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by alien_ 7y ago
I expect that the number of people who die monthly for a certain condition to be relatively stable over time. We can compare the usual number of people who die of pneumonia with the current one, and any significant difference can be attribu
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by alien_ 7y ago
Thanks for the shout-out, really appreciate it. If you don't mind I'd like to get some feedback/feature ideas from users like you. Please get in touch with me on https://gitter.im/cristim
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by alien_ 7y ago
It's easy to raise the billions required to fight this. It's peanuts for governments and even larger companies hoarding tens of billions that have a lot to lose because of such pandemics.
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by alien_ 7y ago
Have a look at https://github.com/AutoSpotting/AutoSpotting or the FAQ section on https://autospotting.org If those don't answer your questions feel free to reach out to me and I'll do my best to
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by alien_ 7y ago
The author of AutoSpotting here, this is often being asked and I'm happy to clarify it. The mixed capacity ASGs currently run at decreased capacity when failing to launch spot instances. AutoSpotting will automatically failover to on-d
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by alien_ 7y ago
The AutoSpotting author here, always feels great to see my little pet project mentioned by happy users. Thank you for making my day! To set matters straight, AutoSpotting pre-dates the new AutoScaling mixed instance types functionality by a
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by alien_ 7y ago
Thank you for the encouraging words, I'll try to make the distinction more clear. Initially I thought to use sidekiq as an example, they run only on an .org but indeed seem to have better separation between their OSS and commercial bit
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by alien_ 7y ago
From https://AutoSpotting.org , a software that I wrote a few years ago and I still maintain and work on occasionally I earn about $450 monthly. I also have a bunch of shares and funds that increased by some $4000 over the last y
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by alien_ 7y ago
I tried this for a while but it decreased user adoption a lot so I added it back but with a savings limit of $1000/month. Looks like most people don't seem to want to build it from source and it deters them to use it if I don&#x27
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Ask HN: Do you find it unethical to monetize open source like this?
8 points by alien_ 7y ago|6 comments
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by alien_ 7y ago
I don't have much to complain about the usability of the software, but they are making hardware that should not be made. I'm the unfortunate user of a MacBook Pro company laptop with 8GB RAM and just two USB-C ports. This sort of
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by alien_ 7y ago
At Amazon, perhaps one of the largest and most successful employers, the solution to this is that when interviewing, everyone's main goal is to hire people better than the current average of the team. To ensure this, someone experience
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by alien_ 7y ago
Likely all they need to do is run Word for typing and printing text documents. This worked perfectly fine with Windows95.
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by alien_ 7y ago
I've recently switched jobs and got a Mac work computer after using Ubuntu for more than a decade. I like some things but I am also frustrated with a number of things: I miss the split clipboard, I hate the insufficient number of USB p
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by alien_ 7y ago
It's already there, I've often seen console output with translated error messages. Helpful for the users but not of much use to developers, unless using error codes as well
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by alien_ 7y ago
This is a matter of billing, if Lambda charged per millisecond instead of the current model of 100ms chunks, this wouldn't be an issue. At scale/high performance there's a lot of waste with the current pricing model.
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by alien_ 7y ago
Better not to sell than to repeat the fate of Wunderlist, the founders wanted to buy it back to avoid the shutdown.
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by alien_ 7y ago
A better way than tagging is to give each team an AWS account to maintain and pay from their own budget.
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by alien_ 8y ago
The Webkit/Blink engine is far from being single vendor, they are vibrant open source projects with many companies that contribute to the development efforts, pretty much all browsers except for Firefox will be based on it soon. Web de
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by alien_ 8y ago
Yes but the military industrial complex that likely lobbied for this would have huge profits if a new arms race starts.
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by alien_ 8y ago
Yes, that's why you should incorporate it in your morning routine right right after waking up, while still wearing the pajamas and then take a shower.
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by alien_ 8y ago
That's actually a great idea, thanks for sharing it! I'll try to make it paid from the mobile phone.
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by alien_ 8y ago
That's pretty much what I also tried to do with AutoSpotting but very few people bothered to pay for it. I suspect the problem is that the people who're using the software are techies who would rather enjoy spending some time comp
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by alien_ 8y ago
Regarding the VPC part of the question, yes. The replacement spot instance will get the same VPC/Subnet/AZ and all the relevant settings from the instance it's supposed to replace. Regarding the AMI/post-instal part of t
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by alien_ 8y ago
Thanks, that's a great summary. We can add a tl;dr with the root cause for each item in the list. Feel free to send me a PR with this.
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by alien_ 8y ago
The incentives if you sell support is to make your software harder to use, design it poorly so that it breaks and people need you to rescue them when something bad happens, or simply deliver security patches timely. The first two and are ag
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by alien_ 8y ago
The initial question was about side projects, that may or may not need to scale but often run at pennies monthly. Hopefully someday the side project launches and makes it to the first page of HackerNews or ProductHunt and then you need to c
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by alien_ 8y ago
Just saw it already exists: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
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by alien_ 8y ago
Just put it on Github like this and the Serverless one I also created after I saw this.
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by alien_ 8y ago
It's not so much about the money as it is about the convenience of not having to maintain that VPS with security patches and so on and automatically getting it scale without any effort if needed. You can just focus on the actual code.

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