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Ask HN: What sources of news do you read?
2 points by asim 3y ago|2 comments
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by asim 3y ago
"why they didn't catch on" is sort of false because they were very dominant for many years. It might predate the author but we were doing a lot of CGI with ruby and PHP before the days of nginx or the fpm patch. In a time whe
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This ^^. What we call "work" gets totally redefined in later years. That flip makes you realise, you are not your job and your job is just a means to an end.
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This is a beautifully poignant post about life and selling one's time. At 39 I've reached this point where I can verbalise that sentiment whereas before I could only really feel it. Having to sell one's time to others sucks.
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Something else
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Poll: Choice of App Hosting
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AWS
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Heroku
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Render
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Fly
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DigitalOcean App Platform
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Firebase
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Google Cloud Run
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Google App Engine
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Self hosted
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The idea is not bad. Execution is always hard with this stuff. I've done a pure Go app platform with this sort of desire for a native tool chain but it's very hacky. I do wonder whether wasm will solve some of this but sometimes i
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Ask HN: What does "the network is the computer" mean to you?
3 points by asim 3y ago|2 comments
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And fly becomes the standard cloud provider like everyone else. I think this transition is only natural. It's hard to be a big business without catering to the needs of larger companies and that is the operation of many services, not i
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Agreed. This is really about defining a command and query language that's much more like the commands in a terminal or a cli. I think the fact that we're moving to this verbose approach is a sort of anti pattern and we'll see
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I have realised just how meaningless valuations now are. As much as we use them as a marker of success, you can find someone to write the higher valuation ticket when it suits their agenda too e.g the markup, the status signal, or just gett
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Ask HN: Do You Use LinkedIn?
4 points by asim 3y ago|5 comments
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Wrote similar when I was working on an API platform. Used http callbacks. https://m3o.com/cron/api#Schedule
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"...She treats engineers as commodities in a way that is dehumanising, reassigning people against their will in ways that have no relationship to their skill set..." You know, I remember a time I said, management just think of eng
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At least he's making light of the situation. It could be a lot more tense than this.
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Show HN: Mu – A community led app platform(mu.xyz)
1 points by asim 3y ago|0 comments
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This is giving me "wasm is the new llvm" vibes. Anyone else getting that? I understand what it's attempting to do and have seen some demonstration of that power but for the most part it is still very technically low level and
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Show HN: News app based solely on RSS(mu.app)
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Had the exact same experience time and time again. Ended up having to literally write my own recipe app https://mu.app/recipes . Every so often I copy one from the internet and store it there. Saves me so much time not havin
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Very cool, working on something similar here - https://mu.app - more of a super app. It's great to see such a positive response to an app store for web apps. There's definitely a need for evolution away from the curren
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