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Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

#101

What a great (and overwhelming) list! In the code hosting section keybase seems to be missing. It has git support.

Thank you! Maybe Keybase is worth adding but git support is not one of its stand out features IMO

Agreed, but Encrypted Git is... they don't see your repo.

I don't know anybody else who does it.

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

#102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lol And now, I'll promptly shut down that system again... As I said in the previous comment, that IMO is going too far. Even though I'm 100% sure others are using similar systems, I don't feel comfortable in that business -_- Kinda highlights, although the hnprofile.com demo may have it's current faults - there's a lot you can do. The cool part, is the platform (called Metacortex) is easy to build apps on top of.

I don’t know what for yet, but I’m absolutely certain I will need to pay for your product. Quite the demo! If you’re ever in the Chicagoland area, happy to buy you a beer!

Hey, I’m in Chi too! Right by North and Clybourn’s redline stop. If you ever want to reverse engineer this together or figure out how to train a drone to fly itself, drop an email / keybase.

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

#103

Doesn't anybody do shit on their laptop anymore or on their own server? Why does it have to be 10 thousand services, why the dependency on the network and other entities? How many of these will go bankrupt by the end of the year, how many will change their terms in an incompatible way with your company project or your personal one?

When you have your own server, you're also the server admin. When that server craps out, so do ALL of the services on it and it's you who will spend nights and weekends fixing it.

Or you can pay a few bucks here and few bucks there and the uptime is Somebody Else's Problem.

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

#104

Doesn't anybody do shit on their laptop anymore or on their own server? Why does it have to be 10 thousand services, why the dependency on the network and other entities? How many of these will go bankrupt by the end of the year, how many will change their terms in an incompatible way with your company project or your personal one?

When you have your own server, you're also the server admin. When that server craps out, so do ALL of the services on it and it's you who will spend nights and weekends fixing it. Or you can pay a few bucks here and few bucks there and the uptime is Somebody Else's Problem.

And you now have to trust this random 'someone else' to have done a better job than you can. My intuition says there's more FUD around uptime and availability than it deserves. If anything, the hard work of maintaining uptime and security is a great learning path that should not be missed by beginners and small teams alike.
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