kolev

1,570 karma · joined March 12, 2008

    {
        "full_name": "Nikolay Kolev",
        "websites": [
            "https://nikolay.com",
            "https://nikolay.io",
            "https://github.com/nikolay",
            "https://twitter.com/nikolay",
            "https://www.facebook.com/nikolay",
            "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolay",
            "https://keybase.io/nikolay",
            "https://www.bitrated.com/nikolay"
        ],
        "proofs": [
            "https://keybase.io/nikolay/sigs/omogzffeJ_CE5PvGf9cVYDRAU1nZRc-kEDfWBRrSDcU"
        ],
        "email": "<%= ['nikolaynkolev', 'gmail.com'].join('@') %>",
        "phone": "**nikolay",
    }

kolevon Our First Certificate Is Now Live

It's like trying to sell a Ferrari to a guy who's looking for a regular car...

kolevon Our First Certificate Is Now Live

Oh, the commenter asked for the overly expensive EV type? Let's not be the devil's advocate. This is the wrong way to advertise. This is not the beginners corner. You advertise once, twice, three times, people remember, you can search HN - no need to annoy people till the end of the world. The company seems desperate for new business this way anyway.

kolevon Our First Certificate Is Now Live

These shameless plugs are getting really annoying. We know about you, we know CloudFlare and Let's Encrypt are kinda competitors with their free certificates, but you don't have to comment on each post about them. Really, stop annoying us - it doesn't do you any good, honestly!

kolevon Sift – a fast and powerful open source alternative to grep

And where's the source?

Edit: Here it is: https://github.com/svent/sift

kolevon iPhone Upgrade Program

I doubt this is better than T-Mobile's Jump program, because you get insurance with Jump as well, i.e. the upgradability is just $3 extra per month.

kolevon Koa – Next Generation Web Framework for Node.js

It's not new and it's been a "next generation framework" for years.

kolevon Show HN: Zephyr - team platform for building great product – free access

Same here! A lot of startups play with your nerves using some guided tour - this is a clear indication that their UX failed miserably. Or maybe the target user base is mentally challenge people.

kolevon Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit

This is what my Chinese friends were telling me over the years, it's true, but shows a broken legal system.

kolevon First demo of Code Lauren, a programming environment for beginners [video]

http://codelauren.com/

kolevon Call to Wait

http://uselesspress.org/things/call-to-wait/

kolevon Python linting at Venmo

Why everybody's doing their on hooks instead of using a framework such as pre-commit [0] or Overcommit [1]?

[0] http://pre-commit.com/

[1] https://github.com/brigade/overcommit

kolevon Hjson, the Human JSON

Except that a valid JSON is a valid Hjson as well.

kolevon Fluentd: a high performance unified logging layer

Well, written in Go or Rust, it could have both the readability of Ruby, the performance of C/C++. Having critical parts in C and the rest in Ruby is worse.

kolevon Fluentd: a high performance unified logging layer

Isn't Fluentd in Ruby though? It's 2015 and we need something like this in Go [0] [1] or Rust [2].

[0] Heka: https://hekad.readthedocs.org/

[1] Chainsd: https://github.com/mikeszltd/chainsd

[2] Flogger: https://github.com/jedisct1/flowgger

kolevon Show HN: Git-remote-dropbox – use Dropbox as a true Git server

For small private repos, GitHub makes the per-GB price very high compared to Dropbox.

kolevon Show HN: A browser-based neural network simulation

The guy doesn't have the habit to open-source.

kolevon Low-fat diet trims body fat better than low-carb diet

Nutrition is notorious with its flawed and sponsored studies!

kolevon Low-fat diet trims body fat better than low-carb diet

Those who had tried low-carb know it takes time to adjust metabolism to the new diet and two weeks is way too short of a period.

kolevon Can America cope with a resurgence of tropical disease?

That's one of the reason smart people should be moving North. Just try to extrapolate problems 10-15-20 years from now. And try to imagine the migration flows and all the repercussions. Don't wait!

kolevon Announcing Docker ToolBox

It will be available in docker-machine v0.5.0 as a plugin.

kolevon Removing the 140-character limit from Direct Messages

When you say "I PM'd you", it's not clear, so, I think, Twitter, by choosing their own term, it uniquely specifies the communication channel, i.e. you can PM via different channels (like Facebook, etc.), but you can DM only via Twitter.

kolevon Kali Linux 2.0 Released

"Kali Linux is Now a Rolling Distribution" - finally!

kolevon L. Condoms (YC S15) Provides Safe Sex, On-Demand

Except that milk is not just empty fat. The CLA in grass-fed milk, the vitamin D, and many other vitamins in milk are not present in coconut milk. Best is to put coconut oil in your warm milk!

kolevon SunPort – Plug into Solar. No Panels Required

What a weird world we're living in! Why can't I just buy $49 in SRECs?!

kolevon VPaint: An experimental vector graphics editor

Homebrew Cask request: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/13121

kolevon Google plans monthly security updates for Nexus phones

So, stay unprotected for an average of half a month? If this is what Google can do best, imagine the others! I'm highly disappointed! Not to mention that Nexus updates, although Google doesn't have so many of them, usually take a whole week to roll out! Google is setting a really bad example here!

kolevon Rise of the Slack bots: automate boring tasks

I don't get it! Why write a Slack bot and not a Lita [0] bot?

[0] https://www.lita.io/

kolevon Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

All these are nice, but are not must-haves as they can be built outside of GitHub. The show-stopper for me is granular permissions - coming from the Gitolite [0] world, where I can permission even branches and do all kinds of checks and balances on the server, GitHub is a joke for a not-so-large enterprise! Another thing is the Wiki - why pages are based on Git and the Wiki is not?!

[0] http://gitolite.com/

kolevon Bitcoin deemed regular currency by Australian Senate Committee

To the moon!!!┗(°0°)┛

kolevon Hulbee – A Safe, Smart, Innovative Search Engine

The animation with the mosaic is just terrible - a visual distraction and slowness no search engine needs.