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Commit history could be used to figure it out: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
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.
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…
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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…
I'm medically handicapped and "have no life" which is why I spend so much time online. When I first joined HN (July 2009), I figured everyone on the leader board here was basically some loser with no life.
Not a big slam because I figured they were fairly intelligent losers. But I did figure "You people are spending so much time here for the same reason I am: You desperately need to get a life. (Only you seem to have less excuse than I have for your failure to get a life.)"
That proved to not be an accurate assessment of the situation.
Your point is not irrelevant, but I will suggest that karma count on HN is not a good measure of anything at all other than time spent actively posting on HN -- which, in some cases, is cumulative over many years and in some cases it is not.
Some people here certainly are "the town drunk." And some people with high karma are people who have been here a long time and contributed a lot of good stuff while setting their ego aside and so on.
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The most common hack for this has been verification using “about” field. A website asks for your HN username, validated the age, gives you a random string to add to your HN about page. Once done, your accounts are now linked!
And, positively or negatively, it offers a form of promotion for the website.
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Bills don't just magically go away if you refuse to pay them.
They do to a degree. Nobody's going to court over a $200 bounced charge that you could argue shouldn't have been there in the first place. Most services will just close your account and move on with their lives.
When the pandemic hit, flights were cancelled, and refund requests were unanswered here in Canada, many were afraid of requesting a charge back through their credit card company. In a country with only two major airline companies and a size that is too vast to travel by land all the time, getting banned from one, if they choose to do it, would make one's life so much more difficult. Tech is not far from that in terms of oligopoly power.
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What about ASP.NET + Azure? I'm still having wet dreams after using it on a pet project last year. Azure even has like one click deployment for it- super easy. Alternatively, Heroku is supposed to cater for this,or Elastic Beanstalk if you want to go AWS route.
I tried the Azure try out for 30 days. Unfortunately I missed the one-click deployment stuff. Maybe I was looking in the wrong place? But I mean, that's the thing. I created the account and was looking at the UI - but didn't find that . So maybe I'm terrible at reading web pages, or maybe the UI isn't designed to get me where I need to go.
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They do to a degree. Nobody's going to court over a $200 bounced charge that you could argue shouldn't have been there in the first place. Most services will just close your account and move on with their lives.
But in the current climate of big tech oligopoly, they don't have to take you to court to make your life miserable. They can simply ban you from their services and make your professional life much more difficult for the rest of your natural life. When the pandemic hit, flights were cancelled, and refund requests were unanswered here in Canada, many were afraid of requesting a charge back through their credit card com…
Was there ever a precedent of an airline ban over a chargeback where a refund was warranted?
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But in the current climate of big tech oligopoly, they don't have to take you to court to make your life miserable. They can simply ban you from their services and make your professional life much more difficult for the rest of your natural life. When the pandemic hit, flights were cancelled, and refund requests were unanswered here in Canada, many were afraid of requesting a charge back through their credit card com…
They're not That Smart. A new email address and PO box is a new person. Was there ever a precedent of an airline ban over a chargeback where a refund was warranted?
Not to airlines, which have your full legal name, date of birth, and passport number on file.
Not to big tech either, which are in practice giant surveillance companies and have mastered the art of tracking everyone and anyone on- and offline.
> Was there ever a precedent of an airline ban over a chargeback where a refund was warranted?
I don't know. But many people would not have the time to research this to their satisfaction, nor would want to risk it and find out the answer the hard way.
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Grab a revolut account. They're free, and they have a tool called 'digital temporary card' that is good for one use. After the card number is used, it's cycled. Not affiliated, I'm in Aus and I use my temp card for anything I don't want to be ongoing. Doubles as a breach safeguard (my credit card involved in a DB dump doesn't matter if it was a one-off number). There's other good reasons to use revolut but will save…
If you do something like this do NOT sign up for AWS or Google Cloud with your “main account” as a denied card can get your entire account lost.
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There's no "always free" AWS tier though, correct? You're still going to end up paying for the app after 12 months, or am I missing something?
That's also my understanding. Heroku, on the other hand, has no time-limit on their free tier, but it's always kinda broken (startup times). AWS's free tier is the real deal. That's a trade-off. But that's orthogonal to the point I was making, and the comment I was replying to. If someone likes Heroku because of it's pricing clarity and its ease of setup... well, the pricing simplicity of an EC2 instance is just as g…
It’s an understatement, not a stretch.
Heroku has always seemed really interesting/cool/clever to me. The tradeoff has never been worth the investment when I’ve considered using them, personally or professionally. Their operating model is far too different than every other cloud provider’s.