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www.metabase.com 8mo ago

Metabase 57 – Document Creation

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mattermost.com 4y ago

Mattermost v7.0 is now available

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How do you deploy your websites?

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laravel-news.com 5y ago

Laravel Octane Hits 1.0

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www.apple.com 5y ago

Apple Spring 2021 Event

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Introduction to AI/ML Research

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blog.newrelic.com 5y ago

New Relic Price Updates

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Moving Away from Gsuite to O365

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searchengineland.com 6y ago

Welcome BERT: Google’s latest search algorithm

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status.atlassian.com 7y ago

Jira Down

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medium.com 7y ago

Custom Categorisation with IBM Watson NLU

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: How many screens in your workspace?

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realm.io 7y ago

MongoDB to Acquire Realm

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tools.datacenta.net 7y ago

Extract Profile Views from LinkedIn

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www.sharethis.com 7y ago

Share This – Data Leak

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www.searchenginejournal.com 7y ago

SEO Contest Exposes Weakness in Google's Algorithm

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Home Wifi Routers

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Alternatives to Google suite

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forums.modx.com 8y ago

MODX – critical update, open exploits

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www.bbc.co.uk 8y ago

Lush 'anti-spy cops' campaign criticised

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: React Native Performance Monitoring

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www.percona.com 9y ago

The mysqlpump Utility

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www.independent.co.uk 9y ago

Half of UK electricity comes from low-carbon sources for first time ever

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www.adido-digital.co.uk 9y ago

Leaving Rackspace. Joining the Wirehive

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www.adido-digital.co.uk 9y ago

Farewell Rackspace, Hello WireHive

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www.percona.com 9y ago

Use MySQL Shell Securely from Bash

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www.percona.com 11y ago

Percona Free MySQL QA and Bash Training Videos

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extras.io 11y ago

Show HN: MODX Private Package Providers and Resource Preview

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www.percona.com 11y ago

Recover a MySQL Galera Cluster

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www.rackspace.co.uk 12y ago

New managed service levels at Rackspace

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We’ve ran our own mattermost server for almost 5 years. Sits alongside our hosting environment and not had any outages, except maintenance. Some staff moan it’s a “poor mans slack” but it works well, keeps everything in our platform and virtually free.

So I ignore their groans

Agency life - anywhere between 5 and 50 things from dev, to code review to project managing. Just depends what’s in the pipeline that week.

Takes some practice to be able to flip between different platforms and languages quickly but you get used to it

Are there any mobile versions that are good and not in app purchases / time based?

I wouldn’t mind paying for a game but not a fan of the time based, gem collecting price models. Would rather pay for the app and just play

We used to have our own in-house CMS built in .Net (at least 10 years ago) and it was a pain to maintain and provide updates for, however we replaced that with MODX - which was better and we helped in the community alot and pushed changes back. It was nice knowing every line of code was ours - and having all the expertise inhouse was a bonus, but hiring was a challenge as everyone starts from 0 experience

This was easier but we still had some clients that "wanted wordpress" even if it was a bad design decision, so we would then need to educate them on the why and see if we could change there opinion.

These days we pick and choose the right platform for the job, between Laravel/MODX/Wordpress/Magento/etc.

Being more flexible has it's own drawbacks too though.

I also did this a few years ago - voice controlled drone, had some keyboard based kill switches, unfortunately the drone is quite noisy so had to talk quite loudly to get a decent STT translation.

We tend to do a 2 phase project plan. With a fixed $ for the initial scoping and finding out the actual objectives and then work on the $$$ after.

Has made our project timelines much more realistic and also a better end product for our client.

This depends on the use-case. We have recently moved away (slightly) from using MODX as our main CMS, because the clients we have picked up need less content management but more bespoke functionality and better performance so have used things like Laravel +Voyager.

They are all managing content, but in different ways

We have an immutable hosting platform with ansible, but some clients are hosted on their own boxes so we still end up logging into their hosting to sort out their issues (normally they have more problems than we do).

But they aren't interested in investing in more infrastructure when a single LNMP server does the job.

I currently have an issue with my iMac (also happened with the MBP) and iphone 8 (also happened with the previous iPhone 5S) that if I have bluetooth enabled on my phone and unlock it... my bluetooth mouse stops responding on the iMac. Interestingly my phone and iMac are not paired and nor is the mouse and phone.

Very frustrating

I used JSMPEG to process a live 360 camera feed and then a canvas to convert the output to the format to work with a google cardboard.

I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the output and speed of which the devices could decode and render the new output.

Would this not also depend on whether those companies make any changes to the software that would be worth contributing back?

There are millions of websites using MySQL and Postgres that make money but don't contribute back?

Add nginx/Apache to this list too? would cover most of the internet then.

I a similar scenario for my "Linux Foundation Certified Engineer" exam. Except I had to show 2 forms of photo ID for the examiner through my webcam and then put them the other side of the room so I couldn't use them as notes.

I was repeatedly told off for tapping on the table whilst problem solving. (A hard habit to break after years of doing it)

I've been using this site for the past few weeks whilst migrating, is an invaluable resource given the ec2 pricing isn't particularly easy to work out in the docs.