EmielMols

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by EmielMols 9y ago
Currently it really is a (free) experiment, not a viable business. However, looking at the market for these products I could imagine a freemium model where we might charge for some extra features (chat app on phone, customization of chat wi
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by EmielMols 9y ago
Hey folks, this is a small (couple weeks) project spun out of another chat product we're building. The idea is that a lot of simpler "chat with us" use cases should not resort to intercom's complexity, and most other sim
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Show HN: 99messages, a lightweight olark/intercom alternative(99messages.com)
13 points by EmielMols 9y ago|4 comments
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by EmielMols 9y ago
Of course, but it would be cool if you could also calculate the public component on paper (and ideally verify it computerless as well). You could really create your bitcoin/ether/etc wallet with the public key only, whilst having
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Show HN: Fast-yet-simple golang router(github.com)
2 points by EmielMols 9y ago|0 comments
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by EmielMols 9y ago
> Is it broke people, people working several jobs on minimum wage, ... people trapped in debt? At least in Europe, it is not uncommon that bank/pension/state funds (in effect: everybody's money) buy in latest to these stoc
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by EmielMols 9y ago
This a 100 times. The crypto currency hype only (or at least mainly) redistributes wealth, in my eyes to (tech savvy) people-with-means-already. Yes there might be empowering stories of "smart single moms" making serious money by
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by EmielMols 9y ago
This is not how markets work. Once the "self-driving capabilities are perfect and legal": - investing in such a fleet would be like investing in any other kind of business: it's easier if you have the money, but if not you ca
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by EmielMols 9y ago
I imagine it would be easy enough to - at a discount - sell all the bitcoins to a (single) other party and have them sell the coins over time. Don't know if many entities would want to take such a position, but there are probably at le
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by EmielMols 10y ago
You could always "enhance" the business case by selling "whitelisting" to some of these data collection services. Just ask the guy from adblock plus.
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by EmielMols 10y ago
> “What is the best lense for close ups?” It's just point and shoot really.
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by EmielMols 10y ago
I don't think so. Your API seems to be synchronous, where all modern IndexedDB/WebSQL/etc APIs use promises. The reason they do this is that in modern browsers storage often runs on a separate thread and/or use sqlite an
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by EmielMols 10y ago
This. If travel is avoidable or exchangeable for another destination, just don't go to the states. As a EU citizen that visited Iran last year I'm no longer eligible for ESTA (visaless entry) and that - combined with these horrifi
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by EmielMols 10y ago
I'm always stuped by the fact that when I search for SomeClass I get a dozen of results from tests and the actual class SomeClass in a file called SomeClass.x appears on page 4. Haven't found a way yet to exclude those pesky test
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by EmielMols 10y ago
In The Netherlands almost all banks support a "forwarding service" when switching banks: direct debits to the old account will be forwarded for at least a year to the new bank (account). You can bet the banks didn't think of
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Ask HN: Whatever happened to JavaScript build tool Fez?
3 points by EmielMols 10y ago|1 comments
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by EmielMols 10y ago
As I understand, transactional email is often triggered by a user itself (new account creation, forgot password, etc). By definition, those are sent spread out over time. This is - at least from a spam filter's perspective - a huge ema
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by EmielMols 10y ago
For one, it's pretty challenging to send out 43M similarly-looking emails within 24h without tripping a whole bunch of anti-spam filters - even when you're using tailored services (that distribute over IPs with good rep, etc) like
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by EmielMols 10y ago
We have primarily focused on our iOS/Android apps. That's where 99% of our funnel takes place. Because everything was already built with HTML5 (or actually: WebKit's HTML5), we got Chrome/Safari support almost for free a
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by EmielMols 10y ago
Happening Plugins use Javascript (or Coffeescript compiled to Javascript) for backend logic with simple APIs for Push notifications/HTTP calls/Timers/group management (see for instance https://platform.happening.im
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by EmielMols 10y ago
Thanks for pointing this out!
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by EmielMols 10y ago
I don't think this is a huge problem. Yes, long running queries might introduce lag. When this lag hits a threshold of your choosing, PGBackup (or any service that would offer it) would then gladly send out pager alerts. The same would
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by EmielMols 10y ago
Thanks for your feedback! Are you comfortable with replicating your unencrypted data for your use case? The base_backup+xlog backup is going to be our next feature. Backing those up to s3: possibly. Encrypted?
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by EmielMols 10y ago
Great feedback here, but also through the on-site chat. Again, the current version is built with very limited resources mainly to check if/how the idea would resonate. - We will try to add Point-in-time-recovery asap (saving base backu
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by EmielMols 10y ago
Technically, yes. But we figured the name "backup" is easier to remember, and this would allow us to add a bunch of other 'backup related' services later on :).
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by EmielMols 10y ago
A pretty strictly configured lxc container.
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by EmielMols 10y ago
Yes. Timely base-backups and PITR are obvious next features. We're really trying to determine if the idea resonates with people before throwing developer-years at it (or perhaps choosing a technically different solution to fix the prob
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by EmielMols 10y ago
We might add proxy-over-ssh/vlan options later on, but it would be incompatible with the 2-clicks-and-your-done interface right now. As far as I know, postgres authentication is rather simple and exposing the port does not easily add h
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by EmielMols 10y ago
Thanks for this. That would be an ideal scenario for me as well (it's even mentioned in the FAQ). It's technically rather challenging, but when enough users would ask for it, I know putting some resources into it might be viable.
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by EmielMols 10y ago
Author here, To quote from the FAQ: > Why did you build PGBackup? > We were tired of constantly configuring a postgres replica for each (small) project. And then being pretty unsure if the backup would still be up-to-date by the time

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