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by berns 10y ago
https://www.ovh.com/us/cloud/instances/prices.xml
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by berns 10y ago
The OVH numbers are wrong. For example in the public cloud for $ 80 you get 60GB RAM, 4 vcores and 400 GB disk (or 200 GB SSD no raid).
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by berns 10y ago
An Oregon datacenter was also announced this year: http://mj.ovh.com/nl2/4tpt/xsvw.html
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by berns 10y ago
Telegram channels https://telegram.org/faq_channels
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by berns 10y ago
> Bought Orkut, killed it, tried Google Plus, went nowhere Add Jaiku.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaiku
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by berns 10y ago
You can use Whatsapp web in a tablet. I guess it isn't officially supported because you have to request the desktop version, but it works.
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by berns 10y ago
> Edit: A bunch of people are saying "why not remote". I think they are in fact mostly remote, but they still have to compete with SV wages because really good people command those wages whether they are here or not. This doesn
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by berns 10y ago
You can use text/html. Technically it wouldn't be an XML resource, but it's correct for HTML5. You can also use an xhtml doctype[1]. And don't forget that the HTML5 namespace is http://www.w3.org/1999&#x2
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by berns 10y ago
Another Discourse forum. I was sceptical that the Discourse style of forum would become popular. Too complex and heavy, specially for mobile. I must admit that it's looking very good and is very usable.
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Post-mortem of Google cloud incident on August 22(groups.google.com)
3 points by berns 10y ago|0 comments
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by berns 10y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12289975
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by berns 10y ago
"Telegram breached", "Hackers break into Telegram", "Iranian Hackers Just Cracked Telegram". I didn't think any of these nonsense titles would reach the first page of Hacker News.
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by berns 10y ago
At some point Whatsapp will be banned completely. Otherwise what would prevent conversations using push to talk. I use it when my connection or the other's end one is unreliable. What's the difference?
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by berns 10y ago
Interesting, I searched for the "enterprise version" on shop.oracle.com. It's listed at USD 1,000 / socket.
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by berns 10y ago
Typescript is a superset of Javascript, but it it's not only Javascript plus types. Some features like async/await could end up being implemented differently in Ecmascript. It seems inevitable that there could be incompatibilities
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by berns 10y ago
OVH Public Cloud Object Storage. It's $ 0.01 per GB for storage and transfer. Triple replicated with datacenters in Europe and Canada. It uses Open Stack Swift which has a nice api and tools.
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by berns 10y ago
That's why progressive web apps are so interesting. It's only after you visit a site a couple of times that the banner to add to home screen appears. And you don't have to download a whole app, just the app shell. If you visi
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by berns 10y ago
Telegram has custom keyboards and they are very useful. https://core.telegram.org/bots#keyboards
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by berns 10y ago
Borges taught himself German to be able read Arthur Schopenhauer in its original language. Interestingly he also learned to read Italian by reading an English translation of the Divine comedy with the original text in one page and the trans
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by berns 10y ago
I think they still own the trademark. So even if anyone can fork node.js they can't use the name.
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by berns 11y ago
The very popular Oxford Learner's Dictionary uses a limited vocabulary of 3 500 words for its definitions.
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by berns 11y ago
It's no longer visible without signing in. Really annoying. You can add /search to the url in the home page or on the main page of any repository.
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by berns 11y ago
Then we'll have the problem of us humans trying to predict the behaviour of the machine that unintuitively will be harder than predicting that of other humans. Of course the system will be much safer when there are no more humans invol
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by berns 11y ago
I would say: For a big chunk of the population in developed countries. If you saw a person get one of those big things to take a call on a crowded bus you would realize how inappropriate they can be. (But of course nobody talks on their pho
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by berns 11y ago
Can you comment on how this project differs from Orion?
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by berns 11y ago
This is not correct. GCE is now (1-Oct) available in the South Carolina data center (us-east).
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by berns 11y ago
Comparing the sum of economic transactions to government income is not relevant. Just as with anything in economy you have to think in the margins (marginal demand, marginal tax rate, etc.) I'm not saying that taxes are the only demand
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by berns 11y ago
Fiat currency is just a number. Who would want a number? It's taxes that create demand. The problem with the supposed usefulness of bitcoins is that the interesting part is the technology, but the numbers are irrelevant. You can make a
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by berns 11y ago
We were talking about fiat currency.
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by berns 11y ago
It is accepted because it is needed. Everybody needs it to pay taxes, other than that it has no value.

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