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Looks like it is a neat project, thanks for open sourcing it. Do you plan to support static export?
You may want to follow the upcoming developer summit, it will have nice treats of the plans regarding the ecosystem: https://www.dartlang.org/events/2015/summit/
Which registrar are you? :)
Reservior sampling does have legitimate use in monitoring: to track real-time percentiles (e.g. over the last 15 minutes), without logging everything and re-calculating on each new data entry. I do think it is important and useful to know about it, but probably would not use it for the database sampling (as it was in the article).
Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @12:01PM (#9138790)
I think that a combination works best, but it looks like not many do a central SVN + local git setup. Any reason for that? Do you have bad time with that or what?

The central SVN is much better for tracking versions for release purposes, while the local git has all the benefits of working on one thing than switching to another.

Any thoughts?

Re:The Trans-Pacific Partnership clause everyone should oppose on Saturday February 28, 2015 @04:10AM (#9123239)
Free trade agreement doesn't require negotiation: either you agree to trade free, or not. The so-called free trade agreements are about trade-restrictions and exceptions. Doublespeak at its best.
Re:FarmLogs on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @11:55PM (#9031614)
Is there similar data and service available for European farmers?
Re:Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (2011) on Thursday January 29, 2015 @05:44PM (#8969384)
Interesting suggestion. I hope you will share your experiences with it.
> I'm having to look to Eastern European remote talent

My experience is that as soon as I mention that I'd soon move back to my home country (in Eastern Europe), the conversation dries up, as 99.9% of the SV companies that contacted me are only looking to move talent to SV, and don't want to have remove positions.

Re:Arduino milling machine on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @04:22PM (#8882686)
Yes, I am halfway to assemble it (done the mechanics, now comes the belts and wires).
Re:Arduino milling machine on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @03:47PM (#8882485)
Have you seen Shapeoko? They will soon have their third iteration, but even the second one is great...
Re:Pitfalls of Callback-Based APIs on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @01:45PM (#8789500)
This article feels like it is talking about the pitfalls of not using OO principles (e.g. types, encapsulation).

I won't shed a tear if callback-hells are replaced by proper async APIs (like in Stream and Future-based dart:async, or the Thenable in the new JS standards), but this article seems to be misalinged.

Downvoters: care to elaborate?

Thanks for mentioning Cockpit CMS, it looks great!
Re:How to Build a Static CMS with Roots, Contentful, and Netlify on Thursday December 04, 2014 @05:27PM (#8702100)
+1, paying 99/month for the first non-free layer of contentful is defintely not cheap, and the free tier won't get you too far.

Ideally what I'd like to see for a small team is to run a $5 digital ocean instance that does at least a mediocre job of managing assets in a database and triggering the static export of the site. Unfortunately I haven't found anything that a non-savvy user would consider as useful. Any idea for that (or alternative for contentful)?

Re:Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language (2012) on Saturday November 29, 2014 @03:45PM (#8675011)
This. All the benefits of markdown (and similar), with a decent toolchain, version control capabilities and exporting to various formats.
Re:Yahoo Mail moving to React on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @11:50AM (#8663180)
If you are a C# developer, you'd probably find a Dart-based stack much better.
Re:EU’s New VAT Rules Could Create a Mess for Startups on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @02:24PM (#8659216)
Hungary does not start with "HU" in Hungarian (Magyarország). This logic is certainly flawed. We have standard international abbreviations for a reason, please use them.
Re:Ask HN: Low-cost CRM solution for non-profits? on Saturday November 22, 2014 @01:46PM (#8646266)
Interesting work. Do you have / plan e-mail workflow integration too?
Re:Ask HN: Low-cost CRM solution for non-profits? on Saturday November 22, 2014 @01:45PM (#8646263)
Is this for official US non-profit status organizations, or for ad-hoc and non-US communities too?

Ask HN: Low-cost CRM solution for non-profits?

I'm looking to create a simple CRM solution for a non-profit that is tech-savvy, but doesn't want to spend much on the infrastructure (especially not per-user recurring monthly costs, as volunteers should join without much effort or additional cost).It needs to track mostly the communication: if a volunteer would like to care about a given client, they will be able to look through the recent...

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Why do you think that the "king for a day" won't be abused either?
Re:Some are more equal than others on Monday November 10, 2014 @03:08PM (#8585955)
This. Also, it is not the top that matters, rather the quality of life of the bottom percentiles. We need to raise those up, and as long as we can do that, the top doesn't really matter.
I think the target audience is not the people who are in the industry, rather the ones that are still in the 20th century. I know several oldtimer business owner who just don't get how you could even possibly think of something like agile, non-planned work hours or similar stuff.
Re:Pawnmail: a free email host for custom domains on Monday November 03, 2014 @01:58PM (#8552687)
AFAIK, grandfathered accounts have custom domain.
Re:Hungary Internet tax cancelled after mass protests on Friday October 31, 2014 @10:32AM (#8538929)
Also, the Stamp Act, that triggered the US independence (or at least was an important part of it):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765

Re:GopherJS – A compiler from Go to JavaScript on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @04:38PM (#8455646)
Do you have any shareable code for the OpenGL cross-compilation?
Care to provide a link with the easy setup and cluster management? It could be a well-hidden gem that needs more publicity.
Yes, there are billions of different setups, but there are a few basic ones, and you could start by solving one or two, before solving the generic case. For example, one could provide just a cluster setup for data replication. No fancy distributed data models, just copy the data around in the cluster, if a new node joins copy that data to it, if something fails, handle the failure. Postgresql claims to have multi-master setups, so this is really about the node handling and copying the data around.

After that, you could introduce locally distributed cluster. Later on you could introduce geographically distributed cluster setups. But just because the later is very complex, does not mean that you can't start with the basic setup.

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