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axyjoon First tax year with Stripe Atlas

Try founded.co!

(I've seen good things about them; no affiliation otherwise)

axyjoon Alpine makes Python Docker builds slower, and images larger

Definitely ran into "Alpine Linux can cause unexpected runtime bugs" -- with strftime, libc and musl don't have 100% equivalence of the date/time formatting strings.

axyjoon Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321217

axyjoon India has the highest data usage per smartphone

I wonder how much of this is attributable to a rise in streaming (Amazon Prime, Hotstar, etc.) but a lack in investment for fixed-line internet.

axyjoon Slack's 404 page

I believe Mattermost also had similar beginnings...

axyjoon Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

I'm worried that with another free product like this, we'll get another Unroll.me on our hands.

axyjoon Softbank to sell 25% stake in ARM Holdings to Saudi-backed investment group

Mubadala is Emirati, not Saudi. From the article, it seems that just the Vision Fund run by Mubadala has the backing of the Saudis

axyjoon IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances in Virtual Private Clouds

HE's IPv6 training guide is pretty good -- https://ipv6.he.net/certification/

axyjoon IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances in Virtual Private Clouds

Finally! It's been a major deficiency in AWS. Can't wait to see this roll out to us-west-2.

axyjoon Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers

  gnu.rep.kp.

That's pretty interesting. I wonder what they've got on that.

axyjoon Happy Little Words – Analyzing the Bob Ross Twitch Chat

OP: possible typo? from 2015-11-16 14:30 to 2015-11-16 14:30 (all times are in UTC)

axyjoon Self-driving vehicle circles Waterloo campus

This is the first time an autonomous vehicle has operated on a Canadian road.

axyjoon G is for Google

This is a big move, which might also possibly help with EU anti-trust accusations by splitting up the big-ol' monolithic GOOG into functionally separate units.

axyjoon To combat falling ratings, TV networks are increasing ads up to 10%

One of the worst offenders of this is MythBusters in my opinion. Thankfully, I recently found streamlined-edits of MythBusters.

axyjoon A little Golang way

It's from a saying... a little goes a long way.

axyjoon Company hit with $1.1M penalty under Canadian anti-spam rules

When CASL was first passed, I was worried about it being toothless. Glad to see I'm wrong.

axyjoon How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News

Circa on Android fulfills a lot of these criteria.

axyjoon API to extract the most important topics to any Reddit user

Came up with some really strange results for me. It looks like my most recent comments, without all the articles.

axyjoon CrowdMed: We've solved hundreds of the world's most difficult medical cases

It's always lupus.

axyjoon DNS.watch – Fast, free and uncensored

There's a small typo on the homepage: "chrarge" should be "charge", I presume.

axyjoon Mapcode – A short address for any location on Earth

No. They serve entirely different purposes.

axyjoon Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses

Cool idea. Have you considered submitting it to lowendbox.com?

axyjoon Google Docs Users Targeted by Phishing Scam

Google provides you access to one-time codes, if you wish.

axyjoon Kimsufi: the affordable dedicated server

Please don't run anything 'at-scale' on these. You get exactly what you pay for with these desktop-grade processors.

axyjoon Top global IT firms have more staff in India than home nations

How about as a percent of the country's total population? India's certainly a larger country population-wise.

axyjoon Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending Crypto and Cryptology Conferences

Hence the (incorrect) sarcasm tag.

axyjoon The Sierpinski triangle page to end most Sierpinski triangle pages

2b ∨ ¬2b

Clever.

axyjoon You Can't JavaScript Under Pressure

"6 minutes, 21 seconds for all 5 levels. Well done!" I feel like I should have done better considering JS is one of my primary languages.

axyjoon Sony Smartwatch now open-sourced

Here's the TI-Chronos [1]. It's similar to the Smartwatch in many ways, and is based on the MSP430 chips used in the TI Launchpad.

[1] - http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos