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by vdaniuk 10y ago
FindFace is already used in Russia to find, identify and attack gays, sex workers and porn actresses. One of the incidents https://globalvoices.org/2016/04/22/facial-recognition-servi...
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by vdaniuk 10y ago
Atom has recently gained a significantly better support with the atom-elixir package. Adding language-elixir and linter-elixir packages creates a moderately enjoyable experience.
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CSP Elixir library(github.com)
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Elixir macro utilities(github.com)
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by vdaniuk 10y ago
So, to say "I trust/distrust all media sources in equal measure" demonstrates a wilful ignorance, or incredible naiveté.
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by vdaniuk 10y ago
>Having an effective universal annotation platform in wide use across the web ...funded by venture capital with an expectation of hyper growth and liquidity event would not necessarily be beneficial for all users. To put it mildly.
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Introducing React Storybook by Kadira(voice.kadira.io)
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by vdaniuk 10y ago
>People keep complaining about how slow Atom is, how much memory it hogs up, etc Which is exactly what people have been saying decades ago about Emacs, aka "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping".
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MonadEx: monads for Elixir(github.com)
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Atom adoption among SO developers increased from 2% in 2015 to 12% in 2016. VS Code is at 7.2% and it's not even out of beta. Both Atom and VS Code are built on Electron so it seems that web tech for building code editors and IDEs is g
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Elixirscript is a thing though and it's being actively developed https://github.com/bryanjos/elixirscript
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Robert Virding has just announced the release on twitter https://twitter.com/rvirding/status/710259707819249664 I feel that this LFE release further validates BEAM as a promising platform for future development of
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Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development(github.com)
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
TcpKali mascot is an example of great visual identity for open source projects: kawaii-touched fearsome ancient god zapping servers. It's both memorable visual symbol and an apt metaphor for core feature (load generation). RJ-45 connec
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Don't trust Alexa results, they are mostly useless. Quantcast is usually more accurate and Quizlet US Rank on Quantcast is 37.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
I don't know about Go but Elixir/Erlang has a concurrency model that spreads one request workload over several cores.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>typo 0 server. It's bare metal, but much more performant than here Packet's 0 server is Atom C2550 and costs 36$/month. Scaleway C2S server is the same Atom C2550 but it costs ~$13/month. Scaleway C2M is C2750 which
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>normal-intelligence humans who like working hard Because working hard is a virtue, right?
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Great news, I will. I guess that option wasn't obvious for me when I was looking over http://stardog.com/#plans
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Stardog is great and would be even better with a friendly licensing policy towards indie developers. Their community version is too limited and enterprise version price is per server, contact sales. Current developer version is for testing
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
AFAIK linux and mac release is coming later this year and even then it won't have JIT support.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Microsoft's Chakra engine is available as an alternative backend for node (windows only at the moment) and has native support of async/await. https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
RethinkDB + graphql is exactly what I missed from Meteor :) Meatier seems like a promising stack.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Its ironic that your username is an ad for the addictive, manipulative game.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
This applies only for a diminishingly small amount of large corporations and is not applicable to absolute majority of HN startups/bootstraps/side projects.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
As someone who has taught himself development after more than ten years in entrepreneurship, marketing, advertising and strategy, I find you arguments too simplistic, with no regard to strategic tradeoffs. A successful business needs to be
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>I don't need to 'cite' what I can see with my own eyes from the stats of my payment services provider. Your original statement was broad and general, not qualified. Your anecdotal evidence is not sufficient to support thi
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>It is extremely rare that the cost to support a browser outweighs the economic importance of those using those browsers. Citation please. Are you really sure this applies to modern front-end web app with reasonable complexity?
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Amazon RDS support for PG was released in November 2013 so I wouldn't hold my breath.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Postgres 9.5 is a great release. Upsert is, obviously, a very welcome addition. But I am more interested in row level security policies and its impact on evolution of technologies like Postgrest. It may even spawn a new generation of backen

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