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apitman
13,487karma·3,567submissions·December 11, 2014
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Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.
Personal site:
apitman.com
Projects:
IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.
LastLogin.net - A free, privacy-focused login provider
TakingNames.io - Domain names for self-hosters
boringproxy.io - Simple, e2ee tunneling proxy
droplock.apitman.com - Simple secure secret sharing
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I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but I think with the self driving car example having diverse competing approaches helps avoid stagnating on a local optimum.
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I agree that there's lots of value in the simplicity of a tree hierarchy as a default, but sometimes the extra power of a tagging/labeling system would be valuable. Essentially it gives you …
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In a typical house there's likely also at least one alternative route to get to the office. How do you represent that path with tree hierarchy? Tags (at least nested tags, as shown in OP) allow y…
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I suppose it depends on the circumstances. If the conditions under which steam no longer becomes viable are extreme enough, making a ruckus on Twitter would probably drive considerable traffic to your…
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I think the spirit of the post is going ahead and host your PC game on steam or whatever platform you want, but also host it on your own site so you're not completely beholden to a third party.…
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I took a similar path with my personal site. I did get to the point though where I didn't want to duplicate things like my site banner across all my pages, so I ended up writing a very barebones …
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> UX, discoverability and 'it just works' None of those are inherent to preventing users from controlling their data. A company can create (and make money off of) a product that provides …
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TLDR for comments: use rclone and/or restic
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+1 for rclone here. It can indeed copy between remote backends. Just keep in mind that that data all has to flow through the rclone process. You could probably get much better performance by running r…
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To be fair there are a dizzying array[0] of OSS backup solutions, and it's very much not apparently what features are most important. A simple post like this that outlines a single good enough …
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Yeah for me the hardest part about installing restic was remembering how to unzip a bz2 file. I don't know what more you can ask for than a statically linked binary...
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I use restic (for dumping an encrypted deduped backup to a usb drive) and rclone (for pushing to backblaze B2). Both fantastic tools.
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FWIW if your DB supports dumping to stdout restic can import that: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/040_backup.html#read... …
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Stephen Covey used[0] the term "interdependent", which I rather like. [0] 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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I recommend looking into restic and/or rclone
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It helps to be working on something you want to exist and use every day. You've already validated your product/market fit at that point, even if your market only consists of 1 person.
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I think Rust has a very bright future in web servers. I have one small service (using warp[0]) in production. The level of confidence I have once the dang thing compiles is quite comforting. [0] http…
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I'm curious about this as well.
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I wonder how this would compare to what IFTTT or Zapier does.
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But you're essentially saying if you want to compete with AWS, you have to offer every feature and integration they offer. Good luck to any startup attempting that.
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The article specifically mentioned that the integrations AWS can offer between services simply cannot be competed with by any single company, no matter how good that company makes their own hosted pro…
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Wouldn't Tor hide your ip from the VPS provider even if they're subpoena'd? EDIT: I realized this question might be confusing in this context. I'm not talking about torrenting larg…
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Oh I'm not suggesting they never hear anything. I'm just wondering how many actually care or look into it at all. The world is full of sensational stories. Sometimes it's easier to just…
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Are there any high quality VPS providers that have a way to sign up and pay anonymously with Monero (or similar), manage via tor browser, etc?
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I wonder what % of Facebook employees actually keep up with this stuff, ie how many of them are regularly on HN, etc? Might be a lot lower than we assume. EDIT: or even how many pay attention to tech …
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The eternal struggle to find balance between spending all your time type checking, compiling, linting, Rusting, testing, unit testing, CIing, etc and actually making working code.
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Actually the more I think about it I don't think it would work, since request(n) assumes the producer can send multiple messages for each request.
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Interesting. I do tend to favor protocols that are a bit lower level and more flexible for composing higher-level functionality. Though this does sound pretty complicated to implement using only what …
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Do companies use school pedigree for filtering? Yes. Are there other ways to stand out from the crowd? Yes.
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These types of "blanket captchas" basically destroy browsing via something like Tor, right? I feel like I've seen people complain about Cloudflare's captchas when browsing ananymou…