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by bikamonki 4y ago
Can it be fixed though? The hate factory is the end-game of how the software was built (follows, retweets, etc) and how people use the software. What is the plan here? Re-program Twitter? Invent a new social network where the end-game is no
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by bikamonki 4y ago
I am not sure Elon can fix Twitter b/c I am not sure Social Networks can be fixed at all.
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by bikamonki 5y ago
. And yet, every small business needed custom engineering work to be done, making integration slow. Several engineers mentioned how they did not understand how spending lots of engineering effort for each small client resulting in little r
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Routine. Hard to focus if you do not have your daily schedule under control.
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Ask HN: Do Fuel Tabs Work?
2 points by bikamonki 5y ago|1 comments
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Awesome, I look forward to try your managed service.
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Strictly speaking, if I spin up a droplet on DO and install Appwrite on it, it won't be a BAAS anymore, correct? Sorry but "self-host your own BAAS" is an oxymoron. IMO, developers who chose Firebase do not want to manage ser
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Do you use Lapce to edit Lapce's source code?
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by bikamonki 5y ago
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/20/automated-dice-tester-uses-m...
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by bikamonki 5y ago
If you need to code a game to teach your users how to properly use your products...
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Hold on. I think only a handful of geniuses understands the whole stack: from electrons moving in your PC to a hyperlink. Even they are really only good (experienced) at one thin slice of that big layered cake. Most in this trade work on a
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by bikamonki 5y ago
A few decades back nobody new, or cared, that smoking cigarettes was so bad for your health and everyone else around you. You can wait a couple of decades to realize, or accept, that social media is bad for your health and everyone else aro
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Ask HN: What do I need to setup a PKI business?
3 points by bikamonki 5y ago|1 comments
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Just wait for the movie :)
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by bikamonki 5y ago
I never jumped into the React wagon, just as I never took the Wordpress train. You do not hire an 18-wheeler to deliver a pizza. Engineers on any subject have one job: design the optimal solution, be it a bridge or an SPA to take online ord
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Firebase
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by bikamonki 5y ago
If a) I can work from anywhere, and b) many countries will let me stay 6mos with a tourist visa (no need for application and meet requirements). Why would I choose a friggin cold and expensive place?
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by bikamonki 5y ago
This is per capita right? So a family of 5 making $4500/mo in Bolivia would be considered rich, the same family with that income in London is barely surviving. Not sure how these percentages will move if adjusted for purchasing power.
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Well put. Not everything is bad about crypto, some ideas may turn into the "next thing". One use I find interesting and look forward to see if it grows into something truly useful is DAOs. I know is a naive thought but I do see de
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by bikamonki 5y ago
One should not buy things that one does not needed. Money spent in education and travel (which is just a form of education) is the best investment. Convince me that I am wrong.
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Reading this thread I can see that finally HN has turn into another Twitter. That is sad. I thought we were a different crowd: objective, respectful, inquisitive, non-political. Is this the endgame for all social nets?
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Too bad the Internet hijacked the term meme: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/richard-dawkins-memes
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Let's agree on a definition first: web 3.0 is using blockchain tech to replace current server-side computing (static file hosting, functions/processing, databases, etc) and online centralized services (payments, identity, etc). So
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Some, not all.
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Hold it. Apparently, the motivation here is to acknowledge that these animals are somehow sentient; in other words, if any law is passed, it will be to prohibit practices that make these animals suffer. Nothing is said here about depredatio
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Will there be a law prohibiting other predators, not humans, from hunting these animals?
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by bikamonki 5y ago
If you've been doing web dev from the go, you surely remember Front Page and Dreamweaver. Both built the code from the Adobe Photoshop layers. Completely no-code (perhaps b/c gathering user data from web forms was not done just ye
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by bikamonki 5y ago
Way, way beyond cool, right out there on the horizon of what is possibly great. Greatastic! greatastic greatas·tic of the greatest quality; Great. "the greatastic works of the Socratic philosopher"
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by bikamonki 5y ago
I use Firebase. Most projects don't need more than the free tier. A few are on the paid tier; however, the monthly cost is covered by revenue and way below the cost of running our own infra. I would not switch services/host a back
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by bikamonki 5y ago
More importantly: will it ever be paid? Let's say this is a household that decides to stop accumulating debt and starts a pay off plan. How long will it take?

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