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delta1··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
"The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company"

https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875

delta1··on Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers
> In Zurich, you can rent a whole flat (50+ square meters) for something between 2500-4000 CHF

Is USD 2500 - USD 4000 supposed to be cheap?!

delta1··on How the “Mail & Guardian” got taken down
I'm well aware of that. The question was "why host in the US" - not implying that hosting should be done in South Africa.
delta1··on How the “Mail & Guardian” got taken down
It seems extremely obvious. ZA domain, ZA relevant content, predominantly ZA readers (presumably) - why host in the US?
delta1··on Get Started Making Music
Ableton Live Standard: $449

Cubase Artist: ~ $340

Reaper: Free/$60/$225

Pro tools: ~ $600

It's priced in the same league as its competitors.

delta1··on The Soul of Erlang and Elixir [video]
How does live view have anything to do with network connectivity?

If you need a live server to provide you with updates what difference does it make whether it's live view or some other json/websocket setup?

delta1··on Metronomes in JavaScript
improvement suggestion: allow the user to input the desired tempo in a textbox instead of +/- controls
delta1··on A closer look at recent HTTP/2 vulnerabilities affecting Kubernetes and others
Off topic: is it common to hot-link images away from your own site to (in this case) imgur.com ?

On a corporate network it means I can read the post, but not see the blocked images.

Is it just for the author to save bandwidth on - what appears to be - a wordpress site?

delta1··on Interactive Charts with D3
Thank you for your work! It is definitely personal and as I mentioned, completely subjective. That is a great idea.

Well done for shipping!

delta1··on Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>
From the chromium forum:

"Intent to Implement: Toast UI element"

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!msg/blink...

delta1··on Interactive Charts with D3
Agreed, except the font is subjectively unpleasant to read.

Easy fix is to change to font-family: serif; on the App component

delta1··on Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware
BMC = Baseboard Management Controller (for those like me who don't know the acronym)
delta1··on Productivity tricks in Visual Studio
> Rename - will allow you to rename it and then will also rename all references to it

Ctrl + r + r (twice in a row) is the shortcut for this, super useful

delta1··on Linux Desktop Setup
Indeed the meaning is clear, but I was letting the author know about it
delta1··on Linux Desktop Setup
@def- small typo

> Since i’s a bitmap font

delta1··on Notes from Malcolm Gladwell's Writing Masterclass
He's quoting The Office

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K-L9uhsBLM

delta1··on Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?
> In the same folder there was also source for an iOS app

A true monorepo

delta1··on Writing Network Drivers in Rust [pdf]
FTA

"Based on our findings we can conclude that Rust is a very well-suited programming language for writing network drivers. It is not only a fast and safe systems programming language but was also voted most beloved programming language in 2016, 2017 and 2018 [15, 16, 17]. Writing more drivers in Rust would certainly lead to safer and more reliable computer systems."

Working link to their code: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.rs

delta1··on The Road to GraphQL
When signing up for an account there's a message about Purchasing Parity Power for your country
delta1··on Apple Just Killed The 'GrayKey' iPhone Passcode Hack
Yes if it has been more than 1 hour
delta1··on Show HN: Oat++ – Zero-dependency C++ framework for high-performance web services
On a corporate proxied network I'm getting this response

    server=oatpp/0.18.9
    code=431
    description=Request Header Fields Too Large
    message= Can't parse headers
It seems to work okay on the non-corporate network
delta1··on iOS 12: Core Data External Binary Data Storage Becomes Corrupt
It appears to be "external" to the sqllite database

https://forums.raywenderlich.com/t/where-is-allows-external-...

delta1··on iOS 12: Core Data External Binary Data Storage Becomes Corrupt
Core Data is an object graph and persistence framework [1]

On iOS 12, binary data stored in Core Data with the External Storage option gets corrupted on every second save [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Data

[2] http://openradar.appspot.com/44884416

delta1··on The Last Goodbye
It seems to be somebody making fun of an interview he gave.
delta1··on Google 'stole my videos', says film-maker Philip Bloom
Isn't Weird Al Yankovic a great example of this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic

delta1··on Show HN: Nighthawk: A stealthy, simple, unobtrusive music player
I think you may have misread his comment :)

> can't be any less efficient than that

"can't be more inefficient than that"

delta1··on My OTP 21 Highlights
I was unsure what nifs referred to, is it Native Implemented Functions? [0]

[0] http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html

delta1··on Free SSL on Github Pages with a custom domain: Part 2 – Let's Encrypt
Why not use Google (or other) analytics?
delta1··on A rundown of the new Gmail
It probably only works gmail to gmail?
delta1··on Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2018? Azure, AWS, GCE, something else?
He's trying to be funny by quoting The Office

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsGnFExpup8

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