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Re:Kubernetes Failure Stories on Sunday January 20, 2019 @03:40PM (#18955439)
I'm also constantly surprised at how unpopular docker swarm is given that everyone already uses docker itself. Why do you think swarm is going away though? I love the idea of just using my docker compose file as my deployment config.
Re:Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:14PM (#18741425)
Many game developers use Discord to organize beta tests, gauge feedback, share announcements and manage and measure their community following in general. The fans feel good for being included in the process and the devs feel good knowing roughly how many people they can expect to buy their games at launch time. I hope they figure out a good way to monetize this, since I see it as their killer app.
Re:There is more to high house prices than constrained supply on Saturday November 24, 2018 @12:39PM (#18523050)
I've noticed this annecdotally when trying to buy a home on separate occasions in the New York and LA metro areas. I'm not sure it's foreign capital, but the majority of winning bids were all cash offers above the asking price.

I'd love to see a retrospective analysis on Vancouver's protective measures to see if they did actually help, or if buyers found loopholes, or it wasn't Chinese buyers to begin with.

Needs to be updated to show which of my friends use which system
Re:Automatic Redis Failover for Ruby on Thursday April 12, 2012 @11:35AM (#3832745)
So just to clarify, the client code still connects directly to the actual redis instance, it doesn't connect to the failover daemon as a proxy? It would be useful to describe the connection algorithm in the README.

Also, the split of the reads and writes, that's done via opening connections to both the master and slave?

Who pays for shipping?
Re:Ask HN: RSS Reader that doesn't suck? on Thursday February 17, 2011 @10:50AM (#2231313)
Reeder is also available for Mac: http://madeatgloria.com/brewery/silvio/reeder

It's public beta, but it works pretty well so far.

It's funny, when I went to visit a friend at Etsy after work hours, we were chatting in the kitchen and their CEO, Rob Kalin was washing dishes. My friend said to him, "That's awesome that you're the CEO and you're washing the dishes, Rob." And he replied, "Oh, it's better than when I was cleaning the bathrooms."
Re:Andreessen Horowitz's talent agency model on Saturday January 22, 2011 @11:23AM (#2130557)
"Groupon looked like a very high valuation," Horowitz said, "but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment."

I don't think I'd want to hear that statement come from someone who is investing my money.

Re:Groupon Readies for An I.P.O. on Friday January 14, 2011 @08:44AM (#2103426)
Yeah, that was my hunch as well. Shit's gonna hit the fan once retail investors start biting on overvalued companies...
Re:Groupon Readies for An I.P.O. on Thursday January 13, 2011 @10:20PM (#2102408)
Why would you prepare for an IPO so quickly after closing a $950 million funding round? Is their burn rate that high?
Re:Unhosted: a protocol for decentralized web apps on Saturday January 08, 2011 @04:55PM (#2084068)
Sorry, didn't know it was a dupe. I figured hackernews would have told me when I tried to submit it.
I love The Onion's take on our work-life imbalance:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/wild-unattached-twenties-sp...

Re:Facebook intern visualizes friendships, draws world map on Monday December 13, 2010 @10:14PM (#2002962)
Beautiful. This belongs in the MoMA.
I worked at a profitable, medium size company with a startup-like hacker culture and it was still very difficult to hire talented programmers despite being able to offer interesting work that provided a net benefit to society, normal hours, free soda and career development. We'd have to go through many, many candidates who looked good on paper (lots of experience, top tier education) but were awful once you presented them with basic programming problems. It was actually pretty demoralizing to have to reject the volume of people that we did.

I do agree that there are a lot of silly startups these days, but it doesn't mean that there isn't also a shortage of quality hackers.

Re:Ask HN: What is a monad? on Sunday December 12, 2010 @12:39PM (#1997435)
Re:Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users on Saturday December 11, 2010 @09:50AM (#1994888)
After registering through my facebook account and picking my photos, I kind of got lost. Instead of leaving the user off at the photo edit page (http://tastebuds.fm/users/current/edit#load_images) maybe direct them to artists or profile tab>
Re:New Google Groups on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @09:58PM (#1981669)
Hopefully they fixed the rampant spam problems as well

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