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so, this is adblock?

iPhone 5

I'm basically lost in life without a constant reminder of my impending doom.

I'd use this if Sunrise weren't butt slow on my iPhone...

Oh, the engineerian contrarian. A legend as old as time itself.

what?

"RethinkDB is interesting" - absolutely

"RethinkDB is amazing" - TBD

I don't even think Slava would call RethinkDB "amazing" yet. I have no idea how to make a database, but I know there's a lot of work - and even more trial and error - that goes into making one "amazing."

This is certainly a big step for RethinkDB. But I'd be careful to put Petabytes of data across 200 nodes sharded 500 ways each.

It's a nightmare to scale and has performance quirks that are really unexpected. Many, many companies have had to spend enormous amounts of developer time to migrate off of MongoDB to something else.

JAVA

Startup idea? No it's miiiiiiiinneeee

There should be like, DDoS insurance.

So in theory, Google could DDoS anyone who has a smaller post office?

Also, wouldn't a DNS provider or hosting service be able to "beef up" to handle the traffic from a DDoS? Especially if it's a nice one, it seems like something you'd expect from them.

Yes, they're kickin ass!

I wish there was a way to send that team a beer or something, they're heroes at this point.

so it really is just handling traffic volume?

young bloods?

Could we get a mac app too. I'm tired of Sunrise.

Remember Angular Dart?

You don't join a startup. You join a company, a vision, a group of awesome people. Joining a startup for the sake of joining a startup is a fool's errand.

Another of putting this: why do you want to join a startup?

What he seems to be implying is that there are investment funds that exist solely for private equity investments, i.e. investments in startups as "VC" money. If that's true, and it's true that stuff like pension funds are sinking money into these "Equity Crowd Funds," then we're in real big trouble.

In your experience, are Dart apps primarily ones that compile to Javascript and run in the browser, or server-side apps?

Just found that! Thanks!

Right, forgot about that. I wish something like this was rolled into AdBlock, but it'd be nice for viewing NYT and WSJ:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn...

How do websites actually implement that?

I hate it when people post HN articles behind a paywall. It feels oddly familiar of Borat's catchphrase, "You will never get this! You will never get this!"

TechCrunch doesn't even make money and what they produce is shoddy journalism at best. How are they going to go around criticizing others who try to do something?

Douchebag journalists are WAY worse because they believe the bullshit they spew. At least startup douchebags get a whiff of their own shit.

That was definitely not a scream. Maybe it felt like it, but it wasn't.

Now all you need is the ability to host an open-source version of Firebase on AWS and you're set.

Yes, e-discovery is definitely the missing piece here. At the end of the day, lawyers need to be empowered by technology to do their job better, and ultimately make the legal system better.

And it should be called RICK.

Or a mixed-race house. Let's be the melting pot America was supposed to be.

You should email the authors. From their contact page:

shithouse@goatse.cx

EDIT: link to contacts: https://olegdb.org/

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