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by rlonn 8y ago
Trying hard to find something to disagree with in your comment, but no luck :) Seriously, I think I did at least mention in the blog post that the vanilla approach is something I'd mainly advocate for small projects, with few members.
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by rlonn 8y ago
Sorry to hear that! I consulted a year for a large financial company and their trading platform consisted of a million lines of C code. I've always loved C, but looking at the code it was actually hard to tell which language it was. Th
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by rlonn 8y ago
My brain almost loosened reading the previous comment. I think you're right about the patients. He uses them as some kind of weapon when he gets angry, apparently.
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by rlonn 8y ago
Thanks. Sometimes I feel very old and lonely when I complain about overuse of components, in any situation. But for me, it is the way so many people today just seem to use npm to pull in millions of dependencies, that themselves pull in mil
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by rlonn 8y ago
Yeah, it's very useful to try out your own code on the crappiest infrastructure possible and see how it works. In this case the developers of the React app were inexperienced students so I think they may be forgiven, but having worked
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by rlonn 8y ago
Probably going to be torn to pieces for this (if someone sees it) but at least it will be entertaining :)
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The case for vanilla front-end development(pushdata.io)
54 points by rlonn 8y ago|82 comments
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by rlonn 8y ago
>The volume of people making money, and the amount of money made by people doing artistic endeavors on the internet, when compared to decades past is troublingly lower. Would love to see some actual numbers here. My guess would've b
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by rlonn 8y ago
If you'd told me this in an interview, I'd have hired you on the spot. The biggest issue with cheating, IMO, is that it can indicate laziness, but in your case it definitely doesn't - the story is great and says you're a
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by rlonn 8y ago
Send me something on hello at pushdata. io and I'll respond from my regular email.
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by rlonn 8y ago
I wrote about that just now: there are rate limits in place to prevent it. You'd have to go to quite a bit of trouble to be able to use the system for any kind of effective spamming, coming from different unique client IPs and only sen
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by rlonn 8y ago
pushdata.io is simpler. You don't need to set up an account, the API is very, very small and simple, and the visualization is also much simpler than using Grafana. It is meant to be as frictionless as possible to get started with.
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by rlonn 8y ago
I agree, but often the alternative to using a service that offers painless onboarding, is to not do anything. I.e. you want to do X, and you're trying to find out how. You find product/service/component A, B and C that offers
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by rlonn 8y ago
There are rate limits in place to prevent email spamming. The system stops creating new accounts for a domain where the percentage of unconfirmed accounts is too high. There is also rate limiting on client IP, disallowing client IPs to crea
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by rlonn 8y ago
That sounds like an interesting use case. If you want, I'll give you a free premium subscription if I can do a case study on your problem and the solution.
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by rlonn 8y ago
I'm not sure you have a DB in all cases. The situation that made me think of this service was such a situation: we (startup business) had no easily accessible db where we could place the data for our fledgling BI project. We were using
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by rlonn 8y ago
The marketer in me doesn't like the phrase "tiny-to-small scale" It's the same as when you order a latte at Starbucks and they only have various versions of "big" to sell you ;) I think you're missing the
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by rlonn 8y ago
Yeah, we'll see. I'd need inlinks and without a ton of publicly accessible content, that can be hard to get. I'm thinking maybe IoT communities would be interested and may link to the site, as the product could be quite usefu
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by rlonn 8y ago
The idea was that the service should not compete directly with the "big data" guys. It should be really, really simple and for small-to-medium scale usage (in terms of number of data points stored). But having said that, I am defi
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by rlonn 8y ago
Ah, and built in Go also. I'll check it out :)
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by rlonn 8y ago
There is an /api/timeseries end point where you can POST multiple data points with one single call. while putting that end point under /{email}/{series} may be more intuitive, I wanted to make it obvious that it is separ
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by rlonn 8y ago
What is the threat scenario you see?
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by rlonn 8y ago
Uhm, that POST should probably return something other than 200. The default is to serve index.html if the server doesn't recognize the URL, but in this case it is pretty obvious that you should get an error code back (400 - Bad Request
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by rlonn 8y ago
This is fantastic feedback - thanks! The thresholds are pretty much guesswork - they're probably a bit off but I'll adjust them when I know more about how people use the service. One thing that might not be immediately obvious is
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by rlonn 8y ago
That's cool, I hadn't seen that one. It's very similar, but with more functionality and seems to require signup (you have to have an API key to store data points)
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by rlonn 8y ago
My attitude, or the other one? :)
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by rlonn 8y ago
Maybe a mistake to tell everyone I know about it and that I'd make a launch post on HN today... Sweden is awake right now, so probably over-representation by locals but it should correct itself once the US wakes up. I would like some
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by rlonn 8y ago
Sometimes I worry that I'm too old-school, doing things like throwing out frameworks everyone else is using, and I see young(er) developers being incredibly productive when using those frameworks plus components, libraries, etc but the
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by rlonn 8y ago
Hi HN, I built this thing! The idea came a few years back when me and an angel investor in the company I had founded were involved in a BI project, defining and collecting some basic KPIs for the business. At one point when we were thinking
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Show HN: Pushdata.io – Ultra simple time series data storage(pushdata.io)
108 points by rlonn 8y ago|49 comments

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