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by dzonga 4mo ago
in a weird way - this shows how much of a premium there's with cloud computing, while also showing how much computation power is in consumer devices.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
WhatsApp business api is in a weird situation. the poor countries use WhatsApp mostly due the fact that sms was costly. so you're tryna to monetize against businesses serving poorer users. yes - they maybe more in number but margins ar
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by dzonga 4mo ago
so most of the components of the so called cheap drone are western :(. tragedy.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
that xkcd is always funny - but there's a white lie in it e.g on motorcycles in areas where you are allowed to ride median. there's instances of drivers actively tryin' to kill you by swerving onto the median when they see yo
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by dzonga 4mo ago
mike, thanks for ur hard work. n all the maintainers b4.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
ublock origin lite + adguard on safari are pretty decent. yeah I love Firefox - but it takes a lot of memory + drains battery faster
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by dzonga 4mo ago
so slow like molasses
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by dzonga 4mo ago
however hetzner vps offerings are lacking in North America. once they offer equivalent offerings - they offer in EU in NA - then some people will go to. OVH or DO etc.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
once mongo rewrote their engine - it's performant, scales & easy to run. seems a lot of devs got burnt by the early issues don't consider it all together. its probably the easiest database to run at scale. run & forget. yo
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by dzonga 4mo ago
I us pg. not that I know much about database internals, besides the 'b-tree' stuff we learned in college. I don't know how the pg scaling story gets fixed unless certain things are rewritten. that's my fear of going all
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by dzonga 4mo ago
hi Eric, the 'lean startup' & the work you & Steve Blank did was revolutionary in terms of getting products to market quicker. what are the 'slower' go to market channels that you've seen produce sustainable
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Ask HN: Are you using a serverless SQL database?
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by dzonga 4mo ago
wrong math: usually 1-5% of subscribers are paying customers.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
you release a confidential one - if you don't wanna release info that might empower competitors or you have bad numbers that might spook investors. if you have a 'moat' then you wouldn't worry about releasing a draft S1.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
why not let it be public ?
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by dzonga 4mo ago
maybe it's the peculiarity of the tech industry to make it seem they're doing something entirely new & different in the world. how did unproven, fringe ideas get funded before the 1960s ? you either took a loan, some rich patr
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by dzonga 4mo ago
high dosage vitamin D in kept me sane (i.e energetic & in the right mood) in the UK where it's usually gloom & drowsy.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
people tend also to confuse latency vs speed. if u have lower latency <25ms & a 25Mbps .. your connection feels faster than having 100ms latency + whatever speed.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
someone once said - windows will die or will be killed by Microsoft - when they start pushing a windows flavored linux distro. with all the arm chips coming into consumer hardware - seems we are about to be there.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
let's say you make a saas for automatic birdfeeders. if you can scope out your problem to a simplified version & have a pen & paper / whiteboard discussion with a candidate. the candidate starts from a blank slate. they cr
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by dzonga 4mo ago
I think your response is reactionary. how was open source managed before GitHub ? you had to find a mailing list, be involved in the mailing list - ask questions, make a proposal, then create code after -- code goes through x rounds in the
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by dzonga 4mo ago
why not make it a TUI & let it be fast.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
5 years too late. at most this acquisition should've happened before Cloudflare went all in on workers.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
I would listen to commodity traders before politicians or anyone. Strategic stocks will get depleted - demand will remain high whether the strait opens up or not due to so much pent up demand.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
most enterprises would be better served by being on an angular stack than the hodgepodge of shit called React.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
> That means each employee's AI spending cap is ~11% of that median compensation package. when looking at costs - numbers make sense. however decisions as an org/company/solo founder - costs help you set prices, but to rea
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by dzonga 4mo ago
glad OP has recovered. modern medicine is truly marvelous. my wish is poor countries catch up because people die unnecessarily or are misdiagnosed & fxxkd for life.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
standard stack - at most big tech co's. HN likes to shit on Java but yeah.
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Netflix uses Java – 2026 Edition [video](youtube.com)
4 points by dzonga 4mo ago|2 comments
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by dzonga 5mo ago
which is why I advocate for fat marker mockups [0]. very low fidelity - but describe ux flows. [0]: https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.3-chapter-04

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