sonaltr's comments

For those asking about API keys - While it makes life easy to have API keys, it's quite easy to just use something like Puppeteer[0] to control it via a Lambda etc.

[0] https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer

See, I've had the exact opposite experience here in Canada.

My family owns a range of Hyundai cars (Elentra -> Sonata, Veolster -> Kona, Santa Fe -> Palisade when it releases) and all those cars have been driven to ~100-200k each. The most we've ever paid is $200/yr for the yearly service (apart from tire cost) + $150 / 2 yrs for interior + HVAC cleaning (for that new car smell).

I've never had a bad experience at the Hyundai dealership (can't say the same for Kia, Nissan and Ford).

Every single thing else (maintenance, oil change etc.) was included when I got my car (for 8 yrs or 200k km).

The UN said the same in 1990s. So forgive me if I'm unsympathetic when everyone screams doomsday. There is absolutely nothing you can do today in your personal life that'll matter at a scale to impact the global issue of climate change.

You want real change? Fine, let's work together to ensure that companies and corporations are held accountable for their emissions, reduce population in areas most impacted and stop the hyperbole. Climate change is real. It's here. and hyperbole is not going to save us. It didn't in the 90s and it's not now.

The sad bit is, those 100s of millions will die none the less so you can have your grande caramel macchiato in a non-recyclable cup instead of making coffee at home and using a mug. Excessive consumerism had a massive hand in leading us to this point, and now consumerism is trying to sell us the cure in the name of zero emission cars and expensive recyclable crap? Spare me the hypocrisy.

idk where you live, but Hyundai has been making a killing selling smaller cars (Elentra et al).

I do know that the American car manufacturers are looking to stop making smaller cars though.

Oh man! I love how climate change pushers (not saying I don't believe in Climate Change - I do) love to point at something we can do to matter about CC. I feel even if every. single. person. on the planet works towards CC improvement, it'd not matter as much as improvements in commercial transportation - trucks, ships and airplanes - all of which if we seriously tackle, will raise price of our current QoL by such a massive amount that no one wants to deal with so it's easier to just point at consumer habits.

Drive a truck. Enjoy your life. It's too short to matter in the long run. But do be contentious about your consumption when doing so. Think about others (if not your kids' future, other people's future).

Disclaimer: I love cars and driving (going on a 7 day driving road trip in a few weeks) but I'm a bit tired of CC pushing me to change my lifestyle for changes that have minimal impact from the looks of it but my QoL keeps getting worse.

The internet always has been (and is) whatever we make it to be.

I do really mean that - in fact, it's more accessible than ever.

For example, personally for me, it means that I can go online and access vast resources of knowledge to make myself better at my job, my business etc. It provides me with hours of entertainment - both free and paid. It also has enabled be to in touch with friends and family across the world.

For my mom, it means she gets to see videos and tv shows she had given up on decades ago (Indian tv drama - 1 ep / day, it adds up quite quickly). It also means, I can send her stuff that I know she'll find funny. She can keep in touch with her family, friends etc.

For my dad, it means he can see places online that he's never been to. He loves maps and the internet has enabled him to see detailed maps he'd never even dream of.

For others, it could a dark place of business - a place to sell drugs, or organs or others. For some it's a glimmer of hope that their stories / struggles could be put out there for the world to see and empathize.

The internet is what you make of it. For those looking for what the author mentioned - those still exist - you have to know where to look. But for the "normies" - Those that are not concerned about programming, internet etc. - it's something totally different and they've moulded what internet is for them.

so I can be the CEO for 12 months for $12?

And I have no responsibilities, and I get a better LinkedIn?

Count me in!

Thanks for the heads up!

I had noticed that almost all of them had the exact same website, emails and billing software. I assumed that it was like how all sites using Wordpress are essentially the same if you take away the flashy JS stuff.

I am currently paying for a year and if all goes well, maybe update to a 3 yr contract. My plan is to architect the cloud in a way that I can immediately migrate / scale to GCP at the first sign of trouble - so my data / customers etc. should ideally not have issues. But from a cost standup, it's definitely going to be difficult.

I commented here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19018656

I used lowendbox[0] to find great deals.

Then, I automated buying a ton of them into one bill as they generally don't allow you to bulk buy (which lead to a failed bill as it broke their billing. This lead their sales team to contact me to discuss my usage. Then they provided me with a better quote than the one on Lowendbox).

I wrote $15 / yr as that's the "discounted" price on Lowendbox. But if you bulk buy or buy with a commitment for 3 yrs - it's even cheaper (or you can negotiate to get more stuff for the same price). I can't talk about how much I end up paying as we've a special deal based on our usage.

[0] https://lowendbox.com

I recently found out that I could get a 2 GB / 2 Core machine for ~ $15/yr - and my plan is to buy a bunch of them (~ 150 - 200) to make my own cluster for my personal needs, learning and running some stuff I charge $ for.

One thing they didn't mention was specifically MongoDB management - Backing up, restore etc.

Personally I was planning on using Nomad (or K8S if I could get into the GCP K8S Engine Hybrid Cloud Preview) to manage my clusters.

This has to be BS. Ericsson's gear works, Nokia's gear works.

Both of those are in use, in prod in Canada right now (for Rogers) as far as I know.

And as for it being "cheap" - let's be real - There's a reason why it's cheap - It's state sponsored.

This entire article is probably sponsored by China.

EDIT: I'm extra salty because of the fall of Nortel - which can easily be attributed to Huawei.

A few friends of mine work for a company that most would consider terrible. I know for a fact that when ex employees do leave bad reviews, they have a line to call Glassdoor, and get it taken down under promise of buying a new subscription or renew existing subscriptions.

I know this because it's one of my friend's responsibilities - He does this on a monthly basis (based on the whims of the owner)

The main use of Glassdoor as an employee is not the company reviews - it's for interview questions.

This is amazing! One of the main reasons I went with Spotify after 3 yrs of Apple Music is because I moved to use Linux as my primary desktop and I didn't have an Apple Music client there. This is making me reconsider getting Apple Music subscription again!

I'm going to see if there's a Github link or maybe reverse engineer the API and make it into a desktop app (mainly for Media key controls and Desktop integration to be honest).

same here. I really want to learn more about my past and also learn about my DNA (and all there is to learn with that data), but the invasion of privacy by such companies is just unacceptable (hence my refusal to take such tests).

While I get why people are annoyed by that message, I get and understand it.

It's super annoying when you are trying to create a desktop app and you get issues (multiple of them) essentially going "Why are you using Electron? it eats up my RAM, please use X framework and you should be fine"

This would be fine if:

  1. You attached that with a PR for said framework or
  2. You searched before and read this being answered earlier

From a maintainer's point of view - this is super annoying.

I'm sure the author built this to satisfy his itch first and open sourced it because it might help others (either to directly use the product or to learn from the code). It's super annoying when you have people who think they know better come and tell you to use X because they have a problem with Electron (not necessarily your app in particular but Electron in general). I say this as it appears the author might be using arch linux and as a linux user, I always appreciate an electron app vs no app (obviously a native app is better but that's generally never the option - it's generally electron or nothing).

I'm sure it could have been worded nicely but eitherway it got the effect the author wanted - it drives away people who'd be annoyed by Electron in the first place.

I like TS. I really do. It makes life nice and easy to catch bugs quite quickly and also makes you think about your code quite a bit more (which I guess makes you a bit slower but it's important enough so it's ok).

What is annoying is when you are stuck on something and can't continue because you can't figure out the type of a specific object (and you've disabled any / or you are on the strictest settings).

I was recently stuck on ReactJS + Redux + Redux Saga and it took me a while (~ 1 day) to figure it all out (and I'm still not 100% sure if I did it right). It was fine when I disabled the strictest settings for a bit but it's definitely annoying (asking for help in Typescript, React, Redux, Saga and elsewhere didn't really help at all).

From my understanding - their windows / Mac OS apps is just a shell to their site (with one exception - offline support).

I wish they had an API to integrate with.

I had not thought about that...great points!

This is way simpler in that case!