jimwalsh's comments

jimwalsh | 3 months ago | on: 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

I love this topic and could read an article about War2 development that is 3x the length of this article. A lot of nostalgia coming up from this original article.

jimwalsh | 4 months ago | on: Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage

All the large datacenter/cloud companies do not let hard drives leave the building.

jimwalsh | 1 year ago | on: My Homelab Setup

Love my Ubiquity setup. Nice post OP showing people at of the possible. Have fun learning the setup!

jimwalsh | 2 years ago | on: How Canva saves Amazon S3 costs

Datacenters are expensive to run, for many reasons. That is the appeal of the Cloud right there, before we even start talking about the people aspect.

jimwalsh | 3 years ago | on: Merry Christmas, HN

Love coming here too and seeing what the community is talking about on a given day.

jimwalsh | 3 years ago | on: A homework question in someone’s 11th grade statistics class

Given how surveys work in the real world, D would be done.

jimwalsh | 3 years ago | on: Delayed Messages on iOS

You realize phones can dnd everyone but the people you want to disturb you in the middle of the night now right?

jimwalsh | 3 years ago | on: Largest airship built in United States since 1930s to take shape soon

This is being built in my hometown. That hangar is amazing every time I have visited it. There are even stories of it raining inside and having it's own weather systems [1] . Really great to see them building more blimps again, and pushing what has been done before.

1. http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2015/07/20/the_good...

jimwalsh | 4 years ago | on: Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux

Until the minute I want to play a video game, or start using some non standard device with my PC. Then it turns into a 3 hour session like I'm back in college again.

jimwalsh | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have you found a good desk chair?

Herman Miller Embody, worth every penny. Call wholesalers or office furniture suppliers in your town to see if you can get them at a discount.

This was after years of doing the normal 'buy $200 chair from local place every couple years' routine. I've had this chair now for probably 12 years with no issues at all, no wear either and I sit in it for 8-16 hrs a day too.

jimwalsh | 5 years ago | on: Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store

So OP created a product very similar to Caffeine, with an edgier name and now it's becoming an issue. Where I think you chose the name just to help get into a similar space as Caffeine in the first place.

jimwalsh | 5 years ago | on: The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled

This whole article reads like the person that wrote it owns a datacenter and/or develops monolithic apps still.

jimwalsh | 7 years ago | on: Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs

Yes, you will need to front the bucket with CloudFront and use the AWS Cert Manager to manage your own cert or to get one through AWS (free) and apply it to CloudFront.

jimwalsh | 7 years ago | on: AWS icon quiz

17/20 But I'm in AWS all day every day. I also question a one or two that I missed :)

People suggesting that they follow Adobe's lead. That's all well and good, until you release like 1000 products a year. You tend to run out of two letter combos for your icons.

jimwalsh | 7 years ago | on: MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

I thought the same thing until I actually used it. Turned out to not be that big of a deal.

jimwalsh | 7 years ago | on: GitHub mirror compromise incident report

This is what happens where I work as well.

jimwalsh | 7 years ago | on: Atom 1.28

I am talking about VSCode, but you make a good callout about the two products because many people may not realize the differences. I agree that VSCode and Atom are similar, but you are right, and I feel like many people, end up using plugins to the point that push VSCode to IDE levels.

jimwalsh | 7 years ago | on: Atom 1.28

I love Atom and use it as my default text editor. There are all these people talking about IDE wars in the comments. I feel like Atom is an enhanced text editor at best. But the comparisons to VSCode and then eventually IntelliJ...not even the same ballpark.

jimwalsh | 7 years ago | on: Python Environment

Homebrew installing Python and installing virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper makes life easy.

All of these methods people are listing that requiring me to do more than manage one file (requirements.txt) is sort of missing the point.

I get that a lot of Node developers are coming to Python to do things, and that's great. But the environments don't need the exact same tools. pipenv seems to fix a problem I never encounter with pip/virtualenv during daily development work.

jimwalsh | 8 years ago | on: Original Windows File Manager with enhancements

So you want a better readme on most projects?