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jasondc··on We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
It's part of the Business tier on the pricing page here: https://plane.so/pricing
jasondc··on We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
$$$$ Very expensive
jasondc··on We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
from Google: "Atlassian has sunsetted its Server product line, including Jira Server, meaning they are no longer supported and users need to migrate to Cloud or Data Center versions. Specifically, support for Atlassian Server products ended on February 15, 2024. This includes the end of new license sales, renewals, and security updates for Jira Server. "
jasondc··on We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
Big fan of Plane since it's open-core.

Doesn't seem to be a lot of options for self-hosted/open-core project management software. The existing ones looks pretty bad, and don't come anywhere close to Jira level functionality.

jasondc··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Really cool, definitely donating to a few products!
jasondc··on The Most Disturbing Places We've Found Microplastics So Far
Try buying food that isn't stored in plastics, worse yet, the supply chain before you get the food probably uses plastics between the various components. Seems like such a hard problem to solve.
jasondc··on Fine-tune an open source LLM from Postgres data in 5 minutes
The process of fine-tuning open source LLMs has become incredibly easy, we'll walk you through it
jasondc··on Computer Engineering for Babies (2021)
I have this book, my son loves it. Also nice for adults, since you'll re-read it 100 times.
jasondc··on The housing market is starting to crack – Sellers are cutting prices
+1, Spring is the real test, every winter prices go down
jasondc··on Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semiconductor chips
The beginning of the undoing of globalization, countries will start bringing industries back home with bills like this.
jasondc··on Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
Any product search now is to a list of Amazon referral links, product search on Google has become horrible
jasondc··on Never use MongoDB (2013)
This article from 8 years ago highlights how far MongoDB has come: transactions, left outer joins ($lookup), etc.
jasondc··on Asana S-1
5 IPOs (S-1 filings) from Silicon Valley today:

- Unity (San Francisco) - Jfrog (Sunnyvale) - Snowflake (San Mateo) - SumoLogic (Redwood City) - Asana (San Francisco)

jasondc··on Social Networks That Failed
I don't think any of them failed, they were all relevant for a period of time, and users moved to a different network. That is happening with Facebook, will happen with Instagram, and is just part of the cycle.

Bebo founder is selling his house in SF for $39 million [1], that doesn't seem like a failure to me.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-couple-list-their-eclectic...

jasondc··on Earnest Capital is live
This is what happens when you only read HN, you think MongoDB is going out of business, yet the company is worth $5 billion.
jasondc··on Earnest Capital is live
yes, and the companies that do it well have a major competitive advantage
jasondc··on Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
If you think MongoDB isn't doing well, just look at their financials and stock price, they're on fire: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MDB?p=MDB

Anecdotes like this are just that, anecdotes, there are no numbers in this article to show a trend away from Mongo, Mongo is actually continuing to gain adoption. See https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

jasondc··on Amiga Graphics Archive
What makes Amiga more nostalgic than other systems? An Amiga 500 was my first computer, I learned Turbo Pascal and played Defenders of the Crown

To me, it was the only computer I've owned that had personality, which I can't completely describe what that means, but no other computer has felt like my Amiga.

jasondc··on Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
Maybe it's not only the money. In Silicon Valley, engineers are treated like stars, not sent to the basement with the worst office. In most cities, the business leaders run the show, and treat engineers as a commodity, to be added or disposed of when needed: "let's go faster by adding more engineers, who cares about the talent level, what's the difference".
jasondc··on San Francisco’s Seismic Gamble
I thought the massive water tank at the top of One Rincon Hill , to control swaying in the event of earthquakes, was interesting: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/One-Rincon-tower-feat...
jasondc··on MongoDB gets support for multi-document ACID transactions
Triggers?? Where you add some application logic to the database, 10 years go by, and no one has any idea how the triggers work? Or even how to test them? I've never seen triggers used successfully in any production application (maybe they work at first, but give them time, and a few code changes).
jasondc··on But what about blockchain apps?
I agree with some of the authors points. One item that is missing is the incentive structure.

Let's take mesh networks for example (as mentioned in the article). Substratum pays users in coins to share their network, which creates an incentive to grow the network (as long as the coins are worth something). If the coins are worthless, the model doesn't work.

It would take a lot of money to create the incentives without the coins.

jasondc··on Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?
+1 Saves a ton of time, and very simple to use
jasondc··on The Future of RethinkDB
Definitely valuable, as an aside, changefeeds are now in mongodb too: https://emptysqua.re/blog/driver-features-for-mongodb-3-6/#c...
jasondc··on MongoDB has filed Form S-1 for proposed IPO
$101MM in revenue for the past year (fiscal year 2017 ended Jan 31 2017)
jasondc··on The Marketing Behind MongoDB
There is a common perception in the developer community that "if you build it they will come", which is usually not the case. Theres a surprising amount of marketing behind every successful company.
jasondc··on GitHub Is Down
It's related to the Eclipse! :)
jasondc··on Redfin shares surge more than 30% in $138.5M real estate tech IPO
Paypal and Uber have network effects that are harder to replicate. Visiting a website and browsing real estate listings don't.
jasondc··on Redfin shares surge more than 30% in $138.5M real estate tech IPO
Looks like they're being valued like a tech firm, and not a traditional brokerage.

What makes Redfin a tech company? Why couldn't prudential (or another brokerage) build the same thing?

jasondc··on Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB?
This post makes the assumption that MongoDB isn't doing well based on Hacker News. MongoDB the company, and product, are doing extremely well (outside of anecdotal Hacker News posts), based on objective metrics like downloads, skills, jobs, and company revenue (and the company is nearing 900 employees on linkedin).

To put it another way, RethinkDB did extremely well on Hacker News. Twitter didn't, if you remember all the negative posts (and still went public). There is little relation between success on Hacker News and company success.

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