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Are there alternatives to ownCloud?

I like the idea of heaving my own file hub for some stuff, but I don't like the URLs ownCloud generates, also it's PHP.Are there some good alternatives with custom URLs for shared files?

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Re:Ask HN: How to be the starving programmer? on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @07:10PM (#6253927)
I know a few people (no programmers) who "container" their food at night. Which means they steal still eatable stuff from the trash containers of stores, so they don't have to pay for food at all.

I also have a friend who lived in the basement of a guy with the alzheimers (no, the guy didn't forget that there was someone living in the basement for free). Some relatives told him, he can live there for free, if he looks after the alzheimers guy every day.

So if you find some sick people to look after, for free living and go out one or two nights a week and container for food, you cam live without a job or money at all.

Health insurance could be a problem in most countries, I guess. Where I live everyone get's it for free, so it's none of our concern...

If you're lucky, the sick person you're looking after has an Internet connection you can use. Otherwise you're have to search for open WiFi in the cities.

Re:Enough with the JavaScript already on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @02:34PM (#6059349)
That's a two-edged sword.

If I rely on an API, which abstracts everything, I benefit of every performance improvements they make "under the hood".

If they are better with performance than me, I win. If I'm better with performance than them, I lose.

Re:Enough with the JavaScript already on Monday July 15, 2013 @12:15PM (#6046477)
Funny thing is, I use JavaScript libs like Ext JS because they don't impose HTML/CSS on me.

I can write the whole application in JavaScript and I just have to mess with the DOM and it's ugly friends when in trouble.

Re:Camino browser reaches its end on Friday May 31, 2013 @10:15AM (#5798711)
he's one of the people who partly (because he's still over 10 tabs) gets the current bookmark-systems in browsers.

For most users the bookmarks seem to be broken/too complex. Never had the problem, maybe because I'm going crazy when I got over 10 tabs and want to get rid of them ASAP. :\

Re:The Future of Adobe Fireworks on Monday May 06, 2013 @07:38PM (#5665479)
That's the trick.

You get the people to pay for all eternity ;)

Re:Why aren't younger Americans driving anymore? on Monday April 22, 2013 @09:22PM (#5592773)
If you live in a (bigger) city you simply don't need a car...

I can drive to the store by bike or even walk there if I want.

I work in a different city than I live and travel to my workplace by train in 30min.

The only things I need a car for are travels to are tiny town which doesn't have good public transports or when I need to transport something thats to heavy to carry.

Cognitive load comes from "Cognitive Load Theory" (by Sweller), which is a specific field in Psychology.

Psychologist told me, "Multimedia Learning" (by Mayer) is taken more seriously by psychologist than "Cognitive Load Theory".

Re:JQuery 2.0 Released on Thursday April 18, 2013 @06:18PM (#5573516)
They hate IE SO much, they even made the drop a new major release.

This is what I call commitment.

Re:Google Trends: Javascript Frameworks on Thursday April 18, 2013 @06:03PM (#5573436)
I heared they switched from LGPL to GPL suddently, which filled the devs with fear, I guess :\

But yes, I use it for corporate software, since my company pays the license. Also it's strong in the table and charting parts, which are the butter and bread of many corporate devs.

Re:Google Trends: Javascript Frameworks on Thursday April 18, 2013 @05:59PM (#5573416)
I felt that ExtJS4s MVC concept was easier to grasp than Angular. But I had to replace parts of it with DeftJS to get it to do what I wanted.
Re:Single page apps in depth on Saturday April 13, 2013 @09:39AM (#5543304)
Also you can make the decision on your own.

* read a book * extract what you think is good * throw the rest of information away

Re:Computerists on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @02:42PM (#5527135)
lol yeah, but you could make such assumptions (who calls himself a scientist isn't one) in german too :D

Biologen Mediziner Chemiker Mathematiker Informatiker

Wirtschaftswisseschaftler Kulturwissenschaftler Medienwissenschaftler etc.

;)

Re:Thesis Hatement on Saturday April 06, 2013 @04:16AM (#5502997)
I'm from Stuttgart, made my B.Sc. in 2011 and make about $5500 (~4220€) am month as a GUI-Dev. When I read the "IT-Payment" polls in the news I get the impression this isn't nearly as much as it could be. :D
I still think learning shouldn't slowed down by stuff like this.

If someone writes about quantum mechanics and is a sexist, but he's the only one who can write it in a manner that I understand it, I'm SO gonna read it...

Re:Thesis Hatement on Friday April 05, 2013 @08:51AM (#5498050)
In Germany there are plenty research-jobs, but most of them in civil service, so no CS-PhD want it. The industry just pays much better.

Last year there was something in the news about the payment of professors, which was about $5000 a month. This is an entry level pay of a software developer (without Master or PhD) in Germany.

Re:Analysis of Stack Overflow's Survey of 10K developers on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @04:46PM (#5488956)
Maybe about 2.000 people don't know jQuery IS JavaScript...
My experience with parents was, that they became more serios about their career. But I can't say they became really good at their job.

Probably they became better than they were before, but not as good as I wished them to be...

Anyway, I don't like to work with people when they get to serious about stuff.