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Not to mention those of us who travel with families. It’s quite a mess to say the least. Flying has become such a hassle I just rather drive and take a few extra days off to accommodate the commute.

Really magical to see audio editable like this. Love it.

Agree it is not a trivial task to build out the infrastructure for custom SSL. We’ve done it ourselves and it’s just now another service component we have to manage. ie. more time sink for something that isn’t our business core feature

For others who are reading this, the whole process involves reading and storing private keys using asymmetric ciphers and all that. Definitely more stuff than we’d like to be responsible for.

Will definitely keep an eye on fly.io for new features! Thanks

Interesting product - fly.io

It’s essentially a reverse proxy as a service. Sort of like Cloudflare but with what looks like a nicer API, and custom domain name SSL eg. for multi tenant apps.

It was a bit pricy when I plugged in how many requests we get per month on our servers, easily in 5-figure per month. Having said that, internally we built most of their selling points already.

Love Rubyflow. I was just on that site before surfing over to HN.

More to this awesome list. https://swagpix.com

Wow this is going to open up the casino to a lot of major players. I fear the hobbyist investor is going to get roasted. Anything that can be traded on such a scale will undoubtedly be manipulated.

So serious question here. I kind of see myself as someone who doesn’t understand crypto currency. At the same time, I’m also quite experienced in investing, business, spotting trends, etc.

I’ve read a bit on crypto currencies over the past 2 years to try and wrap my head around all of this.

Reading articles like this, it seems like the whole thing is more philosophical in nature versus utilitarian.

A currency’s role is to function as some mechanism for the transfer of value from one person to another. But in order for this transfer to occur, both parties must recognize the underlying asset.

With cryptocurrency forks, it seems this doesn’t seem to offer enough stability most people would transactionally want.

Other than the obvious speculative desires by the parties involved, how will crypto currencies evolve into becoming mainstream?

Interesting project/business.

As an aside, for your main page, I would stay away from using the word "Lego-block components".

I haven't checked it out, but Lego is likely a registered trademark. Best to avoid unnecessary legal issues.

Thanks Mike for creating Sidekiq and this. pre-1.0 is alright with me for showing it on HN.

I'm a little upset that every one is getting 24, and I only get 23. Am I doing this wrong?

Yes, there really are some extremely articulate 8th graders. In my youth, I spent every week writing 3-4 essays (about 1000 words each) just for fun. I really did enjoy it. Needless to say, I had no problems with the "regular" English courses. Some people enjoy sports. Others... writing.

That’s right. The small business SAAS biz in niches.

Yeah noticed this in our production app today. Thanks AWS. Thank goodness we had multi AZ DB running and other failovers.

Buffering of the leadership is part of any top down culture. The hint that corruption may lead to the top is naive, as it almost always does. Plausible deniability often comes into play.

I can relate. Having been both a medical doctor (former career) and as an tech-related entrepreneur, I hate telling people what I do, why I left my old job, and if I make any money at all in my new job. No joke, I just tell them I'm a stay at home dad. Anything else would reveal too much and draw too much attention.

Great to see bureaucracy not getting in the way of something like this. Is there a link somewhere about Google’s tech and motivation?

In an ironic twist, I was playing around with this and switching tabs trying to check out on a Shopify store, and my browser crashed.

Congrats and definitely it's for the long game. Changing infrastructure is a hard thing to convince revenue generating companies to do, as they aren't as price sensitive. It'll take years to grow the product to the point where it reaches enough word of mouth recommendations to be considered the first choice. That or you have some killer feature that everyone has got to have.

They're using the lean startup methodology. Iterate. Iterate. Iterate.

Short but great advice from this. Keeping things simple. Focus on the current moment. Undertstand there are things beyond our control. Work on things even when they seem difficult. Life skills. That's all there is to it.

Like the old saying... you owe the bank 10 thousand dollars? Your problem. You owe them 10 billion? Their problem.

Good to know! Thanks!

Looks interesting. I wonder what kind of market this app might serve. For larger apps, I would worry about support. 5 dollars per year tells me that the developer is doing this as a hobby. For small side projects, I can see tinkerers building this themselves.

As someone who went to university and got an advanced degree, I can relate with what he's saying. Nowadays, I no longer directly utilize the skills and knowledge I gained from my 8+ years in school. But at the same time, the way I think couldn't have ended up this way if my journey didn't go through formal education. My parents and those around me weren't educated enough to point me in the right direction such that I would end up with a more educated mindset. And I certainly don't think I was born smart enough to have gotten here myself without the exposure I had while at school.

Having kids as well, I question too the merit of sending them when they reach university age. My perspective, of course, has changed given the fact that I have now arrived, mentally, at a more educated state to know that formal education is only one of many answers. It's hard to say whether my kids could too arrive to a more educated state without the years of formal structure to encourage that growth, despite their parents being educated.

Similar to others who have supported going to university, I think it may not be a bad idea to support it still. I would say, however, that perhaps it's important to go understanding that education there is merely one of many perspectives.

Sublime 2/3 has been very valuable for me. Don't know what all the fuss is about there being no roadmap or some other stuff. The dev team has never asked me for another dime other than the initial license fee. I've written so much code on it (and the code has made so much money for me, in return) that I'd gladly pay for Sublime 3 whenever it comes out.

Robert Downey Jr and friends are gonna have to suit up a lot more often in light of this.

Name your expiration and ask. Cheap enough, it's worth the gamble!

Being a good investor takes a certain kind of temperament. Can't really teach this. For most, as Buffet says, stick with the index fund.

Seriously, right? Can totally see another article like this one with the title, "How I created a viral thread on hackernews and made X dollars on Fiverr."