SiliconAlley

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by SiliconAlley 5y ago
So everybody is in it for the money? Noted.
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by SiliconAlley 5y ago
Where’s the part where anybody defrauded anybody? This was clearly incompetence that benefited nobody (certainly the developers would rather not have TITAN implode and all of this USDC locked in a contract...). Embarrassing yes. Fraud? Pret
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by SiliconAlley 5y ago
Polygon right now has capped the number of validators at 100, and the protocol atop which it is built (Tendermint/“Peppermint”) only remains fast and cheap if the “active set” of validators remains small. Polygon team have said they wi
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by SiliconAlley 5y ago
Though a classic, I think we can all agree this is literally the opposite of what the OP is asking for...
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by SiliconAlley 7y ago
DigitalOcean Spaces offers S3 API compatible object storage (i.e. you can use any S3 client library without modification) and a seamlessly integrated CDN that is markedly cheaper than CloudFront: https://www.digitalocean.com&#x2F
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by SiliconAlley 7y ago
Having used and written on this subject extensively, you are right but in practice these approaches mean something along the lines of making a single primary key lookup (like 0.1 to maybe 3ms in most cases) to save many tens or hundreds of
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by SiliconAlley 7y ago
I agree. I hope this will be enough of a disaster in terms of optics that it renders him unfit and forces this outcome.
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by SiliconAlley 7y ago
Honestly, as a person who prizes Apple’s products and happily depends on them for work, personal life, etc. I think Tim Cook needs to either open up sideloading or be promptly fired and replaced by somebody who will. None of this sits well
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by SiliconAlley 7y ago
I strongly feel that at this point the intuitive solution would be a broad boycott/protest of Apple’s products until they elect to allow sideloading of applications on iOS. They shouldn’t even _want_ to negotiate moral issues like this
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by SiliconAlley 7y ago
I have worked extensively in both frameworks and would add to this: * Django has comparatively limited I18n and localization faculties compared to Rails (with Django’s i18n built atop gettext, which I always found kind of brittle with .po f
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by SiliconAlley 8y ago
I am surprised that nobody has raised the question of whether this is 15% of gross pay, pre-tax or 15% of net pay, post-witholding (well assuming W2 positions)? Those are very different things, especially in states like CA/NY where I i
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by SiliconAlley 8y ago
I think it could be argued that the entire mechanics of drug development (and costs) would be fundamentally different in an environment without patents. Without the incentive of monopoly, there might be a lot more evolution (think of forkin
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Announcing an inclusive, community-owned alternative to Patreon(creatorrun.com)
2 points by SiliconAlley 8y ago|0 comments
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A tribute to Brutalist web design(hackernotes.io)
2 points by SiliconAlley 9y ago|0 comments
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by SiliconAlley 9y ago
Just to add to this - it is true. I have researched this subject incidentally many months ago. ON Semiconductor is one of the more relevant companies in this domain. They are a public company with a market cap of $8.5B. You can look at thei
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Interview: David Heinemeier Hansson on Rails Performance and Speed [video](youtube.com)
1 points by SiliconAlley 10y ago|0 comments
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by SiliconAlley 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - NYC or remote Available for on-site contract work in New York City or remote 4 years Ruby on Rails experience: deeply versed in and loyal to the idioms of the framework. Obsessive about performance. Extensive startup experien
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BTCPing.me: Bitcoin price notifications, unlimited, free forever, open source(btcping.me)
1 points by SiliconAlley 12y ago|0 comments
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by SiliconAlley 12y ago
Congratulations on an income-generating project! That's an immense achievement. Perhaps the infrastructure cost is worth the headaches you spare yourself by being on GAE but have you looked at dedicated infrastructure from the likes of
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by SiliconAlley 13y ago
My progression has been PaaS -> AWS -> Digital Ocean -> Dedicated and I strongly feel that if you're going to make the leap from PaaS to VPS, it's not a whole lot harder to go dedicated and there you'll find much swe
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by SiliconAlley 13y ago
This assertion is, categorically and empirically, ridiculous. Yes, the runtime and framework are slow compared to something like go and Revel, but that is not the principal benefit of Rails. Rails' principal benefit is taking care of M
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by SiliconAlley 13y ago
When I was doing this, I was leaning toward going the 3rd approach, but it seemed a really momentous undertaking. That would definitely be a boon to the future of PaaS projects though, because it seems like OpenSSH doesn't really have
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by SiliconAlley 13y ago
I promised I would ask this next time there was a Flynn post. Having tried to hack a PaaS like this with git "push-to-deploy" functionality, one of the most problematic components to implement was SSH authentication. Getting a wor
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Show HN: My weekend project - open source support tool for products and teams(evergreenapp.org)
1 points by SiliconAlley 13y ago|0 comments
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by SiliconAlley 13y ago
Please enlighten if I'm mistaken but is this not, like, a microcosm for a certain current culture of unproductive client MVC fetishism? What do you think is easier to maintain, the officially supported data-attribute based implementati
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by SiliconAlley 13y ago
I would love to help out with this. It's an area of deep personal interest for me. I've got homepage/contact links in my hn profile. I'll write in a bit.
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by SiliconAlley 13y ago
Thanks! I thought about astroturfing my area with accounts just to make it not look like a ghost town, but felt it was against the spirit. I felt the best thing that I could do in this respect would be to make sign-up as frictionless and se
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Show HN: My weekend project, Hacker's Coffee
17 points by SiliconAlley 13y ago|5 comments
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by SiliconAlley 14y ago
I would (and have, in the recent past) opt for Stripe subscription billing: https://stripe.com/docs/subscriptions . Upgrading/downgrading plans for users is baked in (and you can even choose to prorate or not), plus, of course, it's an in
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by SiliconAlley 14y ago
"Models are intended to serve only as an abstraction to the database" I'm really tired of hearing this unqualified argument. Fat models is not a creed. It's a practical and natural design choice that we've made because it fits real world

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