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In case someone needs geofencing capabilities, have a look at http://www.tile38.com

Thanks! Please open an issue of you encounter any problems...

I think their first startup was an eBay clone called alando.de which was later sold to eBay when they entered the German market (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samwer-Brüder#Alando in German)

We‘re using AWS Kinesis delivery streams to batch incoming JSON messages from IoT devices to Parquet files in S3. Those can directly be read by different AWS services like Redshift, EMR or Athena...

Bonus: You also get free private repos in organizations, a feature that GitHub still doesn’t have with today‘s announcement.

I love Netlify! In my opinion, it’s not „just“ a great way to host static sites, but also probably the easiest (and cheapest) way to get started with functions as a service/serverless.

You don‘t need your own AWS account to use Lambda functions.

I compiled a landing page example with Mailchimp mailing list signup a while ago:

https://github.com/tobilg/netlify-functions-landingpage

The vehicle has only forward-facing seats...

I really wonder why they chose a T6 as the platform, if MOIA as a 100% daughter of Volkswagen already has developed a vehicle very close to what is described as goal for the T6: https://www.moia.io/vehicle/

On iOS, it doesn’t scale correctly, and scrolling seems to be pretty broken

Well, you might have to pay higher taxes in Germany than in the U.S., but please don't perform a "Milchmädchenrechnung" (naive fallacy) to just compare the tax rates...

In Germany, the education system from kindergarten to university is basically free (although schools could be much better funded), you have a public health care system that (mostly) works, public transportation, a welfare system that makes sure that everyone can at least survive, etc. etc....

I spend some time in SF, and even with a much higher income and potentially lower taxes, I'd never be able to afford the same quality of living there, especially if you have kids.

As a German, I highly doubt that nowadays "protestant/prussian work ethic, and the holiness of work" still play a role. While there might be "prettifying" in the unemployment stats, the churches play very little to no role in that IMO (I'd be interested in references otherwise).

I rather think that trade unions, as well as crude structures like the "IHKs" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_Chambers...) play a much bigger role in keeping things as they are, and general risk-avoiding tendencies in higher management levels.

This wasn’t the case for Graph API v1.0, which I‘d suspect was used to gather the data. It was active until 2015...

They simply make use of FB‘s Marketing APIs, which are well documented:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/audiences... https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/reference... https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/buying-ap... https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/targeting...

This was post-v2.0 afaik.

It’s gone from the FB Graph API docs, but the wayback machine still has it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130911191323/https://developer...

I was possible to use the v1.0 API until Q2/2015 if I remember correctly (only if you had a v1.0 app though)

You could get access to the full friends‘ user profile data in Graph API earlier than v2.0. If you had 500 friends, and granted friends_* OAuth permissions to an app, the app had access to 501 user profiles.

Thanks for the insights. Could you please share the Dockerfile so that one can make the other languages work?

Seems interesting! How can it be used with other languages than English?

Thanks for the feedback. I‘m well aware that there are a lot of tools out there which can do the same thing.

Motivation for this was that I prefer not to install special tools/modules on my machine if there’s a service which can to the same without huge convenience barriers. I guess it’s just a matter of personal flavor.

That's not really accurate I think. RexRay is also supporting non-EMC solutions: https://github.com/codedellemc/rexray#storage-provider-suppo...

Thanks for the interesting article! Are there any recommendations for non-English speakers? I'd be especially interested in German materials. I'd love to teach my eight year old daughter about computers and programming, but there are close to none books and resources available if the kid doesn't speak/read English yet.

IMO, running on so little resources only makes very limited sense. The underlying Mesos Agent service and the other DC/OS services require memory as well, so that very little memory will be left to schedule tasks on.

Having swap space will not help as far as I know, because Mesos will not consider it as "available memory".

Hi marcc, thanks for your feedback! Is there any documentation on what are the building blocks to be able to run Replicated on platforms like DC/OS and Kubernetes?

I'm especially interested in DC/OS, because my company is building a SaaS in it, and ideally we'd want a general solution on how to ship and maintain an on-premise deployment.

Are there any plans yet on how to use Replicated on existing on-premise cluster installations, like DC/OS or Kubernetes?

After having a look at the installation shell script, Replicated itself seems to run in containers and therefore should be deployable on DC/OS or the likes if I understand correctly...

Yes, but my point is that nobody will try to get self-employement status first if he/she doesn't have it, before even knowing whether the project is accepted.

This would have implications on the relationship to the full-time employer, and also from a tax perspective (which is quite a hassle here in Germany, IMHO...).

That's true. But I think for people who don't have a self-employment status yet, this is a big obstacle to even apply.

Maybe it would make sense to open up the application for everybody, but to connect the grants to the self-employment status (i.e. the applicant get some timeframe to register the self-employment and if necessary talk to the employer).

I just think the rules lead to a strong restriction of the applicant pool and also the possible grant-worthy projects. But this might be intended...

You're correct on this I guess. I was more wondering about the wording, because to me it sounds like full-time people with part-time "self-employment" are excluded.

You're right! But then I'd really wish they'd refine the phrasing of the rule section.

In fact, if you have a full-time employer, this employer will in most work contracts reserve the "right" to your full work capacity, and will insist on a sign-off for other jobs besides the "full-time" one.

Any hints why this is only for self-employed people? I think there are lots of OSS developers with very interesting/largely used projects which do this besides their normal job...

Actually, Galactic Fog runs on DC/OS which is at it's core a Mesos distribution. As far as I understood it can't currently run Java lambdas...