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by city41 6y ago
> what they were failing at was attracting hardware companies to ship pre-installed systems. Microsoft told hardware manufacturers that if they ship machines with BeOS they would charge them more for Windows licenses. https://
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by city41 6y ago
Here is a similar conversation from about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23118940
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by city41 6y ago
Ah I see, cool thanks for clarifying. That does make sense.
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by city41 6y ago
Yeah I saw that in your article. I’m wondering why bother with the cloud server? Why not scrape all stores from home?
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by city41 6y ago
Myself and the person I was replying to ran our scrapers from our homes. One benefit being the IP address doesn’t get flagged. Curious why scraping from your home network doesn’t work for you?
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by city41 6y ago
I did the same thing when I was running a scraper. I throttled the requests quite low to be respectful so it took a while to gather all the data, but it worked just fine. For this article, does the OP feel they need the proxy due to scrapin
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by city41 6y ago
> Amazon's brand (as a store / marketplace) is that it helps you sort through many options to select the product they believe you will like the best. Is that their brand though? I've never been convinced of that due to all
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by city41 6y ago
Try it again, the author said he fixed it in the comments on his page. It is working correctly for me on iOS.
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by city41 6y ago
I took a stab at putting Linux on a MacBook about 4 years ago or so. I found dealing with the Broadcom wifi and bluetooth more hassle than I bargained for, and switched to a Thinkpad. Has the Broadcom driver situation improved? I was surpri
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by city41 6y ago
Not sure if the blogs from tech companies can really count here. Those articles are made with the company's interest in mind, typically to boost recruiting. In my experience, they are always written on company time.
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by city41 6y ago
Based on your bio, you may be a bit biased in your assessment.
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by city41 6y ago
Modern browsers support very long URLs. Chrome supports URLs up to 2mb for example. Probably makes sense to think about the impact on users before using such long URLs, I have found it confuses people, and can also make sharing things on so
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by city41 6y ago
Do you believe you don't need to compromise morals to work at Google? They're not the most wholesome of companies. You pretty much need to compromise some morals to work just about anywhere. Just Facebook stands out as being more
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by city41 6y ago
When has self promotion here been frowned upon? It’s even officially supported with “Show HN” posts.
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by city41 6y ago
That is very common practice on HN. Submitting a link here is a lottery that one rarely wins.
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by city41 6y ago
As a counter, if you look at the code, there's a lot of DOM api calls littered throughout which obscure what is going on. This could be relieved by pulling out the DOM manipulation into common constructs that all parts of the app use,
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by city41 6y ago
It appears the entire app was written with vanilla JS. That's just an observation. I wouldn't have expected that nowadays. The app is super impressive!
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by city41 6y ago
I’m confused about the blog-posts repo. Why wouldn’t that be the only data source? Why would you want to pull in other repos?
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by city41 6y ago
The kicker with Gatsby is it’s actually not compatible with GitHub or any hosting where you can’t control caching headers. Gatsby relies on page-data.json files to not be cached[1] in order to work correctly. This is not possible with GitHu
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by city41 6y ago
What do you mean by SSR with Gatsby? Dynamic rendering at the time of page request, or rendering static HTML at build time? If the former, can you share some links?
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by city41 6y ago
I’m a Gatsby fan and have built several sites with it. But I do recognize it’s a dead end at its core. Its main use case is data driven static sites, and it does that case very well. But when it tries to extend beyond that, the results are
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by city41 6y ago
I don't really use too many apps overall. Most of my bugs are in the core OS itself and Safari. For example, I get hit with this one pretty often (blank page in Safari): https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2507400
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by city41 6y ago
Interesting. I wonder if usage patterns are a factor here. I also dual carried android/iphone (actually, I still do). I honestly consider the iOS of today the buggiest software I've ever used.
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by city41 6y ago
I've only lightly played with this so far, but it feels about what you're after: https://phasereditor2d.com/
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by city41 6y ago
I just switched to Android because iOS is so incredibly buggy. Android is pretty buggy too, but not nearly as bad. I'm afraid we're currently living in dark times for software :(
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by city41 6y ago
I like the Santa Rosa area, Sonoma, even the Sacramento area can be nice if you’re ok with hot summers. I’ve never been to Palm Springs myself but have heard good things. Ventura is also reasonable considering what you get: beach, proximity
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by city41 6y ago
We wanted a quieter, slower life. We researched a lot of places in the Midwest and south and Michigan came out ahead for us. We’re also right in the middle of my parents and wife’s parents. I plan to work remotely for the rest of my career,
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by city41 6y ago
Are you looking for major cities/tech hubs? California is huge, plenty of very nice and affordable areas if you are ok with being away from a major hub.
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by city41 6y ago
I grew up in the Midwest as did my wife. We are ok with winters. We’ve also lived in Denver and Chicago.
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by city41 6y ago
I just moved to a small town in Michigan from San Jose this week. I love the lack of traffic, my giant backyard and deck, how completely quiet and pitch black it is at night and that I have yet to meet a software developer. Nothing against

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