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by gabemart 9y ago
Is anyone using React for server-side rendering of dynamic content without some kind of caching? I've done some server-side React stuff, but only in cases where only a tiny percentage of requests will ever be served uncached content. I
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by gabemart 9y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, I've tried it out and it seems great so far, especially for a free service
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by gabemart 9y ago
Last time I had something on the reddit front page it topped out at about 10k simultaneous users and I was serving data at over 5Gbps. Never had another traffic source come within 50% of that I have since moved from http to https, and I&#x2
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by gabemart 9y ago
I find this a bit confusing. Montserrat is distributed under an open license [1] which allows commercial redistribution "as long as they [fonts] are not sold by themselves". If people want to use a specific version - and clearly,
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by gabemart 9y ago
Really? The last newsletter I sent out went to ~20k people and had a click rate of 18% - although I think that's out of people who opened it, which was 51%. I don't know much about this space, but 1% of people seems really, really
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by gabemart 9y ago
Mailchimp pricing has always struck me as a bit perverse. I have a mailing list of about 20k people for A Soft Murmur[1] and I send very occasional emails. A "pay as you go" Mailchimp plan costs about 1 cent per email, so in my
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by gabemart 9y ago
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp might shed some light (I have no prior knowledge, I just searched)
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by gabemart 9y ago
Does anyone know if there is any equivalent to a pre-trained network like Inception, but for text classification instead of image classification?
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by gabemart 9y ago
> Look, I'll walk into a Starbucks and spend $3 on something I'm going to consume in 30 minutes without even batting an eye. Because you know exactly what you're going to get from Starbucks. Or even if it's a coffee
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by gabemart 9y ago
This is a cheap, sensational headline and an article that lacks depth and analysis. At the end of 2006, there were ~160,000 people in prison "institutions" in the state of California[1]. The design capacity of those institutions w
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by gabemart 9y ago
There's also work where the overall utility generated might be much higher than the cost of the labor, but the utility generated specifically for the business or local government considering the project is lower than the cost of the la
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by gabemart 9y ago
I have hosted my side projects at DO for four years, and am very happy with their service. I've served half a petabyte of data to 5 million users in that time. I have consistently been happy with their documentation and API. I haven&#x
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Show HN: A Soft Murmur for iOS(itunes.apple.com)
2 points by gabemart 9y ago|0 comments
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by gabemart 9y ago
I was extremely lucky and stumbled across a particular IRC channel where some kind souls took pity on me and patiently answered my questions and gave me advice. I think it's fairly likely I wouldn't be a professional programmer to
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by gabemart 9y ago
> Both teams played by the same rules and then time ran out and the other team won and it doesn't matter how they won. Future predictions should be based on the win. > You were late to the job interview because you're a pers
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by gabemart 9y ago
> All forums with large threads have to paginate for performance, including HN. I can read "War and Peace" [1] as an HTML document on my 7 year old cheapo Android phone. The browser even "streams" the data, displaying
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San Francisco, Airbnb drop lawsuit over regulations(upi.com)
1 points by gabemart 9y ago|0 comments
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How a Character LCD works [video](youtube.com)
2 points by gabemart 9y ago|0 comments
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by gabemart 9y ago
The iPhone app was released today. The interface is made with react-native and the audio-playing part in objective-c. Happy to answer any questions.
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Show HN: Ambient background noise mixing on web, iPhone and Android(asoftmurmur.com)
3 points by gabemart 9y ago|1 comments
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by gabemart 9y ago
I had assumed - perhaps incorrectly - that as more and more money is invested in index funds and similar passive vehicles, it becomes increasing easy to beat the market as an active trader. My thinking goes like this - as less money in inve
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by gabemart 10y ago
Similarly, for Amex in the UK: you can use your card abroad, but they charge you 3% (!) on top of their own exchange rate - even for USD transactions . What's worse - if your foreign transaction is in any other currency than USD, the
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by gabemart 10y ago
I totally agree, and I'm not sure I know why. Mustard can be great in many different styles - English, French, even classic-American on the occasional hotdog. Reasonable people can disagree on what should in salsa, or how spicy it shou
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by gabemart 10y ago
> Window management is one of the strongpoints of MacOS. Can you give an example of this? I regularly switch between macos, windows and ubuntu and I have a hard time coming up with much positive to say about macos window management (unle
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by gabemart 10y ago
I ranked your list of Cloudflare-using domains by their Alexa rank. Sharing here in case anyone else finds it useful (warning - it's 1.1MiB gzipped / 2.4MiB uncompressed) https://polarisedlight.com/tmp/cf_rank
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by gabemart 10y ago
I commend your call to sympathy. I don't like taking a drive-by, salacious interest in a story that doesn't affect me in the least, but will probably have serious, perhaps devastating consequences for the person involved for a lon
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by gabemart 10y ago
The first-run experience of Transferwise blows UKForex out of the water. If I want to convert 1000 EUR to USD, the number one thing I care about is how many USD I will get for my EUR. The front page of Transferwise has a giant input right a
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by gabemart 10y ago
Something I have had at the back of my mind for a long time: in 2017, what's the correct way to present optional resources that will improve the experience of users on fast/uncapped connections, but that user agents on slow/c
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by gabemart 10y ago
From my experience, which is mirrored in the article, the single most helpful item of advice to someone looking to control or change their weight is to track consumed calories in a strict way. The first step is not to change diet or exercis
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by gabemart 10y ago
That's a real shame, they're ubiquitous in Scotland; any brand's "70 shilling" will be in the 3.5% range. Belhaven Best is also extremely common, and that's 3.2%. It's common in England for pubs to have at

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