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Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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I installed dokuwiki on a raspberry pi and forwarded port 80 through my router so I can access it from anywhere and send links to others. Oh and there's a dns entry setup using duckdns.org, which is free, although I did send them a small donation (in bitcoin!).

Same here: dokuwiki on a cubieboard and dynamic dns. Very pleased with that solution!

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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If no one ever re-invented the wheel our cars would still be rolling on stone wheels.

Cars never rolled on stone wheels. Flintstones was a cartoon, not a documentary.

> Flintstones was a cartoon, not a documentary.

Go ahead and shatter my illusions, why don't you.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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What additional things have you wanted to xo?

One of the major omissions is that there is no "GROUP BY" equivalent. For example I wanted to generate a table with average book rating grouped by author, but it wasn't possible.

Why not just use Access (I suppose LibreOffice has an equivalent too)? It probably would be more work to set up, but you would have a proper database with the ability to use SQL for queries.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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What is the consequences of ignoring this if you are outside of California?

If any user of the service is in California, then the state can potentially take legal action against you. Whether this really matters to a particular company depends on where they are, but full-faith-and-credit means that at a minimum anyone based in the US has to worry about it.

Has the State of California ever taken legal action against any company located outside of CA for not complying with this regulation or is it just another one of those laws that are on the book but are never enforced?

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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How can a website / service be operated in 2015 without any contact or legal information? How am I supposed to use this for my personal information without being able to read the privacy statements or knowing who's operating the service to what purpose? Edit: To make the reason for my comment clear, there was no link in the footer like there is now at the time I wrote it.

As someone who recently launched a service — among a zillion things you have to do to deploy a software application online this one seems markedly less important, especially if you are launching an MVP on a small budget.

If your MVP won't fly, legal info won't help and is a waste of time and resources. If it will, you can always add it in the future. The percentage of people who will complain or not use the service at all without reading the Terms of Use first is… well, I have no idea what it is, but let's just say it won't move the needle.

Contact information is more important, and easy to add, so it should be there.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Don't get too attached. Keep is being discontinued in the next few months. Something better is replacing it, eventually, but just keep that in mind.

I was unable to find anything that suggests this. Are you speculating?

Probably speculating given the lifetime of most small-scale Google apps.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts" - do you have a search function ? How does it work ? - Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ? - any way to export the raw data ? - any plan of…

If you want something open source and a bit more powerful, covering everything you've asked for and more, check out my product: http://haplo.org

It's more designed for use within an organisation rather than individuals, but works very nicely for small numbers of users. And as it has a plugin API, you can extend it easily.

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Another "write your text here" and nothing more app. I'm not questioning the usefulness of this, but why do we have so many simple apps like these? People writing code to do the same thing over and over again, aren't you bored?

evernote kind of apps don't work. Except Google Keep. Keep kinda works.

How so?
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