veeti

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   by veeti 11y ago

   Trying to shoehorn a performance hungry HTML5 OS on low-end phones was a complete waste of time. Just read this review of the $35 Firefox phone [1]: it's completely unusable to the point that even typing is difficult. What an embarrass
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   by veeti 11y ago

   Can you clone this somehow? You can get a ZIP from the sidebar, but having the history would be nice.
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   by veeti 12y ago

   I've been working on this for a while between bouts of procrastination. Any comments, suggestions and questions would be very welcome!
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   Show HN: Failpulse, simple HTTP and TCP uptime monitoring(failpulse.com)

   7 points by veeti 12y ago|4 comments
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   by veeti 12y ago

   > For example, they only support Ubuntu 12.04 - a three year old Ubuntu is the latest version they support... A "three year old" long term support release. Isn't that what you wanted?
6. 636.▲
   by veeti 12y ago

   Thanks for the insightful comment explaining why.
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   by veeti 12y ago

   Step out of the HN echo chamber. C++ isn't going anywhere.
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   by veeti 12y ago

   > question your consumption habits "Maybe I can go without wiping my ass this time?"
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   by veeti 12y ago

   How's the Linux support for hubiC? Could use this for backups.
10. 640.▲
    by veeti 12y ago

    >MS could fix it all immediately by offering Android app compatibility. Did you also switch over to the Blackberry and Jolla?
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    by veeti 12y ago

    Reflux is a Flux library without the dispatcher boilerplate.
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    How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life(nytimes.com)

    401 points by veeti 12y ago|569 comments
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    by veeti 12y ago

    So what? It's a completely valid point.
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    by veeti 12y ago

    For the really lazy: https://www.reddit.com/r/listentothis
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    by veeti 12y ago

    Slicehost had it first, then Linode followed.
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    by veeti 12y ago

    Ah, is this for human mail or programmatic mail? In any case, you can probably configure your mail server to use SES as a relay instead of sending directly.
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    by veeti 12y ago

    Amazon SES is dirt cheap. Trying to send mail yourself is a waste of time and money.
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    by veeti 12y ago

    You might also want to consider the AGPL.
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    by veeti 12y ago

    ORM works great for basic CRUD stuff like typical web applications. You don't have to use it in every part of your application.
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    by veeti 12y ago

    Probably for instant copy buttons.
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    by veeti 12y ago

    Knowing the typical Arch/Gentoo tiling WM 8px console font anime wallpaper mindset on /g/, "bloat".
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    by veeti 12y ago

    Is the conversation pricing based on monthly conversations or "forever"?
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    by veeti 12y ago

    > It becomes an issue if you're not a sloppy kind of designer/programmer, who just lets the widget flow to occupy more available space. What? In most cases, that is exactly the right thing to do. Your content should be the cent
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    by veeti 12y ago

    > Or that the "slight variation in width" he mentions should not also be taken care of. What exactly is the issue with this? Just like with any other sane widget toolkit designed since the 80's for varying screen or window
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    by veeti 12y ago

    Huh? Fedora is probably the closest you get to a bleeding edge distro without going rolling release.
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    by veeti 12y ago

    I haven't tried them yet, but GitLab now has official deb and rpm packages.
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    by veeti 12y ago

    Looks like a fork.
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    Rust 0.11.0 Released(mail.mozilla.org)

    207 points by veeti 12y ago|134 comments
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    by veeti 12y ago

    Have you seen elementaryOS? Everything they've come up with looks a million times more polished than anything else in the Linux world.
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    by veeti 12y ago

    Is Aurora the same thing as the Firefox Beta in the Play Store?