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rkdaon LibraryBox

Yeah. It's all up to you. I put public domain and Creative Commons licensed books in mine.

rkdaon [dead]

Nope. It's an old post. Added 2020 to the title. I realized late that this is old news already

rkdaon [dead]

Apologies. It showed up on my Twitter feed today and I impulse posted it. Apparently it's an old announcement from 2020

rkdaon GitHub Issues-only project management

What about Discourse? You can configure it so they only interact with it via email.

https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-a-project-or-team-using...

rkdaon Discord Launches Threads

Still not available on our Discord server. I wish they took a page from Flowdock's threads but this looks more like Slack threads.

rkdaon Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat

Would love to use Zulip for work but right but forwarded emails end up being empty and our current office is still currently email-centric. Teammates and management won't use if it they can't interact with it via email.

rkdaon A reading list for new engineering managers

The Art of Leadership from the same author is awesome as well :)

rkdaon Unslack: Transform the way your business communicates (again)

Hello fellow Basecamp user Automatic check-ins are the killer feature for me. Nothing like getting the pulse of your team at regular intervals

As for your question, my first thought was Discourse. It's a modern day forum. Posts, threads, the whole shebang. Has badges and leaderboards too.

https://www.discourse.org/

I've heard good things about Twist as well. Though I haven't used it yet.

https://twist.com/

rkdaon Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams

#1 is already supported. Gather actually has a poster object for this purpose. You might want to check out the conference demos.

rkdaon Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location

App seems to be using Landsat data. There should be no restrictions on its use.

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/are-there-any-restrictions-use-or-...

rkdaon Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

Selecting the file and using Shift + Z should do the trick. Though it's been a while since I did this.

It's really annoying how you can't easily make copies of directories anymore. They just create "Shortcuts" instead which act like symlinks. People though they were copies though and damn did we have a lot of accidentally deleted files these past few weeks. Also, their file recovery UX sucks.

rkdaon How We reduced our Google Maps API cost

Yeah. Mapbox is getting there but I don't think they have the same volume of users contributing traffic data as Google does.

rkdaon How We reduced our Google Maps API cost

Author mentioned OSM but they could also use Mapbox's navigation APIs if they don't want to host things themselves.

https://www.mapbox.com/navigation/

rkdaon Show HN: New mind mapping tool for learners

Thanks for the promo codes! Used PD1R93

rkdaon IPFS, Again

He also tried dat.

https://macwright.org/2017/07/20/decentralize-your-website.h...

Hasnt written about it again though.

rkdaon Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, it’s how it develops it

Their Android app is also really slow even on decent phones :(

rkdaon China is no longer importing waste – 111M tons will have to go elsewhere

Also, and this is only anecdata, drinks in glass bottles seem to taste so much better for some reason.

rkdaon Hardware Guy – A short story (2010)

Ah, it's When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth that has a graphic novel/comic version. My bad.

https://archive.org/details/CoryDoctorowsFuturisticTalesOfTh...

rkdaon Hardware Guy – A short story (2010)

Have you read the graphic novel version? It's great too.

You might also want to check Little Brother and Homeland :D

First read Hardware Guy about six years ago then I forgot the link. So glad I found it again today :D

rkdaon Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

I found it! It's Hardware Guy

http://praxagora.com/fiction/hardware_guy/

rkdaon Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

Heh. That's always a good one. I'm not sure anymore if I found it here or on Nat Torkington's four short links.

rkdaon Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

Not sure if it was on HN but it was a short story about an old retired sys admin in an age where everything runs on the cloud. One day, something went wrong in a data center and he was called to fix it because robots manage everything now and nobody knows how to fix things anymore. He was accompanied by a younger sysadmin IT person as he fixed a server or something. By the end of it, the younger IT person wanted to learn about how computer works and be a sysadmin.

rkdaon Mapbox makes all their map APIs free until June 11

You can check out the docs here:

https://www.mapbox.com/api-documentation/

Gallery here:

https://www.mapbox.com/gallery/

I'm not affiliated with Mapbox in any way btw. Just a fan of their products :)

rkdaon New Leadership Has Not Changed Uber

It's because of all those startups like Airbnb pushing the "sharing economy" when it's really the renting economy. It's not sharing if they're charging you for it.

rkdaon Build Real-World Games with Google Maps APIs

You can also use Mapbox's APIS if you prefer to support a more open company :)

https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-unity-sdk/

rkdaon Before the Iron Age, Most Iron Came from Space

Reminds me of Conan the Barbarian and their starmetal weapons.

rkdaon Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data

Are you referring to their Open California dataset?

https://www.planet.com/products/open-california/

It's larger as Open California only has the datasets from Landsat 8, Sentinel, and Planet's own satellites.

rkdaon Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data

You might want to check out the Data Science Toolkit

http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/

rkdaon CrunchyRoll.com is serving ransomware

Their German Twitter account has more info:

https://twitter.com/Crunchyroll_de/status/926782599460212736

    And for our English-speaking audience
    Please DO NOT access our website at the current time. We 
    are aware of the issues and are working on it

     Update: We have NOT been hacked. At the moment, it appears to be DNS hijacking.