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by richardkeller 3y ago
From the bit of digging that I've done, it's all free tier domains that are affected. Paid tiers are not affected by this. Given that I've tested from multiple different ISPs, I think this is the fault of Cloudflare intention
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by richardkeller 3y ago
OP's note about Johannesburg's latency is something I've noticed over the past few weeks in particular. Our servers are hosted in South Africa, yet accessing most of our sites and services from within South Africa causes traf
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by richardkeller 4y ago
I run an software / creative agency in South Africa (creationlabs.co.za) that works with clients ranging from tiny to large corporates. What I've found is that the direction of the blame very much depends on which side of the fenc
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by richardkeller 6y ago
What about doing something similar to JetBrains, where you offer the product at a significantly discounted rate to startups, rather than based on usage? You would have 1 new customer immediately.
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by richardkeller 6y ago
This looks like a fantastic solution. If there were an affordable price point, I would immediately implement this in the edtech platform that we're developing, but the price point puts it completely out of our league for now. (Especial
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by richardkeller 9y ago
This is great. Is there are a list of supported TLDs? For example, I'm not having much luck with .co.za (South African) domains.
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by richardkeller 9y ago
South Africa is hardly the only country where multivitamins are common. If rationality were the only metric for decision making, I would expect homeopathy to be far less common globally than it is today. As for Aids denialism, South Africa
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Show HN: RecruitDoor: ATS for Agencies
4 points by richardkeller 9y ago|0 comments
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by richardkeller 9y ago
Will be interesting to see how Google Hire is used by agencies, as opposed to companies sourcing their own talent. Obligatory plug: I'm the cofounder of RecruitDoor [1], an applicant tracking system for recruitment agencies. We've
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Ask HN: Solutions for editing Microsoft Word docs in webapp?
1 points by richardkeller 9y ago|0 comments
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by richardkeller 9y ago
https://ipinfo.io works well. Alternatively, CloudFlare also works well if you just need the country code, which it can attach as an HTTP header to each request.
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by richardkeller 9y ago
What an ingenious way to covertly distribute the Pied Piper decentralized storage app.
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by richardkeller 9y ago
I can highly recommend Mail-in-a-Box [1], especially if you're looking for a solution that is secure, easy to install, and doesn't require any fiddling. You can host it on a cheap VPS for $5 a month and it'll happily chug alo
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by richardkeller 9y ago
Unfortunately, unless you're paying for a dedicated IP address with Mailgun, their sender reputation is mostly quite bad. We are constantly having to request our account to be moved to a new IP due to them landing up in some blacklist.
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by richardkeller 9y ago
Assuming it has an API, I would prefer to use this over a service such as Mailgun. We used to have our own mail server, but without an easy API to get deliverability details per mail, we ended up switching to Mailgun. Since the switch, our
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by richardkeller 9y ago
As a South African, I can attest to the exact ads shown by the author on various site, both in incognito mode as well as during normal browsing. I have seen every one of them, and they are awfully persistent and incredibly annoying. Even se
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by richardkeller 9y ago
Currently working on RecruitDoor ( http://www.recruitdoor.com ) - recruitment software for recruitment agencies that's simple to use and looks good on the eyes. Currently only targeting South African recruitment agencies, but
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by richardkeller 10y ago
The concept of marketing to an international audience fascinates me. I head up a small web design + development agency in South Africa, and recently I've set my sights on finding international clients, specifically in the US. How do pe
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by richardkeller 10y ago
Google don't have their own datacenter in Africa, but they do have nodes in existing datacenters in South Africa as part of the Google Global Cache infrastructure. Whether GMail forms part of the Global Cache infrastructure though, I&#
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by richardkeller 10y ago
We use Sendy (using Amazon SES) to send email newsletters for some our our clients. Recently, recipients have been complaining that newsletters are landing in their spam. Does anyone have any experience with deliverability, comparing Amazon
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Boomerang mines user data
6 points by richardkeller 10y ago|2 comments
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by richardkeller 11y ago
Fellow Durbanite! First one I've spotted on HN. Unfortunately Durbs is a bit sparse on the startup scene (at least using the HN definition of startups - ones with a single focus). We're a small general dev shop, busy also busy col
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by richardkeller 11y ago
Although they are a fantastic company (often seen as the Google of South Africa in terms of work conditions), calling them a "gaming" company (as they do themselves) is perhaps not as accurate as calling them a "gambling game
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by richardkeller 11y ago
Are there any precompiled packages for Nginx for this? Looks like an awesome project, but I'm not a huge fan of compiling from source because it makes maintainability difficult in future. Having to compile Nginx from source just so I c
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by richardkeller 11y ago
Seeing this type of research really inspires me to get involved in deep learning, at least to the point where I can accomplish some sort of basic task with it. As somebody with an undergraduate computer science degree, but only a very basic
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by richardkeller 11y ago
This is really great. I wonder if something like this exists for perspex or acrylic? I've been trying to find somewhere I can get custom coloured acrylic cut to specific shapes. What really appeals to me about Lasergist is the worldwid
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by richardkeller 12y ago
The author notes that they picked up an MacBook Air during one of the scans. Probably unrelated, but interesting nevertheless, is that Kim has been seen using Apple products [1], specifically an iMac. Perhaps the author came across Kim&#x27
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by richardkeller 12y ago
The moment I use more than 1 screen, I find alt-tab to be cumbersome. I find that in a GUI environment, having your mouse autofocus on the window it's hovering over is far easier than using alt-tab. Especially when you have multiple wi
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by richardkeller 12y ago
Same thing in South Africa. Very unfortunate - Series 9 was pretty much the best available line of laptops available here.
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by richardkeller 12y ago
Considering that a mid-level to senior South African developer makes around R40'000 per month (which is roughly what $3500 equates to), you would be able to get an entire month's worth of work from a competent developer based here

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