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Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file(pocketbase.io)
630 points by dgudkov 3y ago|149 comments
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by dgudkov 3y ago
Warning: unpopular opinion that you won't like. If the audience of HN were writers, singers, and artists, people who know what it's like when the fruits of your work are stolen and you barely make any money (I have friends like th
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by dgudkov 3y ago
You won't believe it, but Excel users are actually surprised. As do users of many other applications.
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by dgudkov 3y ago
Most people don't realize they have them. For instance in most BI/ETL tools the expression below returns false: 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3 In Excel and Google Sheets, this returns false: 2.03 - 0.03 - 2 = 0
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by dgudkov 3y ago
You can see C# or Java code as well. It doesn't make them visual programming languages.
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by dgudkov 3y ago
Is generalization also a form of compression?
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by dgudkov 3y ago
It's not visual.
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by dgudkov 3y ago
So, small Android developers pay all the Google t̶a̶x̶e̶s̶ fees, but big Spotify doesn't.
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LMAX Disruptor – High Performance Inter-Thread Messaging Library(lmax-exchange.github.io)
126 points by dgudkov 3y ago|85 comments
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by dgudkov 3y ago
From the article: >An exciting finding of the present study is that alcohol ethoxylates that are responsible for these toxic effects can be extracted from recently washed dishware and still kept the toxicity. Scientists.
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by dgudkov 3y ago
Can't stop but think that somehow public justice has been delegated to Google.
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Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics [pdf](microsoft.com)
9 points by dgudkov 3y ago|2 comments
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Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications [pdf](sigops.org)
54 points by dgudkov 3y ago|10 comments
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by dgudkov 3y ago
FB on the web is basically unusable without Social Fixer - a browser extension.
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by dgudkov 3y ago
While I applaud any attempts to innovate in this area, I'd be more interested in seeing the opposite approach - integrating persistent storage in a programming language. If we already have default implementations of dictionaries, linke
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by dgudkov 3y ago
I've long been thinking that society is badly missing technology-enabled social tools for finding consensus because, unfortunately, the current social networks and their monetization principles drive exactly the opposite - i.e. polariz
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by dgudkov 3y ago
I mean, if the government wants to buy something from you they do it relatively easily. You don't have to persuade them for months and years as frequently expected in enterprise sales. They just request a quota (RFQ), send a PO, and th
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by dgudkov 3y ago
I know the cost of living is now a standard excuse for everything unfortunate in Canada, but I have an untypical view on this topic: Canadians strike me as a very undemanding nation. I mean, they are ready to go through whatever inconvenien
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by dgudkov 3y ago
Some people just hate to be a corporate drone.
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by dgudkov 3y ago
They only said something like "due to a change in operations".
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by dgudkov 3y ago
The blast radius is bigger when a centralized service is breached into.
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by dgudkov 3y ago
It's not about verifying every claim. It's about trusted sources, as you correctly noticed. The question is: is HAMAS a trusted source for NYT? Because, it looks very much like that.
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Tell HN: Don't use Wise Business (TransferWise) to receive business payments
41 points by dgudkov 3y ago|7 comments
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by dgudkov 3y ago
>Social Media wasn't always Social Media. We weren't promised Social Media. We were promised Social Networking. Brilliant.
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by dgudkov 3y ago
LinkedIn is the only social media where we can have a meaningful social following as a small software company. It has a positive impact on our sales.
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by dgudkov 3y ago
The parent refers to the phenomenon described in detail here: https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-margi...
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by dgudkov 3y ago
This is not a very good analogy because it assumes there is only one option if you build a rocket. A founder should get funding through selling equity (to VCs) if the risks are high. If the risks are low, the founder get funding through deb
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by dgudkov 3y ago
Quebec now tests a hydrogen train. [1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/hydrogen-train-quebec-city-1...
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'If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It': Not True (2014)(forbes.com)
5 points by dgudkov 3y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 3y ago
The article mentions 1991. 1940 is better, but not by a large extent and definitely not enough to justify the use of "ever".

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