What does DuckDB mean by query engines here? Something like Trino?
Readit Newsblntechie commented on The two versions of Parquet jeronimo.dev/the-two-vers... · Posted by u/tanelpoder
By which metrics was Google+ successful? I don’t doubt you, I just never heard that before.
I can't say user metrics but Google Photos came out of Google+ and it is a massively successful product.
Hangouts (now Meet?) was also a product out of Google+ but considering GChat (the xmpp version) existed before, it was kind of a step backwards.
I think Google Local Guide also has some parts of Google+, not sure.
I love the convenience of physical SIMs. Will hate the day when I don't have a choice but to 'upgrade' to eSIMs.
I have a phone with dual physical SIM card slots. I can go to any country in the world, buy a SIM, put it in, and am up and running. eSIM provisioning at airports is barely available in few coubtries.
I broke the display of my phone? Easy, remove the SIM and put it in a spare phone and I can still make and receive calls.
blntechie commented on India's $45B Startup Implosion Puts Tech Future in Doubt bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/elsewhen
BYJU was a fucking scam from the get go . It preyed upon the insecurities of the Indian parent.
Paytm : maybe UPI becoming a standard in Indian banking has something to do with it. UPI is a good thing.
Byju's was perplexing as almost every customer of theirs and the target customers knew what Byju's was doing except those in the board, the VC analysts and LPs.
blntechie commented on India's $45B Startup Implosion Puts Tech Future in Doubt bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/elsewhen
> Before they could build enough scale to reach profitability, the startups ran into obstacles familiar to Indian companies: red tape, unpredictable regulators, intense competition, consumers’ limited spending power, and founders’ eagerness to prioritize growth over the sustainability of their business models.
Truly makes you appreciate the set of conditions that allowed SV to develop over time, and how difficult it is to replicate this elsewhere.
> red tape
I would attribute red tape to only fintech companies. Ideally edtech should have had redtape considering how much rampant these VC funded companies ran riot.
Also, SV has these red tapes too. Bloom Tech -> California BoE anyone? Red tapes are not always a bad thing for the consumers, maybe for those following grow fast and break model.
blntechie commented on Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens? blog.ploetzli.ch/2024/sho... · Posted by u/pantalaimon
I have used OAuth2 with and without JWTs as bearer tokens and pretty much used them the same way. JWT helps with fetching the user details without having to hit the DB/backend, and that's basically was the only difference to me.
I believe the issues he is describing is more OAuth2 rather than JWT.
blntechie commented on Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…) nino.app... · Posted by u/harrisonlo
Wow, I have never been more impressed with any other Show HN before. The sheer number of features and platforms you have covered and also keeping to some core engineering principles at the same time is extremely impressive. I will be trying this product for sure and wish you all the best with this app.
"Mandatory reporting of usage statistics runs contrary to one of the freedoms inherent to FOSS, that the software is for the user's freedom."
Why? You don't need to do tracking, just have a counter on the server that increases every time someone downloads the repository. What does this have to do with FOSS?
That's how Google Analytics started.
Most (all?) Slavic languages just go oneteen twoteen. There's a word for 12 (tuzin) and 60 (kopa) but very rarely used.
On the other hand we have a word for 1.5 which is sorely missing in English - półtora.
On the other other hand English does weird stuff with thousands - saying 2300 as 23 hundred.
2300 - 23 hundred is a spoken informal thing. Two thousand three hundred is another common usage which might be the 'proper' way.
I needed a way to share a link to a map, with drawings and the ability for the receiver to see their own location on the map.
Annotated screenshots solves the first but not the second.
Vibe engineered this, with many of the same ideas as OP.
Took an evening. Just in time apps for one specific use case is a thing.
And because it's so cheap to make and can be hosted cheaply with no backend, it can be given away for free.
https://nyman.re/mapdraw/#l=60.172108%2C24.941458&z=16&d=LU8...