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by gtf21 9y ago
No, you can't really blame them. One could make the argument that once providing a service to users you have some responsibility towards them, but I don't think it overrides the case for them to be acquired. I can't help fe
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by gtf21 9y ago
Whoops, forgot Mailbox
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by gtf21 10y ago
Sparrow, Sunrise, Wunderlist... all the good apps just get bought and killed.
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by gtf21 10y ago
$99 a year (<$10 pcm) for someone else to handle my problems doesn't seem that much if the service for which I'm paying is important to me. Sure, I can self host things, but I've learnt pretty quickly the the extra pain in
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by gtf21 10y ago
2014 MBP (15"). I've never seen machines with the same build quality as Apple, and the trackpad is really excellent - smoother than anything else I've used. Display is also fantastic. I love this machine, although Apple'
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by gtf21 10y ago
I use CrashPlan (as does my family) and I keep an archive encryption key so it's encrypted on my side. I've found this fantastic (for example when my sister's laptop died as we needed to retrieve her dissertation). It's
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by gtf21 10y ago
+1 for the AWS Web Console. Whenever I open it I stare in panic for a few seconds as I try to understand where the one thing I'm looking for is.
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by gtf21 10y ago
Yes, we use Asana and loading it up is just too painful. I wish they'd at least use service workers or something to keep it cached and ready to go.
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by gtf21 10y ago
Some of our customers use a "document control system" called Asite[1]. This is, without a doubt, the worst piece of software I have ever had to use. [1]: http://www.asite.com/
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by gtf21 10y ago
I've been having this discussion both in my own head and with my team for the last couple of weeks and have been thinking about how to implement something like this (but haven't got around to it). Looks great!
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by gtf21 10y ago
I really don't think this is true. Redux is simple, and by using the react bindings, you get perfect encapsulation: components take props which can be from the state (so your component needs no knowledge of the state store) or action c
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by gtf21 10y ago
We run our entire stack on DO - a couple of machines each with a small cluster of containers and a load balancer, plus a VPN server, database servers, rabbitmq server, etc.. I find it a very painless way to do things.
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by gtf21 10y ago
That sort of depends on believing that all publications are of equal quality, or that there is no universal measure of quality in journalism and science. While there are a range of perfectly good publications from across the political spect
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by gtf21 10y ago
It's sadder that someone is posting National Review articles on HN.
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by gtf21 10y ago
I started reading this, and was a little sceptical by the first paragraph, but when I saw Obama-esque and the Daily Mail references I had to check out their homepage. Definitely a bad source.
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by gtf21 10y ago
I keep trying to go back to Fx, and get held up on a few things (partly due to my own laziness): 1) tab-to-search (you mention already) 2) Chrome is "cleaner" out of the box (I'm sure I can have an omnibox in Fx I just haven&
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by gtf21 10y ago
I actually think this gives one slightly better control. I've experienced a weird phenomenon on Facebook where a contact of mine kept posting borderline conspiracy theories and I kept correcting him, but now all I get are his posts and
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by gtf21 10y ago
Presumably you mean in the browser, rather than node.js? When you can compile and use polyfills with babel and webpack, then why not?
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by gtf21 10y ago
Nefarious or not, given the UK police's propensity to attack any and all critics (e.g. the Lawrence family, Baroness Jones), I'd rather have some legislative protection from state overreach.
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What country has the best privacy laws to connect to a VPN in?
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by gtf21 10y ago
My feeling is that Apple have basically decided to pursue a "fashionable" path, rather than actually considering design as they used to (and also have abandoned their professional market). (1) getting rid of magsafe is a PITA; (2)
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by gtf21 10y ago
I have a mid-2014 Macbook Pro which I love (although given Apple's direction I may switch to linux). I haven't found any hardware that really compares with Apple's products on build quality and just the pleasure of use (from
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by gtf21 10y ago
> I just love a lot of the apps I can run on my Mac This is pretty much the reason I haven't switched to linux; it's not that OSX/macOS is particularly incredible, but that 1Password, Alfred and some other apps don't
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by gtf21 10y ago
General shared-hosting performance issues (although found loading things from NFSN seemed slower than from other shared hosting providers).
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by gtf21 10y ago
I used to use NFSN for everything, but I found performance to be a bit painful (and also moved away from hosting websites to hosting more complex systems). I would still say that it's a great company with a great product ethos though.
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by gtf21 10y ago
I was also wondering how you were handling authentication.
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by gtf21 10y ago
Clearly you didn't read the original question: > I'd like to host documentation on everything from how our products work, how our internal systems work, what certain procedures are &c.
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by gtf21 10y ago
Thanks, that's really useful. I think this gives me the greatest portability.
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by gtf21 10y ago
I assume you would say the same with Google Sites then? I've always found MediaWiki a bit of a pain to work with, but would definitely prefer more of an open ecosystem to a closed one. Is there good hosted MediaWiki? I have too much ot
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by gtf21 10y ago
Dice rolled, lots broken (it seems). Now to start trying to fix things...

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