purerandomness

Dating sites that make you answer questionnaires and match based on answers are a really good way to get to know people with similar kinks and interests.

While there are specific sites for BDSM dating with more nuanced optoins, the ads for generic dating sites are all very "tame" and try to not deviate from the perceived norm too much (= "find a partner, have a happy family" type messaging)

The reason is that if you do, it's virtually impossible to get included in Ad networks and App Stores. So you naturally see only dating ads catering to the very conservative viewer.

Example: A BDSM dating site got banned from Googles Play Store after including a background image of a simple leather whip. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/devianceapp/status/1384015666185834501

You're assuming that everyone uses online dating platforms to find one (1) long-term partner with whom they'll be monogamous, which is not the case.

There are couples looking for other couples or thirds, there is the BDSM scene with people looking for casual play partners, and so on.

From the docs:

> While the underscore (_) attribute is where the hyperscript runtime looks for hyperscript on an element by default, you may also use script or data-script attribute, or configure a different attribute name if you don't like any of those.

I think to compile a list of JavaScript Tooling Not in JavaScript.

Yor sentiment is beautifully captured in the essay "The Eternal Mainframe" [1] by Rudolf Winestock.

It gets reposted every year or so here on HN.

[1] http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.h... (2013)

> With your webhost, you have to setup and maintain the server

You're confusing a root server or a VPS with a webhost aka "shared hosting", where the hosting service takes care of Let's Encrypt certificates, and scheduled downtime for patching.

Then bootstrapping lost all its meaning.

I don't care where the investment came from, a VC, your dad, or someone being their own VC. If we start calling that bootstrapping, we need a new name for 'starting a profitable business with nothing but a 5 bucks VPS'.

It is not '1. Become a VC, 2. Invest in your own company.'

> What's the difference [...]?

The distinction is very clear: Bootstrapping a business means you can do it without funds, in a "poor" country, without inheriting money or having savings.

It's important because it shifts focus towards executing a business model that is likely to succeed without having to experiment and see "what sticks" first.

Productizing a consulting business is one example. You repackage knowledge you gained while working for clients, into its own product. The only expense in that phase is your 4,99€/mo root server.

The distinction is important because there are people who are interested in one, but not the other, or who can only do one, but not the other.

When we talk about different things, we need different terms to make sure we know what it is that we are talking about.

OP refers to the article, in which the authors seem to think that they bootstrapped the company, while they did not, in fact.

> Missive is bootstrapped, meaning we never took a dime from investors. We funded it with the cash flow of our other business.

Exactly, there's a term for it: "Investing".

Different words exist for different reasons, and the bootstrapping community has a reason to make sure that term is not being confused with investing.

Quoting the "Hacker News Guidelines":

"What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

How is changing code simpler than literally clicking on the line number to set a breakpoint?

> Why use a gendered pronoun here?

Alternating pronouns in the English language is a concept to emphasize the "randomness" of the gender. [1]

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/279494/do-any-st...

I know it's being used. The point is, it lost to Docker. Which is a shame.

I'd honestly love to.

Is there a file format like "docker-compose.yml", where I can describe a handful of Jails that can talk to each other in their own virtual network, and that sets up a handful of services exactly as I describe?

Ideally, a Windows user, a Linux user and a Mac OS user check out this file, run a command ("voodoo up") in the directory of that file, and have a VM with the FreeBSD jails setup running exactly as described in the file.

I'd pay money for that.

Vagrant could have easily won by supporting Linux containers, and improving the developer experience.

No. We're still on the last stable version (2.5.0.1)

Every version after that either doesn't start [1] or makes random containers miraculously stop working. The 2.x version has your CPU burning, but that seems to persist in 3.x [2].

I stopped trying after they pulled in the auto-upgrade feature. Our team has no time playing bug-hunt easter egg at random times.

I honestly don't comprehend how this software gained such a wide adoption on Macs. Docker on Linux works flawlessly meanwhile.

[1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5146

[2] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5116

> every search I've done today produced the result I wanted on the first page of the results, above the fold.

Same for me, but that's because I just stopped searching for things that I know will not give me good quality results as they used to be circa pre-2010 back when search tools like +, -, and "" still worked and the results weren't filled with generated SEO texts.

You can set extensions to work in private windows in the settings.

Agree, the web is unusable without an ad blocker.

You probably use an adblocker that receives money from Google to pass through a small amount of ads. 'AdBlock Plus' is one example that does it. Many others as well.

'uBlick Origin' is currently the only one AFAIK that is truly open source and not sponsored by any ad network.

I doubt that actually looking into EC2 instances (which AWS would never do, "pinkie promise") would even be necessary. Metadata about the company's deployed infrastructure would totally suffice to derive enough business insights to launch a "knockoff product", as you call it.

Amazon has regularly launched products with their "Amazon Basics" brand, copying well-selling 3rd-party products sold on Amazon.com, always a few bucks cheaper. [1]

What makes you think it would be different with AWS?

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its...

The title is misleading. It's confusing because the German original title make clear that ACM does not want Google to be a sponsor anymore, whereas the English title adds the possibility that it might be Google who wanted to sponsor the conference, but then decided not to.

It's satire. It generates gibberish using actual words from git man pages. Its purpose was to show how important technical documentation is, and how the git man pages could be improved.

Oh my god! I've never seen the proper print interface and always assumed Mozilla simply didn't care about printing.

That's the best type of parody

It's a SEO marketing article. I wouldn't expect insights.

Everything has already been covered by ancient greek philosophers.

That's not a reason to stop sharing insights. They might be useful to someone in a way only you can rephrase them.

Companies do not make decisions. People owning these companies make decisions.

Worth a mention that https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ is aiming to replace Delphi, and runs on Linux.

They also seem to support app development for Android: https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Portal:Android and iOS: https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Portal:iOS