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ryankirkman

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About ryankirkman

Co-founder of cdnjs (http://cdnjs.com/)

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    Show HN: cdnjs - RSS & Atom feeds for new JavaScript libraries

    Hey guys, Now that we host over 300 libraries and regularly receive updates from the community we have added an rss/atom feed for cdnjs.com that keeps you up to date with the lates…

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    Comment #5163765

    Does the same sentiment hold for a heterogenous set of databases? e.g. Microsoft SQL Server WebSQL

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    Comment #4893479

    One big thing they do is cache static assets for you at their edge locations. The majority of the bandwidth costs imposed by static images, CSS and JavaScript (assuming appropriate…

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    Comment #4768140

    Nice work! I've added garlic to cdnjs: http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/garlic.js/0.0.1/garlic...

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    Ask HN: Can long term quality be maintained via karma voting cost?

    Would it be a viable strategy to impose a karma cost to up-voting posts and comments to help maintain the high quality of HN submissions and comments?

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    Comment #4519954

    At cdnjs, the homepage shows protocol relative URLs by default. We got the idea from Paul Irish: http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/

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    Comment #4415310

    Once a library is hosted it stays hosted forever.

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    Comment #4415296

    It doesn't work like that. The CDN portion is completely independent of the website. The website is really just an index of the files on the CDN.

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    Comment #4414771

    We'll host any version of any library. It's just that no one typically adds versions of libraries older than we currently host.

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    Comment #4412604

    http://stats.pingdom.com/4jg86a2wqei0/362854/history

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    Comment #4412381

    We have a very good relationship with Cloudflare. See these releases by Cloudflare: http://blog.cloudflare.com/cdnjs-community-moderated-javascr... https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/…

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    Comment #4412268

    Yep. We plan on launching the css component our our offering in the near future.

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    Comment #4412265

    Cloudflare pays for this. They've been sponsoring cdnjs for around a year now. As for the security of our system, all javascript files are verified against official sources before …

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    I think you're looking for an inverse relationship. e.g. My car has 200hp and can do a quarter mile in 20 seconds. If I then increase my car to 400hp (a 100% increase), let's prete…

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    Comment #4001036

    They seem to have a mobile app, as per the screenshot on their homepage. Besides a certificate error, it seems to work fine. https://m.chains.cc/