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xytop

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    Comment #18670935

    What the shit is there? Where is the most popular alternative, FoxitReader?

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    Comment #18641977

    What about mixing frontend with backend? That’s terrible.

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    Comment #17337804

    It's not even a news site

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    Comment #17120359

    Aren't all those languages, except Latin, are similar and are in fact arabic dialects?

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    Comment #15634184

    Your net salary would be about 2900 euro monthly. Then you'd need to pay for an appartment, it would be at least 400-500 euro. Then you have to eat and sometimes buy new clothes si…

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    Comment #15194454

    It's not DO. It's scaleway C1 arm server, even cheaper. Golang produces native code with very good runtime with green threads which makes it very easy to do async programming and w…

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    Comment #15192328

    Idea was to make a profitable service out of this. But I'm bad interpreneur :) I wanted to make an analog of http://embed.ly/code but lost interest in the middle. I can code diffic…

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    Comment #15191563

    Usual traffic is 0-1 req/sec. Even now it is about 2-3 req/sec. It is running for more than 2 years now, never failed :) Golang is pretty stable. Also the server is behind Cloudfla…

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    Comment #15190291

    It's my own server and I'm the developer of the service ;) I pay $3/mo for hosting and $10/y for domain so it doesnt cost me much. Regarding reliability: all the code is opensource…

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    Comment #15190164

    For absolutely 0-cost you can use http://proc.link which will return oembed info for ANY url. General example: http://api.proc.link/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpage.rest Youtube: http:…

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    Comment #13196826

    Just enough for junior dev

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    Comment #13101011

    !!! PHP MySQL extension doesn't support placeholders so everyone has to escape params before mysql_query and then put escaped params inside query string. Of course if there's used …

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    Comment #12328086

    I'm not Lisp guy.. Please tell me what's that new syntax means in that context? I see it as just new functions, not language extension.

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    Comment #12291921

    If you use a product and never caught a bug there then it might be that you don't need new version of the product? In other case you'll be looking to fix that bug / contact product…

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    Comment #12291330

    People who use those products are best maintainers, and they know about those abandoned projects. A person from nowhere will never became a maintainer of any serious product.

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    Comment #12230387

    > Not a laywer, from what I understand patents specifically pertain to "implementation". There should be identical blocks of code which I doubt they have. I think by "identically" …

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    Comment #12053900

    People should more concentrate on quality than on amount. App/Android Stores are full of such '100 games in 5 years', '1 game every week', '1 new app every day'.. it sucks.

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    Comment #11861861

    http://hola.org

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    Comment #11108724

    Hey Matt, so you launched the site 4 years ago and very top comment on that old HN thread was: .."There are no margins in the domain industry.".. So, years passed by :) how much in…

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    Comment #11037909

    Rackspace!!1 ha ha ha ha ha.. (neurotic laugh..) They took our whole infrastructure down for a day just because their highly paid Linux support team changed all root passwords and …

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    Comment #10637393

    Namecheap: http://namecheap.com/campaigns/2015/bf-cm-deals.aspx RamNode: https://twitter.com/RamNode/status/670041033317613568 Online.net: http://oneprovider.com/dedicated-servers/…

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    Comment #10590457

    What technology is used for conversation?

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    Comment #10382734

    I heard that Twitter has no revenue only loses.. is that changed recently?