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Can also mean annoying. As a general recommnedation, before naming a project or company something, always search whether it means something bad in the top 10 most spoken languages.…

In many countries it's already impossible to use just the web for banking. They either make you install rootkits on your computer or move you to their mobile apps

Governament contracts are very restricted behind layers of certifications and authorizations. For example, you can't freely produce missiles and have it in wallmart where "the gove…

A 18 Tb NAS harddrive is about 320 USD. A 2 bay unifi unas2 199. It pays off in one year. Restoring data from it is free.

Why would Valve help Apple get marketshare (in the gaming category), when they can put the same effort into getting the games published to Linux (and the Steam Deck).

They don't have a separate addon marketplace. The browser may still support the API but distributing the addon will be a problem. We need an altstore

No one wants to invest time and effort to develop for a platform that has a horrible review process. You have to invest multiple people's months worth of work without knowing if th…

It's amazing how SoundCloud had "everything" and they threw away. They had the unique Indy artists, they had the DJs and music producers, and they opted to move to compete with Spo…

Outcompete them. Do more, do better, do faster

https://about.gitlab.com/install/#official-linux-package In this section there is an explanation and a link to the package server. Pick the CE and follow the install documentation

Last names are also not limited to ASCII. There all sorts of special caracters depending on the language like üáàãéèç-' (the single quote is specially important because its normall…

That looks awesome. You could try https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli , not near as good, but allow you to avoid the web UI for most things.

The scope is mutable. What was asked in the quote, is different from what it became when planing started and is different from what it endup 6 months down the road.

I've migrated away from Evernote when they converted their MacOS and iOS apps from native to "Electron based". Simple things you expect from a "note taking app" to handle, like, se…

Have you considered sending a MR for the "very small" things that bugs you? GitLab team member here... I have a personal list of things I wish will be prioritized, but there is onl…

Brazil unbanked population in 2011 was ~41%. Having a bank account was not a straightforward process and included higher costs for the vast majority of the population. Having a ban…

I wonder if they would have a much smaller bill if they were running on physical hardware instead of renting infrastructure from AWS. This is really not much different from https:/…

Don't forget all the youtubers a VPN has to pay and all the 75% off deals with the promocode ILOVEMYYOUTUBER.

don't forget the "cloud cost engineer", just to figure out how much it will cost to run the 20 services that should have been part of your app with random ways of billing the usage…

There is a lot more to fail before the web worker that can be scaled indefinitely by putting more machines to respond behind a reverse proxy server. Things like the database or ran…

if you have an ecommerce and you block acceas from countries where you dont do business, you are making every expat life miserable. just imagine for a moment people may want to sen…

Every instance with some amount of user is either sponsored by someone or some organization, or is asking for donations. The monetary transaction is there

You should try running your dependencies on docker but ruby on the host machine.