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kresten··on Dear Devs, please stop using Medium for your contents
Publish on medium?

I instantly close your post.

kresten··on Facebook says a bug caused its iPhone app’s inadvertent camera access
I think it’s just bug.
kresten··on Debian reconsiders init-system diversity
Yep agreed - solid assessment.

Apart from networking. That’s an f*ing mess without systemd.

kresten··on Debian reconsiders init-system diversity
Having said all that I’m not convinced about dbus but hey what software gets everything right?
kresten··on Debian reconsiders init-system diversity
Show me an alternative to systemd that matches its functionality and consistency.

The whole point is that systemd replaces a large number of solutions to various system components and there’s alot to be said for pulling all that together into a consistent solution.

The competition to systemd can’t match its power, but there are good solutions for more limited scope situations like embedded.

Systemd is incredibly powerful and is very much a welcome part of software that I build. My system architectures depend heavily on systemd.

knowing what systemd is capable of is really required knowledge for software developers because it can both save you massive time and also enable the creation of systems that otherwise would have required you to write more code.

kresten··on Looka lays off staff as failed rebrand from Logojoy cut revenue in half
Revenue.

As a single founder company, I’d think that would be mostly profit, say 90%? That leaves about $400,000 per annum to pay for an ec2 instance and salary if working from the kitch table.

Imagine having a company 90% profitable and burning it up on the dream of venture capital backed growth.

kresten··on Looka lays off staff as failed rebrand from Logojoy cut revenue in half
The founder of logojoy once said in an interview that he could have stayed as a single founder company.

I think logojoy was pulling in > $350,000 per month at the time.

If he’d sat on that as a single founder he’d be rolling in cash.

Imagine sitting on $350,000 a month for 3 years.... you’d never need to work again.

Instead, venture capital, offices, 40 staff, rebranding failure staff cuts, logojoy gone.

kresten··on Ask HN: Do you have experience with school bullying?
With due respect, HN is likely the world's most concentrated nerd community.

Nerds are bully targets. Asking such questions here is not going to give a response that is representative of the general community.

My guess is that many of the people here on HN got bullied.

My kids have been doing boxing since age 5 and are forbidden to stop taking classes. This is specifically so they can deliver hard lessons to the bullies who will appear in teenage years.

kresten··on Steve Jobs on how The Beatles influenced his approach to business (2003) [video]
That's where he stole the company name from.
kresten··on Starlink is a big deal
As I say, show me a product I can buy that delivers on the promise, then it's interesting.
kresten··on Starlink is a big deal
I'll get excited about fast broadband when it's actually available and delivered to me and I do the speed test and it's as fast as promised.

There's so much talk about broadband and its potential and so little actually delivered.

Show me the speed test. Everything else is just vaporware.

kresten··on Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder
Nothing more than linux is needed to prove the success of Linus Torvalds.

If your first hit is sufficiently large you never need another.

It's different in founding startups..., once you're lucky, twice you're good.

kresten··on How I got rich on the other hand
"You're rich when you earn more than you spend!"

Exactly the sort of thing only truly rich people say.

kresten··on Ask HN: What's your best startup idea?
I thought the accepted wisdom is that ideas are worthless?
kresten··on Containers in 2019: They're Calling It a Hypervisor Comeback
Key point: AWS Firecracker does NOT run on AWS.

Unless you want to pay for bare metal instances.

AWS Firecracker DOES run on Google Cloud, Azure and Digital Ocean.

kresten··on Sinclair Zx Spectrum: absolutely better than Commodore 64 (2005)
I wish I knew back then all the technic knowledge I have now.

I really had zero idea what was going on inside the machine and no-one to teach me.

kresten··on AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
AWS Azure or Google cloud data transfer: 9 cents per GB

Digital Ocean: 1 cent per GB

The really weird thing is this should be the absolute lead on all Digital Ocean marketing but they don't even mention it. It's their single biggest selling point.

kresten··on Open Source Social Network
Product names matter. This needs a more catchy name. Maybe people here could suggest better names that are available.
kresten··on Rich Kids Who Want to Give Away Their Money
The only way you’d be willing to get rid of all your money is if you’d never experienced being poor.
kresten··on Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost
Is depending heavily on China for critical business functions such as manufacturing seen as a risk by big companies?
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