Can you do a PoC and see if it will work? One of the things I learned in econ is you can't really understand what price a market will support without putting up a store and selling something.
Rektide's comment about data corruption is troubling, but perhaps they have fixed those. I wonder has RethinkDB been Jepsen tested recently? 2.2.3 was tested, seems ok, latest version is 2.4.x https://jepsen.io/analyses/rethinkdb-2-2-3-reconfiguration
That section is only available to YC companies. For everyone else the only option to post jobs is via the "Who is hiring?" thread which is posted on first working day of each month.
This happens because the Indian government does not yet have the infrastructure of NSA and or GCHQ :) They have to demand for the information instead :)
> By uninstalling Wireshark, Fiddler or mitmproxy.
Well, I was interested in preventing others from sniffing the traffic. If I am the app owner or an app user, then anyone on the LAN or shared home network can sniff the traffic.
Anyone interested in a very thorough writing on the British occupation of India should read "The Inglorious Empire" by Shashi Tharoor. It is a very well researched work!
> Eminent Scottish historian William Dalrymple criticised the book, saying it "was written in 12 days, involved no personal archive research and contains some serious factual errors" however he maintained that the book was, nevertheless, "persuasive".[8]
> In a review published in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, economic historian, Tirthankar Roy, a faculty at the London School of Economics criticized the book. He noted that "Tharoor makes his case with passion and plain good writing. The facts cited in the book are beyond dispute. The story is meant to be blood-curdling and the colourful language — including liberal use of “depredation,” “loot,” “rapaciousness,” “vicious,” “brutality,” “plunder” and “extraction” — produces that effect. Like a religious text, it tells a straight and narrow story with the zeal of a holy warrior. Yet none of these qualities makes the interpretation wrong, however. Few professional historians think that the British Empire ruled India with India’s best interests in mind.
> Another review of Inglorious Empire, published in the Literary Review, by historian John Keay, whose many writings on India include India: A History, applauds Tharoor for "tackling an impossibly contentious subject". However, he deplores the fact that "his moral venom sometimes clouds his own judgement" and notes that many of Tharoor's statistics are very seriously out of date, many coming from the polemics contained in the American Will Durant's Story of Civilisation written in the 1930s, which itself drew on the even earlier work of the crusading American missionary Jabej T. Sutherland, author of India in Bondage.[9]
> A more detailed criticism of Tharoor's book and his use of statistics was set out by the writer of South Asian history Charles Allen in a lecture entitled Quis custodiet ipsos custodes: who owns Indian history? delivered to the Royal Society for Asian Affairs in London on 25 April 2018. A revised version was published in Asian Affairs under the revised title Who Owns India's History? A Critique of Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire.
Have you yourself read the book? The book provides massive list of references from all over the world used for researching the topic.
I will give you an example of how the UK manipulates the facts for consumption of its citizens. After Shashi Tharoor's Oxford Union speech went viral, the BBC published an article by a leading UK "historian". This guy claimed that he never "heard" of the UK damaging hands of Indian handloom weavers to destroy the Indian textile industry to promote it's own! This shows how the UK historians write history. I would urge citizens of UK to visit the former colonies of the UK and talk to the locals and get their facts. It is very well known both within the UK historian community and across the world that the UK history is whitewashed to hide lots of misdeeds of the past. Unfortunately that does not help the country to move forward as most of the country still thinks that they did good by occupying other countries.
Criticism by British people only adds credibility to that book. Even Tirthankar Roy - which seems to be of Indian descent is working for London School of Economics.
So these quotes don't convince me that this book was not "well researched".
I do take into account that Shashi Tharoor as I check on Wikipedia is a politician while born in UK he holds political positions in India - which convinces me that he has all the incentives to write book with "zeal of holy warrior".
Seems like adding link to Shashi wikipedia page and explaining who he is does much better job in showing that book might be more colorful than it should be.
Mr. Tharoor is a current Member of Parliament of India and previously India's Ambassador to the UN. He is a very eloquent speaker and writer.
Here's his famous short speech at the Oxford Union where he made a case for reparations from Britain for its excesses during its reign of the Indian subcontinent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4
We've managed to moderately fuck up the extremely thin layer of gunk that clings to the surface. Not to diminish the magnitude of that “achievement”, but meaningfully the orbital parameters of the moon is another thing entirely.
When performing Valley Kremlinology, it is useful to see Google policies as stemming from a conflict between internal pro-web and anti-web factions. We web developers mainly deal with the pro-web faction, the Chrome devrel and browser teams. On the other hand, the Android team is squarely in the anti-web camp.
When seen in this light the pro-web camp’s insistence on copying everything appy makes excellent sense: if they didn’t Chrome would lag behind apps and the Android anti-web camp would gain too much power. While I prefer the pro-web over the anti-web camp, I would even more prefer the web not to be a pawn in an internal Google power struggle. But it has come to that, no doubt about it.
If you are a small business / entrepreneur and you have a working product on one platform, you should be able to port to another platform with minimal effort, where you can at least have a MVP without having to recreate your front-end from scratch.
- If you already have a website and you want to do an app, PWA is probably a simpler path compared to recreating your front-end in Flutter.
- Likewise if you already have a working Flutter mobile app and your users start to ask for a web or desktop version, it's easy to get some sub-optimal version out with less effort if you can re-use a lot of your Flutter code.
It also makes it easier to maintain if you structure your code in a way that separates out the logic that's specific to platforms.
If you manage to achieve product-market fit and your business benefits from your users being first-class citizens on the web and on the phone, you can start to invest in those development teams.
Companies that size generally don't follow one set of perfectly aligned goals. Both make sense for Google to support, even if they occasionally contradict each other. And that's before you look inside who exactly benefits from which goal.
Want a DB to store highly connected massive graph structure with requirement of auditing and analytics.
> Why do you think RethinkDB would be good for it?
It is a document store, supports changefeed, is distributed and fault-tolerant, supports geospatial types, auto-sharding and can scale horizontally.