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kevindeasis··on Writing Cloud Functions
You know what I would like right now.

Give me something that competes with Heroku.

But with more noSql Databases like RETHINKDB and CHEAPER noSQL DB

and CHEAPER SSL per month for non-wildcard

kevindeasis··on Writing Cloud Functions
The shortest explanation would be:

These will allow you to automatically scale up or down easily. You don't have to maintain your server.

It has its advantages and disadvantages.

kevindeasis··on Yelp Posts Q4 Loss, CFO Resigns
Wow, there are soo many resignations happening this week! I am stunned. Anyone have articles on how this happened and what it means?
kevindeasis··on Diesel: A Safe, Extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust
This would be really awesome if someone used this with a rust framework being used in production

It would be really cool if this had an easy integration with postgis that uses simple syntax to query location

When I'm using a node framework and using postgres I have to use a nosql db for playing with coordinates as postgis syntax is not something i am very fond of

kevindeasis··on Virginia Tech Professor Spent $147k to Help Uncover the Flint Water Scandal
I've heard from my colleagues that there are leaked emails around on how they chose to switch suppliers. Even though they knew the lead contamination.

Anyone have a link of the said email dump? Other links are broken

kevindeasis··on [dead]
If you had some templates that were cc0 that would be really cool.
kevindeasis··on Announcing Rust 1.6
Thank you, that was very informative and very helpful! I will definitely start learning Rust!
kevindeasis··on Announcing Rust 1.6
So, I've recently tried to figure out what rust it's been getting lots of attention in HN.

So, it allows you to have safety and control. I thought that is very neat.

I've got three questions for experts. One, what type of applications is Rust intended for?

Two, I like JS because I can code in the client, and server in one language. Will there ever be a web server framework for rust and an api that allows me to modify the dom?

Three, what are your predictions for the future of rust?

kevindeasis··on Microsoft Drops Prices for Some Azure Instances by Up to 17%
I think he might have been sarcastic with his statement.
kevindeasis··on Microsoft Drops Prices for Some Azure Instances by Up to 17%
It adds up really fast. $7/month for an instance then $20/month for ssl (even if you don't want the wildcard) and add another $9/month for backend.

$ 36/month in 12 month is $432/month

That is indeed a cheap service. However, relatively expensive for people not making a profit for their projects.

It would be nice if Heroku lowered their prices occasionally as well.

kevindeasis··on Microsoft Drops Prices for Some Azure Instances by Up to 17%
Now I want more competitors for platforms like Heroku just so that they can put their prices down. Heroku is great, but it is crazy expensive. Furthermore, I don't see any signs of Heroku lowering their price at all.
kevindeasis··on Lodash 4.0.0 is out
I'll put this here just in case no one comments.

https://lodash.com/docs#forEach

http://underscorejs.org/#each

kevindeasis··on Stripe now supports ACH payments
So with ACH I can directly bill my customers' account. ACH lets me to bill them for multiple or single payment. So, with these I can do person to person(p2p), business to business (b2b), and business to consumers(b2c)

That is cool.

kevindeasis··on So You Think You Can Program an Elevator
That is hilarious. If elevators always malfunctioned like that imagine how many calories some people would burn.
kevindeasis··on Running costs for running a web app
What is funny though is that the cost doesn't seem to go down much or at all even after a few years.
kevindeasis··on Unethical Growth Hacking from YayView
Seems like you want to make a black list that is very very long. It will be interesting to see groups who tries to blacklist these companies.
kevindeasis··on A Guide to Seed Fundraising
This is exciting. I've always tried to imagine and wonder what the process would be like. I've never seen a detailed document like this.

Great job~

kevindeasis··on Storing Passwords in a Highly Parallelized World
I'm skimming info from all over the place. Does anyone know the performance of argon2 over the other stuff? I'm figuring out whether to use bcrypt or argon 2 for a side project.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcrypt

https://github.com/ranisalt/node-argon2

edit: found it. I'm still reading

https://password-hashing.net/submissions/specs/Argon-v3.pdf

kevindeasis··on CodeReddit: Cover UI for Reddit at Work
Whoops, php. I didn't even notice the syntax
kevindeasis··on Career Advice from Scott Adams (2007)
Scott says: 1. Become the best at one specific thing. 2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.

You raise a fascinating point. Following Scott's format. I wonder if a person can: 1. be the very best musician. 2. Be very good at networking (top 25%) or playing at events .

Now my question to you, petke. With those two things, would any person wanting to be a musician be a successful musician?

kevindeasis··on CodeReddit: Cover UI for Reddit at Work
This was hilarious. At first, i thought, why did someone bring me to a wrong link? They gave me js instead of the real link. Then I started reading the js and I was like this is hilarious. It is hilarious that I found a js code to be beautiful. this is good work!
kevindeasis··on [dead]
Here is another http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/05/asia/north-korea-seismic-event...
kevindeasis··on EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and R3 Instances)
Does this mean Heroku will reduce their price too?
kevindeasis··on Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age
This would be good if you can turn this into a mirror IoT device. (°ロ°) Just imagine how many people would buy this if Kim Kardashian got involved
kevindeasis··on Economic Inequality
What I do know is that there will always be income inequality. There will always be poverty, but we can significantly raise the quality of life for everyone. In fact, I feel it is more important that we raise the quality of life than to fix income inequality.

Thoughts?

kevindeasis··on Indoor farming: Good for cannabis, not so good for food
I'd like to hear an explanation why vertical farming, which is indoors is not a good choice.

Downvotes do not give enough information.

kevindeasis··on Trails – Modern MVC Web Framework for Node.js
I just found it easier to work with. Some might find express easier, but that is just my opinion. There are also companies using hapi in production. Walmart used it and worked on black friday.

Modules is not a big problem since there are lots of node modules out there.

One could even say, why use express when meteor has a bigger community? They have modules, etc.

kevindeasis··on Indoor farming: Good for cannabis, not so good for food
Ok, this article claims the productivity: http://weburbanist.com/2015/01/11/worlds-largest-indoor-farm...

Let me find a research paper and see if it is really valid or not

So, I still don't find any reason why vertical farming, which is indoors is a problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_farming

What are your thoughts on this?

kevindeasis··on Indoor farming: Good for cannabis, not so good for food
Well, I am just going to leave this article here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/japan-automated-facto...

Indoor farming will be much more cheaper, efficient, and more environmentally friendly.

Imagine how much transportation is required to deliver food from a farm to the grocery to your table.

kevindeasis··on Trails – Modern MVC Web Framework for Node.js
At first I was like, "oh another node framework"

Then I saw a point where they were using hapijs in their module: https://github.com/hapijs/hapi

That is giving me a small motivation to try some of my future weekend projects with Trails.

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