donut

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donuton Show HN: Dockerfiler: declarative management of images built from Dockerfiles

> shipping on five year old containers that everyone is afraid to update and no one remembers how to build them.

That's bad. This is not the way to do it. And honestly, this isn't the fault of Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, or any tech. Sounds like the org is broken...

donuton Pulsar – an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging platform

https://www.githubstatus.com/

> Update - We have identified the source of elevated errors and are working on recovery.

> Jul 13, 05:53 UTC

donuton Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive

> the person who had just written a book on server side js for O'Reilly

I'd love to see this unpublished book, if possible!

donuton Instrumentation in Go

Maybe you're right.

But did you know there's a Go font?

https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts

donuton Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

I remember Silicon Toad's page. Lots of cracking software, docs, etc.

donuton Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

The good-looking textured light-sourced bouncy fun smart and stretchy page

https://web.archive.org/web/20160418004131/http://freespace....

Inspired a lot of learning about graphics.

donuton Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now

> ... thanks to Brian Ferris, who created the popular OneBusAway app before being hired by Google in 2011.

https://www.geekwire.com/2015/onebusaway-creator-brings-seat...

donuton Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf]

Will you change it?

donuton Scala: A software tool for microtonic, macrotonic and other alternative tunings

> Scala is written in the programming language Ada.

Huh!

donuton Magical, Mystical JavaScript Transducers

Impressive amount of code and words. I think I'd think twice before approving this in a code review, though.

Why is this not the obvious solution to the stated problem?

  function avgPopularity(slang) {
    let sum = 0;
    let count = 0;
    for (item of slang) {
      if (item.popularity > 0) {
        sum += item.popularity;
        count += 1;
      }
    }
    return sum / count;
  }

donuton Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

You wrote "Point." - did you mean "Period."?

donuton CodeSandbox

Yeah same. What's it doing?

donuton Hints for Computer System Design (1983) [pdf]

From 1983!

donuton Datasette Facets: Faceted Browse and a JSON API for any CSV File or SQLite DB

Nice. Looking forward to trying this out.

Reminds me of http://openrefine.org/.

donuton Why SQLite Does Not Use Git

> Git encourages a style in which individual developers work in relative isolation, maintaining their own branches and occasionally rebasing and pushing selected changes up to the main repository.

> Fossil, in contrast, strives to keep all changes from all contributors mirrored in the main repository (in separate branches) at all times.

From https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v...

donuton Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes

I think of the combination as DRY KISS - do repeat yourself to keep it simple, stupid!

donuton Show HN: Simple image resizing/optimization service

Nice features and presentation. Looks great.

But those aren't URLs. Do you document how images are retrieved, http or https?

donuton Site Reliability Engineering

This essay talks about the difference between thinkers, doers and janitors.

http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/03/16/engineers...

In it the difference is erased and people are reorganized in a, I think, more productive way.

donuton A Git query language

It's the UNIX principle/tradition that line oriented text is the universal format. It's quite flexible. But I share your feeling, and I keep hearing nice things about powershell.

Also, if you work with CSV files, look at textql.

donuton Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices

Roku was spun off from a Netflix project:

http://www.fastcompany.com/3004709/inside-netflixs-project-g...

donuton Nintendo's SmileBASIC for 3DS

Thanks for this background. I would've loved to have something like this when I was growing up. I'm sure I'd enjoy playing with this today, when it's released in English.

donuton Nintendo's SmileBASIC for 3DS

Can someone edit the title to be "SmileBASIC for Nintendo 3DS"?

donuton Microsoft Small Basic

That does look pretty interesting. Here's the english-language page with examples: http://smilebasic.com/en/

Wish I had this when I learned to program :-)

Edit: and this hilarious video with english subtitles! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgnAmLwtP6Q

donuton IBM System 38 (1984) [pdf]

Nice.

I recall writing REBOOT.COM myself by using EDIT.COM and writing two bytes (0xCD 0x18 by typing Alt-205 Alt-24, if I recall right) and saving it. That executes interrupt 0x18 which should start the BASIC interpreter in the ROM. But most PCs didn't have one, so instead it rebooted. I discovered this by experimentation :-)

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/rbinter/id/50/22.html

donuton IBM System 38 (1984) [pdf]

Keep reading... ;-)

  and—instead of being fired—I was just about to be offered a new job!

donuton The Software Engineer’s Guide to Negotiating a Raise

What do you mean by corporate cruft?

donuton The Dancing Traffic Light [video]

Love the idea. I wonder if it makes people dance on the edge of the of the sidewalk!

What would happen if two people went into the box?

donuton How I Created the Iconic iPhone Sound

In the episode of the excellent podcast "99% Invisible", there is a story of how the iOS unlocking sound was created:

http://99percentinvisible.org/post/3230995265/episode-15-the...

donuton Who Can Name the Biggest Number?

seems relevant: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_c...

donuton Keep a programming journal

Dijkstra's notes are available here:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/

They are hand written as you said.