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matt_fon Show HN: Kardius – find people like you, near you – made with Rust and Rocket

Upvoted: People who take time from their day to give positive constructive feedback and encouragement to a total stranger about his/her project are what make this place a good community.

matt_fon GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache

Could anyone explain a use case for this? (Distributed KV store)

Genuine question, thanks

matt_fon Turn your phone into a wireless webcam

Anyone here familiar with or have a link for a *nix friendly solution?

Thanks!

matt_fon I Am Deleting the Blog

If you're pissed off by this, as I am, here's how the author politely suggests that you direct your support:

> There is no comments section for this post. The appropriate comments section is the feedback page of the New York Times. You may also want to email the New York Times technology editor Pui-Wing Tam at pui-wing.tam@nytimes.com, contact her on Twitter at @puiwingtam, or phone the New York Times at 844-NYTNEWS

> (please be polite – I don’t know if Ms. Tam was personally involved in this decision, and whoever is stuck answering feedback forms definitely wasn’t. Remember that you are representing me and the SSC community, and I will be very sad if you are a jerk to anybody. Please just explain the situation and ask them to stop doxxing random bloggers for clicks.)

matt_fon Scrum disempowers developers

Hey folks. Short question: What's better?

I read through a lot of detailed analysis of Scrum's shortcomings in the comments here, but little in the way of "Instead".

If anyone cares to share his/her vision: based on your experience, what would be a (nutshell) model for a better system?

Thanks <3

matt_fon In hospital for 34 years

hi. see my above comment re. toxic mold exposure.

matt_fon In hospital for 34 years

Hi. Please look into toxic mold exposure.

It's a neurotoxin, it's virtually invisible, and has little mainstream awareness.

I had a pretty serious bout with this over the past 2 years, and was similarly frustrated with the vagueness of the symptoms (and correspondingly useless diagnoses from doctors.)

The symptoms are broad, systemic, varied, and hard to pin down, and most doctors aren't familiar with it, much less able to treat. My symptoms didn't exactly match up entirely to yours, but enough overlap to make me raise my eyebrows.

Several of my friends who (same as me) spent time in China had the same. (It's a high-mold environment.)

Please tweet/DM me @fieldse if this turns out to be helpful.

matt_fon Firefox Multi-Account Containers

Can anyone from Mozilla here explain what this is written in, or how it works?

"Containers" makes me immediately think of Docker-like containerized applications, which I suspect is not actually the case here.