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So 16 year olds are wise enough to vote, but not fully leave education, buy alcohol, drive a car, join the army and get married without your parents consent, the lists goes on.

Dumb question, but how can a 32 bit number be converted to 2 bits and still be useful? It seems like magic.

At last, an examination of the true nature of 'edge' computing is presented. Despite the appealing promises made by posts from Fly.io and others that depict 'edge' computing as a s…

I often need to make a HTTP request to a user supplied URL, but I then need to protect myself from SSRF attacks, such as users supplying URL's to "localhost:3000/protected-thing" e…

Thanks for mentioning FireSync, we haven't even offically launched yet! After 10+ years of building real time collabrative apps based on Operational Transformation (ShareLaTeX -> O…

Location: London UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: node.js, react, typescript, terraform, redis, k8, elixir, mongo, Postgres, docker. GCP/AWS, hashicorp stack, L…

Just - https://just.systems/man/en/ Simple, readable task runner. It has replaced make and rake in a lot of use cases.

replacement for dialyzer?

It's also possible your email address is guessable

Thanks for creating this. I have found it pretty impenetrable though, i've spent a good few minutes trying to get some of the bots to harvest, but they never seem to move. It feels…

I have found it easy to overload SQLite with too many write operations (20+ Concurrently), is this typical behaviour referred to in the post, or a write heavy workload?

Some of the franchises did make decent profits, westcost/virgin etc. This generally happens at the end of the franchise once most of the up front investment happened. A lot of othe…

I completely agree, Northern trains are a disgrace. I don't think it was a failure of private companies though, rather Network Rail failing to deliver. The government has speced el…

Most will sympathise with public run railways (rightly or wrongly) so it is worth highlighting some positives from private companies running of the railways. The private companies …

When it comes to replication & automatic failover in PG what is the 2021 gold standard setup?

As a bit of a self taught sysadmin who only touches Ubuntu/Debian based systems due there ubiquity, could someone explain the benefits of using RHEL?

This isn't life optimisation, it's putting cost optimisation over happiness. Having a yard/garden with kids is wounderful, open the back door and shove them outside without shoes t…

I would love to see pret move out a bit further where people live and WFH, or even have a delivery truck which works the local area. My partner and myself both WFH in Peckham, we w…

Is the market salary based off other startups who have closed large rounds, or a FAANG company? It is common to be paid a bit less at a startup compared to a very large company. Ho…

For those with young children going to SF for several months made YC near impossible, I hope they keep a remote option in the future.

Thanks for the great work, I am a big Elixir and Phoenix fan. Although I don't think it will ever hit the heights of ruby or node in terms of popularity, I believe elixir and phone…

Motherboard did a nice writeup of what Sleepyhead is and an overview of the Sleep Apnea echo system https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjd4w/im-possibl...

The article references cloud providers, "especially in Asia", frustrating MongoDb, does anyone know which companies these are or specifically what they have done which other did no…