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You can get a small cluster from Digital Ocean pretty cheaply. It's more than $5 (I forget the exact price) but they'll provide a free master node and then you just pay for one add…

I won't reconstruct the reply I wrote to someone else but I agree hackathons are not a silver bullet (and I probably misused the term). Solving the tech debt problem is a whole oth…

I don't think hackathons are always a gimmick, but then again I was probably too loose with my word choice. I mostly meant a period of sustained cooperation with a small group wher…

The benefit of the tiny tasks model is that you don't build stuff people don't care about. Features/bugs exist in a survival of the fittest world and the lowest priority ones never…

The ebird app is handy. You can use it to get a crowdsourced rarity estimate on an unidentified bird when you're in the field - handy when you're trying to decide between two speci…

Still, you must concede that the parade of "rusty muffler" arguments are a silly compared to a legitimate housing crisis. Not everything our neighbors/family/friends do makes us ha…

Declaring that low-income people won't obey noise ordinances is extremely classist in my view. Yes, tell residents before they move in that the area has strict noise ordinances, an…

It's more the sneering, condescending tone of the comment that I thought was jaw-dropping. Sure, noise ordinances are reasonable. But labeling poor people as loud - and thus undesi…

From the article: "“Low-income people tend to own cars that are in disrepair and ride motorcycles adding to the noise of a ‘lights out at 8 p.m. community,’” Marylyn Rinaldi, a nei…

I also hope this happens. It would be interesting too, if it was bidirectional (services paying you to use them. Payment for your data, essentially).