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STRiDEX··on Django Awarded MOSS Grant from Mozilla
Django is a popular server-side Web development framework, used in many Mozilla websites. Their award will be used to make Django suitable to be a back end for Web apps which use WebSockets.

Probably because they use it at mozilla.

STRiDEX··on Django Awarded MOSS Grant from Mozilla
Not defending the absurdity of removing/changing words for sensitivity, but it is in quite a few documents. https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...
STRiDEX··on Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox
Sounds like you had a bad experience. I enjoyed the app until recently switching to amazon primes unlimited photo uploads. The amazon photo app has a very similar feature set compared to Carousel, but seemingly worse performance on large collections.
STRiDEX··on New Chromecast 2015
I believe the flexible part also includes a longer antenna for the dual band receiver and as others have stated the poor fit with some tvs.

source: google roommate beta testing in our living room

STRiDEX··on U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high
the beekeepers are what migrate
STRiDEX··on Echochamber.js
At least send the http request to https://devnull-as-a-service.com
STRiDEX··on SSD Prices in a Free Fall
Can you cite predictions?
STRiDEX··on Introducing Xubuntu core
Great for a slimmer virtual machine.
STRiDEX··on How Growers Gamed California’s Drought
Because why have a golf course at all if there's no grass? How many golfers do you see practicing their chip shots on asphalt? Golf courses aren't the issue, as they pay the market price for water and often have very maintained irrigation systems as they have to keep their water bill low enough to remain profitable.
STRiDEX··on Where the Real Skyscrapers Are (Hint: North Dakota)
What you're thinking of is probably similar to foundation's interchange http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/interchange.html

The images could've been compressed a bit with a tool like https://imageoptim.com/ I'm seeing a little 20% (half a mb) could've been shaved off, but the bigger issue is the 1.7mb medium bundle js file. Not sure what that is, but it isn't minified all the way.

STRiDEX··on DigitalGlobe: 30cm satellite imagery
If you really need to get a hold of someone my roommate works there. Since the google acquisition, I'm not sure they operate the same as they used to so a small contract might not be what they're looking for.
STRiDEX··on Ember's Glimmer Engine
Would take with salt. The angular version doesn't use track by https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngRepeat#trackin...

These demos are like listening to MongoDB talk about how great MongoDB performs. Always better to look for yourself or check a trusted third party.

Here's an angular dbmon that is at least using track by. I didn't write it. http://run.plnkr.co/plunks/Uu7w8p7jiPEJp5lLHWbB/

STRiDEX··on Windows 10 upgrade to be 'free' for one year
Take a snapshot of the VM and reset it to that point when the free trial period expires. They have you do this with their official VM's for IE testing.
STRiDEX··on DigitalOcean partners with Mesosphere
The current options are $80 development and $200 for production a month. I would like to see a $60 option for starter, but I would imagine the benefits of the mesosphere deployment are better seen on a higher number of instances.
STRiDEX··on A look at the 2014 Mac mini
http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/

OVH pricing gets you pretty close.

STRiDEX··on Heroku DX: The New Heroku Developer Experience
Yeah, its a bit of a jump between the $9 and $50 tiers.
STRiDEX··on Tourist map of SSD drives
I find the following to be more effective. http://forre.st/storage#ssd
STRiDEX··on OPM – Open PostgreSQL Monitoring
I'm not sure how these two projects are different, but they seem to be worked on by the same people/person.

http://dalibo.github.io/powa/

STRiDEX··on Show HN: Facebook Cards : a Google Now approach to the Facebook timeline
Facebook has been moving towards making the same experience on all platforms. From the images provided I'm not sure how well it would translate to mobile.

Looks really good.

STRiDEX··on Ask HN: How can I sustainably run a website without charging a fee?
I use hetzner for a side project, but I used their server auction. It doesn't have setup fees like their regular plans. https://robot.your-server.de/order/market/sortcol/price/sort...

So far it has been pain free and I recommend the service for someone looking for something more powerful and with more ram than the $40 digitalocean server. DO is the better deal up until around 40-60$ in my opinion.

STRiDEX··on Poll: How religious is hacker news?
I feel like atheist and agnostic are too concrete.

I view it like non-Americans view thanksgiving. You can read the wiki page and it makes sense, but I'm not going to go out of my way to do it too. It's not really something that applies to me.

STRiDEX··on Amazon Fire Phone
I wouldn't jump to conclusions yet. I image they will do whatever is customary on a per region basis to be competitive.
STRiDEX··on GoDaddy is Going Public
They rope you in with those 2 dollar domain coupons. I'll give them my $2 + tax but that's it.
STRiDEX··on Using Facebook Notes to DDoS any website
Next post: using hacker news to DDoS any website.
STRiDEX··on Facebook for Android and Why Zuckerberg now owns your ass
Here's facebooks response as to why the android app requires what it does. https://www.facebook.com/help/210676372433246

I think this article is sensationalist garbage with no proof of facebook mistreating user data.

STRiDEX··on Oculus Facebook deal could ignite equity crowdfunding
Your example sounds like something more in the realm of taxes, but I get where you're going.
STRiDEX··on Mastering Bitcoin
A little of both. I don't see it available on amazon yet.
STRiDEX··on The tourist map of flash drives
Check out this similar website for all hard drive types on newegg: http://forre.st/storage

it's open source: https://github.com/forrestv/storage

STRiDEX··on Kimsufi: the affordable dedicated server
I've read similar stories, but I figured for the price I'd try it out. I'm only on month 4 of using them and I don't have any horror stories to share yet.

Although, I do only have 1k daily users and I sit behind cloudflare.

STRiDEX··on Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary
Private trackers get scene releases hours (maybe 1 or 2) before they show up on TPB. On good trackers the number of seedboxes can max out any leecher's connection. The best trackers race to supply the content the quickest. This is called tracing or torrent racing. The groups with public trackers are p2p groups. The scene does not use torrents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene Watch tracing live: https://trace.corrupt-net.org/live.php
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