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bau5··on Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab
You could use BitBucket. They have free private repositories.

The cool thing about this is that it makes self-hosting a viable option for more people.

bau5··on Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab
> 512MB RAM + 1.5GB of swap is the absolute minimum

lol

bau5··on Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab
Unlike GitLab, gogs can probably run well on a $5 DigitalOcean instance.
bau5··on “Your monthly rent .. shall increase from $2145 to $8900”
It's supposed to be a part of basic income to pay enough for someone to be able to afford rent and to and choose where to live that's within their budget. If it was a separate thing, perhaps people could be given a choice among places with a low cost of living, and then the amount needed for basic income would be lower. http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Edit: Manna was more relevant than I thought:

> The government had finally figured out that giving choices to people on welfare was not such a great idea, and it was also expensive. Instead of giving people a welfare check, they started putting welfare recipients directly into government housing and serving them meals in a cafeteria. If the government could drive the cost of that housing and food down, it minimized the amount of money they had to spend per welfare recipient.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna4.htm

bau5··on Ask HN: The rising “Hackathon Hackers” culture
http://www.reddit.com/r/lewronggeneration
bau5··on The Tau Manifesto
Do not want.
bau5··on Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
The author said they used Mongoose to define the schema, and since they needed to define the schema, they'd rather just do it in the database. So I don't think they'd have been limited by using SQL from the start. Either they learned how to evolve a schema or they didn't have a schema that evolves well even when they were using MongoDB.
bau5··on Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
I think the author of the post has the right approach. They tried hard to build something that would work right, and since it didn't, they rewrote most of it. They had enough budget and willingness to rewrite it. The author learned from their mistakes, and probably won't be using MongoDB on a future project.

The author of the comment I'm replying to seems to advocate a different approach where you choose tech and techniques that are good for short-term but maybe not long-term. This way you have planned technical debt plus unplanned technical debt. Also the comment author seems to be missing one of the post author's main points, which is that MongoDB's schemalessness is awkward even in the early stages of the app, and this is worked around by a less-than-ideal technique of moving the schema from the database layer to the application layer.

bau5··on Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
No, this is bad. You shouldn't design a system that won't work from the outset. "Plan one to throw away" is about budgeting time, not about knowingly making big technical compromises when you write the first version.
bau5··on EquipmentShare (YC W15) Is Like Airbnb for Construction Equipment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygr5AHufBN4
bau5··on EquipmentShare (YC W15) Is Like Airbnb for Construction Equipment
There's also http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/27/with-1-8m-from-andreessen-c...
bau5··on Underwear Startups Have Investors Hot and Bothered
Anyone know if boxers or briefs are equal from a health standpoint or if one is better?
bau5··on Ruby 2.0.0 Released
ruby pls
bau5··on IBM Exec Husband of Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Takes to Twitter to Defend His Wife
It also doesn't help that his last name is "Dolan".
bau5··on Meeting A Troll
Good definition of trolling. I have but one thing to add to it.

Trolling is a art.

bau5··on Github finally raises funding: $100M from Andreessen Horowitz
binge drinking
bau5··on Sweden recognises new file-sharing religion Kopimism
I changed my Facebook religion to this. I'm not sure whether that says that I take Kopimism seriously (because I'm on board) or I don't (because I don't know much about it but think I know enough).
bau5··on The pros and cons of cloud hosting
Oh, please. That's just your list, which you haven't provided any evidence for. PaaS is still tiny in comparison to the overall market for commercial hosting.
bau5··on Bullshit
Not quite. It a pretty good list of things that don't affect HNers as much as HNers think they might. What HNers learn about Angel investors prior to trying to raise doesn't help that much when it's actually time to raise. Jailed devices affect developers, and are important to factor into decisions, but jailbreaking itself is a distraction for the vast majority of developers who do it. Worrying about government regulations is a waste, instead we should build things that will make it difficult for regulators to stop things they don't like without also stopping things that they need.
bau5··on Time to end the war on drugs
Nope. Dick is a nickname that many people with the first name Richard use, but it's both rude and incorrect to use the name Dick for a Richard who doesn't go by Dick.
bau5··on Ruby Developers Offended by $2,800 Ruby Class
That was betabeat, not the people behind the course.

I think it's a bit silly to gripe about a course being available. Just don't take the course! I understand proposing better alternatives on the list but I don't understand saying that the course shouldn't exist. Maybe the alternatives are better for most people, but for a few people the course is better!

bau5··on Show HN: I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds
I don't have an iOS device to play on it but this looks great! I think this will attract Angry Birds lovers and haters alike. I imagine you'll have competitors if this takes off, so it's good that you built a real game and not a simple novelty app.
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