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hgfischer··on My Portfolio
How do you find time for family AND pet projects? Do you sleep?
hgfischer··on Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET
I think Giorgio A. Tsoukalos would be the best choice instead of Stephen Hawking, who is against finding ETs.
hgfischer··on Ask HN: I just got $100k in AWS credits, how should I use it?
But how did you manage to get that much??
hgfischer··on Bone – Lightning Fast HTTP Multiplexer in Go
This seems to be optimizing the doors opening speed rather than optimize the speed that the donkeys pass through it.
hgfischer··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
I live in a draconian tax country. How can I open a online international business and receive money from anywhere in the world? Do I need to move to a tax heaven?
hgfischer··on Dropbox raises about $250 million at $10 billion valuation
I'm more and more starting to believe that some SV companies are only laundering money.
hgfischer··on Benchmarking Nginx with Go
Hi, I'm the author of this post.

The initial purpose of this test is to compare the different ways of connecting Nginx to Go.

It doesn't makes sense to test against a heavy task in Go instead of this single static string. Nginx in front of Go will not perform better under this circumstances. It will only perform better if static content is being served directly by Nginx or if caching is enabled, which is not the purpose of this test.

Following what some folks suggested, I also made some recent changes, like swapping ab for wrk and tuning nginx to disable gzip and enable keep-alive connections.

The results are very different now.

hgfischer··on Easy Way to Start Monitoring Cloud Servers
Cool
hgfischer··on Ask HN: Share your top 10 linux commands

     1	162  32.4%  ls
     2	71   14.2%  cd
     3	31   6.2%   git
     4	30   6%     sudo
     5	19   3.8%   rm
     6	19   3.8%   find
     7	17   3.4%   mv
     8	9    1.8%   more
     9	9    1.8%   go
    10	9    1.8%   dmesg
hgfischer··on My new job uses sourceforge.
or BitBucket.
hgfischer··on Go-based freegeoip.net now supports SSL for its API
Nice job!! The source code is very well written!
hgfischer··on Burner Phone
What's going on in USA? Why does you care so much about privacy?

You look like crazy paranoid to me, as if you all are trying to hide something from a criminal or a law enforcement.

I bet there are lots of North Americans complaining of this PRISM an Verizon thing, but at the same time is using Foursquare and every cool internet location-based mobile app you also created.

There is a dictate in my country that says (in other words) that "If you are innocent then you have nothing to fear."

This BurnerPhone service would be used only for criminals in my country. I see no use for innocent people. This is too much even for people that have something non-criminal action to hide, like cheating your spouse.

If you have fear of your government watching you, then it's better to move to another country or live like a monkey in the forest. Burn your social security card and go live as if you didn't exist for your government.

hgfischer··on Go 1.1 RC2 is out
There is no new features here, it's just issues being fixed and closed, mostly weird and harcore ones.
hgfischer··on Tell HN: AWS south america has been down for hours, only now Amazon confirms it
I've detected this around 21:45 GMT-2, and still down. Looks like the API is responding now, but still have lots of services down, including RDS and EC2.
hgfischer··on Lauren Ipsum: how to draw a circle
Amazing! When my baby learn to speak I'll certainly read this book to him.