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I always explain serverless as "Instead of one server you have countless servers, but they are managed by someone else".

Yes, a better word would be great. I think that ship is sailed though...

I often drive a Renault Zoe which also isn't a sports car. I frequently leave sports cars behind at the traffic light. From 0-30 kph even the small/cheap electric cars are sport cars. And it is terribly tempting to develop a pedal-to-the-metal habit. So I assume tire dust will increase significantly in the cities.

Google translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

tl;dr: Backup to their customer database was accessible without authentification. Data includes names, addresses, phone numbers, bookings, id card numbers, employer, crash reports, witnesses and more

I once had a legal use for my location history that wasn't quite as dramatic. Someone damaged our car while it was parked. When the police asked at what time we arrived, I just pulled up my location history.

I was a bit frustrated when the police wrote down "around 8" instead of 8:14. :)

Second that.

I have several long-running albums for different people to which I just add photos that might interest them. That way it takes very little effort on my part and they have all photos that I sent them neatly collected in one album.

Here's one:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Labor-Illusion%3A-...

This is such a great example of "less is more". The product is basically a landing page generator. It probably can do less than most landing page generators. But it is tightly focused on the Instagram bio link which helps tremendously with marketing messaging (and usability I assume).

Given that the current solutions (just vibrate the sensor) work pretty well in most cases and that the proposed solution adds quite a layer of complexity I doubt that this will find widespread adoption.

I still love that this would actually remove the dust from the body though. I never had a problem with the vibrating-sensor-solution, but it always bothers me that all the dust just gets moved around in the body without really being gone.

At a glance, I read the title as "IRC for Dungeon Masters". Would have been a great union of nerdiness. I have no clue what a DM would do with IRC though. Has anyone ever tried playing DnD over IRC? It would probably feel like a text adventure. :)

I once aimlessly drove around using public transportation in Freiburg, Germany, when I was new in town. "Let's see where that line will take me". It was a fun way of exploring the city.

I once discovered and fixed a bug in a commercial ordering system which prevented one of the addon-products to be ordered. I checked version control - the bug must have been there for months. Nobody noticed that the product could not be ordered.

It probably wasn't the most popular product to begin with, but I am still amazed that nobody even noticed the drop in sales.

I actually have a little more trust in AmazonBasics batteries than others.

I once bought a AmazonBasics power bank which got recalled quite some time later due to a possible fire hazard. They refunded me the money and told me to dispose of the unit. Although the fire hazard part did not help my trust in the brand at first I later wondered how other manufacturers would have handled this. I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have heard anything from most of them.

(Lightly related, just this week I noticed the battery of my Dell laptop had swollen so far that it bulged the casing. Batteries are scary...)

I am wondering which of these alternatives has a similar audience like meetup.com. The audience is the real killer feature of meetup.com.

I know of no other place where it is so easy to gather people. Just post a new event and people will notice and sign up.

If you switch to a self-hosted solution you will have to find an audience through other channels. Which, for many Meetups, is quite the challenge. Remember "build it and they will come"? Same applies to events. "Set a date and they will come" - doesn't work that way unless you have an existing audience.

Personally I don't mind paying 2$ to attend a meetup. The old/existing pricing model seemed much smarter for everyone involved though. Organizers pay to get access to the audience. The audience pays nothing so that the audience, the real value, can be maximized. I hope that they won't destroy their value with this move...

Thanks to all the people posting alternative / open source solutions!

What is often missed, though, is that Meetup provides more than the software. The real killer feature of Meetup is the audience.

I know of no other place where it is so easy to gather people. Just post a new event and people will notice and sign up.

If you switch to a self-hosted solution you will have to find an audience through other channels. Which, for many Meetups, is quite the challenge. Remember "build it and they will come"? Same applies to events. "Set a date and they will come" - doesn't work that way unless you have an existing audience.

Personally I don't mind paying 2$ to attend a meetup. The old/existing pricing model seemed much smarter for everyone involved though. Organizers pay to get access to the audience. The audience pays nothing so that the audience, the real value, can be maximized. I hope that they won't destroy their value with this move...

As a user, Chrome's autocomplete went down the drain for me once they started to fill all fields at once. I tried to autocomplete one field and often chrome filled the other fields with unfitting data. This happened so often that I started to manually complete fields even if autocomplete was available. I still miss the good old times[tm] of single-field autocomplete...

(And for the record: As a developer, I have been bitten by Chrome ignoring autocomplete="off" as well.)

You can use the same codebase to service mobile platforms with something like Cordova. It still needs some effort but gives you access to the app stores, which can be huge acquisition channels.

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We have open positions for all experience levels and throughout the whole stack:

* UX Designers

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... and combinations thereof.

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re-lounge | Freiburg, Germany | ONSITE | UX Designers & Developers

re-lounge creates websites and web applications for clients. With us, you can experience a wide range of exciting projects: Websites, intranets, business tools, e-learning platforms, interfaces for exhibits and more. Our clients range from multinational enterprises to local SMEs, so there is always a fresh influx of challenging projects.

We have open positions for all experience levels and throughout the whole stack:

* UX Designers

* Frontend Developers

* Backend Developers

... and combinations thereof.

https://karriere.re-lounge.com/

Second that. I bought three Nexus 5x for me and my family. Two of those bricked themselves without warning.

Plus I keep reading these stories over and over again. Multiple anecdotes in the discussion to this article alone...

Both got repaired (mainboard replaced) under warranty without issue. I'm still happy with the phone and haven't found anything comparable considering the price (270€ approx. 1 year after release), but you definitely need to have a solid backup strategy.

I am not sure how common that is, though. I am a native speaker and have not heard that expression before.