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Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by sanderjd »

This is really neat. I really love the idea and the presentation.

I would not trust my backups to your service yet, just because of the "this is a prototype" language. My immediate thought is, "this seems great, I'll have to come back and check it out once it's more of a real business". But therein lies the rub, I think: what will drive me back to check it out later? There doesn't seem to be a mailing list to sign up for. Maybe you'll hit the front page of HN with a full launch later, and I'll see it that way, which would be great, but maybe not!

In any case, nice work!

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by orbifold »

mruts wrote: post #53
asterix_pano wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Free school, healthcare and nice infrastructures have a cost..

Too bad that cost is levied on people who don’t even need or want those services. The rich, childless, houseless, and single are subsidizing services for everyone else regardless of whether they personally derive any benefit. If that doesn’t strike you as unfair I’m not sure what would.

Without government assistance it would be very foolish to not have children, for most people at least. So this cuts both ways. If anything it is more than fair. Rich people avoid most of the taxes anyways also in Germany.

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by slig »

mruts wrote: post #53
asterix_pano wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Free school, healthcare and nice infrastructures have a cost..

Too bad that cost is levied on people who don’t even need or want those services. The rich, childless, houseless, and single are subsidizing services for everyone else regardless of whether they personally derive any benefit. If that doesn’t strike you as unfair I’m not sure what would.

Since they're rich and childless, they should vote with their wallet and move to a country with less taxes.

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by rhizome »

zulgan wrote: post #44
ebg13 wrote: post #22

> Trial 1 Month 0.1E > Subscription: 5E per Month > ... > I decided to charge 5$ (0.1$ trial) So which is it? $ or E? And is E supposed to be €? Also, in English the currency marker goes to the left of the number.

I used E because € does not render on xterm, maybe I should switch it to EUR to remove the confusion also fixed the $ to E in the blog, thanks for the heads up

Just to empathize, before I figured out how to type funky foreign characters on my en-us keyboard, I tried to use L for £ for awhile and...it didn't work. I thought I was being creative and industrious in an obvious way but it didn't even scan well for me. Heck, that may have been the one character that got me to learn. :)

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by dmos62 »

ebg13 wrote: post #55
dmos62 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are wrong about the usage of currency symbols. Quoting Wikipedia [0]: > When writing currency amounts, the location of the symbol varies by currency. Many currencies in the English-speaking world and Latin America place it before the amount (e.g., R$50,00). The Cape Verdean escudo places its symbol in the decimal separator position (i.e., 20$00). In many European countries such as France, Germany, Greece, Scandin…

> You are wrong about the usage of currency symbols. Wikipedia is wrong if it says that the placement is based on currency. Wikipedia can also be edited by anyone with a pulse, so there you go. Here are some official government resources on currency code placement in English. http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-370303.htm#position https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2guides/guides/wrtps/in... > The European Uni…

The currency symbol's placement is a matter of convention, which varies from person to person, mostly influenced by what they're used to.

I'm attacking your pedantic attempt to reduce the matter to an inflexible rule.

Some English speaking countries prefix the currency symbol, so if let's say my audience is from Australia, and I want to make the gesture of adhering to their customs, I will prefix it. However, in other (most) scenarios, I'll write it the way I write it 99% of the time, in the postfix position. And that's ok. Everyone doesn't need to use the same customs, words, grammar, or even language. Regarding these things, the only thing we care about, at the end of the day, is being able to understand the other, and the other being able to understand you.

As you've noticed, I said _some_ English speaking countries. That's because there are a lot of people, who even though use a lot of English, only a fraction of that is with people from US, Canada, Australia or Great Britain, so the customs of English users from those countries become irrelevant.

There's customs and there's language. This is an obvious example where one does not have to entail the other.

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by helper »

Registration over ssh is cute but not safe from MITM attacks. Even if the ssh key was published somewhere (which as far as I can tell it isn't) you would be dependent on people manually adding the key to their known_hosts file which you can't reasonably expect most people to bother with.

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by dezzeus »

zulgan wrote: post #44
ebg13 wrote: post #22

> Trial 1 Month 0.1E > Subscription: 5E per Month > ... > I decided to charge 5$ (0.1$ trial) So which is it? $ or E? And is E supposed to be €? Also, in English the currency marker goes to the left of the number.

I used E because € does not render on xterm, maybe I should switch it to EUR to remove the confusion also fixed the $ to E in the blog, thanks for the heads up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by rhizome »

dmos62 wrote: post #47
escaper wrote: post #34

I get that it's probably "trendy" to say you don't have or need a website but with it being so easy to create a static page, I'm failing to understand why you wouldn't just do that, which is already the bare minimum, if you care about your project and want to sell it?

Why is an HTML document the bare minimum? I absolutely appreciate this far more accessible form, author's dedication to function and disregard for showmanship. Somewhat paradoxically, for a potential client like me, this is way better marketing than any amount of superfluous CSS sugaring or formatting.

Why is an HTML document the bare minimum?

HTML isn't a technical requirement, but they do say their goal is to sell the service.

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by halfeatenpie »

zulgan wrote: post #44
ebg13 wrote: post #22

> Trial 1 Month 0.1E > Subscription: 5E per Month > ... > I decided to charge 5$ (0.1$ trial) So which is it? $ or E? And is E supposed to be €? Also, in English the currency marker goes to the left of the number.

I used E because € does not render on xterm, maybe I should switch it to EUR to remove the confusion also fixed the $ to E in the blog, thanks for the heads up

Yeah as an individual who doesn't use the euro, I didn't know it was euros until I read it in the thread here.
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