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by mnutt 8y ago
For me, it's hard to separate "Cloud provider selling a service" and "Cloud provider selling compute, and giving away the free service". On a scale of things that are ok to things that are not ok to open source comp
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My knowledge is a year or two out of date, but I think “it’s all just webdav” is part of the problem, and they sort of painted themselves into a corner by using it as a protocol. They ended up with a bunch of extra API hacks on top of WebDA
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I grew up in Huntsville before moving to NYC 15 years ago, and the change in the "creature comforts" he describes is drastic. Back then downtown was desolate, nothing but lawyer offices and bail bonds. Now it's full of restau
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Given that Thanksgiving 2016's bandwidth is unremarkable, maybe Thanksgiving Sunday of 2017 had some sort of external factor, like weather-related flight delays? Though I didn't find any news specifically calling out flight delays
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I will say that the majority of Rails apps can just use the Rails abstractions and they sit reasonably well on top of whatever database you choose to use. Rails 5 maps just fine to most common database types and patterns. On the other hand,
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It's interesting that while some could certainly characterize all of that screenshot's "Recommended by Pocket" stories as advertisements, recently they've started showing actual Sponsored Stories advertisements in t
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Ghost ( https://ghost.org/ ) is pretty nice. You can host it yourself or pay them to host it for you, either way there is no nag screen.
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This is an interesting effort and reminds me a bit of https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign , though HomelabOS has significantly more apps and sovereign hasn't been touched in a while.
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Given that truly decentralized mass-market application/data hosting is not on the immediate horizon, the Sandstorm model is IMO really the best answer to how the average person can control their data. It brings the security and permiss
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A while back I built a site for converting torrents into banner-sized images, with the idea that people could share them on message boards and such, and there were browser extensions that would detect them and let you open them in your bitt
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by mnutt 8y ago
Thank you; peek mode + swipe up does prompt to save the image and I did not know that. Based on user feedback, the "press-and-hold" method is the only one people commonly know about, and the major issue is that if you accidentally
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Unfortunately, MobileSafari is making it harder and harder to actually save the image. If you gently press and hold, it'll give you the option to Save to Camera Roll. But with the advent of force touch, pressing too hard means that you
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I also didn't know anything about micro.blog before now, but based on the article I assumed from the features offered that "creators own the content" actually means "creators own the relationship with the user" whic
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Yeah, having to keep a bunch of third party applications up-to-date seems at odds with "install a bunch of applications with no work". Sandstorm.io seems like the right way to go here, I wish it would gain more traction.
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Monorepos are excellent if you have a group of related projects, especially if they depend on each other. Instead of opening a series of PRs for each project in a specific dependent order, you can open a single PR and move everything forwar
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My father worked in sales for sgi through most of the 90s; what started as him bringing me to the office a few times on weekends turned into me asking to go to the office most weekends. ("don't you have any work you need to finish
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Digium used to host the local Linux Users of North Alabama meetings back in 1999 when they were Linux Support Services. I remember being blown away seeing Asterisk running on commodity hardware. They had all kinds of cool hardware hacks in
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It's probably less about legal forks and more about bad actors forking it, inserting spyware, and buying Google ads against "vpn server" and "tunsafe". It seems like it's more of a problem for open source softw
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by mnutt 8y ago
Having interacted with the Google Maps sales team, I would imagine these posts are a result of these companies hopping on a sales call expecting something ‘google’-like and are surprised that the Oracle sales team is on the call. The value
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It’s susceptible to Thundering Herd whereby more requests come in for the same cache key before the initial computation is finished, and so you end up with lots of cache misses. The fix is usually to lock the cache key and have subsequent r
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by mnutt 8y ago
As a security layperson my initial reaction was "how can cryptography help with expiring messages, once it's decrypted it's decrypted, that doesn't sound right", but I'm curious if I'm understanding correc
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Ember used to use <base> tags but moved away from the due to user confusion and problems with svg: https://www.emberjs.com/blog/2016/04/28/baseURL.html My personal use case: my company built a syst
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I don't know if it exactly fits, but maybe check out some of the stuff Customer.io has been doing, such as https://github.com/customerio/fairway ? It seems like they're solving similar problems and contribute
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I'm currently investigating a very similar problem (very high throughput webhooks, specified by customers, to unreliable endpoints) and was considering an architecture involving a set of queues partitioned by webhook response time and&
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I'm only an occasional Qt user but I believe since c++11 they've gained much better support for anonymous functions.
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Having contacted Google Maps sales years ago, their salespeople were some of the worst I've ever encountered--rude, inconsistent aggressive pricing, and vaguely threatening. I avoid them at all costs, and as others mention, Mapbox is a
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there's technically trains but sometimes it's faster to walk; I like to complain about train delays as much as any New Yorker but this perception is pretty much incorrect; once you're going more than 15 minutes away it&#x27
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I thought of just going back to my previous job (the guys made it clear I was welcome to go back) but I was afraid it would make my Resume look like I am too much of a job-hopper. If you even put it on your resume at all, it’s probably on
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I've used ember to build a half dozen production apps, ranging from a wysiwyg vector editor to a dropbox clone to an electron-based process manager. It's the frontend framework I reach for any time I expect to need to develop an a
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It seems that a lot of people on HN have a visceral negative reaction to founders stepping aside in favor of bringing professional management. Ousters aside, I wonder if it has to do with value creation versus value capture phases of the c

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