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1. If you're only interested in saving bandwidth and don't care about cache hits from overlapping with other sites, maybe you can host static content somewhere free (GitHub Pages?) or even just set a long cache header (ensure version numbers in filenames, cache for > 1 month) since presumably you're going to serve them the first time before the user has answered anyway?

2. I'm thinking of putting a "Click to load comments" box in place of Disqus on my blog so nothing gets loaded unless the user clicks. Seems better than bothering the user up-front.

3. I use Google Analytics - I figure it's common enough that if people don't like that, they'll already have it blocked, so there isn't really any additional tracking they won't want (unless the twitter timeline widget is tracking; which it might be, but I suspect I'll remove it soon anyway).

Facebook is actually coming via Disqus! See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13338841

https://blog.dantup.com/2017/01/visiting-a-site-that-uses-di...

Although not as many, there are ways to include ads that are not scripts. My blog has a DJI banner that's just an anchor with an image tag; proper old-skool! :-)

Of course, it doesn't make any money because I'm no famous; but at least I can pretend and I don't need to compromise anything with unknown JS =)

I don't know the details, but I can't see a reason why they can't just not include the SDK until they need it (sure, this will add a delay before they can use it, but seems better than this current implementation for privacy!).

This currently exists as an "Intelligent Flight" column; though I expect we'll need to split it out soon when the support features vary more across models.

(Approx) pricing is now a column/filter! :)

I was under the impression that P4 and Mavic has the same (forward and downward sensors)?

You're right though, both of these fields are a bit vague and I think in time they'll need splitting out; but I think for now they're probably ok (as some reasonable forward avoidance and some ability to pre-program a flight, whether it be waypoints or following).

> "this list is still too long to narrow down my choice, so I'll just check off a few features I don't necessarily want but which most assuredly would also affect the price".

Wouldn't the price filter remove the need for this (while also ensuring you don't discount something based on the assumption that features always add to price)?

Currently the filters are nice toggle switches, but we'd have to change the UI to support "doesn't have", so we'd have to come up with a good UI and be sure it's really adding value to really do it.

Thanks again!

We've started building a comparison chart for Quadcopters and would appreciate feedback! Only just started but I'd ask for feedback to make sure it's going in a good direction.

https://www.thedronechart.com/

The goal is to be a really simple chart of popular drones and specs that can be sorted/filtered/linked to to help you quickly see which drones might suit your needs. It won't include reviews or other subjective content, just facts/specs/etc. (and no prices, because they fluctuate too much). In the future it might do drone vs drone comparisons but for now it's going to just be a filterable/sortable table.

All filters persist in the URL so you can easily share links, eg for drones with GPS and gimbals, the link looks like this:

https://www.thedronechart.com/#t-gimbal=on&t-gps=on

You can also click the Share icon next to a drone to highlight it and move it to the top - this also goes into the URL so you can send someone a filtered list with a highlighted recommendation. Eg., a GPS-equipped list with the Mavic Pro highlighted is like this:

https://www.thedronechart.com/#t-gps=on&dr=dji-mavic-pro

All of this is generated (sadly not in realtime) from a public Google Doc (there's a button at the bottom of the page):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ac0f5RKq86v-_mDdjb08...

Although editing the doc is restricted to us, anyone can add comments. This means the community can help fill in the blanks or correct things with comments, and we will frequently review the comments and update the real data.

All feedback is very much welcome! What things you think should filterable? What columns are missing? What columns are useless fluff? Should we exclude really cheap toys? Flags are intended to show where the drones are available to purchase (we're only adding US/UK for now) but if it turns out 99% are available in both, we might just ditch them (there's a filter to go with it, but it's hidden while the data isn't fully populated).

We'll continue working through populating more data over the coming days; apparently there are a lot of quadcopters out there! ;)

Note! The site does include affiliate links/banners (but fairly minimal, we detest ad-heavy pages as much as the next guy). I'd really love to upgrade my Syma X5HC to a Phantom 3 Standard so I hope this might help towards that in addition to being a useful tool for others.

Thanks for the feedback!

Pricing keeps coming up, so we're going to look at what we can do. We don't want to get into providing accurate prices (they change too frequently and it'd be a game of cat and mouse; and the intention is not to be a price comparison site) but it's been asked for enough that clearly we need a way to at least show the difference between a $50 toy and a $3000 rig.

I'm curious about the negated filters - why would you want to only consider things that don't have a feature? If you don't care about a feature, you can ignore the filter for it, but why (for example) would you specifically want something that doesn't have GPS or doesn't have Altitude Hold?

I suspected they might; but figured I'd make the offer as others might also like to try it out (and it seemed they did, I had a bucket of emails and sent invites out!).

I've posted a couple of things on there and although there seems to be a lot less traffic than HN/Reddit (at least for the posts that were to my blog) there quality of discussion seemed to be much better :-)

I can send you (or anyone else) an invite if you'd like one - send the email address you'd like inviting to blog@dantup.com.

I don't use it that much so I don't have any real opinion on how useful/good it is.

Sounded interesting, but it seems abit misleading to me.. The title says "unlimited" and the page says:

> We do not count your domains, mailboxes, gigabytes or teeth.

yet the pricing page says:

> up to 100 outgoing emails per day

Even the most expensive plan says 2000. I'm not saying it's unreasonable, but it's certainly not unlimited in that respect.

Why would you specifically cast it to a float if you wanted an int?

This one actually says no account required. Seems to use your phone number, like WhatsApp etc. do

(that also probably means it'll never leave mobile to be usable on desktops, like Hangouts?!)

Mirror: http://productiverage.neocities.org/creating-a-c-sharp-rosly...

Today I have 11Mbs internet in England. Before today it was the best I could get but today I was made up that my exchange just went live with 76Mbs fibre.

You guys kinda rained on my parade :(

Clearly.

Actually; I was under the impression HN told me if I was posting a dupe. I never figured that searching before posting was a requirement. Maybe it should be written on the submission page for the benefit of other idiots like me?

Is this intended just for prototyping/dev or full hosting of production apps?

Will there be options to have code stored in Kiln/GitHub/whatever?

Does the word "yet" mean that this is a planned future feature?

Is this just free while in beta, or will it be free/have a free tier afterwards?

Which server side technologies are currently supported and/or planned?

Uh, HN has downvotes?!

Yeah; lots of people told me I shouldn't go there. Iwas lucky it didn't work out and I had to move away, but SWALEC so far hasn't been much better. We still can't login!

Maybe I just didn't experience it the same. I never claimed this experience is everyones; I only write about my own :)

This probably does explain a lot of it!

The original reason for contacting was this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579638

But yeah, they're included here because of the repeated greetings like that. I suspect it was a template, though it only started after I told them that wasn't my name; first few emails (not shown) were "Hi Danny"!

My concern was that the name entered was "Pro_Hacking". I was worried that maybe someone had found an exploited in their system and may have been able to activate the account anyway.

I was asking them to confirm it had not been activated, but the chat didn't go so well!