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by dreyfan 5y ago
I'll just point to the millions of torrent files today that will remain unseeded forever. Durability with P2P only works as a complement to centralization.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Are we just ceding Javascript to Microsoft at this point due to the ubiquity of Typescript?
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by dreyfan 5y ago
It’s not particularly difficult to setup for full text search backend + API: solr, elasticsearch, typesense, or couchbase are good document oriented solutions that pretty much work out of the box. Postgres or mysql have decent support for f
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Algolia is insanely expensive. Stay far away unless you have very few customers, hardly any data, or no plans to scale. They also offer zero protection against bots, so if someone decides to scrape your site, you get to pay for that privile
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> I would argue these "metaverses" are the scams of the future Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. The concept of metaverses have existed long before the cryptocurrency/ICO/DAO/DeFi/NFT communi
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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by dreyfan 5y ago
The steps necessary for replicating the service are logging into let's say Digitalocean and pressing "create droplet".
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Eh, whatever. They did a soft launch, realized they didn't have product-market fit, and walked away. Most startups are utterly terrible ideas, just look at this year's YC batch.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
You don't have to setup anything whatsoever for VSCode Remote-SSH. You give it an IP and user+pass/ssh-key and it takes care of the rest.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
This is a really rich description of a completely standard VPS.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
This post is an excellent reminder that even HN is not immune to rampant conspiracy theorists and to take everything with a grain of salt. HNers are not uniquely intelligent nor capable.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
sub $10k per month or per year?
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by dreyfan 5y ago
What? It’s just a text string in the header. How in the world would that possibly make it more difficult to scrape? All Chrome is doing is stop appending the current semver in the UA it sends.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
The amount of koolaid around TypeScript is really something
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by dreyfan 5y ago
It's not just apps, it's the providers themselves. e.g. Sprint sells customer location/app/usage data directly [1]. They don't even try to obscure that fact. > "Leveraging verified, first-party mobile data f
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by dreyfan 5y ago
They literally tried this [1] in 2013 after the Snowden revelations. Now they apparently bought a four-letter domain and are trying again? [1] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/07/11/sgro
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Sure there’s loads of ICO groups, NFT groups, cook groups for shoe/ps5 drops, meme stock option traders, etc. Oh wait you already covered “scammer”.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Carvana is a multi-generational loan scam spanning 3 Ernest Garcias and at least four companies. [1] https://medium.com/swlh/reminder-carvana-sells-debt-not-cars... [2] https://www.wsj.com/articles&#x2F
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by dreyfan 5y ago
GraphQL has absolutely nothing to do with graph databases nor SQL databases. It’s a poorly named schema for making RPC calls and designating the response structure.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
The original NFT
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by dreyfan 5y ago
I see enough feel-good emoji-laden bullshit posts on LinkedIn, why would anyone subject themselves to an audio chatroom of the same?
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by dreyfan 5y ago
R doesn't stand for row-store. The access patterns of Clickhouse are comparable with any RDBMS. The fact that it happens to be a column-store doesn't make it not an RDBMS. It doesn't mean "row-oriented databases designed
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Exactly where did I suggest using a single mysql instance or bandaiding a fleet of them together? Clickhouse vastly outperforms and outscales Scylla with a fraction of the hardware and cost.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
You haven't made a point yourself, so honestly, I don't fucking know what we're talking about either. You came in with a hyperbolic comment that echoes the stance from the NoSQL community I've seen for the past decade. T
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Eh, there are numerous options today (vitess, citus, clickhouse, aurora, redshift, bigquery, snowflake). Clickhouse outperforms Scylla by a wide margin at a fraction of the cost and complexity. Any of the above makes your data accessible vi
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by dreyfan 5y ago
I’m guessing your usage of a RDBMS hasn’t extended beyond an ORM library.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
They’re for teams that still refuse a proper RDBMS but desire an Apache-level of infrastructure complexity.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> Most of what I hear now is companies giving fake "shares" Yep. It's a thing unfortunately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_stock
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by dreyfan 5y ago
You can get RSUs and RSAs from a private company, it's just often undesirable because you pay income tax on the valuation of the shares vested but you can't sell your shares until a liquidity event or IPO.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
This attitude works at random jobs where you’re replaceable, absolutely. However if you’re a meaningful part of an early team with equity, this is quite literally how you can indeed get rich.

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