brodock

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by brodock 22d ago
CachyOS was the one who moved me from Ubuntu/Debian based distros.
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by brodock 2mo ago
Can also mean annoying. As a general recommnedation, before naming a project or company something, always search whether it means something bad in the top 10 most spoken languages. For portuguese/spanish, there is always a high chance
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by brodock 5mo ago
In many countries it's already impossible to use just the web for banking. They either make you install rootkits on your computer or move you to their mobile apps
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by brodock 5mo ago
Governament contracts are very restricted behind layers of certifications and authorizations. For example, you can't freely produce missiles and have it in wallmart where "the governament" purchase at shelf price.
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by brodock 11mo ago
A 18 Tb NAS harddrive is about 320 USD. A 2 bay unifi unas2 199. It pays off in one year. Restoring data from it is free.
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by brodock 2y ago
Why would Valve help Apple get marketshare (in the gaming category), when they can put the same effort into getting the games published to Linux (and the Steam Deck).
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by brodock 2y ago
They don't have a separate addon marketplace. The browser may still support the API but distributing the addon will be a problem. We need an altstore
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by brodock 3y ago
No one wants to invest time and effort to develop for a platform that has a horrible review process. You have to invest multiple people's months worth of work without knowing if that particular snapshot of your app will offend the revi
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What it was like working for Gitlab(yorickpeterse.com)
18 points by brodock 3y ago|4 comments
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by brodock 3y ago
It's amazing how SoundCloud had "everything" and they threw away. They had the unique Indy artists, they had the DJs and music producers, and they opted to move to compete with Spotify on a money loosing bet, without putting
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by brodock 3y ago
Outcompete them. Do more, do better, do faster
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by brodock 3y ago
https://about.gitlab.com/install/#official-linux-package In this section there is an explanation and a link to the package server. Pick the CE and follow the install documentation
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Migrating from ClickHouse to Apache Doris: What Happened?(medium.com)
2 points by brodock 3y ago|0 comments
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by brodock 3y ago
Last names are also not limited to ASCII. There all sorts of special caracters depending on the language like üáàãéèç-' (the single quote is specially important because its normally blocked due to SQL injection, but its a common charac
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by brodock 3y ago
That looks awesome. You could try https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli , not near as good, but allow you to avoid the web UI for most things.
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by brodock 3y ago
The scope is mutable. What was asked in the quote, is different from what it became when planing started and is different from what it endup 6 months down the road.
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by brodock 3y ago
I've migrated away from Evernote when they converted their MacOS and iOS apps from native to "Electron based". Simple things you expect from a "note taking app" to handle, like, search through text files, or "s
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by brodock 3y ago
Have you considered sending a MR for the "very small" things that bugs you? GitLab team member here... I have a personal list of things I wish will be prioritized, but there is only much you can do with the scope the application h
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by brodock 3y ago
Brazil unbanked population in 2011 was ~41%. Having a bank account was not a straightforward process and included higher costs for the vast majority of the population. Having a bank account would normally means you get a card that could onl
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by brodock 4y ago
I wonder if they would have a much smaller bill if they were running on physical hardware instead of renting infrastructure from AWS. This is really not much different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133510 case
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by brodock 4y ago
Don't forget all the youtubers a VPN has to pay and all the 75% off deals with the promocode ILOVEMYYOUTUBER.
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by brodock 4y ago
don't forget the "cloud cost engineer", just to figure out how much it will cost to run the 20 services that should have been part of your app with random ways of billing the usage of it
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by brodock 4y ago
There is a lot more to fail before the web worker that can be scaled indefinitely by putting more machines to respond behind a reverse proxy server. Things like the database or random microservices that implement the death star architecture
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by brodock 4y ago
if you have an ecommerce and you block acceas from countries where you dont do business, you are making every expat life miserable. just imagine for a moment people may want to send gifts for their loved ones.
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by brodock 4y ago
Every instance with some amount of user is either sponsored by someone or some organization, or is asking for donations. The monetary transaction is there
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by brodock 4y ago
You should try running your dependencies on docker but ruby on the host machine.
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by brodock 4y ago
With the current economic downcycle it is also the most budget oriented option. We will see a reborn of the "Full-Stack" for a while.
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by brodock 4y ago
Coal
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by brodock 4y ago
Apple have their ads business already, it's a matter of time until profits from that business become big enough that shareholders demand changes. You can't have and Ads business and defend privacy at the same time
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by brodock 4y ago
If the internet is slow it will be horrible for the user on first load to download a full blownup JS bundle. It will also not removr the fact that any resource change will require a roundtrip to the backend and back forth

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