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Re: Free for Developers

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Post by potta_coffee »

renewiltord wrote: post #30
hinkley wrote: post #27

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How do you feel about the Stack Overflow solution to this problem? My app has 300 features. Beginners get to use 8 of them. Once ten people think you are not a wretched toad, you get to use 20. Once you've solved a problem for 200 people, you can edit other people's posts. In fact doesn't HN not let you downvote until you get 500 upvotes? It's been a while.

It seems to work well. I am an occasional contributor so I don't have very much power there but I understand that communities collapse without this control since they get dominated by drive-by losers. I'm not one, but there's no signal I can provide that I'm not one. Metafilter has the model where you spend money as a signal that you're not one. I guess I'd pay $20 one-time as an upgrade that is revocable. I am a Wik…

At one point in time, I was contributing at Stack Overflow just for the fun of it, and I answered some fun programming questions. After a short time I ran afoul of some of the obsessive types that you describe, and that was the end of my time at SO.

Re: Free for Developers

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Post by neogodless »

dchess wrote: post #55
neogodless wrote: post #54

Does anyone know of a decent tutorial for building low-volume / prototype interactive web applications using one of the major cloud-hosting providers, wholly within the free limits? Any framework would be interesting for learning purposes. I have some older MVC .NET sites and I poked around with Azure free Windows Server VMs, but the performance is so painfully bad; if you do anything, you run out of memory. But I'm…

Have you tried Heroku? Deploying via git is pretty handy. I've mostly moved to using Dokku on the $5 tier of DigitalOcean, but the approach is simple.

I haven't. That looks super promising! I find AWS/Azure almost intentionally obtuse in their pricing and setup/configuration. This looks like they focus on the opposite!

Re: Free for Developers

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Post by jtsiskin »

swiley wrote: post #51
tyingq wrote: post #9

It would be neat if HN could offer something like "Login By Facebook" that returned user/create date/karma. Would make a nice testbed for offering free stuff while having some high pass filter like "HN account > 3 months old and has > 500 karma."

Ah yes: the old "HN karma == developer" myth.

It’s probably not a bad selector for “people who’s usage of my tool will lead to sales down the road”

Re: Free for Developers

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Post by segmondy »

codecutter wrote: post #23
judge2020 wrote: post #18

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> If anyone knows of other ways to create virtual cards, please let me know. privacy.com ( https://privacy.com , or If you want to use a referral, privacy.com/join/NPNDJ ) is also free and works across any bank/debit card, although just recently they started monetizing by limiting free accounts to creating 12 virtual cards a month, so if you need more it's $10/mo. https://privacy.com/pricing > This allows you to get…

Do you know how they detect virtual cards? I have seen some scripts which detect whether card number is valid CC or not. But never heard of validation of virtual cards.

The first 4-6 digits of cards are called BIN (Bank Identification Numbers). Every bank has there own. So if you started your own company called codecutter virtual cards. You will have to get a BIN from Visa & Mastercard. Say your BIN is 5123-45 then all the cards you issue will begin with 5123-45. Anyone in the industry can obtain a list of all who owns' all BINs and the type of cards is it. Gift card, virtual card, credit card, debit card, etc.

Re: Free for Developers

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Post by GordonS »

sofixa wrote: post #87
arcticfox wrote: post #85

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FWIW if anyone's looking, the hosted DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters are fantastic. Despite being very early adopters, we've only had one issue and when we pointed the finger at them...the DO k8s team immediately diagnosed the issue, and it was our own fault. Woops.

Same with Scaleway's, both just work and are fully free. Some time ago i compared them against the competition and they fared very well even against GKE: https://atodorov.me/2020/06/14/comparing-kubernetes-managed-...

Just want to says thanks for such an in-depth comparison!

Re: Free for Developers

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Post by joshspankit »

rovr138 wrote: post #64
joshspankit wrote: post #59

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We need more of these as wikis, or GH repos that use robots to accept PRs. Tried it and it didn’t work? PR. Found a new one and it’s not on already? PR. Also, it would be a really nice bonus if “date added” was generated from the git commit that added the resource.

That could be bad due to spam though Specially if you auto deploy it too

Some repos have already successfully used the vote method and that feels like a pretty solid defence.

Re: Free for Developers

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Post by jholman »

neogodless wrote: post #92
dchess wrote: post #55

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Have you tried Heroku? Deploying via git is pretty handy. I've mostly moved to using Dokku on the $5 tier of DigitalOcean, but the approach is simple.

I haven't. That looks super promising! I find AWS/Azure almost intentionally obtuse in their pricing and setup/configuration. This looks like they focus on the opposite!

In the context of AWS Free Tier, the non-obtuse option is you do the EC2 t3.micro with Linux on it, maybe also the RDS t3.micro, and you ignore all that make-things-harder-so-consultants-can-charge-more nonsense. Install your own nginx, install your own node or python or whatever, ignore all their obtuse crap.

Heroku is cool, too, though.

Re: Free for Developers

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Post by maccard »

arcticfox wrote: post #85
deathanatos wrote: post #82

> Azure Kubernetes Service - Managed Kubernetes service, free cluster management Since this one is the bane of my existence at the moment. Yeah, this statement is technically correct, it is technically free, but you still pay for the VMs that are part of the cluster, and their disks. (Unless they can qualify for some other "free" metric.) But we've been using this, and we've had lots of spans of time where the manage…

FWIW if anyone's looking, the hosted DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters are fantastic. Despite being very early adopters, we've only had one issue and when we pointed the finger at them...the DO k8s team immediately diagnosed the issue, and it was our own fault. Woops.

Unfortunately DO only runs linux, and when a core piece of your infrastructure requires windows, it's a hard sell to say "well we'll just host _that bit_ on windows, and everything else on DO"...

Re: Free for Developers

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Post by GordonS »

neogodless wrote: post #92
dchess wrote: post #55

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Have you tried Heroku? Deploying via git is pretty handy. I've mostly moved to using Dokku on the $5 tier of DigitalOcean, but the approach is simple.

I haven't. That looks super promising! I find AWS/Azure almost intentionally obtuse in their pricing and setup/configuration. This looks like they focus on the opposite!

Curious to know more about what specifically you find obtuse about pricing? I've used Azure a lot, and don't recall any ambiguous pricing.
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