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I know the majority live in urban areas. But when I read a post about something like electric bikes or walkable cities, I can’t find a single comment supporting a rural lifestyle. I’m not complaining, just shocked that there aren’t even a few.

Just saw the post about LAN parties from a few days ago and thought this story might be unique enough to share.

I worked at Chick-Fil-A for a year or so in high school. One of the ones in a free standing building in the middle of a much larger shopping center parking lot- bordering the interstate. A group of 6-7 of us employees, INCLUDING the General Manager, were big gamers.

At the time, Call of Duty releases were all the rage. The night of the Modern Warfare 2 release, we all closed up at 10pm, invited a few of our friends, and brought in our monitors (mostly 40inch TVs) and Xboxes. We set them all up on the Chick-Fil-A tables and booths and made several batches of Chick-fil-A nuggets and fries. We played 6v6 from about 11:00pm - 4:00am.

I remember thinking how ridiculous it must have looked from the interstate to see a Chick-Fil-A lit up with 12 big screens inside through those translucent shades at 2:00 in the morning on a weekday.

That is one of the greater memories of my childhood. It delights me just to think about it!

Some of my favorite articles are ones where a developer, architect, or CTO explains how a certain real world product or feature was built. Big or small. I recall one from years ago about how LinkedIn uses Kafka for trillions of messages per day that I really enjoy. What are some of your favorites?

All the sudden my wife and I's Google Search results turned into a whole new design/experience. I googled "Julius Randle Basketball Highlights" and the results were big rounded boxes with pointless blog posts like "Who is Julius Randle's wife?" and "What teams does Julius Randle play for?" but with no real search results like I expected. Same when my wife was putting in her queries. Lasted for a short while and then a refresh all the sudden put everything back the way it was.

Are there any new software development benefits or tools that are available from having consistent gigabit (or better) internet?

I can only imagine that after years of availability and more consistent speeds there are some tools forming that rely on gigabit internet. I’ve recently received a substantial internet upgrade, yet my day to day tools haven’t changed/upgraded at all (besides quicker package uploads).

I know it’s obvious things will support the masses who don’t have access to high speeds, but curious if anyone knows of any way I can tap into my internet’s potential via any new programming offerings/tools. Anything outside of classic RDP scenarios?

This question was asked a little over a year ago on HN and I noticed many answers said something along the lines of "Give swift another year". What do you think now?

It's 2017 and I have a great (new) mobile app idea. I need to make a prototype quickly and would like to get to market quickly. Android and iOS make up 99% of the market share - 86% Android, 13% iOS. Is it a given that I have to support both right out of the box, or should I start with one or the other? Android has a higher market share, but are their other factors I should include in my decision like marketing effectiveness, entry to market, etc?