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garashovb commented on Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?    · Posted by u/barrrrald
Yawrehto · 2 years ago
Wait, has no one mentioned LibreOffice yet? 200 million active users (!) seems like it's successful enough. Admittedly, it hasn't really challenged Microsoft Office yet, but it's growing, and also it's hard to look at something with 200 million active users and say 'that's a failure'. Definitely an alternative though.

There's also uBlock Origin, but I don't know if it's the largest adblocker yet. It should be, though. I think it is a serious competitor, even in terms of market share, to many major for-profit adblockers.

garashovb · 2 years ago
Came for LibreOffice, saw that mentioned already.
garashovb commented on Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available   neon.tech/blog/neon-ga... · Posted by u/refset
boomskats · 2 years ago
Curious about your self-hosted db - was it also Postgres? How much had you played with pg before you tried Neon? Can you expand what you mean by 'glitchy, slow and laggy'? Slow connection due to cold starts? Scale-up? General inconsistency in performance? What kind of data volumes were you working with?

I ask because my experience with Neon has been completely different to what you just described. Ever since their 'closed beta' days, it has always 'just worked'. Their CLI has been great, none of my automation has ever bombed out without good reason, and I've never seen it cost me more than I expected. Notably, I was also able to self-host it with relative ease, and found that they actually encouraged people to do so. (In contrast, there are a number of similar 'open source' offerings such as Supabase that I've tried self-hosting, and found that while their core codebase is on GH, it is extremely difficult to deploy outside of their own environment. Not intended as a dig at Supabase, they do some really great work and contribute a ton back to the Postgres community - I'm just using them as a relevant example).

As an aside, I've also met people from Neon at various conferences, including co-founder Heikki. They all struck me as genuine Postgres enthusiasts & great fun to geek out with. Neon (like Supabase) have been _really_ pushing the envelope on Postgres for the last couple of years, and have sponsored some significant developments & proposals. In my view they're a 'real OSS company'. While that probably does rose-tint my view of them a little, that's important to me & makes me happier to give them my money. They've certainly done more for Postgres than AWS ever has.

garashovb · 2 years ago
I met with Heikki in Estonia for local Postgres user group meetup. That was when I first time heard about Neon. He is a true Postgres hacker and very cool guy to talk to

https://pgug.ee/meetings/06/

garashovb commented on Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests   github.com/stackframe-pro... · Posted by u/n2d4
andy_ppp · 2 years ago
Why not just use Docker and have a different testing database? Elixir does this, and the testing framework wraps each test into a transaction that is rolled back for isolation. Be interesting to know the advantages of this approach!
garashovb commented on Ask HN: Which is the oldest software alive still in 0.x, used by many?    · Posted by u/arunc
garashovb · 2 years ago
Not so old (afaik, released in 2015) but React Native also is still 0.72
garashovb commented on Ask HN: Is anyone using PyPy for real work?    · Posted by u/mattip
garashovb · 3 years ago
David Beazley - PyCon 2012 Keynote Talk (Tinkering with PyPy)

https://youtu.be/6_-5XZzJyt0

garashovb commented on Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA   cloud.google.com/blog/pro... · Posted by u/rbanffy
esperent · 3 years ago
Are there any latency issues running VSCode on a remote server?
garashovb · 3 years ago
I have also similar setup (was not my choice first), 0 issues (including latency) so far. Working great.
garashovb commented on Paper Airplane Designs   foldnfly.com/#/1-1-1-1-1-... · Posted by u/thunderbong
shanewwarren · 3 years ago
That's great! Reminds me of elementary school when I was in "gifted and talented... " program. We did a similar experiment. Each kid had some ornate paper airplane, but my simple design won out.
garashovb · 3 years ago
My dad studied aviation in USSR between 1980-83 while my country was part of USSR. He also had amazing skills in aerodynamics and making paper planes. I guess USSR aviation schools were pretty good that times. Dad's school now http://kkluga.ru/

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