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by mnutt 10y ago
I seem to remember someone mentioning the idea that in the future you could "layer" sandstorm's grains such that you had one that was your inbox (running, say, Mailpile) and have a pass-through SMTP grain that was responsible
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by mnutt 10y ago
Following that campaign, I remember seeing subway ads for years saying things like "Last year, 1,944 New Yorkers saw something and said something". But none of those calls had anything to do with terrorism. I'd say the campai
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by mnutt 10y ago
I had to look up the Reacher Gilt reference (Terry Pratchett novel) but I know a handful of people who had to scrape together cash to buy their Gilt Groupe options and subsequently lost a lot of money in the sale.
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by mnutt 10y ago
This seems weird to me that their model seems to retrieve "money left on the table" from unexercised options. If the company is doing well and employees have the cash, the probably _will_ exercise their options. The cash the compa
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by mnutt 10y ago
Right, no arguments here. Backing up is really hard. Many backup systems are "push", and so you have to limit the production system's access so that it can't maliciously overwrite old backups. From what you describe in t
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by mnutt 10y ago
I actually wish that Owncloud would focus on file syncing and not on apps. Their app API feels like the wrong level of abstraction, more like you're building wordpress plugins than actual apps. I appreciate that it makes it easy for de
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by mnutt 10y ago
If you want to rely on backups, you have to test them periodically and not overwrite older ones with newer ones. It sounds like the backups had probably never worked, or there was some necessary component that was not backed up.
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by mnutt 10y ago
I'm curious to hear if Nextcloud is going to be rewriting the iOS mobile client from scratch, since it's GPL and Owncloud owns the copyrights so is the only one who can relicense for Apple.
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by mnutt 10y ago
My company did something similar to this for our dashboards, great to see someone open source it. At the time the challenge was finding a new-ish version of Chromium, which at the time was years behind in the Raspbian distro. It looks like
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by mnutt 10y ago
Running specs/tests involves reloading the environment for most people. Spring is surprisingly good for this, but you can still run into weirdness where spring needs to be reloaded due to some sort of state issue.
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by mnutt 10y ago
I started playing around with Docker for Mac in an attempt to get my whole dev environment set up in Docker. It was really slick, especially being (re-)introduced to docker-compose which makes connecting containers very easy. There is a ton
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by mnutt 11y ago
We use them, the employees are friendly and the office gets clean. They don't really mess with anything on our desks.
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by mnutt 11y ago
"helper process and have it manage the cache over a socket" is essentially redis, and another thing that introduces latency and can fail.
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by mnutt 11y ago
I generally agree with the sentiment about scaling across cores and nodes being the same; after all, you're eventually going to need to scale across nodes so you may as well go ahead and get that working. But there are times when it ca
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by mnutt 11y ago
Sorry about that! I mistakenly assumed the settings UI would be the same between Android and iOS. I don't have an Android device handy, but will try to hunt one down and get the instructions updated.
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by mnutt 11y ago
I just packaged this up as a Sandstorm app, for anyone who wants to demo the HTTP backend: https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/cjv3p2a970vrm729x9x0v54k0nff6x...
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by mnutt 11y ago
After testing ELB and seeing the scaling issues, we ended up going to a pool of HAProxies + weighted Route53 entries. Route53 does a moderately good job of balancing between the HAProxies, and the health checks will remove an HAProxy if it
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by mnutt 11y ago
The main benefit I see of import is for client-side code, so that you can statically determine a file's imports ahead of time without actually having to run the code. Require is a regular function rather than a directive, and is probab
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by mnutt 11y ago
Ignoring the fact that a lot of software/hardware with cloud components is about lock-in, lately I've been on a quest to replace as many cloud components as I can with sandstorm.io apps. Some things just work better with centraliz
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by mnutt 11y ago
The reason a product owner can't handle all conceptual issues in advance is because he speaks english, and not logic Is there a reason the product owner can't speak both english and logic? It seems like establishing mental model
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by mnutt 11y ago
I've often heard the idea that “the way the application is coded shouldn’t dictate its UI” which is true, but leads people to think that the application architecture should be divorced from the UI, and I don’t think that’s true either.
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by mnutt 11y ago
I also hard-code versions, but many dependencies float their own dependency versions, so you occasionally end up with broken sub-dependencies unless you shrinkwrap. Plenty of other package managers suffer from this type of issue as well, th
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by mnutt 11y ago
Sandstorm's updates are closer to Chrome's than regular open source software. Stick to the 'release' channel can you can be sure that you're always up to date. And Sandstorm locks its apps down so tightly that they
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by mnutt 11y ago
It's just conventional. If a PUT fails, you (and others) know you can safely retry it multiple times without having to worry about it having any other effects, like duplicate rows. The concept is called idempotence.
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by mnutt 11y ago
Working on the other mentioned project, I've laid some of the groundwork in the last few months (Sandstorm now supports WebDAV, and the OwnCloud sync clients modified to connect) so it's certainly worth picking back up.
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by mnutt 11y ago
This is great. I'm using Pi's for a similar purpose, a bunch of monitoring dashboards all over our office that pull from webpages. I'm using a combination of a central server to configure which web pages are shown, and a chro
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by mnutt 11y ago
Scale RSS up to Twitter's size, interleave a user's subscribed feeds together, centralize it, and you have Twitter's scaling challenges.
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by mnutt 11y ago
While I'm sure there's certainly some refinement to be done on how app updates work, Sandstorm explicitly closes the WebView loophole. An app you run doesn't have access to make backend network requests or frontend javascript
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by mnutt 11y ago
You can currently click-to-install Wordpress, Drupal, etc on these hosting providers, but I think the real Sandstorm value is in the sandbox model. In order for host-your-own webapps to take off there will need to be active marketplaces, an
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by mnutt 11y ago
Yeah, I was operating under the assumption that it was eventually consistent and just found it curious that it converged way faster than I expected. (until I read the explanation)

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