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bunchesofdonald··on The O'Reilly Media Microservice Chassis
There are talks internally about working towards open-sourcing it, I don't know if/when that'll happen, but it's definitely something we're interested in doing.

We didn't try any of the others, I know that there are quite a few in Golang and Java, but we're pretty python centric at the moment and felt that building it with the tools we have was a better approach.

bunchesofdonald··on Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?
Taking a remote job and moving to Oregon. I grew up in the mid-west and worked for a family-run real-estate business, it took a lot to leave that environment, but the housing crash of 2008 made it easier as it was a very real possibility that the company would go bankrupt.

I got a remote-job and since I could live anywhere I took the opportunity to also get away from Indiana and I haven't looked back since.

bunchesofdonald··on Your license to use React.js can be revoked if you compete with Facebook
We were beginning to use React for a few things at my company, but we had our legal counsel review the license and they essentially said to use something else if we could. They weren't really worried about it, but enough so to advise avoiding it.
bunchesofdonald··on Ask HN: Why exactly do you dislike Oculus?
No, the wife beating question is completely different. It implies that you were beating your wife and at some time stopped, causing any answer given to make it sound like you're in agreement that you did beat your wife.

A negative answer to the question posed here would simply mean that you don't dislike Oculus.

bunchesofdonald··on Vrome (Vim key mappings for Chrome) v1.0 released.
I've been using http://vimium.github.com/ for a long time now. They seem very similar, I may play with it see which I like better.
bunchesofdonald··on Show HN: Bookqueue, The Antisocial Bookshelf Application
I really like the idea. I often will buy books, intending to read them (someday), and then promptly forget that I have them. This would be great for that, and I like the past stats for how many pages/books I've read.

Here are some notes I took while playing with the site:

1. It would be great to have a way to add multiple books to your queue at the same time, or at least to not have to re-do your search after you've added a book. Especially when you're loading in a back-log.

2. Have more than 10 search results.

3. If you hit the back button, after a book has been added, you get the book twice. (It happened when I added Anathem to the 'will read' list.)

4. Make Author name clickable, so it shows a list of books by that author.

5. Why would I want to edit the description/title/author of a book that's already in the system? I think you might consider making this an admin function and have a way to submit changes, rather than letting users deal directly with that.

6. It would be great to have a recommendation system, or maybe more orthogonal to the system would be to specifically recommend someone's next book. I know I often have problems deciding what my next book should be.

bunchesofdonald··on Facebook.com redirecting to Microsoft.com
Works fine here. Have you checked for Malware? Someone messing with your hosts file/DNS?
bunchesofdonald··on I don't want to live in a world without Microsoft and neither do you
Way to completely miss the point, Microsoft is not going to 'disappear'. Anyone who says this probably also thinks that David Copperfield actually made the Statue of Liberty disappear.

Ms Shinder must own a farm to have come up with that much straw.

bunchesofdonald··on Xkcd Password Generator
The comic is already taking worst case scenario into account, that the cracker knows that your password is made of words and which dictionary you used to generate the password.

In the comic he is using a 2048 word dictionary, which gives 11 bits of entropy per word (log2(2048)), with a password made up of four words that gives a total of 44 bits of entropy.

But if we were to assume that the cracker knows nothing about our password, say other than it being all lowercase a-z, then we have an entropy per character of log2(26) or 4.7. For the phrase "correct horse battery staple", which has a length of 28, the bit entropy of that phrase, under those conditions is 4.7 * 28 = 131.6. Which is nearly to the point of the cracker being more likely to find a collision.

bunchesofdonald··on A new use for the scroll bar
Neat idea for an interface, but as others have pointed out the demo needs some work.
bunchesofdonald··on Ask HN: When was the last time you used big-o in a web app?
I disagree as well. Certainly most code that runs when you actually view a page in a web app is O(N), but there are many web apps that do backend computing that is much more complicated. Take Google and Netflix as examples.
bunchesofdonald··on The Death of the Feed (what I read and why)
Maybe I'm just old, but my primary source of information is still RSS. I don't get this whole 'death of the feed' thing, are enough people really just visiting a handful of websites each day?
bunchesofdonald··on Game: Multitask - test your ability to mulitask
First try, 91. Once the fourth game comes on it gets really hard.
bunchesofdonald··on Too Lazy To Count Calories? Now You Can Just Take A Picture Of Your Meal
The ranges are way to wide for this to be anything but a toy. 150-614 calories for a handful of cashews? That's a difference of nearly 25% of a 2000 calorie diet, that's very significant, to the point of it being useless.
bunchesofdonald··on Wolfram Alpha Changes Its Name
Really?
bunchesofdonald··on Ask HN: What SSL Cert Provider Do You Use?
Why do we have to have ssl cert providers? I understand when you're doing ecommerce, it makes sense. But for a website that is just trying to do SSL to get past firesheep, or simply because they are transmitting sensitive information, doesn't it make sense to allow them to just encrypt their traffic?

To answer the actual question, we use godaddy.

bunchesofdonald··on Ask HN: Dropbox?
I've used it ever since it was in beta, (for around 2 years), and I've never had a problem with it, as michael_dorfman said, "it just works."
bunchesofdonald··on JQuery Blueprint - a js templating framework in just 30 lines of code.
I hadn't... but it still looks like it does far more than I want. But it does look like it might be one step up in functionality, for those who want just a little more control over the rendering process.
bunchesofdonald··on JQuery Blueprint - a js templating framework in just 30 lines of code.
As far as features, there aren't many. I'd looked at all the other js templaters and they all seemed to do too much, IMO. I just wanted one that would take an html template, let me give it a data object, and have it render it into an element on the page.

Speed wise, I haven't benchmarked it, but it uses regex (admittedly not the best way) and jquery.append() to do the heavy-lifting, that combined with the fact it's doing very little, it should be very fast.

I'm working on making it parse the template first that way I can get rid of the regex, or at least minimize it's usage.

bunchesofdonald··on Ask HN web designers/devs: What are your pain points?
HTML. I really hate writing html. Especially html forms. I've recently run across HAML, which I think is gorgeous, but unfortunately we're a python/django house ATM.
bunchesofdonald··on Ask HN web designers/devs: What are your pain points?
I use dropbox. The server has it's own account, and I share the folders I want to sync with that account. That way it's all synced automatically.