LiamPa

387 karma · joined August 15, 2016

LiamPa··on Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

I always wondered why it was in the requests source code.

https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/9b95b4e7b4df1865b058161...

LiamPa··on PayPal blocks donations to The Grayzone that mention Iran

You can mention them but your transaction will be blocked until it is reviewed. The review process will depend on the FI in question with some not as efficient as others...

The fines for breaking US sanctions are just to big to ignore so risk appetites tend to err on the side of caution.

LiamPa··on PayPal blocks donations to The Grayzone that mention Iran

Iran is on the FATF black list and features a lot in the OFAC sanctions lists, any transaction mentioning Iran is going to be blocked.

LiamPa··on Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?

Recommend ‘Designing data intensive applications’

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...

LiamPa··on Show HN: LegraJS – Draw using Lego-like brick shapes on Canvas

Looks very similar to legofy

https://github.com/JuanPotato/Legofy

LiamPa··on Read Write Files in Python

No mention of the most commonly used context manager?

LiamPa··on Docker containers in space

Good question as time is slower in space..

LiamPa··on Docker Hub Registry is down

I wish I knew this 2 years ago, going to have to migrate to something that isn’t down every month.

LiamPa··on Ask HN: Who has the best personal website/blog?

https://brandur.org/articles

Great articles and I personally love the diagrams.

LiamPa··on [dead]

+1 you should read his book ‘why we sleep’ it’s fascinating.

LiamPa··on The brain may actively forget during REM sleep

Strongly recommend reading ‘Why we sleep’ if you want to learn more about rem / nrem, it’s fascinating how little we know.

LiamPa··on Ask HN: When selling a software business, does code quality affect sale price?

There is a good chapter in Chaos Monkeys regarding this and facebooks review of the code.

LiamPa··on What do you think about www.roynac.com? Any feedback please

Slow here as well (UK) also it should be ‘7 reviews’ not ‘7 review’

LiamPa··on Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance

It’s a shame, used to read so much on medium but now I just read the hackernews comments.

LiamPa··on You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face

*202 never to be executed

LiamPa··on Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

Interesting, I like the withdrawn notes page

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/withdrawn-banknote...

LiamPa··on Underground line to heat up north London homes

Heat is becoming a real problem, note that most of it is from the brakes which is why the station is commonly higher than the main track to try and take advantage of GPE.

LiamPa··on Ask HN: What have you automated that saved you a ton of time?

I have a few instances of bit bar monitoring services / logs / up time.

https://github.com/matryer/bitbar

This has completely stopped me from stressing/anxiety over potential issues as I can just look to the top of my screen.

LiamPa··on A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station

Sorry yes £25k for agricultural land but goes straight to the millions with planning permission.

LiamPa··on A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station

20 minutes from London you are looking at about 5-10m per hectare and as mentioned good luck finding an empty square meter let alone a hectare.

LiamPa··on Ask HN: What's the current state of the art in dream research?

Read ‘Why We Sleep’ by Mathew Walker, it’s an amazing book.

LiamPa··on Ask HN: What is your favourite post on a company's internal tech architecture?

Not a single tech company as such but this opened my eyes to HFT: