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ekiara

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About ekiara

Software developer. I build things on the web with Python, Javascript and Go.

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    Comment #27807820

    Yeah, those real-time notifications of "{User} has done {Action}" always raise my suspicions that the website is a scam. Since they are almost always on dubious looking ecommerce s…

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    Comment #27807804

    Once it's backed with a scripting language like Python or Lua it will be a very compelling Flash alternative (even though Flash is long dead now).

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    Comment #26790137

    Is it still a viable option for designers to use the last non-recurrent-subscription version of Adobe Creative Suite? Or in 2021 is Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo just the be…

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    Comment #20807260

    Would this technique have been faster? A single pass: paginating through all entries in the bucket without deletion, just to build up your index of files. And then using that index…

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    Comment #16489407

    Nice! very easy on-boarding/signup flow. The only hiccup I had was on the first screen for signup, the Facebook panel is so prominent (while the email signup is far less so) that I…

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    Comment #16250986

    Could you expand on this? What security vulnerabilities does Exim4 have that you'd avoid just by choosing Postfix as an alternative?

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    Comment #16121495

    Honest question (I have no actual ASIC experience, I'm just curious) Where are you getting the USD1500 price tag, I've just done a quick search and I only found a bunch of S9 Miner…

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    Comment #14182165

    Are there similar services or sites for guidance or mentoring on devops and system administration problems? Or could the options already suggested here: https://www.codementor.io/ …

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    Comment #13883249

    The date for completion on your book is December 25th. Is that DEC25 2017 or was the slated date DEC25 2016 and things have slipped a little?

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    Comment #13883231

    Do publishers act as a reliable source for validating your idea? or do you rely purely on your audience, if you can validate your audience directly then you'll be able to get a far…

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    Comment #13703969

    I read this and assumed it was just an early April Fools Gag. Actually, I'm still not convinced that it isn't linked to April Fools.

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    Ask HN: Why is there no mention of VxRail on HN?

    I've consulted at a two places in my country that have upgraded their adhoc VMWare setups to VxRail (converged storage and compute or something). Looking at the vendor costs and wh…

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    Comment #13381658

    Whats wrong with Electron Apps?

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    Comment #13129420

    My big question is why? you wanted to navigate or display a JSON dataset using filesystem-viewer tools? i.e. "Explore" the JSON dataset?

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    Comment #13021832

    netlify looks great, and the free tier covers probably 90% of what all SMEs need. I'm curious, where are the sites actually hosted? Does netlify provide the actual hosting or they …

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    Comment #13021813

    Github Pages does pretty much everything you've listed. Also Github Pages explicity allows companies to setup and host their corporate websites on there. PROS: It is free, always a…

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    Comment #12984101

    Wouldn't a better option be an error log? you reply to the client that "I can accept 398,500 of your 400,000 submitted records, attached are the records that do not conform to the …

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    Comment #12691886

    Can you actually setup multiple SQL Server 2016 Express's in a cluster? That'd be interesting given that it's free, I wonder what the limitations are?

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    Comment #12626571

    Do they have any sort of pricing page? It seems to be buried down in their site somewhere, I can't find anything.

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    Comment #12626563

    You could tie your cheap or free Openshift/Heroku to multiple free BackBlaze B2 storage accounts. Depending on how 'grey' you're willing to behave you can get away with doing a lot…

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    Comment #12464402

    Managing one app on one machine (physical or virtual) is a significantly different problem from needed to manage dozens or hundreds of applications/servers. When you need to automa…

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    Comment #12433987

    Is there a market for remote Haskell developers? I've found a pretty distinct lack of functional developer jobs in my region. Though I was surprised to find a local software compan…

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    Comment #12425071

    I remember a few years ago when I moved my Linode from Fremont to Atlanta to avoid the frequent outages. I've never had show-stopping issues with Linode and the customer service ha…

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    Comment #12295394

    That "search engine" looks like it was never really build to be used. I searched the term "blender" and got this: `ErrorException in getResults.php line 45:` https://neuromama.com/…

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    Comment #12136541

    In both cases the developers have committed to a pretty big monthly payment for an app that serves hundreds of thousands of users. 4000USD is a huge amount and even 100USD monthly …