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by freehunter 6y ago
Basically like Tor, some VPNs route someone else's VPN connection through your VPN client. If I want an IP address in Sweden and someone in Sweden wants a US address some VPN companies would just route our traffic through each other&#x
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by freehunter 6y ago
While this is true, there's also a good side to the bigger tech companies leaving, even if it is a lot of them: less wage competition. If I'm a SV startup I already have problems with office rent, taxes, cost of living, etc. It&#x
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by freehunter 6y ago
Having it and recovering from it still occasionally leaves your body altered/damaged in a way we're not sure how to predict/treat. As far as we can tell, the vaccine does not cause the same amount of damage that actually suff
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by freehunter 6y ago
I think the implication is, if it's available to you , the at-risk people have already had a chance to get it. At least that's what I've heard from the rollout strategy.
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by freehunter 6y ago
People struggle with the idea of any luxury brand that also makes mid-range or mass-market products in addition to their unaffordable luxury items. Anecdote: I drive a newer BMW 328i. I live in the northern US where it snows, and it's
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by freehunter 6y ago
You're spot on. I tried React and Vue and it just adds so much complexity for a solo dev. Right now I'm just using tiny bits of JS here and there, but I'm really hungry for something like LiveView that would let me do interac
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by freehunter 6y ago
It would have been a fantastic bring-your-own-food social lounge though! There's a reason I work in IT and not architecture these days :)
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by freehunter 6y ago
Yeah I see the statement a lot on international forums like HN and Reddit of "SMS is still a thing? No one uses it!" But it's highly cultural. I only use WhatApp for two friends in Europe. Most of my friends here in the US us
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by freehunter 6y ago
Motion has been on my to-do list for way too long, I should spend some time with it this weekend.
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by freehunter 6y ago
Haha I would love to and it seems like a really great language/community/ecosystem. I'm just a part-time developer though, so my "coding time" is extremely limited and mainly just around scratching an itch as quickl
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by freehunter 6y ago
Facebook really did and does fill a need that's been open for a very long time: a central communications/notification platform. It's been tried time and time again, with both open standards and closed standards, but Facebook
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by freehunter 6y ago
Ugh I had a CAD architecture class in engineering school and the final project was to design a restaurant and we did an amazing job building the best restaurant in the world until the teacher asked... where's the kitchen? Whoops. We go
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by freehunter 6y ago
People spend a small amount of money on the hardware of a car, then spend a lot of money on the luxurious comfort and prestige upgrades. Boston Dynamics makes utility robots that are cool from an engineering standpoint but not super useful
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by freehunter 6y ago
Man I'm hoping NEW MAGIC is like Phoenix LiveView. As a Rails dev I started looking into the Elixir/Phoenix world just for LiveView but I don't really want to switch languages... I just want that new magic that LiveView off
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by freehunter 6y ago
That's a big if , one that hinges on way too many things to be able to successfully argue in court about: 1) VR ever becoming a huge player. It might. It might not. Right now there's no real evidence that VR will actually becom
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by freehunter 6y ago
Oh please, California never loses power for extended periods of time.
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by freehunter 6y ago
For a 12-hour old account you sure are trolling this thread pretty damn hard. Maybe take a step back, catch your breath?
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by freehunter 6y ago
>I'm kind of wondering how scalable the performance increases they made here are It's a good question and really only time will tell, but this same comment was made about these chips in the iPhone: "impressive yes, but wou
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by freehunter 6y ago
Question as long as we're on the subject... software companies can decompile competitor's software and figure out how they did something. Can Qualcomm or another chip maker "decompile" the M1 and figure out how Apple mad
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by freehunter 6y ago
>it shouldn't be the community's (or a crowd-funded dev's) responsibility to provide software support for hardware produced by one of the largest companies out there You must be thinking of a different Open Source communit
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by freehunter 6y ago
>owner would make it incompatible two seconds after they would smell competition We're talking about Apple, right? The company that made an entire software platform called Bootcamp, specifically to enable a competitor's OS to r
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by freehunter 6y ago
I live in Michigan and I’ve used us-east-2 since it became available. Not only is Ohio right next door, but it’s also closer to the mean center of the US population (which is currently in Missouri). I don’t know if it’s actually measurably
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by freehunter 6y ago
You disagree with what? That relying on three vendors increases your risk of being impacted by one? That's just statistics. You can disagree with it, but that doesn't make it incorrect. Or do you disagree that planning for a total
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by freehunter 6y ago
>you can’t trust one provider at all The hard part with multi-cloud is, you're just increasing your risk of being impacted by someone's failure. Sure if you're all-in on AWS and AWS goes down, you're all-out. But if y
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by freehunter 6y ago
How long should we go out of our way to protect horse and buggy manufacturers? I say that as someone who runs a business focused around increasing customer engagement with local businesses in small towns, but honestly it would take a monume
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by freehunter 6y ago
>you dont have to break https You do if you want to scrape what you're reading on your mobile devices too, or you need to write an app for every platform (like I mentioned). Safari on iOS won't let you do that. Copyright is an
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by freehunter 6y ago
But most of my reading is on an iPhone or iPad.
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by freehunter 6y ago
Sorry, by "data hosting" I meant S3, not a database. Generic file storage.
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by freehunter 6y ago
I've tried building similar things and this is the issue I've run into. I want to log every bit of text I read, but either I'm breaking HTTPS to sniff it off the wire (and then mangling that data to try to get to the actual
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by freehunter 6y ago
I'm super interested in Roam for this reason too, but the online-only subscription model is a deal breaker for me. And I'm not usually the one complaining about subscription based things or online-only things, but when it comes to

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