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811.
by mekster 5y ago
It is huge but with the pricing, spinning up a dedicated instance for Sentry is cheaper than saas version (if you already have an engineer to handle it) What I don't like is it seems to randomly use certain amount of CPU despite very l
812.
by mekster 5y ago
Isn't the title another click bait? He said he doesn't see viability for 5000 cryptocurrencies and not cryptocurrency in general. Of course no one thinks every dust coins have a future.
813.
by mekster 5y ago
Why would I want to use a bug ridden, poor performing tool? There are alternatives with less features if you don't need them all.
814.
by mekster 5y ago
Galaxy somehow makes owning phones actually fun. Pixel makes me feel I got a bare bone phone except I like the camera better than Galaxy's which feels a bit too vivid. Kudos to the Galaxy team.
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by mekster 5y ago
Having a sound business model to have it keep improved or support broke students with no income and let it rot? Perfect if they can support both with free plans.
816.
by mekster 5y ago
Web frontend replay. https://www.rrweb.io/
817.
by mekster 5y ago
Also Discourse is written in ruby.
818.
by mekster 5y ago
> I just don't understand why there's not more pressure on MS to port Office to Linux Why is this hard to understand? Who uses Linux on desktop? Check some browser stat. Run a remote Windows in a cloud and throw Office in there
819.
by mekster 5y ago
Which self hosting instance would go at the size of Facebook or Discord? Just because Discord took a method doesn't mean a competing product should too.
820.
by mekster 5y ago
It could attract more developers. Better than "written in C++" and it kind of implies the code base may be fresh than inheriting some old implementations from a decade ago.
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by mekster 5y ago
Use apps like PhotoSync and it will upload automatically when photos are taken.
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by mekster 5y ago
Not sure why people don't like exceptions. Throw different error classes according to the source of the problem and just handle differently in the upper classes. throw new ErrorUser('Bad input') -> Show friendly error mess
823.
by mekster 5y ago
> git is a form of blockchain. Does this look like a valid argument? Where is the distributed consensus that is at the heart of blockchain? git will just cause conflicts leading to prejudiced manual intervention. I also don't see a
824.
by mekster 5y ago
I'm amazed at the quality of posts in HN when it comes to Bitcoin related but I'm only thinking because people post after missing the boat for the price action and want to belittle it out of emotion.
825.
by mekster 5y ago
I'm guessing macOS which is a certified Unix is working fine for average users and works even better for developers. I'm not sure if Unix is the ancient one or that Windows is the ancient one who can't let go of backward comp
826.
by mekster 5y ago
In other words, I'm not sure what other use case it has by using Minio on top of more expensive block storage than using any other native S3 storage services.
827.
by mekster 5y ago
Except you have no idea when if you look at the database manually.
828.
by mekster 5y ago
I almost feel sorry to the official developer as it's so well built. It probably covers most people's needs. But it's because the official daemon takes more resource by using MS SQL server and Vault Warden takes such a tiny r
829.
by mekster 5y ago
Because they put their effort for their reputation and pays millions to hire people to look after their security. If the "good will" is making them money, I guess you can count on it. And you think your own hosted version that you
830.
by mekster 5y ago
Dominate as in from what source? Those 2 are having such a tiny usage only over geeks and everyone else are using others with more brand recognition.
831.
by mekster 5y ago
> Electron is itself a large piece of code and integrating it would increase the attack surface At the same time, the most audited code it there. Maybe you don't use a GUI browser.
832.
by mekster 5y ago
Your focus on password manager is off. > maybe a lone develop that doesn’t need perpetual growth, will make a good, standalone, native Mac password manager. How do you trust this lone developer? Password manager is all about security and
833.
by mekster 5y ago
What's wrong with TablePlus?
834.
by mekster 5y ago
What's better with Postico over TablePlus?
835.
by mekster 5y ago
And you don't need different app for different databases as it supports quite plenty of them.
836.
by mekster 5y ago
How is isolation important to use SQLite? Edge does not provide safety to every database modifications like manually editing data and you're screwed already.
837.
by mekster 5y ago
I trust OS packages for main daemons like database, smtp, http daemons. How are you meant to apply only security patches on docker containers? What's the point of "isolating" daemons to avoid "random" files in &#x2F
838.
by mekster 5y ago
Why do people consistently try to run dev tools on their local OS when there are plenty of easy and cheap alternatives to accomplish more stable, reliable and reproducible environment? Just get a $5/mo cloud instance and run your stuff
839.
by mekster 5y ago
Why run npm on the wrong OS? It can easily break building a binary for a wrong platform.
840.
by mekster 5y ago
It's funny even though hardware had improved significantly over the years, nothing is faster from the user's perspective, moreso for Windows and it doesn't even mean we get satisfied proportionately.

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