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Pentaform launches AbacusBasic, the ‘world’s most affordable PC’(techcrunch.com)
25 points by 256DEV 4y ago|34 comments
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by 256DEV 4y ago
Some newer TLDs like .dev or .app have a tiered pricing structure. So it becomes less economically feasible to squat the best names. They also released them in stages when the TLD first went live. This guy ( https://medium.com&#x2
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by 256DEV 4y ago
Interesting question! Well no one has complained so far, but I should definitely run them all through Google Translate to see. I could see this happening quite easily. The one issue I did have was buying a domain on Namecheap auctions only
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by 256DEV 4y ago
Well well, I did not know that.. Thanks for expanding my vocab! Maybe a better example would have been the similar Zuora!
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by 256DEV 4y ago
One of my hobbies is the diametric opposite of this approach, I enjoy trawling domain auctions for short .coms that don't include any dictionary words but still sound fun. I love names like Quora that are meaningless but still somehow
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by 256DEV 4y ago
I can confirm the VAT handling works really well and I even have customers thank me for supporting VAT properly. Particularly EU customers that have higher expectations for this compliance. My original reason for starting to use Paddle for
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Paddle Acquires ProfitWell for $200m(paddle.com)
11 points by 256DEV 4y ago|2 comments
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Eve Cam – An End-to-End Encrypted Home Security Camera(evehome.com)
1 points by 256DEV 4y ago|0 comments
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by 256DEV 5y ago
Impressive project, nice work! I'd use the `outdated` command but even just the basic listing of installed packages across all managers looks useful to me.
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I Cold Emailed My Way to a Life-Changing Exit(lauraroeder.com)
1 points by 256DEV 5y ago|0 comments
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After Essential’s failure, OSOM plans a new privacy-first handset(techcrunch.com)
2 points by 256DEV 5y ago|0 comments
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by 256DEV 5y ago
It's a move in the right direction but I can't help but feel that this is an example of a massive corporation getting ahead of regulation with a watered down version of right-to-repair than Apple suddenly having a genuine change o
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by 256DEV 5y ago
Basically I understand the idea of serverless in this context as abstracting away everything related to managing & maintaining the database - i.e. anything like VMs, containers, OS, DB processes etc. So you can set up a PlanetScale MySQ
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by 256DEV 5y ago
I hate to be the stereotype of skeptical HN reader but I think this headline oversells the article. Specifically for me it doesn't speak at all to the differences between starting a SaaS like this as a team of founders versus as a solo
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by 256DEV 5y ago
We registered this domain in 2010 back when there was actually something called the "exact match bonus" in SEO. Basically if your domain exactly matched the searched keywords Google just automatically gave your site a massive boos
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by 256DEV 5y ago
Thanks - I really appreciate that! On one hand it is partly this, the uptime/reliability/LTS endpoints have been the focus of many years of work. However, that said, I think in the majority of the actual cases I'm describing
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by 256DEV 5y ago
As someone who runs a currency data API [1] I can confirm this is strongly the case - even to the point where relatively often I get messages to the effect of "we believe our company uses your service - how do we access it and can we u
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by 256DEV 5y ago
Considering how big Apple is already ($80 billion per QUARTER!) the idea that they could at some point still decide to add a search engine and the associated revenues is amazing to me. It obviously wouldn't be a 1-to-1 switch with Goog
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by 256DEV 5y ago
This is a great initiative. Interestingly, manual washing machines like this were briefly an incredibly hot commodity in even wealthy suburbs in my home city Cape Town, SA during the extreme drought and water shortages we had in 2017/2
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Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS(bryanbraun.com)
461 points by 256DEV 5y ago|149 comments
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Google's API Explorer (Filterable list of all Google APIs)(developers.google.com)
1 points by 256DEV 5y ago|0 comments
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by 256DEV 5y ago
I've actually just gone through the process of integrating my currency API [1] with Micro. I really liked the idea for this service and actually just emailed them asking your exact question! The process was smooth and I was impressed b
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by 256DEV 5y ago
This is definitely a good point. I wonder does anyone know if the Chrome User Experience Report [2] dataset will be used in the upcoming Google Page Experience Update [1]? If it will be included then perhaps this will create pressure for fa
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by 256DEV 5y ago
As someone who runs a SaaS[1] I'm always really surprised by how slow many websites are, even those clearly run by well funded teams pushing hard to grow their service. The following two things seem axiomatic by now to me: 1. It's
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by 256DEV 5y ago
RapidAPI. You can consume multiple API's from one account and as a developer it's a good way to monetize an API if there isn't too much competition in your niche. Not sure what you mean by firewalling but RapidAPI does authen
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by 256DEV 5y ago
dmlittle's concern is a valid one and for most other types of API I would definitely agree it's not the right approach. I still think it's reasonable for my use case but perhaps I should add another auth scheme as an option
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by 256DEV 5y ago
Abuse of free APIs is a big issue, I've definitely experienced it a lot and see other API developers in this thread mentioning it. With my experience though I found that trying to limit signups to prevent abuse caused so much friction
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by 256DEV 5y ago
KeepFlying's idea together with this point is a great suggestion, I'm going to see if I can prototype something along these lines. Basically hand out tons of short lived credentials right from a widget on the main landing page, to
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by 256DEV 5y ago
So I actually do have a version of my API that doesn't require any sign up at all for the users that prefer this! You can see it here: https://www.exchangerate-api.com/docs/free That said, as much as some users wa
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by 256DEV 5y ago
My API currently does auth inline in the GET request URL in order to make this possible. An example request would be: GET https://v6.exchangerate-api.com/v6/YOUR-API-KEY/latest/USD I've had a fair number

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