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jmickey··on Show HN: Android 'root' phones via dirtyc0w exploit
Well if you can run any executable as root, that sure counts as rooting in my book.
jmickey··on Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
Please consider Board Games as an alternative to Computer Games. There has never been a better time to get into the hobby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKgz-UBEhss :)
jmickey··on Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
I think it would be useful to give examples on how or where you your site finds an item at a price that I, presumably, was not able to find?

It sounds sketchy. :)

Also not sure if the whole workflow of your clients providing prices for items and then hoping your site delivers will work. How do I know the price I provided is realistic at all?

If you already have the capability to find items cheaply, just list those items on your website and let people purchase them :)

jmickey··on Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS
There's a good overview of IPFS here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skMTdSEaCtA
jmickey··on Barack Obama on A.I., Autonomous Cars, and the Future of Humanity
OK, but is there a demand for so many PhDs? Having a PhD doesn't really guarantee a good income now. It will be worse once everyone has one.

This makes sense, if there is some sort of government sponsorship or grants, but providing these to all people would mean drastically higher taxes, and companies are opposed to those.

jmickey··on Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
I still don't get why Opsworks is not getting more love?

I guess people don't like Chef? Opsworks has enabled hassle free deployments for us over the past three years or so at no additional cost. :)

jmickey··on Mapping the Mercantilist World Economy
Thank you for the insightful article! Sadly it only covers historical trade routes. Are similar maps available for present day? I.e. What are the main trade routes for different types of goods?
jmickey··on Show HN: Make notes, mindmaps, diagrams online – for studying or brainstorming
Nice project! Is there a snap to grid functionality? Being able to easily align a diagram is a must have for me.
jmickey··on Ask HN: Location-independent entrepreneurs, where do you live and why?
Kudos to you. I'm in a similar situation where while working remotely I have decided to stay in my home town with family, so they don't age alone.
jmickey··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2016)
SEEKING WORK - Remote

We are an experienced web development team based in Latvia.

In the past we have worked with: * PHP (including Symfony, Laravel, CodeIgniter frameworks and Wordpress development) * Javascript (jQuery, AngularJs, React, Meteor, Typescript)

We are happy to take on big and small projects. Feel free to contact us via our website or drop us an e-mail!

http://novoit.eu/ support@novoit.eu

jmickey··on Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch
What is your experience with using Docker Swarm in a production environment? I have heard conflicting views regarding it.
jmickey··on Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch
Any plans to include Bitbucket repositories?

Bitbucket offers a more favorable pricing policy for development agencies, which would potentially be heavy users of your service.

jmickey··on Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
A while ago I helped develop iSpike - http://ispike.sourceforge.net/, which is an interface between the iCub robot (http://www.icub.org/) and a Spiking Neural Network simulator (We used SpikeStream - http://spikestream.sourceforge.net/)

The coolest part is that there exists a pretty complete simulator for the iCub robot that anyone who is interested can run on their computer - http://eris.liralab.it/wiki/Simulator_README

jmickey··on Database versioning best practices
What about versioning data? For most projects we have SQL tables consisting of preconfigured data, that is essential for the project to work. (predefined templates, initial configuration settings) How do you go about producing an SQL difference script for your data, getting it under version control and then applying it at the push of a button?

Currently we are using the Toad for SQL tool for producing and applying both schema and data diffs between our development environments, but it's a Windows only tool.

jmickey··on Diffoscope: in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories
How does this differ from Meld or WinDiff?
jmickey··on How to make Selenium tests reliable, scalable, and maintainable
Mostly these would be cases where the browser would, seemingly at random, end up in an unpredictable state and all proceeding test scenarios would fail because of this. (Page is white, or a completely unrelated website gets opened. We have seen lots of weird situations so far)

This might be exacerbated by the fact that we use the remote Browserstack Selenium hosting service so that the tests can be executed automatically as a part of our deployment process.

jmickey··on How to make Selenium tests reliable, scalable, and maintainable
This has been our experience as well. We invested a lot of time and money in making sure Selenium tests run reliably for our clients. Despite this, the best reliability we managed to achieve was 90% with tests that run for 40 minutes, which is obviously not acceptable.

We have compiled a few tips we learned along the way in our blog post - http://novoit.eu/blog/05-5-tips-when-writing-Selenium-browse...

jmickey··on Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage in Seconds
Does the iTunes licence permit using songs from your player in a video montage that is then shown to others/uploaded on Youtube?

I would have thought any music you have purchased is only for your personal use and derivative work is not allowed?

jmickey··on Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly
Am I the only one who thinks there actually is quite a difference between minified & obfuscated javascript vs bytecode?

Minification & obfuscation can only do so much without changing the logic of the script. Sure, spaces are removed, variable and function names make no sense, but most of the logic is still there just as the developer intended.

If we look at compiled Java/C++/Any high level language code, how the application logic is presented is substantially different from the original logic of the application. Making it so much harder to understand how the application works.

jmickey··on Typedrummer
Slight variation - http://typedrummer.com/0r4ki5
jmickey··on Ask HN: How do you log application events?
Surprised no-one has mentioned Papertrail yet - https://papertrailapp.com/

We use them for all our apps and have not seen any issues so far. It can be a bit tricky to set up, but once the logging works, it's hassle free from then on. Pricing is also very affordable.

jmickey··on Mars: The Planet That Lost an Ocean’s Worth of Water
Wouldn't it be more correct to say "the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere helps retain water on planets"?

We don't really know how well presence of oxygen correlates with presence of life yet, do we? :)

jmickey··on Is it really 'Complex'? Or did we just make it 'Complicated'? [video]
I find it hard to believe that someone would pay you a salary for three years to do something that is completely useless to everyone.

At the very minimum, the fruits of your labour are useful to your boss/customer. That is already a single positive impact in someone's life right there.

Most likely, your boss/customer then used your developments in their primary business, which, no doubt, affects even more people in a positive way.

I believe being in technology, we have the capability to positively affect many orders of magnitude more people, than in most other industries. So cheer up! ;)

jmickey··on Show HN: Meteor Based Multiplayer Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
Hi mostelato,

We actually have one. It is available to users who log in via Facebook at the moment. You earn levels as well as coins. :)

jmickey··on Show HN: Meteor Based Multiplayer Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
Hi all,

Thought I'd share our latest project. Feedback and suggestions welcome!

jmickey··on Waffle.io
From the Trello wiki page - "Trello uses a paradigm for managing projects known as kanban"
jmickey··on Vim3D – A new 3D vi clone [video]
I find it hard to see who this tool is for? 3d artists seem to prefer more graphical ways of interaction as opposed to scripting/entering commands.

Perhaps developers/statisticians/scientists looking to visualise their data?

jmickey··on Show HN: AdminJS, the Backend-Agnostic Administration Framework
http://www.jtable.org/ is another similar product we have used before.
jmickey··on CoderPad
I recently used http://thereq.com/ for a similar purpose. Features I liked:

  * I can set interview questions in various languages
  * Candidate can write code right away, I can see everything he/she writes
  * Code can be executed to see the result right away
  * This even works for SQL, they have a sample schema the candidate can manipulate
  * They have a fairly large library of questions you can just add to your interviews
  * It's completely free as far as I can tell
No affiliation with the site, but it was very useful for me.
jmickey··on Project Mesos - Twitters take on Google Borg
There is an article about this on Wired: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/google-borg-twi...
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