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No Servers, Just Buckets: Hosting Static Websites on the Cloud(0xfe.blogspot.com)
2 points by zeroxfe 7y ago|0 comments
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
It's amusing how quickly people forget how bad FTP was -- complex connection setup made it difficult to proxy, lack of encryption made it easy to sniff, managing FTP accounts was really hard without sophisticated auditing and managemen
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> The astronaut angle is just stupid clickbait. It's not an "angle" and it's definitely not clickbait -- they're excerpts from a book written by an astronaut. > the most common life-or-death decision made by
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Show HN: VexFlow – JavaScript Music Notation and Guitar Tablature(vexflow.com)
8 points by zeroxfe 7y ago|1 comments
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> Now we have to solve a complex state management problem just to implement a dark mode. What they're saying is that if you have a large complex system, it would be easier to implement dark mode with good state management. Not that
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Good developers can write bad software too. Primarily because there are a lot more factors to software quality than just developer quality: management quality, team dynamics, cost/time pressure, market dynamics, etc.
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Show HN: Pitchy Ninja – a web-based voice and ear trainer with realtime feedback(pitchy.ninja)
1 points by zeroxfe 7y ago|0 comments
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> No no no. That's not how probability works. Pretty sure GP understands how probability works, maybe take a more charitable interpretation of their comment?
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
It's okay for knowledgeable people to not know things.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
I live in Toronto too -- just use the app to turn on climate control 5 - 10 mins before driving. Works like a charm!
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
That's 2011 data. Most recent data is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r... * Global rate: 10.5 per 100,000 people * Canada rate: 10.4 per 100,000 people * US rate: 13.7 per 100,000
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> ... did you not notice the everyone doing their own ICO when bitcoin was 20k? Are you saying it will happen again? I don't think that's what they're saying. I suspect it'll be more like support for existing major cr
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Ben Levin is an incredible guitar player.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
It's more likely that all of them started working on it at about the same time and AWS came out first.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
How do you demand for smaller sites? To whom do you plead? Why will they listen to you?
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> It scales linearly. > If you have 3 (or 10) times as much as I have, and we both invest all our money in the same interest bearing account, then after N years you will still have 3 (or 10) times as much as I have. Right, it's l
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
I don't follow your logic. Compound interest grows capital exponentially, while taxation is linear. So, while tax avoidance helps, it's not necessary.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
The author was pretty clear about the risks: > This solution is fine for most people, but this section is about being a bit more paranoid, so I would recommend not using the 1Password integration for your one-time password codes. > Th
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Why do you say so? There seems to be some compelling evidence that keeping your mind and body active increases your quality of life during old age.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> Twitter would still likely end up hosting that blockchain, since nobody else is going to foot that cost Why do you assume that? Modern blockchains are not proof-of-work, and the only info you need on a blockchain are permissions and en
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> It's like saying that having abusive parents make you a strong person. Completely bullshit. I don't get this analogy at all. Failure falls on a pretty broad spectrum, from minor setbacks to complete catastrophes. IME, failure
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> Well, if you're gonna nitpick... :-) > A garbage-collected language wouldn't let you allocate such items on the stack in the first place. I get your point, but I don't think this is entirely true. When people think of
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> In another language you'd risk having a pointer to invalid memory when the function returns if the pointer escapes the function, and so it is advised to use pointers to objects on the stack sparingly if at all. Just a nitpick, thi
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
E-mail confirmations are easy to circumvent.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
You could say that for any captcha library though.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Tech companies tend to have software designs go through a lot of review and scrutiny, with the bigger ones requiring presentations detailing costs, tradeoffs, risks, etc. It's definitely a double-edged sword, and helps to have thick sk
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
It's not always that cut and dry. If X is already well known, it actually has the opposite effect -- it capitalizes off of X's brand and familiarity and drives people to the new product. It's a common technique (that is frequ
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Microsoft employees in India would risk harsh punishments, including prison time.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> The big issue with sub-GHz, of course, is bandwidth. Doesn't seem like a big issue for the IoT common case (switches, controls, alarms.)
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Monkey Island disagrees!

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