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by Arqu 8y ago
I'm not arguing the case here that the whole scene is set up fair and square. Probably the complete opposite. However, expecting 1M views of random music play to be worth more than some $5k is a long stretch. On their own, sure 1M vie
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by Arqu 8y ago
I somehow keep being fascinated by people think they're ripped off. I mean sure, Spotify is making a decent buck out of it, but it's not like the artists are doing it for free. There's much more to the whole process. Firs to
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by Arqu 8y ago
I work closely in the space of providing time series databases as managed solutions. I can say that I am very happy to see this recent development of new tsd's and this with timescale is a huge bump to the industry/segment. Everyb
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by Arqu 8y ago
Yeah, I would love that. Don't think that will happen any time soon unless legally obliged to.
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by Arqu 8y ago
That works for "us" HN geeks. The consumer market is all about convenience, and the monent the custoners have to go through some hoops a new company will pop up that will do it as a service which they then trust for doing it prope
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by Arqu 8y ago
I'm working on https://www.datagekko.com . It's a passion project of mine that came from a scratch your own itch situation. Working on it for the past 6 years or so a couple hours every day on average (spent a ton of ti
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by Arqu 8y ago
Depends how you do it. Having a sane communication model/interface between the services allows you to test it in two ways: 1) You test the internal structure with unit tests 2) You test changes to the API contract with E2E tests Both a
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by Arqu 8y ago
So the consensus is to do things well from the start. IMHO both have their merits but strongly depend on the usecase. There is no one size fits all. A lot of thought has to go into both options to make them really effective. Otherwise it&#x
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by Arqu 8y ago
By far my favorite is Depth First Search (DFS). It's almost a bread and butter algorithm for a lot of problems (at least for quick tests) with only a couple lines long in its recursive form. Some example usage: - combinations - permut
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by Arqu 8y ago
I am literally waiting for the Pixelbook 2 to replace my MacBook Pro (Touchbar) as it's been rotting away with failing speakers and keyboard getting progressively worse over time. This is my 3rd with a decade long history of using the
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by Arqu 8y ago
For what it's worth, it's still work in progress (not really profitable, but getting there). I've been working on it for more than 5 years now for about 2 hours a day on average, steady. Basically, I spend my "hobby time
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by Arqu 8y ago
I would beg to differ. I've owned owned a total of 4 higher end and one entry level Mercedes between me and my closer family members. Litterally for the first couple years the only maintnence is the general stuff like oil, filters and
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by Arqu 8y ago
I'm currently in the business of doing exactly this. My 5c is that though we keep an eye out for new tech on this scene, usually the impact is very minimal in terms of customers. There is a lot more value in a managed offering than the
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by Arqu 8y ago
I strongly disagree. Initially, I've been reluctant to do so myself, however, once I read a bit more of it, it's actually fairly simple for simple things and just a bit more complex for very complex stuff. It's no harder or m
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by Arqu 8y ago
It is interesting to see that most people only pay for some large brand name services, would love to see more people paying for SaaS solutions from smaller businesses/startups and for more technical resons (I guess SME's would bet
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by Arqu 8y ago
I was hoping to see something of a more flexible pricing like per 100 MB provisioned based on the far fetched assumption that it is not just a managed redis(like?) offering but a fully abstracted managed redis service where you are just cha
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by Arqu 8y ago
Email predates google, however I don't thing the services would be anything alike without the bigger players. Initialy email was just a communication tool, however it quickly evolved to be sold as a feature on various hosting provides
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by Arqu 8y ago
That is also a good view on it. I would like it the most if online marketing was flipped - no networks but the media agencies have to serve related content and make ad deals based on those, hence much less cross marketing crap. However I s
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by Arqu 8y ago
That's true, and I generally dislike them, thus I run an ad blocker and some limits on JS. However I have a bit of a broader view on the topic. For one instance, we wouldn't have many of the things we have without the economic bac
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by Arqu 8y ago
Personally, even with the recent news, I'm still having mixed feeling about the whole ordeal. On one side I'm not against using/collecting data for the purpose of better content (=better engagement) or more targeted ads (stil
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by Arqu 9y ago
I have a completely other sentiment from the top post, and a good part of my friends circle as well. I work as a developer and the business model is much clearer to me. The thing is to distinguish a service and a product. Buying a game, I e
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by Arqu 9y ago
There has to be some limit to how low they can go cost wise in delivering crap. Also as it becomes harder to get big bucks, people will shift to other lines of crap work. GDPR in my mind influences this indirectly in the long run. It's
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by Arqu 9y ago
Depends how you look at it. You are an employee in the media space, I guess you're in an ok situation but also not swimming in cash. However I thought more in the line of media companies and solopreneurs. Everybody seems to be joining
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by Arqu 9y ago
I think this goes for all the mainstream social networks. They are just echo chambers where people feed their ego on the ego of others. In the past 4 years I've been cutting down on all this crap, not because I couldn't handle it,
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by Arqu 9y ago
I think this is a blade with two edges. I use to fast once a year and when the body slows down its great for homing on on singular tasks and getting stuff done as everything else is just too much to spend any energy on. However solving comp
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by Arqu 9y ago
I completely disagree with this. Firstly, the media currently are too lucrative for my taste and thats why we have everyone being a journalist and publisher. By cutting down on the easy money, only those worth surviving will probably stand.
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by Arqu 9y ago
Currently I use namecheap for their simplicity and speed yet they have all the options if you need them. Tried GoDaddy and went away screaming since they have some super shady practices. Willing to try Google Domains since I use GCP a lot b
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by Arqu 9y ago
This is a very sad day since their work marked my childhood and I'll always cherris anything they ever touched. The very emotion and story they encapsulate is purely breadth taking. Princess Mononoke, Howls moving castle, Laputa, Spiri
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by Arqu 9y ago
The author states that he didnt bother with support (luckily he had a local copy) so here are my 2 cents I've been in the exact same spot under very similar circumstances. What I can add is that the github support was great, we got it
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by Arqu 9y ago
I work for a rather large company that works with audio and video and we used Opus but have since switched to a Dolby based audio stack as it offers much better sound quality, reduced transmission bitrate and is generally more robust. Howev

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