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10 years ago
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on: Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours
I don't agree with that I don't feel like I'm underpaid or overpaid, however, I know of great unjust between gender and ethnicity and all I want is equality for all.
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10 years ago
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on: Running a modern infrastructure stack
Thanks for the resources, I will for sure be following these. My dream is that one day I can do something similar to `docker-compose scale db=5` and have a database that is highly available.
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10 years ago
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on: Running a modern infrastructure stack
I would love to see approaches similar to the attempt for elasticsearch for all major databases as out of the box highly available, that would make me sleep a lot better at night. For the mean time I'm just going to manage my databases traditionally (through a service or run by myself). It seems like its really a problem that needs to be solved, other than that I'm a huge fan of these infrastructure approaches.
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10 years ago
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on: Running a modern infrastructure stack
Maybe I'm missing the right articles or I'm thinking about this the wrong way, but I can't seem to find any resources on how people run databases in these kinds of infrastructure stacks. I mean I have no problem understanding how I can deploy my 12 factor application on kubernetes for example and load balance to those, but persistence seems to be missing. Do people just use Amazons/Compose/etc Database offerings and don't worry about it themselves?
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10 years ago
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on: Coding academies are nonsense
Couldn't agree more. Code is highly dimensional while our text editors are two dimensional at best. In case you don't know these talks I think you will enjoy The Future of Programming and Inventing on Principle both by Bret Victor.
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10 years ago
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on: Docker Acquires Tutum
I somehow felt like the docker team was closer with the Rancher team, so I thought docker might acquire Rancher at some point. I think this is a move to produce revenue in the future while Rancher is yet another open source project to monetize.
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10 years ago
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on: GNU Taler – Electronic payments for a liberal society
I've recently been at an event where Richard Stallman was promoting this. I'm pretty sure it's part of the GNU Project.
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10 years ago
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on: Material Design Lite
Neat. Really like the approach.
Is anyone else noticing the distracting optical illusion in the logo when reading the first paragraph on the landing page? If I am not the only one, someone should find a way to fix it.
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10 years ago
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on: Ubuntu One file syncing code Open Sourced
I've missed that, thanks! Then it totally makes sense since it's their own platform.
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10 years ago
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on: Ubuntu One file syncing code Open Sourced
Neat. I really liked Ubuntu One. However, if they seek to receive contributions I think GitHub would give them more exposure than launchpad, from what I can tell the history is not preserved (probably with good reasons) so the switch from bazaar would not have been painful.
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10 years ago
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on: Fast Ruby – A collection of common Ruby idioms
I agree, before you start implementing all these changes you should probably also spot the time consuming parts of your software using a profiler. Otherwise you might be making a bad trade-off. My software engineering professor always used to say: "Never start optimizing before you have measured [using a profiler]."
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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What business would you start, given $100K?
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10 years ago
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on: JRuby 9000 released
I've actually found JRuby to be very handy when it comes to packaging. Using warbler I can generate a jar file and then using the javapackager I can create self contained packages for all the major platforms/package managers: windows (.exe/.msi), linux (.rpm, .deb), osx (.dmg). Way more painless than packaging a ruby runtime. I've tried traveling ruby, but have not had the same seamless experience. Especially when it comes to multiple platforms. However, packaging with java, jruby and my application usually turn out to be quite large. Around 80Mb for a CLI and the startup time for short running programs like CLIs using JRuby can be quite long.
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11 years ago
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on: Preview release of duse – Distributed Secrets
Thanks, we want all the feedback we can get! :)
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11 years ago
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on: Vault – A tool for managing secrets
Neat! I've been working on something similar for about the past six months, although my approach is a little more minimalistic, but also based on shamir's secret sharing. I was planning to release a preview the next couple of days. If any one is interested
https://github.com/duse-io/api#how-it-works//edit My solution focuses more on the sharing aspect between people, but can just as well be used like Vault
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11 years ago
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on: Redis 3.0.0 is out
Neat! Really looking forward to that!
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11 years ago
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on: Redis 3.0.0 is out
Does the cluster feature deprecate redis-sentinel?
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Is it foolish to open source your SAAS business source code?
For an application to be ready for customers there is usually a lot more around it. I've met the guys from codebox.io and gitbook.com and what they did with codebox was, they open sourced the web-ide, however, all the infrastructure they build around the SaaS offering was what actually made it work. While users have the possibility to help improve the essential part of your offering, it will still be a lot of work for someone else to be the copycat.
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11 years ago
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on: Amazon Starts Email Service for Companies
I'm actually not too surprised. It seems like Amazon feels like they have to have every online service possible, however, some of their services could be better if they focused on fewer.
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11 years ago
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on: “Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby
I see you used the Levenshtein algorithm to calculate the suggestions, very cool idea. I've noticed lately that it is being used quite more often than in the past. (may just be my perception)
