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Ask the search engine Ecosia about “Paris to Prague” and flight booking websites dominate the results. Ecosia’s CEO Christian Kroll would prefer to present more train options, which he considers better for the environment. But because its results are licensed from Google and Microsoft’s Bing, Ecosia has little control over what’s shown. Kroll is ready for that to change.

While I think Google sucks right now and we need something new, this specific reason is so dumb. Unless I add the word "train" or "air" etc. I would much rather be shown either all options or the one that I care about most (if it's flying, then so be it - the search engine can't and shouldn't try to filter out options FOR me without my consent)

I truly do wish we have an open source / SaaS version of the bloomberg B-Unit[0].

I would easily pay $10/m for a "personal" version and I know companies that would pay 2x - 3x that for enterprise deployment. Although to an extent - it's redundant now that we have phones with biometric authentication.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/b-unit/

I generally have this in my bash_aliases

    alias ls='ls -lah --color="auto"'
    alias l='ls -lah --color="auto"'
    alias ll='ls -lah --color="auto"'
    alias sl='ls -lah --color="auto"'

I will soon! (I did it for a work related project so I want to make sure that I go through a few formalities to make the repo public).

It's a pretty cool repo - includes templates for ELK on K8S, ECS and Docker Swarm (Compose).

I'm working on testing some HA on it next week!

I totally agree...It's crazy that they don't even offer a docker-compose file of sorts to being all their own tools together to demo the power of their own tools.

I recently wanted to see ELK in action...and it took me a few hours to set it all up and configure everything together with just basic docker and docker-compose. It really should not be that hard :/

and this trial can't be disabled (to use them for an unlimited amount of time) by someone by modifying your source because your license prohibits that? Am I correct in that assumption?

unrelated question to the server but related to Sourcegraph: Why did you guys switch away from the VS code style editor on the web to an uneditable one? I loved using it.

on an unrelated note: did you work on AWS SQS?

Why is this dupe? I posted the source. I noticed someone posted the twitter link after i posted but I (and hopefully others) rather read this than some (imo biased) opinionated article/tweet from blog/twitter/news agency.

Elixir + Erlang

The newsweek article claims 2 of them were directors.

I can see how Directors can afford to spend 30k - 50k a year for sex

umm that's highly disingenuous.

If you accept cash -> banks have a fixed transaction fee (anywhere between $2 to $25 for any amount of money).

If you accept credit/debit/mobile -> there are atleast 2 transaction fees - one by the payment provider (generally % based) and one by your bank (fixed fee).

Really? I was recently looking for business accounts at the big 4, and I saw that after a minimum number free transactions, any transaction has a fee (cash or not).

I can't remember the name - it's near union station - Bremner / York. It's a very hipsterish place.

I've experienced something similar at resturants in TO recently! Not only didn't they straight up refuse cash, they asked me download their app to pay for food.

Obviously I walked out and got lunch elsewhere, but later when I was told that they sell their own currency in the app for CAD in denominations of 5. But their food + tax, is never sold at that amount - meaning, if your lunch is $10, tax makes it $11.3, you have to pay $15 in the app. If you have no intention of coming back, you loose the rest. This is such a scam.

Also what's the problem with accepting cash? It's trackless and it's anonymous - I love it. Why should everything I buy be tracked by Banks, Corps and everyone in-between? Furthermore, unlike credit, there's are no fees associated with it so it's slightly better for the seller too.

Btw if this does not give you a worry, think about this: all your expenses always end up at companies like Equifax. If them already selling it does not scare you, a leak should. Imagine if your transaction history can be used to refuse employment, housing etc. (without letting you know that's the case). Cash does not have any of those issues.

The biggest 2 main issues with cash is - what if I get pickpocketed? and the solution is to never really walk around with more than $50-100. I've been using cash since I was a kid, and I've never gotten pickpocketed. The 2nd one is tracking your expenses - but I personally feel like using cash has made me spend a lot less than when I used my credit card.

Suicide hotlines are generally under handed, I don't think we have enough people to help lonely people just yet.

There have been times when I've felt extremly lonely. I think an app like this which connects lonely people together would be awesome!

I generally just visit some random subreddits or random rooms on Discord when I feel lonely.

I have neither, Why can't he call his fork Bitcoin Cash? He claims that it adheres to the Bitcoin.org idea than BTC.

Him & a vocal community (/r/btc) appears to believe in that. What gives BTC (and /r/bitcoin) the right to the name Bitcoin considering both are forks from the original chain?

At work I have 3 monitors (24" 1080p) for multitasking (one for comms - email, slack, jabber etc. and music, one for code and one for browser - docs and stuff).

At home, I have 2 monitors (27" 1080p) - one for code and another for browser. I've been considering replacing these 2 with a 34" curved monitor for a while (however, I don't see the expense justified right now).

I found those ads funny (I assumed they were not derived from customer data - just something made up for the sake of comedy).

That said I wanted to know the end-goal of those ads?

If it's going to make me convert or sign up - that does not look like it's going to happen (no CTA, no real driver etc.)

If the idea is to be on people's mind (informational) - I can see it being hip/fellow-kids' like (considering it's coming from a multi-million dollar corporate entity) - I don't see how it'll last longer than a few weeks at best (considering the amount they probably spent on it).

That said, I can see how it stands out from the crowd (creepy factor not outstanding).

I've tried to learn vim multiple times (mainly so i could have a cheap vm + mosh to use when i'm around). But I've yet to get used to vim coming from a sublime/vscode/intellij background. (I can use vim to do the mundane stuff, but developing stuff solely on vim appears slightly more difficult)

I've been using c9 everytime I wanted to quickly prototype stuff (and not setup the toolchain) and destroy workspaces when I'm done. I love this integration with AWS.

Now I can just get a nice Chromebook and not necessarily spend 1000s on a Macbook (not saying AWS Cloud9 is there yet as an editor to compare against VS Code/Sublime etc.) but it's definitely awesome and I hope one day it'll get there.

maybe I'm doing this wrong, but if I use RDS / Cloud SQL / Compose etc - a normal base cluster + another failover cluster + hourly/daily backups (based on your release schedule) all add up to around 30 - 50 based on various cloud providers.

I think that there are various reasons to pick DBs.

Blindly picking a SQL DB (mysql/postgres etc.) is quite expensive from the get-go (a production ready mysql/postgres would cost ~30$/m).

Mongo costs ~$10/m (MongoDB Atlas), Google's Datastore is Pay as you Go (so your initial cost is close to $0 till you get paying customers), AWS's DynamoDB is similarly priced as well.

Sure, sadly all those noSQL solutions get really expensive as your usage goes up to normal non-webscale proportions, but at that point you have the $ to invest in a SQL solution.

The above was mentioned with bootstrapped startups/services in mind. Not your usual million funded valley companies.

This is great news.

I love app engine but one of the biggest issues I've had with it is the fact that memcached and search are not available for anything but app engine standard - python (2.7).

Providing access to both via app engine flexible would be god sent!

something I've always been curious about (and if a Google Cloud Engineer could clear up - that would be great), is why we should not (as in, why does everyone not) use preemptible nodes (apart from maybe the 3 / 5 master nodes).

My question specifically being: if I configure a k8s cluster to have all my slaves as preemptible nodes...would GCP automatically add new nodes as my old nodes are deleted (from what I understand preemptible nodes are assigned to you for a max of 24 hrs)?

Considering the pricing of preemptible nodes + the discounts that GCP assigns to you for sustained use, it makes cloud insanely cheap for an early stage startup.

not specifically the Chromebook plus/pro but I did try the Toshiba Chromebook when it first came out, and I was kinda disappointed - felt like a locked down version of Linux to be totally honest - and all in all, it suffers from all the same problems that my windows device faces anyway.

A while back I was considering getting an iPad pro as my primary device (during travel, commute, time pass etc.) because I really wanted a light device that did the following:

1. Pen support (it's so much more natural when mind mapping ideas for projects)

2. Great App Support (this kinda made me drop windows as the app store on windows is terrible)

3. A device to develop on (so I could run something along the lines of docker, node etc.)

4. Awesome battery life

I felt that the iPad did 3 of my 4 asks, and I considered using mosh + vim to code in the cloud. However, my vim skills are "meh" at best.

Currently I'm using a cheap windows device (a $500 Asus laptop) and it does not do any of the things I wanted perfectly.

This project appears to change that, because I feel that it won't be too far out of the way to consider getting a native iPad app for such an editor that did everything in the cloud.

Hi! I'm a bit confused as to what Stitch is and what problems it solves (the website does not appear to give any solid problems and how this solves it - apart from the usual generic marketing fluff).

Is this similar to how Firebase functions? or similar to Parse (Backend as a Service)?

While I can't comment on Travis CI, Gitlab from what I understand, used to hire a 3rd party company that would perform research (based on cost of living, taxes etc.) to gauge your salary (across different regions).

That said, what's stopping remote engineers starting to work in expensive regions (say Vancover/Toronto) and then moving to cheaper regions (Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Alberta) for example - would salaries be adjusted every time someone moves around?

In my opinion, one of the biggest benefits of working remotely would be the ability to travel the world!

Just out of curiosity - what would be the adverse effects of being on anti-depressants all your life? Are there any side effects that negatively effect you if you use it in medical doses?