customers iterating on pricing that makes sense, so we're happy to talk more to learn what works for you.
> Who slogs through producing the documentation, and keeping it up-to-date? Once a new product/feature is launched, who sticks around for the bugfixes, support, etc., since presumably everyone will be more excited to allocate themselves to the next new big thing?
Doing this work is part, and perhaps the most important part, of shipping a feature. It's not just boring work. If someone isn't prepared to support something, they shouldn't ship it.
The mobile app is just part of our main web app. We use the same models and controllers as our desktop views. We have separate markup, different bundles for mobile JavaScript and CSS, and separate view models[1].
Craftsmen absolutely think about what's stronger and more durable, not just what's nicest looking (especially for non-visible parts!). I've got a few pieces of pretty decent antique furniture that's made its way down to me in my family (stuff made by craftsmen, not by mass production), and the hidden pieces aren't finished or styled to the same degree as the front ones. The purpose of the back and other non-visible parts is to hold stuff together, not to look nice. I would also point out, from your own link, the specs for their "the ledge":
"available with a solid domestic walnut top, sides and doors with a plywood bottom and low voc finish or painted mdf."
(Of course, these little details about what's "the right way to do it" are rather irrelevant to the greater point, which is that if you're the type to want to do things the right way, you're going to do things that way. Just don't hate on plywood, it has its uses (and feel free to come up with the programming equivalent!))
Edit -- some more notes on plywood: a sizable piece of plywood (like for the back of a chest of drawers or bookshelf) is going to be stronger (especially with regard to bending, IIRC) and vastly cheaper than a solid piece of wood since it only needs thin pieces of veneer with good grain for the outer layers. And IMO, it looks nicer than having several individual solid-wood boards jointed together in parallel.
We have some amazing antique Persian and Korean chests in the house. Hand carved and split grain matched fronts and maybe sides, but the backs are plain and/or rough hewn. These pre-date plywood, but the same goes - don't waste effort on parts that will never be seen, just build them to do their job.
It's "strong enough" and very light to ship. That's the only reason.
It's not strong enough for a lot of tasks and is definitely not good quality. One water spill and throw it away as the laminate just peels off - even on the expensive stuff.
I've taken to buying second hand good quality furniture (which is usually available at the same price as the shitty Ikea stuff) and stripping and painting it.
Why should internal tools be ugly? Well designed tools help people work better and more efficiently—putting a little bit of thought into them is not a waste of time.
But that's not an extension. It could easily be. The fact that it isn't, and Defunkt's suggestion to alias hub to git nicely illustrates the original author's point.
It's not worth mentioning. Almost every case has been a coincidence and they've gone out of their way to explain the review filter (which functions similarly to Google's PageRank algorithm and attempts to filter out spammy reviews using various factors).
Each court case related to this has been thrown out.
If you trust Google to be fair with PageRank then there hasn't been any evidence that should make you more concerned about Yelp.
Business owners complain about getting demoted in Google's PageRank algorithm quite a bit, too.
I don't recall ever hearing people receiving calls from Google salespeople who imply that a failure to buy advertising on Google may result in a reduction in PageRank, or that purchasing advertising may restore it.
> Business owners complain about getting demoted in Google's PageRank algorithm quite a bit, too.
Google rankings fluctuate over time, but it is never the result of a direct targeting of an individual company or URL by google, whereas there is ample evidence that Yelp directly targets individual businesses depending on whether or not they are paying customers.
