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huangbong··on Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery
4 years ago “why do we care about 4K” 8 years ago “why do we care about 1080p” etc...
huangbong··on Next.js 9.5
They could’ve just used ZEIT as the platform then. Vercel sounds like some generic VC created tech name. Their customer base is literally the exact opposite. Indie developers, people with Github accounts, technical engineers, engineering leaders. Not some Salesforce CRM enterprise selling to CEO’s marketing bs “Vercel” lol.
huangbong··on Next.js 9.5
Great product. Them deciding to rebrand from Zeit to Vercel was one of the worst branding decisions ever made.
huangbong··on Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal
There’s probably time restrictions on when you can sell the stock. Also if you cashed out $2.65 billion of Uber stock the price would go way down.
huangbong··on Show HN: Free foreign exchange rates API
Smart abstraction!
huangbong··on We moved our servers to Iceland
Tls
huangbong··on Where you are born is more predictive of your future than any other factor
To even remotely compare someone starting a company with $0 from the ground up vs. someone spending tens of billions of existing dollars as a non-profit and classify them as the same level of entrepreneur is an insult to anyone who has ever started a company.
huangbong··on Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes
So what is Gravity? kops/kubespray without an MIT license?
huangbong··on Cloudflare partners with Microsoft, Google and others to reduce bandwidth costs
Once you reach a certain level of traffic (a lot of TBs/month) going through their reverse proxy they will have someone from sales reach out to you and make you to start paying.
huangbong··on Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack
Crazy that you need to make national news to pay a medical bill fairly in this country.
huangbong··on DoorDash Valuation Nearly Triples to $4B in Six Months
tldr: capitalism
huangbong··on Show HN: A detailed CDN pricing calculator
Cloudflare has a file size limit (512MB) and only caches certain file extensions so for things like binary files, installers, and video it will not cache. For the HTML/CSS/JS asset use case it’s perfectly fine though.
huangbong··on Build a Realtime Serverless GraphQL API with Websockets on AWS
Do you have to deal with cold starts on AppSync?
huangbong··on MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros
Doubling down on the Meme Bar. Yikes. Did they at least add some kind of haptic response for the new generation touch bar?
huangbong··on A New Accent Is Developing in Southwest Kansas
Everyone and their mother uses TFTI. This is satire right?
huangbong··on What's the best keyboard and mouse you owned?
I have the exact same keyboard with cherry mx browns. End game keyboard imo.
huangbong··on Telegram App Says Apple Is Blocking Updates Over Dispute with Russia
What UI library are you using if any? Looks great on mobile!
huangbong··on Buffett Proposed $3 Billion Uber Investment But Deal Crumbled
Worldwide consumer transportation monopoly
huangbong··on Dropbox and Google Cloud integrations
Google naming products at this point is just memes. But it proves that if you have an amazing enough product (G suite) the name doesn’t matter at all. Whoever came up with G suite is just a bad person though ugh.
huangbong··on Ask HN: Which stack do you use at your startup?
Node.js/GraphQL/Next.js/PostgreSQL/AWS Lambada (via up). Entirely serverless stack with the application state residing in the DB and a JWT to identify the user. No OS, containers, kubernetes, instances, etc to deal with other than a single RDS instance.
huangbong··on EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
Did you guys recently just change your pricing structure? I remember it was per card a while ago and thought it was too expensive. But not it doesn’t look that bad!
huangbong··on Database of Lost Crypto Assets
Damn... and I thought I had it bad when I lost a 10 BTC bet against a UCLA football parlay.
huangbong··on Being Multi-Cloud with Cloudflare
I laughed
huangbong··on Ask HN: Fastest/easiest framework to build a web application in 2017?
My stack of choice as well. The graphql part definitely adds to the learning curve for new devs but I think it’s the future. Checkout github.com/apex/up. Now you won’t even need the beanstalk part. All you need are RDS instances.
huangbong··on 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser
I’m sure from a business perspective 1Password X was also designed with the intent to close the free/standalone funnel and convert those with standalone onto the hosted/paid plan. It’s all about the MRR and I don’t blame them. I’d do the same thing if I was CEO. The money to pay for this R&D/engineering has to come from somewhere.
huangbong··on Node.js 8 Moves into Long-Term Support, Node.js 9 Becomes Current Release Line
Hopefully AWS Lambda adds support for this latest LTS... soon... we need async await without Babel transpilation.
huangbong··on MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill
Sendgrid also does marketing emails now right? Your thoughts on it?
huangbong··on What's Going on with HEIF and Mac OS 10.13
Irrelevant because we are talking about compression formats.
huangbong··on Telegram Bot Platform
I was one of the users of your bot! Thanks for all that you did.
huangbong··on It's practically impossible for regular people to buy Bitcoin
localbitcoins.com