bowersbros

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   by bowersbros 10y ago

   We use Digital Ocean at shopblocks. We use it for both production, and staging, though we do offload our database to Google Cloud. On DO we host our application servers (frontend and backend), as well as our caching, search and monitoring s
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   by bowersbros 10y ago

   I'll be writing a blog post in the coming week and publishing it on HN regarding how we do it; its a simpler method I think, though we aren't the scale of Etsy yet, but should be useful for smaller startups to adopt.
3. 33.▲
   by bowersbros 10y ago

   Bankers are often pretty well paid, and probably would be compensated (at least in the short term) for inconvenience and cost, until they can be relocated or similar
4. 34.▲
   by bowersbros 10y ago

   I agree. There are a lot of people already who commute to London from, say, Manchester on a Monday, and back on a Friday, and stay away for the work-week. That is also a possibility
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   by bowersbros 10y ago

   There is a 2hr train from London to Paris. It is possible that some traders would commute that, it isn't an unheard of distance. It would be tricky without freedom of movement etc, but it is doable.
6. 36.▲
   by bowersbros 10y ago

   It says 20% of its london revenue, but I was only able to find its worldwide revenue ($60bn for 2015), anyone know what the London specific revenue was?
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   by bowersbros 10y ago

   If any particular event springs to mind, feel free to send either an issue or a PR with a link to an article on the event, and it can be added. These are based on some rather vague criteria (in the readme), and what events I happen to know
8. 38.▲
   by bowersbros 10y ago

   Thanks, thats been applied now. :)
9. 39.▲
   by bowersbros 10y ago

   Weird. Windows?
10. 40.▲
    by bowersbros 10y ago

    Added the favicon. Suffice to say, you should now believe I am no front-end designer.
11. 41.▲
    by bowersbros 10y ago

    Thanks, i'll get around to that sometime today :)
12. 42.▲
    by bowersbros 10y ago

    Please could you explain or screenshot what you mean by strange? The scrollbar should only be there if the height of the description area is too large, such that it needs to be scrollable.
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    by bowersbros 10y ago

    Build using: - VueJS 2.0 This was a learning experience for me in Vue, so any code reviews in that would be very helpful. The design was by a hired freelancer as its an area I desperately do badly at. Code is here: https://github
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    Show HN: 2017.sucks – List bad events that happen this year(2017.sucks)

    9 points by bowersbros 10y ago|12 comments
15. 45.▲
    by bowersbros 10y ago

    I'm using google chrome, but it doesn't work for me. Suggests using Google Chrome, because webGL. Chrome 55
16. 46.▲
    by bowersbros 10y ago

    Could things such as chemical imbalance or just the chemicals themselves affect metabolism / digestion, causing weight gain?
17. 47.▲
    by bowersbros 10y ago

    No, because you wouldn't be willing to buy the entire company, or a large enough percentage to show interest in the entire company
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    by bowersbros 10y ago

    Just checked on fast.com - 80Mb/s I've just checked the Project Management one again. Can't right click again (not sure if because of heavy JS, or its restricted), took 13.7 seconds to load (hard refresh), 6.0 MB of content,
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    by bowersbros 10y ago

    Some examples: http://www.igniteui.com/application-samples Some points: Project Management Dashboard takes about 30 seconds to load (on a loading bar), [s]and has right click disabled[/s] It appears my computer must ha
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    by bowersbros 10y ago

    What stops you from seeing code you aren't allowed (ie. the search algorithm) if its a monolithic repo? Also, with a repository that large, how do you have it setup locally that is usable?
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    by bowersbros 10y ago

    Wont they be cached from other peoples websites saving the download?
22. 52.▲
    by bowersbros 10y ago

    Give them time, once their customers realise they're being shafted, they'll soon change their mind.
23. 53.▲
    by bowersbros 11y ago

    That film was more a memorial towards Alan Turing though. It doesn't make a good memorial to say, 'These guys did it first'.
24. 54.▲
    by bowersbros 11y ago

    Have you looked into Foundation for Emails? A new version has just come out (or is coming out very soon). http://foundation.zurb.com/emails
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    by bowersbros 11y ago

    I believe that MySQL 5.7 comes with JSON data types too. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/json.html