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Will upvote anything erlang related ;-)
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educar··on Launch HN: Sunu (YC S17) – Sonar wristband helping blind people navigate
Apologies for the dumb question but what technologies do blind people use today?
educar··on Ubuntu 17.04 review
Linux users will not pay for appstore. There is no money to be made here. Just another timesink. You need to first attract significant non-developer users to Ubuntu (which is tied to making better laptops).
educar··on “Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″
I use cloudron for self-hosting mail. Yes, it works perfectly fine on mobile.
educar··on Quotes
Same. does not make on chrome/Android.
educar··on A plan for open source software maintainers
GitHub stars can be easily gamed socially.
educar··on A plan for open source software maintainers
Are we seeing the same page? The sponsor page hardly lists anybody noteworthy and nobody is going to click through those links. It's wasted marketing money (developers are the worst segment you can try to sell to).

I think it is pure imagination to think marketers throw 100k for this.

Also thinking of funding opensource as a marketing fund is really not the right approach. The companies are then coming to you for the wrong reasons.

educar··on “Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″
I just host my own email these days. Not going to rely on any 3rd party anymore.
educar··on Visual Studio for Mac
This is no different from the apple ecosystem. Their programming is filled with so many jargons (talking of desktop UI development here)
educar··on U.S. Census director resigns amid turmoil over funding of 2020 count
Yeah, this seems pretty serious to me. It's not a drop in the ocean as the op makes it sound .
educar··on SQL Notebook
Very nice, I have been using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manage... so far. Looks like this can replace it.
educar··on Making a Game in Rust
Is there a write-up on how the rust code ends up being embedded in the iOS app?
educar··on How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful
You should try cloudron.io
educar··on Daplie, the World’s First In-Home Server for Everyone
Cloudron is really great for a home server. Calling it the first home server is a bit of a stretch.
educar··on Ask HN: Self Hosted vs. Gmail / Outlook?
I find this funny because your own email is on Google apps.
educar··on Ask HN: Self Hosted vs. Gmail / Outlook?
I agree with you but wanted to give a data point that I have been self hosting with cloudron on digital ocean since almost 2 years now and I have had no problem with mail delivery.
educar··on Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs
I have a similar anecdote except the German in my story fixed the tap himself! I was squarely impressed with the skills an average German has.
educar··on Facebook to add 3k people to community operations team to improve moderation
So? We have 1000s in the bay are building the next chat bot, cat pic ai engine etc.
educar··on Cap'n Proto 0.6 released – 2.5 years of improvements
Windows support is great but why is this a showstopper? This is a common problem in many libraries and the common solution is to mark those platforms as unsupported until sometime steps up. Also platform support is a dynamic list - platforms are kept alive by presence of contributors/maintainers.
educar··on Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative reviews start pouring in
TIL that you cannot unlist your business from Yelp.
educar··on How I realised “Free Software” is a better term than “Open Source”
Yes but you system is unable to create monopolies which is what business owners want.
educar··on Are We Having Too Much Fun?
Probably just you. This is a fantastic well written and well researched article.

Are you just looking for a tldr?

educar··on Just Say No
I am curious how much this extends to: A) Facebook and Google mining people's data B) Cisco building extensive survellance systems C) Microsoft was blatantly abusing it's monopoly

I could go on but all these had many many engineers involved. And best of it all, most of it was .. legal. When something is outright illegal, it's easy to say no.

educar··on Just Say No
Did you miss the "Dutch Standards" part?
educar··on Instead of containers, give me strong config and deploy primitives
Can convox do docker compose?
educar··on Instead of containers, give me strong config and deploy primitives
So you are asking for cloudron?
educar··on Scaleway ARMv8 Cloud Servers
Just guessing here. Ubuntu has more recent packages since Debian is very conservative by design. Also, Ubuntu has a company backing it which can be of great use strategically as you might collaborate/cross market etc.
educar··on Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
May I recommend https://meemo.minimal-space.de instead. Much better understand, imo
educar··on Browserprint: Browser fingerprint tool now can guess client OS even when spoofed
No, the point is they can serve up targeted ads using browser fingerprint
educar··on Browserprint: Browser fingerprint tool now can guess client OS even when spoofed
Mostly ad tracking.
educar··on Hackpad shutting down
That is step 3) usually marked as '???'. Step 4 is profit.
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