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by flessner 1y ago
It looks nice and friendly, but for developers I can recommend exploring caddy[1] or nginx[2]. It's a useful technology to have worked with, even if they're ultimately only used for proxying analytics. [1] https://caddy
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by flessner 1y ago
In-App transactions shouldn't have to go through Apple in the first place. Does your web browser take a cut if you buy something on a website?
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by flessner 1y ago
I think you're correct, but certain libraries are so widespread enough that it's sensible. Especially S3, SQLite (as mentioned), Postgres and Redis usually offer good abstractions. Other than that, time and crypto are two things I
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by flessner 1y ago
Happens in programming as well, often even by developers. The "copilot experiences", that finishes the next few lines can be useful and intuitive - an "agent" writing anything more than boilerplate is bound to create mor
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by flessner 1y ago
Actually just founding the company is the easy part nowadays. You can do it online or let a notary work it out for you. It's just everything else that's dreadful.
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by flessner 1y ago
This may not be apparent to an english speaker as the language has a rather fixed set of words, but in German, where creating new words is common, the lack of linguistic creativity is obvious. As an example, let's talk about "vibe
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by flessner 1y ago
Everyone is talking about theft - I get it, but there's a more subtler point being made here. Current generation of AI models can't think of anything truly new. Everything is simply a blend of prior work. I am not saying that this
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by flessner 2y ago
The API, absolutely. It's only sad that the SDKs are often on the heavy side, I remember that the npm package used to be multiple megabytes as it bundled large parts of the core AWS SDK. Nowadays, I believe it's still around half
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by flessner 2y ago
"No such thing as a free lunch." In all seriousness if such a system were to exist, why wouldn't the creator simply use it to make great returns for themself instead of scraps for everyone else?
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by flessner 2y ago
Feedback 1: Have a landing page? I am not signing up for something I don't know. Before "committing" I want to see capabilities, documentation, pricing. Where's all that?
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by flessner 2y ago
Well, we've all got to start somewhere, right? But yeah, I'd personally recommend Docker for self-hosting. Kubernetes or Proxmox always end up being too much to handle for personal use - or even small to medium sized companies.
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by flessner 2y ago
I have used both of them in the past, pricing is indeed very competitive - there are very few providers coming close to Hetzner pricing on dedicated servers. There's also OVH, they have plenty of global regions, but I haven't used
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by flessner 2y ago
SolidJS is extremely well crafted signaling, I like it. However, the SolidJS ecosystem falls behind when building a full web application: The router is okay? Metadata is very separate... and SolidStart isn't pulling it all together in
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by flessner 2y ago
It's just the social media process - find drama, blow it up to a ridiculous scale, profit. In this particular case the creators were also harmed the most - the users didn't strictly get the "best" deals with Honey, but s
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by flessner 2y ago
To be fair, I didn't look at the pricing before leaving my original comment - $9 a month is indeed very well priced.
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by flessner 2y ago
That's kind of what I was thinking... do you have an insight as to why they're doing that? For mid-sized firms there's a lot of modeling around risks: possible demand issues, possible interest rate rises, comparison to compet
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by flessner 2y ago
Who's the target audience here? Trading firms and funds have a comparable, likely far better system, already. Many hobbyists and "algo traders" only care for actionable results. Going through millions of records manually, eve
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by flessner 2y ago
I have run into these same issues, it's particularly frustrating once you see a Reddit thread from a couple years ago outlining the exact issue. For a large consumer-focused company like Apple this can only be explained by ignorance. F
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by flessner 2y ago
For the past 3 years one of the top answer has always been advertising, rambling on about an absurd story with whacky characters. Yet I just want StackOverflow for "life" questions.
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by flessner 2y ago
"Old" Minecraft Java mods were truly great: IndustrialCraft 2, ComputerCraft, Buildcraft, Tinkers' Construct... The new generation of mods (e.g. Create) also have their charm, but they lost the simplicity - as did the game in
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by flessner 2y ago
A great naming decision if you want to make it look like a new product category: sql, redis, s3, gel... Fits right in.
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by flessner 2y ago
I never understood this argument, there are many great products running on Java, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript... All of these languages have a "crowd" that hates them for historic and/or esoteric reasons. Great products are in my op
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by flessner 2y ago
At a certain scale nation-state-level actors have to be part of your threat model, there's no excuse. But yeah, it's quite baffling how in a couple years we seemingly went from stealing email addresses to credit cards to straight
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by flessner 2y ago
I have been an extraordinarily unorganized university student until the begining of this year - I am still not fully organized, but doing a lot better. What helped me was looking at the "atomic concepts" * What do I need to get do
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by flessner 2y ago
How will that work out? If it simply generates code from natural language then I am still fundamentally working with code. Aider as an example is useful for this, but anything that isn't a common function/component/class it f
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by flessner 2y ago
To be fair, I remember that some 5 years ago a lot of ML was quite accessible to programmers as it was often just a couple lines of python using tensorflow, or later pytorch. I am almost in disbelief that LLMs are the thing that reached the
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by flessner 2y ago
I don't have the insights of a VC, but I always liked Peter Thiel's approach of "You want to be the last mover, the last company in a category". Not in the sense that everyone should always aim for it, but simply as a &q
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by flessner 2y ago
Moabit - maybe a name for a new crypto currency?
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by flessner 2y ago
No hard feelings, my mind just automatically thinks about what could be - what's the greatest version of X? Unironically, that might be my lesson I take away from this - that I should maybe just try more, bumble about a bit, take thin
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by flessner 2y ago
Fun website, although it tries a bit too much to be... relatable? This leaves it being oddly generic, without purpose or reason. Be more expressive about who this website targets, currently it feels like a "Spotify Wrapped" for a

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