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by aosaigh 8y ago
No one here is talking about clients. One of the great benefits of using Rails, Django etc. is that they are stable, very well documented, well supported frameworks with a large ecosystem of libraries and developers. If you are making an ap
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My understanding is that it's the same journalist who wrote that story/book being interviewed in the podcast (Evan Ratliff). Either way, the Atavist piece is a great read and very nicely presented
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I always find replies like this amusing. It seems to be the habit of Hacker News users to focus on minutiae while either missing or ignoring the focus of a submission. It's baffling.
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Another person happily paying $60 for a subscription. Software needs to be maintained and improved, it's never finished. I'm happy to pay for the continued security of my passwords, as well as new features and the ability to seeml
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by aosaigh 8y ago
> Mobile apps should die..for they add little value but cause massive privacy problems. Mobile apps that are a bad fit for the platform should die. Not everything needs to be a mobile app but some products and services absolutely benefit
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This is great, but I'd be worried about easily losing all of my journals by simply clearning my browser history and wiping everything unknowingly. Any plans to wrap this as an Electron app or something that could be installed on the de
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by aosaigh 8y ago
Yes. In fact I posted a similar thread only a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18320236 This along with GDPR popups and now having to verify every device you log in with via email (separate to 2fa) is mak
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Ask HN: What's the latest software, service or subscription you've paid for?
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Ask HN: The sustainability of home delivery?
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> My final theory is that someone is paying them a lot of money for the data they collect for use in training their self-driving vehicle AI. In this case they would want to show you CAPTCHAs more frequently to collect more data to sell f
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Ask HN: Are you seeing an increase in reCaptcha challenges?
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Resilio: https://www.resilio.com/individuals/
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Everyone is worried that Google and/or Facebook are listening to us. Nobody seems to realise that it's actually worse if they _aren't_ listening to us, as it proves that their targeting is so good that they make you think oth
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by aosaigh 8y ago
This is the real issue with WSL. I also tried to move to Windows with WSL but any heavy IO operations (npm install for example) that would take < 1 minute natively took 10 minutes on WSL. I thought I could just use virtual machines withi
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Ask HN: How do you estimate projects?
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I just tried switching to it, but one instant problem is that you can't tie signatures to aliases, you can only tie them to accounts. So for example, I have a number of different email aliases that I switch between, but while Mail _doe
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Ask HN: How are you protecting your privacy?
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If you are on a Mac, you could try Quiver. It's a general purpose note taking app aimed at developers that handles code via Markdown. You can then tag and orgnaise everything. I use it along with Notability on iPad (for hand written st
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Ask HN: What are your thoughts on annual subscriptions for desktop software?
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Can anyone "explain like I'm 5" this issue?
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I disagree. Not all projects need a two tiered approach. For simple webapps a server-side, template-driven framework like Rails, Django etc. will make life much easier. You introduce a lot of added complexity when you go with an API + SPA
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by aosaigh 8y ago
Not a snarky comment, but have you had to share this code with other developers? If so, how did you find getting them up to speed without shared conventions?
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No, I probably wasn't very clear in the original post. More like a video chat service with billing built-in. Code Mentor allows you to have a video chat with somebody and it handles the payment depending on how long you were talking. I
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Ask HN: What are you using to bill one-off online calls/meetings?
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Ask HN: How do you feel about Slack developer communities?
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Ask HN: How are you building cross-platform (mobile and browser) apps?
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by aosaigh 9y ago
Ready Player One. Pages of atrocious dialog and a complete nostalgia fetish that got in the way of some otherwise interesting ideas.
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by aosaigh 9y ago
This happens to me regularly also. I either have to restart Wifi on my phone or reboot the Chromecast. Sometimes I have to reset the Chromecast. That said, I've noticed recently that it sometimes is device-specific and if I switch to m
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Ask HN: How do I turn my smartphone into a dumbphone?
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by aosaigh 9y ago
Thanks. It seems to be a coin toss between the native WSL + Docker and just running everything in a VM

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