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by abraae 6y ago
I think of a billion as (very roughly) half of a cruise liner or half of a casino in the strip in Vegas. Not sure how accurate that is but at $5b, I imagine zapier as a cruise ship tied up alongside a glittering glass casino.
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by abraae 6y ago
> It's all marketing and popularity contests, and SOAP/XML/XSD lost out. I believe the triumph of REST over SOAP was mainly piggy-backed off of the triumph of JSON over XML (even though neither has technically anything to
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by abraae 6y ago
> If many companies are doing it, and many are forced (or feel forced) to do it in order to compete, then it isn't fair to just single one or two of them for public shaming via a publicly funded broadcaster. Sorry but if you're
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by abraae 6y ago
That's an excellent point. Although to go down that road, schemaless databases preceded RDBMS by decades, and then were replaced for good reasons.
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by abraae 6y ago
For some reason many programmers love to hate technologies that are old. Hate floats, love big decimals Hate OOP, love functional Hate RDBMS, love nosql Hate html web pages, love SPA In my opinion it's a confluence of influences. 1) th
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by abraae 6y ago
Linus really does write beautifully. Love his style, concise, easily readable, frank, honest with nice human touches.
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by abraae 6y ago
So true. I enjoy discussing parenting articles with our 8 year old. Yesterday it was one about "yelling less and praising less" [0]. We had a great discussion about the concepts. Then some fun trying out faint praise and faint yel
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by abraae 6y ago
Fair comment. However I don't see many web sites with a "sign in with FusionAuth" button, and I don't see any way to get such a button for my site. Not without paying anyway - which is really my whole point. Free will al
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by abraae 6y ago
Keycloak is fantastic. You want 2FA? Password expiry? SSO? Keycloak does it all. I can't imagine starting any product now without considering Keycloak.
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by abraae 6y ago
The problem is that Google, FB, Microsoft and all the other "auth providers" are able to deliver a good and free auth service because it's subsidised by their other products. Whereas Okta, Auth0, etc. cannot, since that is
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by abraae 6y ago
TFA does not say that $1B is for Australia - implies it's worldwide.
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by abraae 6y ago
> Ask anyone who's been in a long distance relationship. Hardly a fair comparison. You don't have to love, or even have any real feelings towards business colleagues, customers etc. The opposite to a long distance relationship.
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by abraae 6y ago
So Facebook's revenues are approx $80b, and they're going to pay $1b over 3 years, for all of the real news content they rely on to drive traffic on their platform. 0.4% of revenue sounds way too cheap for that. If FB lost legitim
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by abraae 6y ago
Australia doesn't really have a robust fourth estate. It has a Murdoch-ruled empire which is pretty much the propaganda arm of the rightwing Liberal government, though it's hard to say who wags who's tail. FB is an insane ech
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by abraae 6y ago
Privileged yes, meandering yes, but according to a pattern of following things that were interesting to him. That's perhaps why he found himself in the right place and the right time. Takes some balls to live life like that instead of
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by abraae 6y ago
That's a fascinating question. We hear a lot of talk about planting forests to combat climate change. But it seems very feasible that just planting whatever is thriving today will backfire in 20 years time when that species becomes unv
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by abraae 6y ago
> The seedlings are planted very densely—20,000 to 30,000 per hectares as opposed to 1,000 per hectare in commercial forestry. For a period of two to three years, the site is monitored, watered, and weeded, to give the nascent forest eve
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by abraae 6y ago
> Traditional applications that require Windows, a legacy .NET runtime and IIS don’t tend to fit quite as seamlessly into modern cloud practices. So a low-risk approach to adopting cloud can be as simple as building new functionality wit
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by abraae 6y ago
We have a public health system in NZ, i.e. free healthcare. We also have private health insurance, 30-40 percent of the population take that up. When you go public you will need to wait in a longer line, you won't get the flowers next
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by abraae 6y ago
I suspect there is a silent majority who enjoy Java's industrial reliability, its longevity, and the sheer volume of libraries and online resources, and can't be bothered raising their heads above the parapet every time someone st
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by abraae 6y ago
Google had to blink sooner or later. It would be a loss for them if they were blocked from the Aussie market and other alternatives like Bing, DDG became popular. That could lead to a dominoes scenario where other countries realised they co
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by abraae 6y ago
As long as you select the right product to focus on, that sounds an excellent plan.
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by abraae 6y ago
Old video terminals demonstrate the beauty and timelessness of solid protocol design. While old computers are effectively useless except as curiosities, an old video terminal is still just as good at its job as when new.
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by abraae 6y ago
I would not dismiss grafana + influxdb out of hand. You can embed grafana charts inside iframes, hiding the controls, driving it instead with parameters, it's a powerful way to add graphs to a larger system.
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by abraae 6y ago
Surely that would constitute cloaking? Much frowned on by Google.
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by abraae 6y ago
Seems like a lose lose situation for Google to me. If the Aussies call their bluff, then 90% of the population will switch to Bing/ddg and will be fine. More discerning Aussie searchers - like people googling for why their spring boot
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by abraae 6y ago
There are levels of survival. Yes, in a post-apocalyptic society you probably won't be able to get your medical gloves. But you will be better off that the middle ages, because you'll know about sterilizing your instruments and so
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by abraae 6y ago
> Hoping the above won’t happen is not a strategy but a gamble. Life's a gamble. Crossing the road on your way to work is gamble. Heck it's a gamble that you won't be taken out in the next 12 months by an insidious disease
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by abraae 6y ago
Regretfully it's not in any state to share. But basically it was: - simple Android app capture heart rate data over bluetooth from a polar chest band - send the data up to a server and pipe it into influxdb database - display using gra
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by abraae 6y ago
I have atrial fibrillation (AF) and a few years ago I built a system to monitor my own heart rate using grafana. I can strongly recommend it. I used influxdb to store the raw data.

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