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9 years ago
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on: Timer-Tab
I don’t do alarms, just timers, but my site does it like this:
http://5.minutestocountdown.com/One nice benefit of doing the number first in the url is that the second time you set a timer you can just type a single number and url autocomplete will fill in the rest for you.
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10 years ago
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on: Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
Still no ipv6 for S3?
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10 years ago
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on: Where should we donate to to maximize “net good”?
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10 years ago
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on: Good Mail Sorting
Back when I was running a disposable email service called dodgeit.com I settled on a similar approach. I would just have postfix drop the mail in Maildir style files, then had a perl script parse the messages one by one. I didn't even call it from cron--it would just finish traversing then start over again after sleeping for a second. This effectively scaled to thousands of messages an hour on a single dedicated host.
I played around with a number of approaches, like the author here. But the one that just trusted the mail daemon to do its thing and the Linux filesystem to do its thing worked best for me.
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10 years ago
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on: The Best Books I Read in 2015
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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Which is the first site that autocompletes your browser for each letter?
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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How do you use Google Spreadsheets?
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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?
Lots of companies already trust AWS and host various services there. Many of those companies might not trust your git servers to be up and running 24/7 with Amazon-like SLAs.
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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?
That is very cool. Any chance a company could run that tool on premises? I think there is a market for that.
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10 years ago
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on: TeaBOT (YC S15) Makes Customized Cups of Tea with the Touch of a Button
"When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What books have changed your mind?
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by Irvine. Pay attention and you will see this book come up time and time again on HN. I have reread multiple times.
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11 years ago
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on: More than 39M Americans Only Have Access to One Wired Broadband Provider
>More than 39M Americans Only Have Access to 1 Wired Broadband Provider
And those who have more than 1 are served by an oligopoly who overcharge for mediocre (at best) service.
Are the few cities with municipal broadband or Google Fiber seeing better service and prices?
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What other sites do you use to get reliable news?
I love the
http://nextdraft.com/ daily email. Short paragraph summaries of the day's news, funny, and with links if you want to read more.
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What project are you working on over the holidays?
A stats service for new websites that notifies you when interesting things happen on your website.
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11 years ago
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on: Show HN: Picky Pint – Scan beer lists with a photo
Cool! would be nice if I could select a photo I have already taken from inside the app.
http://www.sipsnapp.com/ has this feature and I use it.
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11 years ago
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on: Event Notifications for Amazon S3
Have I missed something or is there no way to get notified when an object gets deleted?
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What is the best article about entrepreneurship that you have ever read?
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11 years ago
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on: Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking
Search Amazon for penguin mints. I used them to wean off coffee as an experiment (now I drink coffee again these days). It takes about 3 penguin mints to equal one cola beverage.
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11 years ago
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on: Stamplay: IFTTT for developers
Yep - you are emphasizing my point. The default seems to be USD.
Pick a sensible default - if you get more business from the US just show dollars. Or do some simple A/B testing and see if you get better conversions with one versus the other.
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11 years ago
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on: Stamplay: IFTTT for developers
On Stamplay pricing: whenever I see pricing in pounds not dollars on a service like this, I think they are not quite ready for my business. My IP address (pretty) clearly identifies me as a U.S. customer, why not present the pricing page in US dollars?
I'm willing to admit this could be a failing in me, not the website.
One nice benefit of doing the number first in the url is that the second time you set a timer you can just type a single number and url autocomplete will fill in the rest for you.