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Show HN: Losant Kiln – The easiest way to build APIs for IoT applications(losant.com)
11 points by zwigby 9y ago|1 comments
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Bring your software errors into the real-world with IoT(rollbar.com)
9 points by zwigby 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Losant Go – Mobile App to Turn a Phone into an IoT Button(losant.com)
5 points by zwigby 10y ago|0 comments
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by zwigby 11y ago
Love to help out and get more kits for schools. Think youngsters should definitely be playing with hardware.
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by zwigby 11y ago
We're working with several early companies in the industrial space, especially logistics and manufacturing.
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by zwigby 11y ago
Absolutely. https://docs.getstructure.io/getting-started/walkthrough/ There are also specific hardware guides as well.
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by zwigby 11y ago
Thanks, we're excited to show it to the world.
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Npm passes 100,000 modules(blog.modulus.io)
8 points by zwigby 12y ago|0 comments
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by zwigby 13y ago
Well Modulus, http://modulus.io , has a number of things that set us apart. One is that we're not really into to tiers. Custom SSL, domains, etc... are part of the normal package. We support WebSockets, there are a couple ot
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by zwigby 13y ago
The main application runs in a single thread and then I/O activities happen in an event loop running with a small thread pool. Once one of those activities completes the event loop will give a signal to the main thread of the Node app
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by zwigby 13y ago
I'd love to chat about the platform. I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for pimping it. I just don's to turn this comment area into a discussion of the platform. Hit us up on twitter @OnModulus or send an email to feed
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An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Node.js(blog.modulus.io)
257 points by zwigby 13y ago|66 comments
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by zwigby 14y ago
Yeah great point.
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by zwigby 14y ago
People use what they're used to so most of the time that falls back to Heroku. I get that, I really do. Just want to make sure people know it's not the only option.
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by zwigby 14y ago
Yes we're mostly on AWS. We actually use AWS for most of the infrastructure and then Azure for hold stats we push. This will be added to FAQ, ASAP. I agree that is does matter. GridFS stores chucks as different documents so this still shoul
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by zwigby 14y ago
Thanks for the support.
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by zwigby 14y ago
1. We do not currently do raw TCP load balancing. It's HTTP and WebSocket load balancing. It's not an impossibility to do. Just haven't had a ton of people ask for it yet. 2. Yes you can use wildcard subdomains. You can then use different s
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Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB(modulus.io)
37 points by zwigby 14y ago|26 comments
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Isaac Schlueter, Maintainer of Node.js, Answering Questions on Crowdhall(crowdhall.com)
2 points by zwigby 14y ago|0 comments
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by zwigby 14y ago
Any custom built caching layer is normally going to have to handle this situation.
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by zwigby 14y ago
Actually Twitter and Groupon both make a lot of money off those people. Revenue != profit. Groupon is spending a ton of money moving into new markets. Now, I don't love Groupon but saying they don't make money is just wrong.
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by zwigby 14y ago
That puts a share of Facebook around $30 if you buy that those 23M are worth 700M.
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by zwigby 14y ago
I'm working on new engine myself. Feel free to check it out over at http://withpulse.com .
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by zwigby 15y ago
From my experience with iPhone and iTunes connect (also not a great application) I don't spend a lot of time in iTunes Connect. Are you spending a lot of time in the App Hub? What I'm getting at is that this sounds like a pretty minor thing
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by zwigby 15y ago
I don't really call myself a fanboy of any one camp, I use whatever I think is best. And minus catching up in applications (which WP7 is working on), I think that the experience from a Windows Phone is better than an Android hands down. And
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by zwigby 15y ago
That's assuming you have drop box install on the computer, have an account. The point is my mom doesn't have a dropbox account so she's still sol in this example. This isn't particularly on topic though.
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Kinect Hacking Tutorial(switchonthecode.com)
3 points by zwigby 16y ago|0 comments