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by unknown_error 5y ago
> what's the benefit of bitcoin compared to say, USD for paying for things? You help enrich the Bitcoin speculators. Spending in USD doesn't do that.
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by unknown_error 5y ago
How would cryptocurrency free us from financial tyranny? At some scale finance becomes a state affair, and regulated by law backed by a monopoly on violence. Or, otherwise, you end up with crypto-warlords with private military companies. In
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by unknown_error 5y ago
Hmm, so in a way, it's kinda like a CDN for a database?
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by unknown_error 5y ago
Is this something that will eventually get worked into Dialogflow?
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by unknown_error 5y ago
In short: the vendor (Cloudflare) handles it, not you. Cloudflare has to quickly disseminate a lot of things to their data centers all the time (new files, routing rules, cache invalidations, etc.) and Durable Objects piggybacks on that sam
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by unknown_error 5y ago
Can someone please explain how Vitess works, in plain English? How does it magically make MySQL scale? And then what does PlanetScale add on top of Vitess hosted anywhere else? Sorry, the linked blog post is both very abstract and assumes a
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by unknown_error 5y ago
There is still value in proprietary solutions that offer significant time/money savings vs open source. Not all of us have infinite resources to develop and maintain every solution in-house, whether that's an auto-scaling database
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Ask HN: Improving the Usability of HN?
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by unknown_error 5y ago
I don't know that it's "demanding" as much as "tedious"... I feel like our entire field is built as a mountain of hacks upon hacks. How the heck did Javascript become the dominant programming language of worldw
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by unknown_error 5y ago
It works well! I remember being pleasantly surprised by this feature when I was searching for an unrelated document last time I logged in, and it found a bunch of images. I was like, wait, how did it know that...? It's a cool stealth f
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by unknown_error 5y ago
Forgot to say: If the computing resources don't cost you that much, consider making higher business/enterprise plans where you sell an SLA and/or support contract and/or custom feature development/integrations, etc.
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by unknown_error 5y ago
TLDR, IMHO: Get rid of the Small plan, make the Sandbox tier a much more generous free tier (1k/10k with logo), and charge more for the bigger plans. "First one is always free" kinda thing, so that devs can use your service f
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by unknown_error 5y ago
Wow, this is incredibly impressive! As a web dev, I feel a moment of satisfaction when I manage to make a heading look right on both desktop and mobile. Lol, what you've done is several orders of magnitude more difficult... I could spe