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aalpbalkan··on Goji: a web microframework for Go
It is good to have many web microframeworks in a language ecosystem. In Python probably there are a hundred of those. Many of those are not picked up by the community –a natural selection. Only really a few of those survived. It all depends on you if you are going to choose Revel, Martini, Goji or whatever you want. Today, thousands of apps run on web.py, yet most of the source code is untouched last 3-5 years (https://github.com/webpy/webpy/tree/master/web) It's impressive it just works!

Personally, I am looking for frameworks that many people rely on, maintained frequently as needed and works just fine. There could be a +-10% difference on QPS those framework URL routers can handle and render a 'hello world' page.

So this is a nice attempt I would say, looks cleaner than Martini, still supports middlewares. On the other hand, Martini has support to serve static files, logging, panic recovery, which are also good and has a bigger fanboy community around it: https://github.com/go-martini/martini

aalpbalkan··on Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
Certainly a cool idea but it didn't work fine on an XKCD comic:

http://www.xkcd.com/ bottom line here is recognized as: "T1EN°5'lI'ONAl.1?E£ONNH\56PNCE(YHCEPlP6fiN(N)SURLH’PR3AO-i‘lDlsIr'£7E‘5IJ%z"

aalpbalkan··on Krueger Statement on Use of Airbnb for Floating Brothels
> (underlined) Today it's a prostitution ring, tomorrow it could be an illegal gambling ring, and maybe next week it could be a drug operation.

This is textbook 'slippery slope' fallacy. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/slippery-slope You said that if we allow A to happen, then Z will eventually happen too, therefore A should not happen.

aalpbalkan··on Ask HN mods: Why are you killing Dropbox submissions?
That's a problem with the comments, not the story itself. If it's upvoted and legitimate content (in this case it is closely about startup world) , shouldn't it be staying where it is? Something with hundreds of upvotes probably should not go to the second page just because a few flagged the story.
aalpbalkan··on Ask HN: Why is the RiceDropbox article penalized in the ranking?
This must be "comments", not "stories" I believe?
aalpbalkan··on Introducing Hourly Billing
DigitalOcean is doing this since the beginnning.
aalpbalkan··on TLS/SSL implementation in Haskell
TLS implementation in Go. http://golang.org/pkg/crypto/tls/

Go is probably better at this.

aalpbalkan··on Ballast: A tool for balancing user load across SSH servers
Sourceforge? Seriously? Why do NASA people and academia still upload things to SF instead of GitHub?
aalpbalkan··on Twitter spam wave
Proof of concept? The attacker might use something else in the future.
aalpbalkan··on Brendan Eich steps down as Mozilla CEO
Discussed earlier today.
aalpbalkan··on Show HN: I built this notifying device – electronics, code, design, marketing
This is cool marketing but it is way expensive than I expected. I am not sure pricing is DIY-friendly but you would certainly find people to buy that.
aalpbalkan··on Sugar Love
Somebody remove /print/ in the url.
aalpbalkan··on Crazy Stone computer Go program defeats Ishida Yoshio 9 dan with 4 stones
Took me a while to realize the program actually isn't written in Go.
aalpbalkan··on Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
Now for those without context, that was to match Google Cloud Platform's aggressive offering they announced just yesterday. Now it's Windows Azure's turn I guess.
aalpbalkan··on Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not To Hire Apple Workers
Here's an earlier story about this: http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/27/2753701/no-poach-scandal-u...
aalpbalkan··on Open source bike comparison and review
It is pretty good you have lots of brands already in your database, however the comparison UI is not much helpful. e.g. an end-user of bikes might not understand what 105, Tiagra, Ultrega means and just showing specs is not enough IMO. How about you also compare components one by one in rows of a table for each bike and then greens/reds tell us which one is better?
aalpbalkan··on It Is Time For Basic Income
Totally off-topic: What a domain name...
aalpbalkan··on Twitter is blocked in Turkey
That's old. IP and URL based censorship methods (with TCP packet inspection) is in place already in Turkey. We have seen various individual URLs getting blocked related to the the bribery and corruption leaks of PM and other ministers in past few months. So don't be so hopeful. DNS is not a permanent solution, they can block it entirely just tomorrow.
aalpbalkan··on Recruiting Humans with HTTP Headers
This was cool in 2008, maybe even earlier. It's not anything fancy anymore. I was able to view headers of pages when I was 15 and it is probably the worst way of getting applications. Instead, put up a few problems you had while development of your product and get solutions to your recruiting email. See if people can come up with similar or better things. This will make you find better engineers. Headers will get you script kiddies.
aalpbalkan··on Online CloudFront Invalidator
This is dangerous to use. The code sends my secret access key over an insecure HTTP connection to Yahoo Pipes servers. (God knows what they store.) I will never use that.
aalpbalkan··on 30 Days of Inbox Zero: How I Did it
If you don't have any concerns regarding privacy or security, use Mailbox app http://www.mailboxapp.com/ I do #inboxzero very easily and it's so piece of cake, I don't need to write blog post about to tell how I did it.
aalpbalkan··on Massive Twitter Botnet
I tried some of those twitter handles and they're already suspended.
aalpbalkan··on Is Twitter down for anyone else?
I'm getting:

Twitter is currently down for maintenance. We expect to be back shortly. For more information, check out Twitter Status. Thanks for your patience!

This is too bad. It comes if you refresh enough. But in the middle of the day, why would they do maintenance? Sorry Raffi, you failed this time.

aalpbalkan··on Show HN: World Population with D3
This is surprisingly slow on my computers whereas other WebGL stuff are rendered pretty well. I guess that's the cost of doing things with SVG.
aalpbalkan··on OneName – Distributed Identity Database using Namecoin
/u/britneyspears is my favorite.
aalpbalkan··on DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS
Classic TC title "to Take on AWS"... Don't make me laugh buddy. AWS is probably more than 1,000+ people operation with 30 different products and a marketplace, support and ops teams. DigitalOcean is purely a VM seller with no cloud or storage features.
aalpbalkan··on Exist
I did something very similar on my website and called it Personal Dashboard. See it here: http://alp.im (p.s. It's open source)
aalpbalkan··on Iconic – An Icon System Designed for the Modern Web
Not when an equivalent free option is available.
aalpbalkan··on Show HN: Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the Rails Tutorial
Congrats, looks good. Will it remain free? What will be the restrictions in the future.
aalpbalkan··on Iconic – An Icon System Designed for the Modern Web
Paying for icons? No thanks. I have http://fontawesome.io/
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