pauldbau

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by pauldbau 8y ago
We used to use Skobbler, which was great until they basically stopped working and went silent. For the past 18 months, we've used Thunderforest (it's an OpenStreetMap PaaS) and they're great. Solid uptime, good maps and the p
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by pauldbau 10y ago
You get to replace the over-engineered P&P crap that is WCF, Entity Framework and WebAPI with an extremely practical, elegant, fast and no-nonsense set of libraries focused on doing their specific job extremely well. If you hate the cur
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by pauldbau 11y ago
Felt like I was watching an episode of Silicon Valley, just needed the Hooli logo at the end. Think I threw up a little at some parts (am allergic to cheese), great comedy though, would recommend A++
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by pauldbau 11y ago
Corrected ;)
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by pauldbau 11y ago
Title is clickbait and inaccurate - they raised €550k at 100,000 users. So they bootstrapped until 100k users (still a great achievement), but hardly to 4mil users as the title would suggest.
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by pauldbau 11y ago
Out of interest, how does Win 10 compare with Mac OSX in terms of being able to install and change default browser? Given Apple's penchant for lock down, I'd expect it's much the same as Windows?
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by pauldbau 11y ago
Yeah aware of ElephantSQL but the concern is lack of SLA and lack of big company backing. If you guys disappear, what happens to my databases since they run on your subscription, not mine. Hence why having an IBM backed Postgres on Azure is
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by pauldbau 11y ago
+1, except would awesome to see this on Microsoft Azure. The current SQL database as a service offering on Azure is expensive with mediocre performance. A highly available Postgres as a Service offering backed by a big co like IBM would be
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by pauldbau 11y ago
Seconded - there are some interesting/challenging social dilemmas ahead for the 1st world in particular.
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by pauldbau 12y ago
I think this about sums up the quality and obvious bent of this article: http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/57216937.jpg
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by pauldbau 12y ago
The key paragraph from the post RE:Mono is: "we’ll make .NET Core great for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. This also enables the Mono community to innovate on top of the leaner .NET Core stack as well as taking it to environments that Mic
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by pauldbau 12y ago
I for one am extremely excited about having MS supported ASP.Net on Linux. Mono is a great community effort, but the server side has always lagged Windows pretty heavily. Having the same level of API and implementation support at a core lev
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by pauldbau 12y ago
For .NET / SQL Server people, check out GuidCombs if you want better Primary Key performance. These are a great way of making GUIDs sequential for database use, giving indexing performance close to ints on SQL Server. I imagine this ap
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by pauldbau 12y ago
You should definitely also check out ServiceStack. Dapper-like ORM, amazing web service capabilities and awesome serializers all in one place. Supports everything too (Mono, Xamarin etc).