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I'm glad to see this site making progress and gaining attention. I remember it used to be "GNOD": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7465980 Also similar, and by another HN user: https://diskprices.com/ https://battprices.com/
These are great. I miss a page like this for Canada. In Germany, where I'm originally from, we have geizhals.de for product and price comparison that works a lot like these pages you linked and has been around for ages. They have an English version you can check out here: https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb (this links directly to the Laptop section so you can check out their filtering capabilities). Here's their listing…
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> https://diskprices.com/ These do not compare things such as sequential read, sequential write, random read, random write, temperature, MTBF, Backblaze outage percentages (statistical relevant), type of storage (SLC, MLC, AMLC, QLC, TLC, etc), chipset used, and so on, and so forth. I'm scared shitless to check or use the battprices.com as it probably does not do anything like the above either. Which, in case of batt…
Dude, they’re just simple lists of products by their base metric, in both cases limited to reputable brands. No fires will ensue just because you now know Duracell offering X is slightly cheaper than Energizer type Y per kWh even though the pack costs more. Breathe!
Didn't know, the website name suggested otherwise. Rest of the points still stand.
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If you generate a typical react app with create-react-app, you get ~1000 dependencies in node_modules: `npx create-react-app some-app-name --typescript` (it was actually exactly 1000 dependencies which is freaking me out because the number was so round. wondering if it am counting lines wrong `ls | wc -l`)
Your ls command may create columns. To list one item per line and count the lines: `ls -1 | wc -l`
ls usually switches to one column automatically when it's output is piped: https://i.vgy.me/cNfMzV.png
Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
#334I created this SVG-based graph layout GUI [1] for our learning media website LunchBox Sessions [2]. The graph lets us visually express the prerequisites of each session. Using SVG meant I could do some fun animations to hide the load time when opening a session.
Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
#335I created this SVG-based graph layout GUI [1] for our learning media website LunchBox Sessions [2]. The graph lets us visually express the prerequisites of each session. Using SVG meant I could do some fun animations to hide the load time when opening a session. [1] https://lunchboxsessions.com/explore/hydraulics [2] https://lunchboxsessions.com
That's pretty spiffy! How'd you do the layout? I was looking at elkjs [1] and the Klay layout algorithm to do something similar.
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Keep the majority of the rendering server side and it isn't a problem at all. Jquery for some UI enhancement.
Why would I choose server side rendering? If I build the site in vue with the most optimized output settings, append hashes to files for perfect caching, drop the files in an S3 bucket, throw a CloudFront CDN on top of it with gzip compression, and build the front end of my backend as a REST api sitting in a lambda function that serves HTTPS requests, I never have to worry about server costs being more than pennies a…
> Why would I choose server side rendering?
Because you can build a site with around half of the code if you keep it server side.
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#337I worked on a project before that explores using non-traditional UI on the web: https://overwebs.ruph.in (warning - sound and high bandwidth) It emulates a game UI, and uses background video to simulate physical movement when navigating between pages. It also incorporates some controls that are unusual for normal web applications like keyboard controls (shortcuts like 'Esc' to go back, 'Enter' to open chat). It's a p…
I really enjoyed navigating around this, good job!
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Just to make sure I get this right - to make sure their team wouldn't get overwhelmed with work (how exactly? It's not like the demand for cable wiring would be too different at the end of a year in a frictionless system) they not only decided to create busywork for other departments, but this design also blew up impacting the entire company? Do you know if there were any consequences for whoever created this monstro…
No, this is every day in Chase. They are basically the McDonalds of the financial services industry - everybody works there at least once, most people move on to better things, what you have left are the ones who know they will never succeed anywhere else. We convinced one manager at Chase that the reason her application crashed so much was because there wasn't enough gigawatts to power the flex capacitors. The guy w…
Sounds less NBC and more (in fact exactly) like It’s Always Sunny.
Specifically Charlie in the mailroom with Pepe Sylvia, and the pissing thing is just classic Frank.
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#339Go spend 5 minutes here on pc desktop. http://cyberspaceandtime.com/Gaano9Y6KAU.video+related I came across this site a few weeks ago. And it's quite unlike anything I've seen. And try to inspect the site using browser inspector. It's a very different ui than I've ever seen before.
I don't know what's more amazing, that I can't figure out what I'm looking at, or that somebody worked on this extensively, and probably continues working on this. I have no idea what this is though.
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Lambda is great for infrequent, high CPU tasks such as batch processing. It isn't ideal for high frequency low CPU tasks like serving web requests. You'll pay a large percentage more doing it this way. Whether that extra expense is relevant to your business depends very much on your scale (or if you're sitting on a boatload of VC cash, I guess).
How do you know what CPU my HTTP requests need?!
If your HTTP requests are high CPU and your doing standard crud type actions, there's something wrong with your codebase. High CPU tasks should be offloaded from the HTTP request into a queue.