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matttah

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    Agreed, we use them for a number of things and find them very reasonably priced (especially, unlimited plan is very good if you are doing 5+ million).

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    Ask HN: Archive.is Captcha Problems Lately?

    Anyone else having problems lately with archive.is taking you to a captcha, you solve it and then it just keeps redirecting you back to the captcha over and over. Happens to me in …

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    Comment #32461449

    After getting tired of no way to easily follow news of AWS product updates for only ones I actually use we built Broadside. You can set which services you care about, how often you…

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    Ask HN: Katalon Experiences?

    We're considering Katalon for a project for automated testing. Our goal is to have a non-technical staff build the tests on the frontend and thought Katalon may be a good tool for …

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    Ask HN: Favorite Front end Test automation for non-devs

    I'm looking at setting up a test automation suite for a frontend project and want non-developers to be able to add and update different tests, so something like a selenium recorder…

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    Comment #22046652

    Just the images on the front page, guess a bit bigger than icons!

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    Comment #22046584

    Jstanier - Great job, this looks really cool. Curious what icon set are you using? I saw you have similar style icons across a few of your projects, is there a standard library you…

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    Comment #18956965

    At 500 million+ records, even a 0.01 second per lookup/update is going to be too slow at that scale even in parallel, unless the DB is able to process in parallel without lock cont…

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    Agreed that storage is cheap, unless it's in a live cluster. Right now I keep 100% of the data in Redshift then use window functions to unload the latest X per id. Keeping it in re…

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    Ask HN: Keep Last X entries per ID in larger DB

    I'm trying to figure out the best solution for the following: * Daily importing of ~500+ million rows of data, with ~250 million unique ids. * I need to only keep the latest X entr…

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    Comment #17470362

    I've heard good things about them, for me right now the payroll takes ~30 minutes or so a month with end of quarter payroll taking a little longer to create the 941 forms.

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    Comment #17470355

    We do the people at the same bank get free transfers, it's out of bank ones is ~5$ per transfer. The bank recommended using viewpost which charges at 50 cents/transfer but from the…

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    Ask HN: Direct deposit/ACH processor for payroll?

    We do our payroll in-house and currently send checks to our employees. I've been trying to find a company which will do direct deposits for us, however all the solutions I find see…

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    Comment #16506146

    That's a great idea...perhaps a quick weekend project there we'll talk on!

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    Ask HN: Managed Colo – Where to find providers?

    For a project I'm working on we need to have physical servers next to another companies servers. We don't want to manage the network (IP transit) and we do not have our own ASN. Pa…