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themanualon Calibra – Digital Wallet for Libra

Big news. Nice to see more details.

- They have GAS fees. (unlike say EOS which is free). - Not sure how they will make accounts anonymous? Knowing an account lets anyone query the account balance? - They will start with permissioned chain and transition to non permissioned

themanualon GPU Hoarding: ‘I Felt Like I Was Buying Drugs’

Ignore above, meant for another post

themanualon Don't use VPN services

BTW, I use a private VPN server which can be setup on aws in a few minutes https://github.com/webdigi/AWS-VPN-Server-Setup

No logging on server side guaranteed. AWS could monitor but I do not thinking of that as an issue for my use cases.

themanualon GPU Hoarding: ‘I Felt Like I Was Buying Drugs’

BTW, I use a private VPN server which can be setup on aws in a few minutes https://github.com/webdigi/AWS-VPN-Server-Setup

No logging on server side guaranteed as it is your own server. AWS could monitor but I don't mind that

themanualon SpaceX successfully deploys the Star man

What happened to the core booster did that return?

themanualon Ask HN: Should I move to Berlin?

5000 euros is just the start. There are plenty of software companies in Europe and lots of opportunities.

Long term pension, medical and schooling for kids, much more stable & much more opportunities than UAE. Taxes pay for themselves. However, in UAE with new vat and growing hidden taxes are high. You can even buy a house and it is like living rent free! The rents in Dubai are high and buying for long term is not recommended.

Longer term you can even look at moving to London if you like to stay in a English speaking country.

themanualon Bitfinex never ‘repaid’ their tokens, they started a ponzi scheme

> As Bitfinex has become more and more desperate, they have listed more and more crypto-currencies of questionable value, such as EOS/IOTA/ETP and so on.

EOS and IOTA are legit!

themanualon Startup Cities Index: best cities for startup employees

London is got to be much higher for sure!

themanualon Firefox Send: Encrypt and send large files

how do companies manage to serve up all the bandwidth for this for free? even storage will be costly at this scale right?

themanualon ZeppelinOS: tools for smart contract applications

how does this compare to Tezos?

themanualon I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes

You can setup your own on AWS in 10 minutes for free 1st year. https://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2015/how-to-setup-your-own-pr...

themanualon Monzo Lost £6.7M Last Year: And This Should Terrify Traditional Banks

there is also another company called Revolut in London doing the same thing.

themanualon How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

the project is open source and you can view the code. the underlying os is the base Ubuntu image provided by amazon.

themanualon How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

managed to get my Tokyo vpn server quickly. awesome.

themanualon Self-educated People Who've Made a Difference

NOTE: Most of the people in the list are before 1900. So that is old school :)

themanualon No one gets fired for hiring IBM - how our pitch was stolen from us

Thats it. i am not buying from Fabergé.

Although it's not like I could :)

themanualon WTF is up with Dell?

check your spam / junk folder!

themanualon JavaScript must die

Javascript is now being used even in remote controllers today. See http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/rise-of-javascript/

It certainly is a useful language.

themanualon Is this Official Google merchandise site?

Looks official but they do not use the official Google checkout!! See http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/google-store-does-not-use...

themanualon Why do you use 37Signals products? Simplicity, UI, Hype?

Simplicity and excellent usuable UI design. And ofcourse the RoR hype helps a little

themanualon Apple banning apps built with PhoneGap

I think the problem might be that Phonegap allows people to develop rich internet applications. From there, it's only a hop and a skip to implementing a web browser, which they do not want app developers to do. Look at these two pages to see how I arrived at that theory: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platforms.mobile/... http://gizmodo.com/5072333/opera-for-iphone-ready-to-go-if-n...

themanualon Ask HN: How much time do you spend on the work vs. the rest of your life?

thanks. but how do you define "financial independence"??

themanualon Clojure on the Google App Engine

thanks for the post. I was waiting for this to be setup by someone. We also have php working on the app engine http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/run-php-on-the-google-app...

themanualon The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Developers

"If You Don't Know the Answer, Know Someone Who Does" - with google around everyone "knows someone who does" :)

themanualon Two techniques for massively faster JavaScript

Also for a faster Javascript you need to avoid script blocking downloading content. See http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/avoid-javascript-blocking...

themanualon Ask HN: Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page?

So many exciting things happening in the world. Try and keep up :)

The churn rate is fine!!

themanualon PHP on Google App Engine (using Quercus)

Hi All, See details on how to Run PHP on Google App Engine using Quercus http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/run-php-on-the-google-app... Just download the file in the link and you can run PHP on app engine in minutes. Also see http://phpwithjava.appspot.com/webdigi.php Regards

themanualon Why Is Gmail Still in Beta?

Because they dont have 100 million registered users testing the Gmail app for them everyday YET!

themanualon Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000

Site is down now.

Try accessing the page from Google cache. http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:http://www.jonengle.com/...

themanualon Ask HN: How are url shorteners making money?

simple. they dont have to make much money. They can run of a shared server as it just has redirects. Also, they get money from paid advertising on their website. DONE!