stemuk

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by stemuk 4y ago
After reading the entire thread I am still in the dark about what exactly the author wants to see changed. The narrative that frameworks = bad and vanilla js = good falls apart quickly IMHO in medium to large sized projects since the comple
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Bill Gates Letter to Hobbyists (1976) [pdf](upload.wikimedia.org)
4 points by stemuk 5y ago|1 comments
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by stemuk 5y ago
Best Buy I suppose
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by stemuk 5y ago
Facebook does in fact habe this as well, they regularly even take out entire datacenters to see if the remaining ones take over automatically.
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by stemuk 5y ago
I think in some ways this is also a question of specialized vs universal tools. If I plan a vacation with friends I believe I could do it 90% of the way just as well with a plain old shared word document/todo list.
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by stemuk 6y ago
As a nearly daily user of Google Stadia I have to disagree. I use Stadia in two different households, one with a 50 Mbps connection (where Stadia works perfectly) an one with a connection capped at 10 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up. The 10 Mbps co
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Uberspace Shared Hosting(uberspace.de)
7 points by stemuk 6y ago|0 comments
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by stemuk 6y ago
I have been creating most of my infrastructure diagrams in https://arcentry.com/ and this seems to me like an overcomplicated version of Arcentry.
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by stemuk 6y ago
On iPadOS 14 the bedtime feature got removed entirely since there is no Health App available for iPads. I guess i have to say goodbye to using my iPad as a high tech alarm clock for now...
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Hetzner Cloud Loadbalancer (Beta)(hetzner.com)
2 points by stemuk 6y ago|0 comments
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by stemuk 7y ago
Looks promising! Does deepstream work well as a standalone server or is it best used in combination with express.js if I am building a real-time web app?
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by stemuk 7y ago
I believe one essential step in the right direction would be to create an ad platform that allows companies to create and developers to show truly passive ads. To specify what I mean: Display a jpeg with the advertisement and link it to a w
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by stemuk 7y ago
> by the chase of profit I am honestly surprised how Google was able to keep up YouTube for so long despite a severe lack of profits. Even though Youtube made a net loss in the hundreds of millions for years Google kept it up and running
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by stemuk 7y ago
As far as I know they didn't, about 2 years ago they just replaced several high value bills over night to battle corruption (you essentially had to go to a bank to get your old bills replaced, which in turn layed open your income/
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by stemuk 7y ago
Yeah, I just realized it's called fractional scaling too, my bad. It is still important though, because on 14inch desktops the Ubuntu interface looks way too small on 100% scale and way too big on 200%. At the end of the day you can th
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by stemuk 7y ago
Factorial scaling means being able to set the entire desktop scale to 120%, 140% and so on. It is important to me because most of the work I do in my PC is text based (coding and research), so being able to scale text and ui elements '
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by stemuk 7y ago
Most of these pain points go away if you purchase the iGPU only version. I own a Thinkpad T470 and Ubuntu works like a charm. The only issue I still have is that the Gnome interface (Ubuntu 17.04+) does not support factorial scaling, meanin
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by stemuk 7y ago
When it comes to the greater public, default settings might as well be the only available setting. Apart from a few 'techies' most people will never even touch the default settings out of the naive belief that "the default se
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by stemuk 7y ago
The service itself is really cool and lines up nicely with the likes of Netlify and Github pages. I have two concerns though: 1) This doesn't seem to be connected to any major company, so how are you going to handle abuse of the servic
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by stemuk 7y ago
This seems like 'growth hacking' gone wrong. Facebook's growth has been loosing momentum for several year's now and it seems to me they are trying to make up for it by using every trick they have up their sleeves. They m
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GitPod: One-Click Online IDE for GitHub(gitpod.io)
4 points by stemuk 7y ago|6 comments
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by stemuk 8y ago
I feel like the main advantage AWS has at this point is that "everyone is using it". While it may not give you a competitive advantage over your competitors, it at least doesn't put you at a disadvantage if you are using the
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by stemuk 8y ago
Personally I feel like the most ridiculous part about the App Store is Apples so called "developer program". Charging 99€ a Year for a nearly nonexistent service is absurd, especially since they are already taking the 30% cut. I a
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by stemuk 8y ago
IIRC they ended the DTAG transit agreement due to DTAG having unreasonable pricing requests for the renewed agreement (i.e. DTAG holding Hetzener hostage, you can read more about it here [1]. If you are interested you can still buy DTAG tra
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by stemuk 8y ago
The same thing works perfectly for me as well. I configured my ThinkPad to dual-boot both Ubuntu and Windows 10. All work related things are on Ubuntu, all games and entertainment apps are on Windows. I found that this really helped me to f
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by stemuk 8y ago
> many startups have decent health insurance About what kind of startup are we talking here? When we discuss #1 engineer compensation we are most likely talking about a very early stage company that likely lacks a profound company struc
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by stemuk 8y ago
Even if you pay your #1 employee at market rate he is taking huge risks and should be compensated accordingly. Working at an early stage company often comes with huge job insecurity, loss of medical benefits more mature companies might be a
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by stemuk 8y ago
It always amazes me how long Buzzfeed can hold off the actual content of the article with useless banter without seemingly losing readers. The title mentions 'a psychological trick', but delays the actual explanation of the &#x27
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by stemuk 8y ago
It seems really weird to me that a CEO of a big company like Slack comes forward and comments "There’s fewer choices for people.” as if this is supposed to be a good thing. I get that this is true on paper, most CEOs however would rath
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by stemuk 8y ago
This seems like a really unfortunate name choice to me. When I first read the title I misread it as Cloud Firestore, which just has one letter different to Cloud Filestore.

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