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by dchuk 8y ago
Interesting how much time and effort was spent on something that looks great but uses such a fantastically imprecise icon for the actual thing it's mapping. Is the bottom of the handle the "point" where the court actually is?
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by dchuk 9y ago
Are you actually calling out arguably the most successful web software company of all time (primarily through search and adwords) for being incompetent? A company that profits billions a...quarter? Maybe chat just doesn't make them any
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by dchuk 9y ago
Because they're so damn complicated. The guys at my work made the switch to containers months ago and we've yet to realize any gains from them, whether that be productivity, efficiency, cost savings, scaling...the list goes on. De
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by dchuk 9y ago
I was just in San Francisco over the weekend, and this tower really caught me off guard. Thing is fuckin massive, completely changes the skyline. Crazy to think about in a city as notoriously expensive as SF.
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Ask HN: Anyone converted to handwritten digital note taking?
4 points by dchuk 9y ago|0 comments
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by dchuk 9y ago
> then quickly excludes registered domains using a bloom filter Can you share more details on this part? Are you using Zone files to check availability? DNS checks? Whois?
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by dchuk 9y ago
Musk is a marketing expert. Every time bad news is about to come out about one of his core businesses, he has some new distraction to push. I say this as a guy who admires him a lot, but it's plainly obvious that he knows how to contro
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by dchuk 9y ago
Looks like I need to add a lot more feeds to https://engineered.at later today!
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by dchuk 9y ago
I've been researching this a lot lately as I have a strong interest in learning Spanish, and came across this method: http://www.jonkenpo.net/method-listening-reading/ Basically you read a book in the language you
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by dchuk 9y ago
Have you read the official docs? http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html 2.3.3 Sending Email To Multiple Recipients It is possible to send email to one or more recipients in one email (e.g., informing all ad
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by dchuk 9y ago
Can you give real examples? I've always heard this complaint about Rails but have also built a few large apps in it and never felt these problems myself.
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by dchuk 9y ago
Interesting feedback. Not sure how I could make the interface more minimal, it's pretty stark as it is. The backdated stuff is weird I'll admit, but they also posted a bunch of things in the last couple days so could be screwing w
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by dchuk 9y ago
Not a direct answer to your question, but I maintain an HN-like aggregator of engineering blogs here: https://engineered.at These types of posts pop up there pretty frequently
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by dchuk 9y ago
Nice, thanks for the reply. Looking at their site, it looks like they now support a true headless mode: https://docs.slimerjs.org/master/release-notes-1.0.html "With Firefox 56 and more, SlimerJS can be trully hea
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by dchuk 9y ago
Nice thanks for the link. So if I'm understanding correctly, your app essentially runs as a standalone api, receiving pdf requests, queueing them, processing them, then hitting a specific webhook url on success for other systems to the
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by dchuk 9y ago
so I have an upcoming side project that will heavily leverage scraping/screenshotting and I plan to use either headless chrome or slimerjs. It will be a Rails app, queueing up lots of sidekiq jobs, that I (presumably) will have calling
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by dchuk 9y ago
Never. Never finished college, left with 1.5 semesters to go (kinda asked to leave really because of poor attendance) and just got straight into working. Connected with good people who cared more about ability than credentials and never loo
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Faster Pathname Handling for Ruby Written in Rust(github.com)
3 points by dchuk 9y ago|0 comments
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by dchuk 9y ago
It's actually NOT a perfect system for serverless, because it's a read-only (no writes), simple search "web app". The one thing that you don't get from a VM in your list is high availability I'll give you that,
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by dchuk 9y ago
Well, it's the inverse of cruise control. So some comparable way to disengage quickly like tapping on the brakes could be thought up I'm sure.
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by dchuk 9y ago
You could host this whole thing on the cheapest Digitalocean droplet if it were written as the person you're replying to described.
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by dchuk 9y ago
Sort of related, but an idea I had recently on a longer drive: I want a max speed control in my car. Not cruise control, I just want to be able to set the max speed I can ever drive on my current trip (say, 75 mph) and then my car only ever
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by dchuk 9y ago
Maybe their product is worth the price because the features you just rattled off aren't provided by other companies to a satisfactory degree and therefore Dropbox is 5x better than competitors for you?
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by dchuk 9y ago
""Spotify & Apple Music" --> Rhapsody/Napster already had this in 2001" Yeah but neither of those had a billion+ smart phones to deliver their subscription service to. Not really their fault, but clearly mobi
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by dchuk 9y ago
whoa what's up man?! Wickedfire paths cross in the most random ways haha
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by dchuk 9y ago
My startup built an extended version of JSON Schema that also supports conditional logic and data references to power a customer-configurable Workflow system. Basically a lightweight way to script a series of tasks with more advanced valida
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by dchuk 9y ago
Services cost money to run. Clearly this service delivered value to you and your group. You could have just asked everyone to donate $0.25+ at each meetup to keep it going. $15 is very reasonable, especially because IoT has many business&#x
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by dchuk 9y ago
I'm in this exact situation right now (recently funded company, scaling out, increasing confusion from the implementation team about overall vision/strategy/direction because everyone is so busy) and ultimately came to this s
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by dchuk 9y ago
Of course you have to build things in steps. The idea is that you build something smaller/simpler first that delivers some value to the customer that requires way less steps than the complicated thing. Building a car requires many thou
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by dchuk 9y ago
I think because it's enabled by default with most publishing platforms/cms it will naturally just stay alive into the future. It's a great medium in my opinion, and I prefer to use my feed reader to keep up with sites I would

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