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daddykotex··on Show HN: A password manager using Keybase for encryption and storage
You mind find inspiration from http://passwordstore.org
daddykotex··on Interview with Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox
Maybe we could let them know so they can fix the issue (maybe you did already)?
daddykotex··on Stripe Sigma
Completely irrelant to Sigma itself, but the landing page crashes FF on a Galazy S6 :(
daddykotex··on WebAssembly: Mozilla Won
Ok thanks.
daddykotex··on Underscore's Scala books are now open source
Seriously, big thanks to Underscore for this. The Type Astronaut's Guide to Shapeless is amazing and I'd recommend it to anyone who is an intermediate Scala developer that wants to step up it's game.
daddykotex··on WebAssembly: Mozilla Won
What is Servo bringing to the table that will, in your opinion, make Firefox the browser of choice again?

I'm asking genuinely here. Is Servo expected to be have a much better performance?

daddykotex··on Graphcool – Serverless GraphQL Back End
The landing page and the quick start are amazing. Keep up the good work, it definitely landed in my `to try` folder!
daddykotex··on Why Elm? [pdf]
Honestly, if you don't want to use JS on the server side then you should not. There are plenty of very good alternatives.

I think Elm is to address the issue that JS is the only thing that runs in a browser. With that said, I suppose you could use it with Node as well.

daddykotex··on Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
I did not try the app, but the landing page is just great. Kudos.
daddykotex··on How Discord Indexes Billions of Messages Using Elasticsearch
I'm impressed, thanks for answering.
daddykotex··on How Discord Indexes Billions of Messages Using Elasticsearch
I agree with you, and I've got a question as well.

I'm wondering how long does it take to execute the ES refresh on a search query when the Shard was marked as dirty?

If the search requests are mostly real time, I suspect this is really short, but if the Shard ingest new messages for a while (let's say 50 minutes) and it's marked as dirty, a search query would ask ES to refresh 50 minutes worth of documents before running the actual query.

As it shown to be a problem? Is the refreshing time growing along with the number of documents inserted since the last refresh?

daddykotex··on You Can’t Have a Rollback Button
The thing is that in my experience, features behind flags, are not always a per customer artifact.

Or maybe they should be and out implementation of feature flags should always take the current customer into consideration...

daddykotex··on You Can’t Have a Rollback Button
How do you avoid branching?
daddykotex··on You Can’t Have a Rollback Button
I'd like to know how you handle feature flags in a full feature web applications.

In my experience, it's relatively easy and clean to work with `if(feature) this else that` in a simple backend application (a service that pulls from a queue and maintain a state, for example).

The problem arise when you start working with more complex applications. Specifically application with complex UI where you have to check the state of the flag at multiple different places in the code. You end up adding branches all over the code, branches that will be removed once the feature is fully deployed and known to be correct.

It adds a lot of overhead, the code is less readable.

There must be a way to do implement feature flags in a smoother way.

daddykotex··on Show HN: Skuuddle – Arrange face-to-face interactions with online acquaintances
Not available in your country :(

Canada

daddykotex··on What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)
I think that's where Scala shines. I don't know if you have tried it, but it solves a bunch of the problem you enumerate with Java & C.

Sure, it can be hard to read because you can write the same thing in tens of different ways and some people abuse it, but if you don't and your team does not, you end up with a beautiful code base.

daddykotex··on Show HN: CloudBoost – Open-Source Parse, Firebase and Algolia Combined into One
Good stuff out there. One suggestion I'd make is that you put a curl snippet where you show how to create apps. Something like:

``` SERVER=http://localhost APPID=test SECUREKEY=key curl "$SERVER/app/$APPID" \ -d "{ \"secureKey\": \"$SECUREKEY\" }" ```

daddykotex··on Conductor – A microservices orchestration engine that runs in the cloud
The name is really close to Lightbend's ConductR : https://conductr.lightbend.com/
daddykotex··on Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes
Thanks for sharing that!
daddykotex··on NASA C Style Guide [pdf]
Personally, I prefer the second one.

It's more concise and still provide the braces safety.

daddykotex··on Ask HN: How do I protect my parents from the internet?
I'm genuinely not sure this is a Windows problem. They might get infected on pretty much any OS if they navigate anywhere without precautions (as most parents do, including mine).

I'd like to see if a something like DeepFreeze could help here (there are probably alternatives here, DeepFreeze just came first in my mind).

daddykotex··on The Red Cross Blood Service: Australia's largest ever leak of personal data
all right, all right, thanks anyway
daddykotex··on The Red Cross Blood Service: Australia's largest ever leak of personal data
I'd be curious to hear some anecdotal stories like this, would you share :)
daddykotex··on The Red Cross Blood Service: Australia's largest ever leak of personal data
+1 to Troy, this blog is amazing. The blog posts are always on point technically and ethically.
daddykotex··on Elm 1+2: can't download X
Ok thanks!
daddykotex··on Elm 1+2: can't download X
Can anyone explain what might need a HTTP request here?
daddykotex··on Revenue from self-driving Teslas only allowed through the Tesla Network
> The erosion of the concept of "ownership" continues.

> Traditionally, goods are subject to the first sale doctrine--once I buy a shirt, it's my property, and if I want to sell or rent it, I can. It's mine.

> But software is licensed. When I buy a piece of software, I'm actually paying for a limited and revokable right to use someone else's property. And now companies are putting software into more and more goods.

That's a pretty good summary.

daddykotex··on Git-repo – Manage Gitlab, GitHub and Bitbucket from the command line
Goood, I'd really like to try it out. I'm tired of opening the browser go to my fork and create a branch to make a MR/PR for the project I'm working out.

I will really try it out. Thanks!

daddykotex··on Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars
I really enjoyed the writing style :)
daddykotex··on Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
+1 for OVH as well. Super stable VM for a very good prixe.
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