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Ask HN: How do static website providers make money?
8 points by bkgunby 10y ago|2 comments
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by bkgunby 10y ago
Yeah, those websites all scored 0's on mozilla's scale. Hence, I thought they were opportunities. But thanks for the heads up. As for the price, I did freelancing online. When I first started, I offered really cheap services, and
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by bkgunby 10y ago
What about websites that are run on top of a 3rd party services? For example, I noticed a lot of doctors use their doctor-specific website generators that use something like weebly (it's crazy - there are ones specifically for optometr
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Ask HN: Devops side projects for a student?
16 points by bkgunby 10y ago|19 comments
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Ask HN: Why are laptop companies moving to touch screen?
1 points by bkgunby 10y ago|0 comments
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by bkgunby 10y ago
I would personally stay away from most of the colors in material design. They're very bright and distracts the user from the actual content. My eyes still have to adjust whenever I see the conspicuous red navbar in the new gmail app. B
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by bkgunby 10y ago
I admit I still catch myself accidentally hitting the browser's back button on a multi-page Ajax form without its own back button. Or having to fill out a form again because, instead of opening a modal or a new tab, the current page ch
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by bkgunby 10y ago
As someone who learned to speak fluently in a different language, I believe the trick is to study the IPA of both your native language and the one you want to learn. This is especially true if you come from a language like English which isn
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Ask HN: How do you take notes (useful note-taking strategies)?
42 points by bkgunby 10y ago|31 comments
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by bkgunby 10y ago
Awesome! I'm new to AWS, and when I tried to setup a static website using cloudfront + s3, I was only aware of the static website option on s3. This is what the docs uses, and it led me to the wrong path it seems! Thanks
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Ask HN: What are the pros and cons of separating static hosting and API server?
1 points by bkgunby 10y ago|0 comments
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by bkgunby 10y ago
I'd appreciate if someone could jump in about the costs of a high traffic website firebase hosting, as I don't have much experience with other hosting platforms.
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by bkgunby 10y ago
Does that work with s3 static websites though? I recall that a different endpoint was needed, and it's only http.
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by bkgunby 10y ago
Yup. It's fine for most simple sites that don't receive much traffic due to almost nonexistent costs. But I personally don't recommend it when there are many alternatives out there these days. Partly SSL is no SSL imo.
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by bkgunby 10y ago
It's worth noting that SSL only works between the browser and Cloudfront servers. Last time I checked there wasn't an option to use SSL with s3. It's not a deal breaker, but it was enough to make me look for alternatives.
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Why Do Websites Need Our Passwords Again?(medium.com)
1 points by bkgunby 10y ago|0 comments