nathan-io

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by nathan-io 6y ago
As someone who has spent a good deal of time playing poker, I totally agree that this is a glaring editorial oversight. Yet when phrased this way, it reminds me of "I'd rather be lucky than good" - something I've heard p
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by nathan-io 6y ago
I'm equally surprised by your anecdote. I found it quite simple to install RabbitMQ server and its admin panel in my WSL local dev environment. And the cloud/prod instance took a few clicks (just spun up a DO Marketplace server im
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by nathan-io 6y ago
I'm running Discourse on a $5/mo droplet, 1 vcPU 1GB RAM. I just added 4GB of swap space. No issues so far.
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by nathan-io 7y ago
The article didn't mention the lack of version control, which AFAIK is impractical due to the sheer amount of HTML and layout-defining configuration WP stores in the db. In spite of WP's revision history feature on Posts and other
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by nathan-io 7y ago
“What we want to do is to become the operating system for the open web. We want every website, whether it’s e-commerce or anything to be powered by WordPress." God help us all.
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by nathan-io 7y ago
Understandable. How are ISPs supposed to keep mining and monetizing browsing history if everyone starts using DoH?
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by nathan-io 7y ago
https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install
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by nathan-io 7y ago
You're right there, not sure what I was thinking there. Regardless, my original point is still valid. You could serve web/MacOS/Windows/Linux users with a single UI.
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by nathan-io 7y ago
Yelp has always been a thinly veiled extortion platform, overrun by spam, yet surprisingly quick to filter legitimate five-star reviews. I tried their paid advertising for a client in 2017, and have avoided it like the plague ever since. No
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by nathan-io 7y ago
I certainly am. The only thing I disagree with is the lack of a web client. It just seems like you could save a ton of work by starting with the web client, then create desktop versions via something like todesktop.com. Then you're spe
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by nathan-io 7y ago
> Code is free and open source, but 98% don't have the time/the knowledge/the will to self host The vast majority of people who use GSuite won't understand or care about the OSS angle. Even if they do, they won'
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by nathan-io 7y ago
That's an entirely different conversation... I do think Uber in particular was great at creating hype and glossing over the fact that their pricing/model isn't sustainable without the substantial rider/driver subsidies a
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by nathan-io 7y ago
These are both wildly unprofitable companies, and they may likely never become profitable. Possibly not the best examples...
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by nathan-io 7y ago
> an API developer not wanting to write own/reinvent cache layer for their REST API For Laravel projects at least, a package like spatie/laravel-responsecache makes it super easy to handle caching for GET API routes. I'm s
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by nathan-io 7y ago
Found this at https://crates.io/crates/bloom-server : > A simpler caching approach could have been to enable caching at the Load Balancer level for HTTP read methods (GET, HEAD, OPTIONS). Although simple as a solutio
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by nathan-io 7y ago
Indeed, this was bad. I assume they were trying to extend SSD lifetime by reducing writes. It's fair to note that scrubbing is now the default behavior when a droplet is destroyed, so they did listen to the feedback. https:/&#x2
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by nathan-io 7y ago
I agree with his overall message - it's hard (and takes time) to actually do something valuable. And I agree that we're in an age where iterative startups ("Uber for X") outnumber innovative startups. But there is just s
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by nathan-io 7y ago
Stopped reading at > All the obvious apps/websites have already been built.
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by nathan-io 7y ago
I prefer to give them the benefit of the doubt, though a clear explanation of why the above policy was not followed seems warranted. (It also doesn't appear to have been followed in several other instances reported by other former cust
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by nathan-io 7y ago
I'm no longer able to edit the above comment, so to elaborate on #1: Following is a comment[1] by Moisey Uretsky in another thread[2]: > Depending on which items are flagged the account is put into a locked state, which means that a
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by nathan-io 7y ago
Mistakes happen, and algorithms are sometimes a necessary part of scale/efficiency. Everyone understands that. That said, what's highly troubling as a DO customer (and someone who is planning to deploy startup infrastructure of m
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by nathan-io 7y ago
> At her initial hearing, the prosecutor said the state was not "trying to prove a point in going forward with this case," but that "the state believes that the respondent is in need of some guidance, rehabilitation for so
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by nathan-io 7y ago
I've done a 7 and a 10 day, and this was my experience. Around day 4, I lost the desire for food. It was no longer a struggle.
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by nathan-io 7y ago
The terms are interchangeable. Look it up.
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by nathan-io 7y ago
16:8 intermittent fasting has worked quite well for me.
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by nathan-io 7y ago
Indeed, I'd say in the case of gas stations in particular, zoning could be the primary cause of such clustering.
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by nathan-io 7y ago
Google's spam filtering can be a bit too good.
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by nathan-io 7y ago
If you truly are an entrepreneur, you will be utterly miserable doing anything else. There is a knowing.
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by nathan-io 7y ago
Most registrars do this. Regardless, their pricing practices are utterly irrelevant to the topic at hand.
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by nathan-io 7y ago
"It is not the function of the artist to be the critic. The winnowing out, the deciding what is good from what is bad, comes later. That is a community process. The community decides what is good and bad art. But the individual should

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