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c4urself

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Christian Verkerk myfullnamewithnospaces with gmail

Dutch/American developer (mostly Django/Python + HTML/JS/CSS)

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/c4urself; my proof: https://keybase.io/c4urself/sigs/iec_A5QaDghM2ad42rTaJXP98ETR5rEqxXh0ioUKEmY ]

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c4urself··on Simple Bank Is Closing
Sad to see them go, happy user for a long time as well -- anyone know what went wrong? Why did they sell to BBVA / is it just financially infeasible to run a web-based bank?
c4urself··on 2019 Python Developer Survey
Take the survey here: https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/c9-python-developers-survey...
c4urself··on Bazel Release 1.0
Agree. I've been dealing with Python rules for Bazel at work and the default implementation of re-downloading everything with pip became a real pain real fast. Decided to generate the third party py_library with a separate tool instead and much happier for it. As an aside for those looking to start with Bazel, it's worth checking out the BazelBuild Slack -- https://slack.bazel.build/
c4urself··on Why on earth did we choose Jenkins for 2019?
One of the key pieces that we've been missing is an HA setup for Jenkins. We use JJB to automatically create jobs, have everything set up with configuration management, so that works but we still have some downtime if our master loses connectivity etc.
c4urself··on How to Almost Learn Italian
It may have also been what your friend said — French people are quite formal compared to Canadians and Americans — I know some French and was corrected a couple of times based on how I started the conversation: “Good evening” first, then start... most Americans at least don’t talk that way
c4urself··on The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
Wow just had a facepalm moment realising what you said is spot on. To make matters worse small-engined tools that pollute the environment are used weekly to keep the yard nice... what a waste
c4urself··on I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
The problem is that all the issues you name are only marginally bad for the average consumer — there isn’t much motivation to move when the problem isn’t that bad for most. And most importantly all the issues you mention were already solvable with Bluetooth.
c4urself··on Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook
https://xkcd.com/1053/
c4urself··on DND Shades – “Horse Blinkers for Knowledge Workers”
My thoughts exactly, getting “real” work done requires coming in early, staying late or WFH.
c4urself··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
Site Reliability Engineer | Tubular Labs, Inc.| Mountain View, CA and Kiev, UA

Tubular Labs is the worldwide leader in online video intelligence.

Tech we use: Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Spark, Docker, Kafka, Mesos and a variety of hosted solutions on AWS.

Responsibilities: Manage all aspects of the infrastructure as a key hands-on leader.

Note: SRE positions are available in both locations; manager would be in Mountain View

Apply (manager): https://jobs.lever.co/tubularlabs/37bb5fca-48d4-4347-aaba-2d... Apply (SRE): https://jobs.lever.co/tubularlabs/3a49fc11-4576-4ff2-9d81-74...

c4urself··on Ask HN: Is S3 down?
> We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard -- AWS Status

Well that explains all the green checkmarks /s

c4urself··on Ask HN: Is S3 down?
It is, of course the checkmark will stay green throughout this as Amazon doesn't care about actually letting its customers know they have a problem.
c4urself··on Early Warning Detectors Using AWS Access Keys as Honeytokens
Great idea, we had part of a private repo accidentally made public at some point and these kind of honeypot keys would've been triggered pretty quickly and let us know. Would definitely be a cool way to know if something has been leaked.
c4urself··on Forgiveness in a vengeful age
pretty sure you're referring to God as the "third party" -- but I'm not sure how it was revolutionary considering Judaism had a very similar system in place where offerings were presented to God for forgiveness. Jesus is just the ultimate offering in that sense for Christianity.
c4urself··on Ask HN: I just got $100k in AWS credits, how should I use it?
Do what you like -- but reserve instances so you can do it for longer.
c4urself··on What new or hot DevOps/SysAdmin technology do you recommend learning?
SaltStack or Ansible
c4urself··on We Are Entering the Age of Alzheimer's
Wonder if the advance of virtual reality could improve these peoples lives in some way -- kind of what they're doing in the Hogewey complex -- simulate a life that is somewhat "normal" to these people to reduce stress and anxiety.
c4urself··on Ask HN: Palantir or Facebook?
I believe it's "Forward Deployed Engineer" ... heard it said that Palantir doesn't like the term consulting and makes up its own titles...
c4urself··on Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
Love it, looks really nice! Can't believe you stuck with it for 7 years! Great job.
c4urself··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?
Check out changer.in -- they regularly hold PuneJS and are into a lot of the technologies you mention.
c4urself··on Breaking Hacker News's CSRF Protections
You're misunderstanding how CSRF works. Say a user is logged in to the site JoeNotProtectedByCSRF.tld with a session cookie or similar authentication token. SpammySite.tld comes along with a form to POST some change some value on JoeNotProtectedByCSRF.tld such as a password field. Because your browser always sends along the cookies to the end domain, your session cookie will be abused. With a check against a unique-to-the-user CSRF token as a hidden input on the form this doesn't happen.
c4urself··on Watsi (YC W13) raises $1.2M first-of-its-kind 'philanthropic seed round'
Awesome news guys -- cheering this on!

EDIT: Cheering => Donating -- https://watsi.org/fund-treatments

c4urself··on Palantir and Prism: A Possible Link
Seriously, there's a lot of FUD on this thread. Right now it's anecdotal evidence at best that there is a relationship there at all. But most people here seem to be talking about it as if it's already proven fact. Come on HN.
c4urself··on An alternative to alert()
I was actually hoping for an alternative to using alert() in IE7, as that's the only place I still use it for debugging purposes
c4urself··on Google reveals plans for 1.1M square foot, 4 floor ‘Bay View’ campus near SF Bay
I disagree, they're in an ideal location for people from both SF and down to San Jose and Fremont.

That gives their employees a whole lot more choice for housing and makes it more attractive. Every time I see a company that's in SF offering jobs I shudder at the travel time from the valley. It's wonderful if you've already got a place in SF but makes anyone think twice about joining a company when they consider the crazy living costs in SF.

c4urself··on Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire
I read about halfway through the article before I realized they weren't talking about sriracha literally catching fire. Good read nonetheless.
c4urself··on Hapi, new Node.js framework (a prologue)
Wow this looks really nice -- great work! Like the built-in monitor functionality.
c4urself··on Welcome to a New Gist
is there any way to collaborate on gists?
c4urself··on GitHub now has Issue Attachments
What was wrong with ![Alt text](http://imgur/path)?

Seemed like the perfect balance between, hard enough that you don't throw everything on there and eat up space, but useable enough that it works fine when you need it.

c4urself··on Show HN: Summaries of interesting content, written by people
Nice site, really nice UI with the arrow pointing to the bookmark bar. A change in the color of the tl;dr; bookmark when there's a bookmark available would really go a long way! Great job!
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