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Re:MongoDB 3.6 is now generally available
on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:32PM (#15854263)
I'm most interested in the built-in schema validation and join capabilities. Has anyone tried them out yet?
Re:How to Self-Publish a Novel in 2017
on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:54PM (#13778104)
I'd be interested in that as well. Trying to build something that's geared heavily toward developmental/structural editing, and connecting freelancers with writers. Could I send you an email?
Ask HN: How do you address users in website copy (and does it matter)?
"View your posts." "Go to my profile." "Login to your account." "See my stats."Et cetera. Is there an unspoken rule on being consistent when addressing website users in either the first- or second-person? Are there any studies on which is more appropriate for different audiences?
Re:Ask HN: Bloggers or content marketers, how do you get feedback?
on Saturday January 28, 2017 @05:44PM (#13509976)
What sort of traffic (ballpark numbers) do you get there?
Re:Ask HN: Bloggers or content marketers, how do you get feedback?
on Friday January 27, 2017 @04:05PM (#13502649)
And a follow-up to that: have you ever, or would you ever consider, paying for feedback/editing services on a post you write? Would the ROI be worth it for you (in particular, for a marketing blog)? Or at that point would it be easier to pay a PR firm to write for you?
Ask HN: Bloggers or content marketers, how do you get feedback?
Do you have a process for getting feedback for new posts you write, either for personal blogs or for content marketing posts? If so, what is it? Personal friends, professional development groups, asking for critiques on HN or elsewhere? I'm more interested in what you do before you hit the "publish" button, rather than getting reader comments afterward.
Re:Ask HN: What ideas, books or essays changed your life?
on Friday January 27, 2017 @04:11AM (#13498626)
"Gödel, Escher, Bach" was my highschool sweetheart, although I probably wouldn't spend another 800 pages on it again. But the overarching concept of "emergence" (of formal systems) blew me away back then, and stuck with me in all sorts of spindly ways since.
Highly relevant to today's political climate, "Authority and American Usage" is an essay that's sometimes frustrating, but also one that I think everybody should read. DFW establishes the idea of a "Democratic Spirit" as a sort of worldview to speak and interact through. It's really good and important: https://www.docdroid.net/GCzeU6K/authority-and-american-usag...
Re:Ask HN: What numbers/metrics are most interesting to you for new st...
on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:57AM (#13479008)
That's cool, thanks! I was more asking in terms of case studies and information-sharing. Trevor Blackwell's tool seems like it's more for the idealist/planning stage.
Ask HN: What numbers/metrics are most interesting to you for new startups?
When you read startups' blog posts, launch announcements, monthly checkins, funding announcements, postmortems, etc., in which they share their numbers, which metrics do you find most interesting and useful? Growth/retention rate? Website traffic? Revenue/profit charts?Are there any metrics that don't normally get included in the standard rundowns, but which would be especially interesting...
Re:Collapsed: Learn lessons from failed startups
on Sunday January 22, 2017 @03:06PM (#13457077)
This is way more enjoyable (plus has more information) to poke around than autopsy.io. Thanks for the share!
Re:The Line of Death
on Sunday January 15, 2017 @12:07AM (#13402458)
Something else to add, a Data URI can do this: https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/812268998742118400
Ask HN: How much of a concern are bots for a smallish community app?
I'm building a small app with community and social features. Most of the features require an email/password signin, and I'm wondering how much of an issue bots are? It'd be easy for someone to generate a lot of dummy accounts using temporary email addresses. I could add captchas to the signup page, but that feels like a bad UX choice, especially if I'm just being paranoid.Anyone else use a...
Re:Ask HN: What hosting platform is everyone using these days?
on Friday January 06, 2017 @04:10AM (#13334880)
I'm working on a Node.js app, which'll be hosted on http://xervo.io -- formerly modulus.io
Not as over-engineered as Heroku for small projects, but you still get free LetsEncrypt SSL certs, auto-scaling (for us wishful thinkers), and an integrated/cheap MongoDB (which I haven't messed with). A small side-project runs $7.20/month. I had a good experience with them on a previous Meteor project, so I'm looking forward to using it again.
Re:Ask HN: How to best handle “unlimited” use tiers in a SaaS?
on Saturday December 17, 2016 @04:49PM (#13202870)
Yep, I'll be enforcing a max file size (it's only for text-based documents). I guess my bigger concern is spam. Allowing a user to upload an "unlimited" amount of data is a DOS vector, especially since I'm the sole dev. So I'll need to do some sort of curtailing, but hopefully the kind that would be invisible to anyone using the site for its normal purpose.
Ask HN: How to best handle “unlimited” use tiers in a SaaS?
Of course, "unlimited" doesn't mean "infinite". Say I have an app that lets users upload their own documents. I don't want to cap their uploads -- although perhaps, starting out, this is the best way to go -- as there is a potential upsell opportunity for each document they've uploaded (plus it would just be annoying).What are some strategies for preventing users from abusing my database...