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by alien_ 8y ago
Sounds much like rabies. The other critical feature is how easy it is passed on to a new victim, the worst scenario is being airborne.
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by alien_ 8y ago
I agree that open core is not ideal if you do it to the extreme as described in the article, but it can be done with moderation to get much more money, which could be invested in the open source part and have it thrive as well, like for ex
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Show HN: List of serverless failure stories(github.com)
75 points by alien_ 8y ago|19 comments
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by alien_ 8y ago
The recent devices are more overpriced than ever and getting over the limit of what ordinary people are willing to pay for a phone. I have an iPhone 6s and my wife had a 6 and needed a new phone. We bought a new Xr but it was a small fortun
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by alien_ 8y ago
The users of an open source project I started often give great feedback and appear to love it. But a very small minority like it enough to donate to support the development efforts, even though it is saving them significant amounts of money
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Fatih Arslan stops working on vim-go and other projects(arslan.io)
1 points by alien_ 8y ago|0 comments
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by alien_ 8y ago
This is happening all over the industry, pretty much all companies just make use of open source software without giving a penny to the thousands of projects they leverage on a daily basis to make profit or even keep the lights on. As someo
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by alien_ 8y ago
Jenkins is not the problem, we have quite a few secured instances which wouldn't leak secrets like this, or at least not to non-admin or unauthenticated users. It's just often misconfigured because there are a plethora of plugins
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by alien_ 8y ago
Companies should invest in the open source they depend on, otherwise they will need to re-implement it from scratch or maintain an in-house fork with higher costs. You may be spending those sprints implementing a workaround that you will th
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by alien_ 8y ago
Nowadays most software depends on open source one way or another, and as developer you will eventually run into issues with the open source software that you depend on. Also, larger companies internally operate much like an open source comm
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by alien_ 8y ago
Skype was also a similar purchase. The pattern seems to be about dominant companies in the productivity/development space. I wouldn't be surprised if companies like Atlassian, Slack, Jetbrains, Docker or Hashicorp are next.
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by alien_ 9y ago
Great article, and an interesting use of Lambda, thanks for sharing! To answer your final question: I wrote a spot instance automation tool, you can check it out at autospotting.org, so I would give spot instances a try. The latest developm
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Ask HN: Go OSS project rewritten twice in other languages,what am I doing wrong?(autospotting.org)
1 points by alien_ 9y ago|0 comments
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by alien_ 9y ago
The main non-gimmicky differentiators of the iPhone from Android are longer term support for software updates and more efficient software that achieves a longer battery life. The reality is that both software and battery show their age and
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by alien_ 9y ago
At work I've got more familiar with Terraform, got started with Kubernetes, and contributed significantly to the infrastructure of a few awesome projects. In my spare time I've been maintaining my Autospotting pet project, which i
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by alien_ 9y ago
Considering how much a new iPhone costs and the obscene margins they get from selling these devices, Apple could just do the courtesy of replacing the battery for free a couple of times per device and would still have a decent margin.
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by alien_ 9y ago
Most new drives can do encryption in hardware with zero performance penalty using either the ATA password or Opal for NVMe. For those doing software/CPU encryption on the swap, or any other partition for the matter is simply wasteful a
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by alien_ 9y ago
This already exists, check out LicenseZero and Faircode. The problem is this is against one of the criteria for a license to be approved by the Open Source Initiative, which states that the users are all treated equal regardless of the purp
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Reducing Your AWS Spend with AutoSpotting and Rancher(rancher.com)
1 points by alien_ 9y ago|0 comments
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by alien_ 9y ago
If they do have a problem paying $90 or even $1000 for a piece of software they really need, they are free to ask one of their developers to write one in house from scratch and see how much this sunken time would cost them. The sad reality
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by alien_ 9y ago
Spot fleets are really powerful but they take a lot of parameters and are quite hard to get configured right. But running standalone spot requests is indeed much worse. Autoscaling groups come much more natural to people, it's just tha
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by alien_ 9y ago
Shameless plug: if you are using autoscaling and have stateless/12factor components, you would like to try spot instances but don't feel like spending time and much effort with a migration to spot fleets, just give autospotting a
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by alien_ 9y ago
Open source developers tend to maintain or contribute to multiple projects at the same time, and a small set of them can be monetized with this. This allows monetizing those, and does it targeted to large companies who can easily afford it
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by alien_ 9y ago
The reality is open source developers tend to maintain multiple projects at the same time, and a small set of them can be monetized with this. I think monetizing those, targeted to large companies who can easily afford it and would happily
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by alien_ 9y ago
Office and productivity software is far from a killer mobile app. Mobile devices are mainly used for real-time communication or consuming content, much less at creating significant amount of content, where MSOffice shines on the desktop.
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Show HN: Hacking a list of Kita contacts(github.com)
4 points by alien_ 9y ago|0 comments
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by alien_ 9y ago
Shameless plug: I wrote a small tool which allows users to update the kernel to the latest version or rc build, since this is not really a ppa exposed as apt repository: https://github.com/cristim/kernel-update
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Show HN: A golang lib for specs and pricing information about EC2 instance types(github.com)
1 points by alien_ 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Instance-drainer – cleanly remove current AWS EC2 instance from its ELB(github.com)
2 points by alien_ 10y ago|0 comments
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by alien_ 10y ago
How hard would it be to convert it to other more or less related laptop models? Would it make sense to have a shared component that applies on multiple models, and a smaller part to be model-specific?

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