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baghalion Qanat

There is also this video about Qanats in Iran: https://www.facebook.com/32848633159/videos/1015351116587816...

Sorry for the fb link, could not find it in YouTube

baghalion Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet

Nope! This is recipe for disaster. We need people like Mandela to do what he did with his prison guard :)

Eye for an eye, makes the whole world blind.

baghalion Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet

Nope! We need reform

baghalion Linux QoS for humans

What are the pros/cons of using FireQoS vs. OpenWRT's SQM?

baghalion Linux QoS for humans

Oops, never mind: http://firehol.org/installing/openwrt/

baghalion Linux QoS for humans

This is awesome. Would be great if it gets OpenWRT integration as well.

baghalion Tcpdump is amazing

For a moment I read Tcpdump as Trump

baghalion Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet

I'm curious to know how Pinterest or Instagram decide about what goes inside each shard? Do they shard by user ids or something else? Secondly, would like to know if a shard gets more data than other shard, how do they load balance?

baghalion Rearchitecting GitHub Pages

Question from Githubbers:

Have considered using cluster file systems such as GlusterFS or Ceph?

baghalion Twilio Adds Low-Cost, Two-Way MMS Picture Messaging to Its API Cloud

Bandwidth.com being a wholesale carrier of VoIP services is the primary carrier for Twilio, Plivo, Google Voice, etc...

Bandwidth delivers SMS over SMPP. Initially the MMS launch was due for mid October, seems they launched it ahead of time.

In the following weeks you'll see lots of different providers announcing their MMS capability.

Bandwidth should get the credit for their brilliant work.

baghalion Twilio Adds Low-Cost, Two-Way MMS Picture Messaging to Its API Cloud

Well, all the kudos should go to Bandwidth.com the primary carrier of of Twilio, Plivo, Google Voice, etc ...

baghalion How to create good outcomes when negotiating

"Begin with the end in mind"

-- Stephen Covey (Habit 2, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

Above rule has helped me a lot throughout my personal and professional life.

baghalion Roundcube Webmail 1.0.0 released

Your [2] link is awesome :)

baghalion Ask HN: Is Ryan Bates okay?

<3 you Ryan, owe you my business

baghalion Elasticsearch – the definitive guide

Easiest way for me to learn Elasticsearch was through queries generated by Kibana [1] and playing with them inside Sense [2]. Kibana relies on Facets, version elasticsearch 1.0 introduces Aggregations, I would suggest using aggregations for your projects.

[1] https://github.com/elasticsearch/kibana

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sense/doinijnbnggo...

baghalion Zapier Email Parser: Extract Text From Automated Emails

Is it possible to extract repeating patterns? example would be extracting repo name, number of stars, language and project description from GitHub Archive daily digests.

sample mail: http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=439aa16a39e4b10e0b65ff2e...

baghalion Etcd 0.3.0 – Improved Cluster Discovery, API Enhancements and Windows Support

Has anyone checked out serf http://www.serfdom.io/ if yes what are the pros and cons of etcd and serf?

baghalion Setting up Sublime Text 2

GoSublime [1] is also an awesome plugin if you write Go code.

[1] https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime

baghalion The Beauty of Concurrency in Go

> why is there a hardcoded date marked 2006.01.02-15.04.05 there??

Date is not hardcoded, it's Go's convention of formatting date [1]

[1] http://golang.org/pkg/time/#Time.Format

baghalion Keep TODOs in git

The best TODO tool for me is pen & a paper. Silence is also the best music I have found to listen to while working :)

baghalion Go 1.1 Beta 2 Released

I would highly suggest watching Rob Pike's [1] talks [2] on youtube about Go.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike

[2] http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Rob+Pike&oq=...

baghalion Is Your Bank Open Today? (GUI & API for checking if banks are open)

Why POST for the api? This should be a simple GET.

baghalion Web Framework Benchmarks

We need a project similar to TodoMVC [1] for benchmarking different languages and frameworks.

http://todomvc.com/

baghalion How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server

Without Chef there would be no way for me to rollout a new server in our cluster. Investing time into Chef was one of the greatest things I ever did. Chef is the best documentation of our infrastructure. The second best tool I'm using is fpm[1] to make custom debian packages.

[1] https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

baghalion Vim After 11 Years

I personally enjoy being able to split panes vertically with iTerm2

baghalion MySQL vs PostgreSQL

repmgr[1] is a very good replication option for PostgreSQL

[1]https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/repmgr

baghalion Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints

just eat alkaline and you will be healthy

baghalion Ruby Patterns from GitHub's Codebase

We are still doing massive development, once our codebase is stable enough we will move them into small gems, right now it's just a bit of hassle running bundle update for every small increment.

baghalion Ruby Patterns from GitHub's Codebase

I don't know what github is doing about their models, but I have fairly easy solution of my own: I always symlink models in my projects.

We have 2 large Rails projects and an API server using Goliath[1], one of the Rails projects and the goliath server use models with symlinks.

[1] Goliath: http://postrank-labs.github.com/goliath/