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geetarista··on MS' error message equivalent of F YOU
This happened to me a while back. The only way I could "fix" it was to close Outlook, discarding all my changes. I then made the same changes but saved the rules after every tiny change. Somehow the changes all saved and I moved on.

I wonder if the state somehow becomes corrupted and Outlook has no idea what to do, hence the error.

geetarista··on Anonymous programmers can be identified by analyzing coding style
gofmt ftw ;)
geetarista··on How Paul Graham Is Wrong
Under jasode's thread, you can see that people are missing Paul's point. He's not saying that working with close proximity is the "best" way of working. Yet most people here are debating which type of work is. Each company, market, vertical, team, etc. will vary in manifold ways.

What I believe Paul is asking for is that companies have the option to choose. Right now the option is available to anyone to hire remotely in one way or another. This is not the case with physically hiring into the country. Almost every startup I've worked at has had issues trying to hire exceptional people from another country. In almost every case, we lost those hires to the system and were forced to start the search again.

If a small, remote, international startup grows fast enough and they decide that working together under one roof in the U.S. fits their new needs, they should have the freedom and choice to do so.

geetarista··on Badassify your terminal and shell
Instead of using the z script, why not just use cd and $CDPATH, which are built in? I have mine set to this:

export CDPATH=.:$HOME:$HOME/workspace:$HOME/gocode/src/github.com/geetarista

You can set it to whatever you want, then just use `cd` and not worry about using some other script.

geetarista··on JavaScript for OS X Automation
I recently wrote a blog post about this here: http://robbycolvin.com/javascript-automation-in-os-x-yosemit...
geetarista··on Poll: Unban TempleOS?
That was a very good explanation, but I was actually referring to the state of his comment. Meaning that I was unsure whether it means that it is indeed possible to bring a comment back from the dead or if this comment was somehow an exception to his deadban.
geetarista··on Poll: Unban TempleOS?
Maybe it already does. Somehow this comment isn't dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7791436. Not sure what it means, though.
geetarista··on Postmortem for outage of us-east-1

    On behalf of all of Joyent, we are extremely sorry for this outage, and the severe inconvenience it may have caused to you, and your customers.
I hate it when people apologize saying maybe it was inconvenient. If someone is using your service and you fucked up, it is an inconvenience.
geetarista··on Consul 0.2 UI Demo
The changelog for 0.2 has more details: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v0.2.0/CHANGELOG.md...
geetarista··on StatsD
Also check out Statsite, which is a C implementation of StatsD: https://github.com/armon/statsite
geetarista··on Ask HN: Open source an abandoned Mac app for mockups?
Open sourcing it is a great idea. I'm sure many people would be interested and it would be a way to keep the project alive in some way, seeing as you've put so much time and effort into it.

Also, open sourcing it doesn't preclude the opportunity of releasing it for sale in the Mac App Store if time permits down the road. Textual is a great example of this:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textual-irc-client/id4030126... https://github.com/Codeux/Textual

geetarista··on Ask HN: Do you bake AMIs for AWS deployments?
Right now I'm just using an ansible playbook to provision the box, create the AMI, and destroy the box within a playbook.

In the near future I plan on moving to Packer since it's the perfect tool for the job.

geetarista··on Ask HN: Do you bake AMIs for AWS deployments?
I use Ansible for all configuration management. Boxes that belong to ASGs use Ansible to create a pre-baked AMI, while the rest are just handled with Ansible on a case-by-case basis.
geetarista··on Go vs Java: Decoding Billions of Integers Per Second
I get a 404 when trying to view them.
geetarista··on Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms
For anyone coming from veewee, there is a tool for converting templates to packer: https://github.com/mitchellh/veewee-to-packer
geetarista··on A Practical guide to StatsD/Graphite monitoring
The main reason being that StatsD will max out at about 10K OPS (unless they've improved it recently) whereas Statsite will reach 10 MM. Also, look at the difference between the implementation of sets. StatsD uses a JS object[1] versus statsite using a C implementation of HyperLogLog[2][3]. If you're doing anything significant, you should not be using the node.js version of StatsD.

[1] https://github.com/etsy/statsd/blob/master/lib/set.js [2] https://github.com/armon/statsite/blob/master/src/set.c [3] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub40671.html

geetarista··on GopherCon 2014
According to the post on the mailing list, the tentative schedule is April 25-26 2014 in Denver.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/golang-n...

geetarista··on Learn how to test Rails using Test::Unit instead of Rspec
You do realize that if you're using Ruby 1.9+ you're actually using Minitest, right? It's just a backwards compatible API. Don't confuse people with all the talk about Test::Unit.

Minitest::Spec is just an RSpec-like DSL built on top of Minitest, which is the successor to Test::Unit.

geetarista··on Integrated Network Poller for Go Scheduler
This probably explains better than I could: http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1aajw0/just_landed_t...
geetarista··on Integrated Network Poller for Go Scheduler
Yes, with this change as well as the garbage collector improvements, 1.1 should be an awesome release.
geetarista··on Introducing Boxen
Heard about this a while back from a beta user. Very excited to start playing with it!
geetarista··on A Whole New Code Search
I am crying tears of joy right now. Just. So happy.
geetarista··on A new kind of checking account. No overdraft fees. No worries.
"Thanks for your interest in GoBank. We’re sorry, but we’re unable to complete your membership request right now."
geetarista··on Government formally drops charges against Aaron Swartz
I think the point is that the charges were dropped ONLY because he passed away. There is no mention of any fault in how he was prosecuted even after all the recent press and outcry from so many people. They just washed their hands of it and moved on.
geetarista··on Microsoft pulls the plug on its Silverlight.Net site
Exactly. Other than Netflix, what well-known applications did Silverlight back? None come to mind for me.
geetarista··on Microsoft pulls the plug on its Silverlight.Net site
Let's hope this means they start moving away from it.
geetarista··on Ask HN: How do fellow entrepreneurs deal with the stresses of Christmas?
I've had some lows with work situations and loved ones always understand that kind of situation. What I've done in the past is get creative and try to still give gifts that are homemade or otherwise don't require money. Most of the time, they are so happy and excited for something so novel.

Further reading: http://zenhabits.net/argh/, http://zenhabits.net/bah/, http://zenhabits.net/giftless/

geetarista··on University of California introduces a modern logo
Seems pretty official: http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/
geetarista··on University of California introduces a modern logo
Wow, that looks terrible.
geetarista··on CheckIO is a videogame you play by writing Python.
I wish I had something like this 10 years ago.
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