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by xchaotic 9y ago
I'd be even more excited about server-side Scratch ;)
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by xchaotic 9y ago
So much this (not the case with Basecamp who pay SF rates apparently), if one doesn't want to run the business side of things - propping up business, chasing up invoices, early HR etc, then such a small business will usually not be abl
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Are we there yet? Do we need paxos-like consensus protocols? Hardware is becoming cheaper and commoditised and with all the hype around blockchain, it looks like people are ready to pay extra for the redundant hardware needed for 100% fault
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Casey Neistat cashed out really well and got out of his golden handcuffs very quickly, he can go back to vlogging now.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
two things kill it for me - annual commitment - I'm just playing around and I have so many options to choose from without the commitment. Mind you, we're spending $10k+ on AWS right now, but it all started with a free tier. Anoth
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by xchaotic 9y ago
but why would you pay for the protocol and bother with switching, if you have a good-enough solution with free protocols and paying for services with ad money.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
this is from a guy writing abook on Docker, so I hope this is for a single purpose cointainer with now other users of THAT /tmp
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Sorry to sound so negative, but the closed ecosystem for this is a very bad fit for encouraging young people to code. They won't be able to share it amongst themselves, share to other devices such as smartphones etc. There clearly is a
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by xchaotic 9y ago
tbf, Jobs may have been a business visionary etc, but given that every hour of his life was x-rayed by various biography writers and journalists and he was not much of a family man - spending so much time at work. So we should not follow hi
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by xchaotic 9y ago
you still have to go from bare metal in someone else's DC to having you software running on top of it, who's going to do all that config work? You're spending resources either way.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
sorry but rather phoning home to verify entitlement, it will now have to sync the WHOLE blockchain (probably ASYNC but still). You're mixing two similar problem, and brute forcing things is not going to work for things like topping up
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by xchaotic 9y ago
It's nice in an utopian kind of way, but it's actually less efficient - i.e. more costly overall. So you're talking Facebook paying for their hosting by showing ads vs you trying to charge customers real money or slow down th
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by xchaotic 9y ago
it's a very noble approach, but the facts are not in your favour. The 'people' that keep bitcoin valuation high are: early adopters (including ones who lost access to their wallets), HODLers and speculators and perhaps a few
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by xchaotic 9y ago
You can see something similar in Caracas, Venezuela, where people live in unfinished skyscrapers. There's no lifts nor official electricity and there are grocery shops every nth floor with prices growing as everything is delivered on f
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by xchaotic 9y ago
is it possible to sign up for GDAX instead of coinbase if you don't have a US based company? I'd much prefer programmatic access and coinbase hardly ever works at times like these...
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by xchaotic 9y ago
There is an interview with the new CEO saying that they have a formal review process for adding new 'currencies' and BCH is simply first in line. Having many cryptos adds legitimacy, whether there is one underneath or not.. THey c
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Thank you, very interesting example, but I don't necessarily see the added value in the graph form, for this particular example - it implies dependencies where there are none - for example buying GBP only after buying the guide book et
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by xchaotic 9y ago
So that's in the past and now we have a cryptocurrencies bubble coming up. Who should be punished and why? Here there is no intermediary, just the greed of the people and their stupidity. Let the markets punish or reward them.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Interesting timing as a French clone of Flappy Bird - VooDoo (with a ball instead of bird) is currently the top game in Google Play store...
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Don't you want a message queue like Sub/Pub?
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by xchaotic 9y ago
I subconsciously read that title as: "From Code Cowboy to Architecture Astronaut". Realistically you want to be somewhere in the middle, DRY and all, but ship your product often, first of all.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Explain to me why do we web app need bundlers?
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by xchaotic 9y ago
It's psychological. Easy to earn, easy to spend.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
The 1000x comparison is silly - in a straight up lifting of things, a simple steel wire can probably lift 100000x times it's weight. The tech has it's uses and they should highlight the flexibility rather than perceived strength..
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Sorry for the obvious plug, but if one wants solid replication, ACID compliance and a few other 'enterprisey' features, you should try MarkLogic: https://developer.marklogic.com/products I feel like we got a lot m
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by xchaotic 9y ago
So glad this is on the front page of HN. A good 30% of perf problems for our clients are low level misconfigurations such as this. For databases: huge pages - good THP - bad
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by xchaotic 9y ago
"I do open source work, how do I find funding?" Shouldn't the question be - I am doing a project - is open source a sustainable way of keeping it alive?
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by xchaotic 9y ago
This always reminds me that the city of Chongqing has 30m people and most people have never heard of it.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
This is true, but they issued all forms of debt already - shares, bonds, you name it. Any further delays and they can literally go bankrupt. And this is physical manufacturing do you can't ship beta and fix later for most things. Al
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Would the compression work better if you inlined the SVG and served the whole HTML+SVG as one gzipped file? I also think that depending on the SVG complexity, you might shave a few bits, but at the expense of more complex processing - polyg

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