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chebum

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About chebum

Ivan Nikitin, Sr. developer

Main job: https://xenarius.net

Pet project: https://www.visualwatermark.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #20814452

    Yes, the website starts to build slower with growing number of pages. I'm using Metalsmith static site generator for https://www.visualwatermark.com/ The website currently have abo…

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    Comment #13757416

    My site hosted on S3 is also running.

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    Comment #13757401

    GC's CDN doesn't cache files bigger than 4Mb. No Windows VMs. Bound to AWS for these 2 reasons.

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    Comment #13634313

    It's unclear whom will they charge: writers or readers?

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    Comment #13578631

    do you have experience with other stacks (e.g. Play, Node, Ruby)? What's your experience with them?

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    Comment #13578499

    @pbiggar Hi, Paul! Could you elaborate on poor scaling and concurrency bugs, please? From my understanding Closure's functional nature and immutability should minimize concurrency …

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    Comment #13350371

    There are companies who build commercial products from that open source projects. The most obvious example is format converters. There are tens of products build around free ImageM…

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    Comment #13328615

    The BCC was never profitable enough with constantly declining revenues. Patrick ended 2016 with $120,000 in debt and working in Stripe to pay it down. Probably, revenues started to…

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    Comment #13327098

    Will do:)

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    Comment #13327084

    From my experience copying a feature is about twice cheaper than trying different approaches. You may not figure out a good way to implement it until you build first version and le…

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    Comment #13327066

    You're talking about acquisition channels. Community, blog or webinars are great channels, but there are also organic search, paid search, traditional advertising, native advertisi…

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    Comment #13326961

    Most of the businesses in the list are very easy to copy. There are neither rocket science, neither patents to protect them, neither big money to pay lawyers to protect their work.…

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    Comment #13326884

    Good for customers but not for business. Competition tends to minimize margins and profits. While main business goal is to make money, competition is against business goals.

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    Comment #13326797

    Why people share their revenues? Every product can be copied. If you know revenue, you know what product you should copy.

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    Comment #12975799

    Google quite frequently lose photos people store with their services: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/QuKiYj... https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic…

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    Comment #12319103

    Why are you ok with renting?

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    Comment #12319077

    Another point is that you cannot afford living in Paris with just one working. Even if he's working as a software developer. How a city can be "liveable" if you cannot earn enough …

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    Comment #12216697

    I use both depending on inter-teeth space. There are different techniques of flossing and different floss types. So, trying different may solve the problem with flossing itself. Fo…

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    Comment #11108726

    Opposite experience with their paid service. They respond quickly, even during the night.

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    Comment #11044100

    Klipfolio?

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    Comment #11043901

    Have you used any tools built on top of DevExpress BI? How did they feel?

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    Comment #10055101

    Artsy.net home page weighs 5.2Mb compressed. Less than 20% of that is JavaScript that is fully cached between page views. Let's suppose average visitor will watch 3 pages on averag…

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    Comment #10008705

    How to protect access keys to S3 and RDS in this approach. Everyone can extract them from your HTML/JS code and use for their own purpose.

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    Comment #9922898

    I work for a company with a fully transparent salary ladder in development department. We know how much every team mate earns. Still negotiation skills come to play. Those with bet…

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