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by napoleond 8y ago
AFAIK, oData only lets you request a single entity type at a time, doesn't it? For example, in the example you provided, would it be possible to fetch a collection of People and Airports as part of the same request? What would that req
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by napoleond 8y ago
A GraphQL schema can easily define a tree but AFAIK the client must specify the desired recursion depth on that tree. This kind-of makes sense for the same reason that paginating list resources makes sense, but I can see how it would be ann
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by napoleond 8y ago
Per month vs per year .
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by napoleond 8y ago
Agree that it's largely cultural, but not sure about cause/effect. I suspect that American culture leaves less uninterrupted chunks of time for lower middle-class and below to go running. Anecdotally I get the sense that Kenyan cu
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by napoleond 8y ago
One factor that seems to be under-represented in the comments so far is that less affluent people don't have time to run. As you probably know, endurance running requires a significant time commitment. Anyone training for a marathon
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by napoleond 8y ago
Parent was not talking about WeChat: https://technode.com/2019/01/18/bytedances-snapchat-clone-is...
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by napoleond 8y ago
This is a fascinating story. On the one hand, it's great to see the city preserving art. On the other hand... this should probably be torn down and turned into an apartment complex, just like every other single-family dwelling in SF.
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Developer who tore down historic San Francisco house ordered to rebuild it(cbc.ca)
4 points by napoleond 8y ago|2 comments
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by napoleond 8y ago
That actually makes the observation more interesting in some ways--none of the YC examples were "founded" by YC either. One could argue that Musk has acted like a very aggressive version of an angel or VC--finds promising young
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60fps on the mobile web(engineering.flipboard.com)
1 points by napoleond 8y ago|0 comments
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by napoleond 8y ago
I suspect it is a reference to "The Flywheel Effect" espoused by business author Jim Collins: https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/the-flywheel.html I'm not an expert, and I'm not sure that this in f
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by napoleond 9y ago
Just use Keen.io and be done with it :)
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by napoleond 9y ago
Thinking about this some more: it would be very straightforward to implement a leveldown API on top of fly.cache. That, paired with something like PouchDB, would give you an edge database. You could have one big centralized CouchDB server w
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by napoleond 9y ago
Cool! There's obviously some competition coming from the various CDNs and cloud providers, but it's an interesting space and I wish you guys the best. I haven't really wrapped my head around the use cases yet (almost need a d
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by napoleond 9y ago
This is really neat--congrats on the launch. Can you tell us a bit about the infrastructure behind it? Is there any spin-up time, like AWS Lambda has? Presumably "fly.cache" persists between requests, but is other memory shared be
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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg conspicuously absent as data scandal grows(cbc.ca)
178 points by napoleond 9y ago|87 comments
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by napoleond 9y ago
> This greatly exceeds any state in the west Technically true regarding states , but there are several Canadian provinces which get more than 95% of their energy from renewables, some of whom are serving a larger population base tha
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by napoleond 10y ago
For anyone who's interested in more advice like this, your friend's trick almost certainly originates from Michael Gerber's book The E-Myth [Re-visited] . Highly recommended reading for anyone starting a small business. On G
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by napoleond 10y ago
Hey, not sure if this is helpful but I have a side project that might save you some work: https://www.smsinbox.net
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by napoleond 10y ago
> are you living off of smsinbox? No, not even close :) But the customer base is growing slowly and steadily. > What do you estimate is the average weekly amount of hours you spend on it? Under 2, most weeks.
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by napoleond 10y ago
Fantastic! I'll send you an email shortly.
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by napoleond 10y ago
Here's an example: https://jsreport.net/ It may seem like a complicated product, and I'm sure the guys behind it put in a lot of work to polish it, but the guts of the product are 3-4 well-established open-source
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by napoleond 10y ago
I am partial to the business model of asking people to pay me for my services or for things that I've made. My latest side project is https://www.smsinbox.net , which provides a drop-in chat interface for Twilio apps. It&#x2
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by napoleond 10y ago
It's largely aimed at software companies using Twilio in their own offerings--I hadn't given much thought to personal use before. What would you consider a fair price?
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by napoleond 10y ago
This looks neat! BTW (shameless plug), for anyone using a Twilio number for voice and wishing to easily add SMS functionality, I created https://www.smsinbox.net last year.
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by napoleond 10y ago
> Your business-nosed attitude needs a reality check. Developers are human capital, not robots. You're being unnecessarily defensive. Just because people are people does not change the fact that it costs companies money to onboard
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by napoleond 10y ago
Counter-anecdote: I live in Canada, and it is not at all uncommon to ask friends who are visiting the U.S. to pick up items on their behalf (either alcohol and tobacco, which are often significantly cheaper at the border's duty-free st
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by napoleond 10y ago
> I'd be happy to build the backend for such a thing and sign the IP over to an effective front-end developer. If you're serious, we should talk. Email in profile.
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by napoleond 10y ago
Oh neat! That makes sense, but I didn't realize it was set up for code signing. Good to know :)
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by napoleond 10y ago
I'm just getting started with Electron, so forgive me if this is a stupid question, but how is that different from the updates endpoint getting compromised (for apps with auto update enabled)?

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