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   by mands 11y ago

   Thanks :) - we're super early in this space, but are incredibly excited by what how we can use both containers and unikernels to help ease the development process and integrate with your current stack. ps - shameless plug but we'r
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   by mands 11y ago

   For coding I find that 45m work with 15m breaks (and a 30m long break) work better as you have enough time to get into a problem, and just enough of a break after to send some emails / browse HN, etc. The overall work ratio is lower (7
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   by mands 11y ago

   Absolutely. Being able to install a -devel package and just get on with things is incredibly important.
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   by mands 11y ago

   Perhaps, but I'd suspect that would manifest itself with a BSOD/kernel panic rather than the same user-level applications breaking in a reproducible manner without affecting the rest of the OS.
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   by mands 11y ago

   I agree, a lot of people tend criticise Windows simply for not being Unix, which is unfair, and I like the design of the NT kernel. And this is slightly off-topic but I have tried several times to fully embrace the Windows way, learnt Power
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   by mands 11y ago

   That's absolutely true. I've gone back and forth between Linux and Windows over the past 10 years or so - using Linux at work and Windows for casual/office/music production. I used Windows 8.1 for my last job and it was
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   by mands 11y ago

   Mainline release on a modern Dell/Intel laptop with all drivers installed. Same laptop runs Linux fine so unlikely hardware issue. Updates would crap out with random errors like 80074005 - which a casual user should never see. I got it
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   by mands 11y ago

   No, on a small 11in netbook. I needed a mobile dev environment, and it was either a Surface that could double as a tablet and run Linux VMs, or a netbook running Linux. You can run Linux natively on the Surface, SecureBoot isn't a prob
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   by mands 11y ago

   Looks like great hardware let down by poor software. I just gave Windows 10 another try with a view to purchasing a Surface 4 if successful (OneNote + Stylus = :)) - but after a few weeks reverted back to Linux (Fedora). Apart from the infe
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    by mands 11y ago

    Thanks for mentioning! Working on getting an OS X packaged app out this weekend along with that Linux/Bash-as-a-service up!
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    by mands 11y ago

    We've been hacking on something in this space for the past few months with StackHut - https://www.stackhut.com . We have a demo in a blog post at http://blog.stackhut.com/phantomjs-cloud/ showing headle
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    by mands 11y ago

    Good to know - thanks!
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    by mands 11y ago

    Did any of your existing angel/seed funding partners raise any concerns about you doing YC?
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    by mands 11y ago

    We’ve also been hacking away in the same space with StackHut ( http://www.stackhut.com ) - build stateless & ephemeral microservices in Python and JS that are deployed as cloud APIs for access over JSON-RPC; with simple type-c
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    by mands 11y ago

    We’ve also been hacking away in the same server-less space with StackHut ( http://www.stackhut.com ). We're adding support for more languages (JS & Python currently) but also have an entire build chain that let's you
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    by mands 11y ago

    Yep - can't wait until Python3 is the norm. Feels like such a step back when I have to use a Python 2.x codebase - so many little annoyances.
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    by mands 11y ago

    Yes, we've been very happy with Barrister so far, in that it provides a simple syntax for RPC definitions that looks very similar to Java so is not hard to learn. And yes, keeping it similar to standard function/object calls lower
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    by mands 11y ago

    Wow - thanks so much for going through all the links and getting an example working - on a phone no less!! :) very impressive! Hmm, machineless, now that is interesting - I imagine with phone processors such a thing will become, if not alre
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    by mands 11y ago

    Thanks so much. Yes, we've pivoted a few times, first starting out with trying to be the 'github for live API's, which is an idea we love but found that the chicken-and-egg situation was tricky to overcome, and that most user
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    by mands 11y ago

    Hi - thanks so much for all the feedback and advice. Have just seen it and will reply fully in the morning (we've been super busy pitching for our accelerator's demo day in the UK - which is an awful excuse!) Really really appreci
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    by mands 11y ago

    Sorry for the delay - was on a break from HN Yes, I think you are right, the availability of XML/ws-* acted as a magnet for people who required extensive schemas, etc. I agree that JSON is a great starting place for the rest of us who
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    by mands 11y ago

    Great work - looks really cool, esp for ppl using the Node stack. Really excited by the progress in the space, with products like this, JAWS ( https://github.com/jaws-stack/JAWS ), hook.io and more. At StackHut (www.stac
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    by mands 11y ago

    I agree that getting just the right amount of simplicity is actually a hard challenge. JSON over HTTP feels like it has won as it was so trivial to implement in any language, however experience has taught me that the lack of a schema causes
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    by mands 11y ago

    Hi, cofounder here. Thanks for looking and your feedback! Yes, pricing is something we're still debating on and hope to decide by next week - whether to a charge a flat rate per request or to make it dependent on computing resources us
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    by mands 11y ago

    Thanks all for your responses, really helpful!
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    by mands 11y ago

    Slightly off-topic, but can someone familiar with both Elixir and Erlang explain what Elixir provides in comparison to Erlang. I'm looking into using Erlang for a new project that requires extensive scaling and concurrency and am comin
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    Show HN: StackHut – A language-agnostic Lambda for cloud and local microservices(stackhut.com)

    2 points by mands 11y ago|2 comments
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    by mands 11y ago

    Thanks so much for looking, sorry that the public APIs didn't work correctly. I've ran a few tests and most work apart from the `pdf-tools` demo for converting PDFs - thanks for raising that to our attention (the life of a beta pr
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    by mands 11y ago

    Apologies for the confusion - I assume call-with-container talks to the required kernel functionality directly instead.
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    by mands 11y ago

    That's great to hear, thanks for the work, I look forward to trying it out. Using Guix with systemd-nspawn sounds like it could be a formidable combination.