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williamle8300··on There’s Nothing Apple’s CEO Cares About More Than Not Paying Taxes
What's wrong with reducing a business' taxes? Aren't tax write-offs there for a reason?
williamle8300··on Let me take you through my dream office
This is awesome. Thanks for putting in the time to put this together.

I love the 3-man office. Personally, I would just make it a 1-man office. I'm a very loud thinker and easily distracted so I really can't have anyone in the room when I'm hacking.

williamle8300··on Show HN: Replacing WordPress with GitHub Issues-like Blog Comments
It's great... the only drawback is that the solution is exclusive to GitHub users only.
williamle8300··on Show HN: Pubcenter – a non-profit RSS archiving service
Hi I built this and it's been archiving RSS feeds since last year. There's about 1700 feeds indexed, and 1.5 million articles cached. Thanks for checking it out!
williamle8300··on United Broke Its Contract with Flyers
Let's also remember that David Dao was physically assaulted, which is a separate matter and that cop should be charged for the crime of using excessive force.
williamle8300··on Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident
Sure... It's like a restaurant spitting in your food.
williamle8300··on A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight, so he was dragged off
In United's public statement they said had to remove the guy cause he wasn't "willingly volunteering" to leave.

Hmmmmm....

williamle8300··on Twitter Sues Federal Government
They should have been doing this long before Trump and the "Red Scare." Twitter has been around since the Patriot Act, and they never once backed down from Obama's administration which saw massive overreach by the Federal Govt that would make Bush Jr. blush.

Where was Twitter then?

williamle8300··on Building a scalable time-series database on PostgreSQL
I'm a novice regarding DBs. What's the significance of this?
williamle8300··on Show HN: PubCenter – a RSS archiving service
Thanks for the encouragement!

Can you elaborate on "offline support for local caching?"

williamle8300··on Show HN: PubCenter – a RSS archiving service
Yea, just go here (https://app.pub.center/feed) and paste an RSS url! You'll see a button to begin indexing that feed.
williamle8300··on Show HN: PubCenter – a RSS archiving service
Hello I'm the founder of PubCenter.

The RSS/Atom standards are a really great invention to help syndicate news in a no-fuss manner. However, a shortcoming is that you can't retrieve older articles: you can only get a fixed number of latest articles (usually 20 articles... sometimes more if they're generous!)

This is the problem PubCenter is trying to solve. We cache articles from RSS feeds and save them... allowing you to retrieve any article, at any point in time.

PubCenter essentially is what Feedly Cloud offers. Or Google Reader's RSS database (before they went defunct). In our case, we're a non-profit and don't require any signups or log any user activity. It's just free, and no strings attached.

How do we make money? The REST API is free, however we have a paid notifications service that lets you subscribe to an RSS feed and have it articles delivered via email, SMS, or your custom API endpoint. There's fine-grained control of this that's easy to manage (see imgur album)^1

Thanks for reading! Let me know if you have any questions here.

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/FHweI

williamle8300··on Disapproval of FCC regulations a significant blow against privacy protection
Tell people to use the Opera browser. It has VPN built-in.
williamle8300··on Erections Restored with Fat Cells After Prostatectomy
NOICE

there's a paywall.

williamle8300··on Ask HN: Which non-technology book has influenced you the most and why?
Yep John 17: The high priestly prayer.
williamle8300··on Next.js 2.0
> You could think of it as a more configurable create-react-app that supports server side rendering, with a convention over configuration approach to pages and links.

You are a poet, sir. Best answer.

williamle8300··on Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
Is anybody surprised anymore when Google shutters a project? It's almost like their calling card.
williamle8300··on VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering
I think their bet is that the web stack won't be "so high up the stack" in the near future.
williamle8300··on Unsealed Documents Raise Questions on Monsanto Weed Killer
This is beating a dead horse... but look up the ties between Hillary and Monsato. Monsato is one of the most crooked, and corrupt corporations out there.
williamle8300··on MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
We're always going to remember Aaron Swartz...
williamle8300··on MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
Would you say it's an "autonomous collective?"
williamle8300··on MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
Yuup.
williamle8300··on Ask HN: How do I start my own consulting firm?
Great advice. I'd only add that the OP seems like he's from a foreign country and doesn't have English fluency.

When you can't speak English fluently your shop's greatest strength will be technical prowess. Soft skills take a backseat until OP learns English fluently.

williamle8300··on A profound apology
Uber is a dumpster fire. Whenever I see a black Prius with the Uber sticker on the car cutting through traffic, tailgating cars, rolling right turns, and general assery... it reminds me that moral bankruptcy pervades the whole company culture.

Stay away from this company.

williamle8300··on Found: A Drug Catapult at the U.S.-Mexico Border
It's not lack of regulating prices that causes it... it's the proliferation of intellectual property laws in America that were written to protect corporations. This is what creates the need to get knock-off drugs.
williamle8300··on Bill Gates: the robot that takes your job should pay taxes
Why don't we spend efforts towards making EE/CS a blue collar job? Why tax people who are innovating?
williamle8300··on Found: A Drug Catapult at the U.S.-Mexico Border
I disagree. Walls stop physical objects from passing through it. Good economic policy has the primary function of building the national economy––economic policy has no role in curtailing contraband.
williamle8300··on Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service
I see there's "data layer encryption" but the data is still readable by Google. Why would anyone want to keep feeding the Google beast with more data?

Software is about separating concerns, and decentralizing authority. Responsible engineers shouldn't be using this service.

williamle8300··on Submarine cable map
We have satellites that are pretty fast... what's the point of laying down physical submarine wires?
williamle8300··on Ask HN: What's your top growth strategy that helped grow your startup?
Some people are product visionaries... while I agree with your approach for market-driven products, what would your advice be for people who start with a product instead of a userbase?
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