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saurabhnanda

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    Comment #37011374

    Are you using this in production? Any benchmarks?

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    Comment #35134513

    Please move to Hetzner. If you miss payments even they might pull the plug, but at least they have humans who respond to emails and can get you back online quickly once you pay.

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    Comment #34223539

    What an amazingly written piece. I was learning interesting stuff and chuckling alongside, as well. Didn't get the closing remarks about Larry Ellison, though. Any explanation?

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    Comment #34134668

    For the uninitiated, what's the issue with getting nix to work on M1?

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    Comment #27444679

    What is a foot-gun? Ansible/Terraform, or the library approach that I'm describing?

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    Comment #27438666

    Pulumi sounds interesting. Spent 10 mins with their marketing website and I'm not very clear whether it is a standalone set of libraries, or do they only work in conjunction with t…

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    Comment #27438568

    I've been sitting on the fence wrt Terraform and other such tools for quite some time now. After being _forced_ to finally write massive k8s YAML files (and ansible YAML files) for…

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    Ask HN: Mobile-first” databases that sync to a central server?

    I keep hitting the following problem over & over again: - Build a mobile app (mostly some sort of CRM/ERP kind of app), where ALL the features need to work offline - This means tha…

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    Comment #26264131

    I feel horrible whenever I end-up damaging an electronics product in such a way that repairs do not make any monetary sense. Mostly this is because the manufacturer doesn't bother …

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    Comment #26065919

    What is this going to do to their Sendgrid/SES bill this month, I wonder!

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    Comment #25900450

    Any Postgres implementation of this yet?

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    Comment #25299979

    Low value comment: WTF is with the marketing copy? Red, AMD, Bull, what?!

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    Comment #25250072

    Is this useful for long-term log storage? say, from a typical webapp (eg. Nginx logs, Rails logs, Postgres logs, etc)

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    Comment #24881589

    Nitpick: At one place the article says that Ӧmir was imprisoned for seven months and at another place it says he was released after 20 days.

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    Comment #24860562

    How different is this gradual typing from TypeScript?

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    Comment #24609770

    Can you make checklists of common concerns related to deliverables? For example, while writing web forms, most junior developers tend to forget validations , or implement only clie…

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    Ask HN: What data do alternative blockchains store?

    Honest question. When someone says a blockchain can be used for anything OTHER than financial transactions, for example - supply chain, health records, etc - what is the actual und…

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    Comment #24242292

    Honest question. When someone says the blockchain can be used for anything OTHER than financial transactions, for example - supply chain, health records, etc. what is the actual un…

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    Ask HN: How is Wix able to promise unlimited bandwidth?

    A number of website builder (or web hosting) companies advertise unlimited bandwidth, possibly along with unlimited storage. Most of them have fine print in their T&C which cap the…

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    Ask HN: Are GatsbyJS / Next.js “worth it?”

    I know this is a highly subjective, and possibly loaded, question. But here are the related questions at the back of my mind when I ask this: - Do I really need to use React (a cli…

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    Comment #22855872

    Is there a link to sample books rendered using this tool? Did I miss it in the README?

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    Comment #22440072

    Not to take away from this achievement, but no one else bothered about this massive centralisation of critical security infrastructure?

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    Ask HN: State-of-the-art for server rendered webapps (non-SPA)?

    At my company we have about 80,000+ LoC of AngularJS (v1) in production, which we still actively develop and maintain. We've also dabbled with Angular2/Typescript & Elm for the new…

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    Comment #21581829

    Not related to the actual content, but may I please request you to increase the contrast on your website. Grey on grey is very hard to read.