markus23

11 karma · joined April 3, 2015

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markus23··on "Security is our top priority" is meaningless

security (at least as meant in the advertisement) is also output

markus23··on Ask HN: How can I find something worthwhile to do?

Relax and meditate, this makes your mind fresh and gives you worthwhile things to do.

markus23··on Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta

Slightly related, but a bit off-topic, too :-)

If you are interesting in planning agriculture, with or without drones, you can help us by filling out our survey:

https://survey.permaplant.net/

markus23··on Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located

It should also report the syntax and so on, and actually you want a way to directly modify configuration values. So if you think this through, you will end up with something like https://www.libelektra.org

markus23··on What is permaculture? (2015)

Is unfortunately inactive, see https://github.com/Ecohackerfarm/powerplant/issues/116

https://www.permaplant.net is alive and kicking!

markus23··on What is permaculture? (2015)

Thanks for noting! https://www.permaplant.net/ should give you the landing page.

markus23··on What is permaculture? (2015)

Great to see that Permaculture is on-topic on Hacker News! We are developing an app to make Permaculture easier https://permaplant.net/

markus23··on Best Practices for Working with Configuration in Python Applications

https://www.libelektra.org/tutorials/python-bindings

markus23··on Best Practices for Working with Configuration in Python Applications

As already written by others, the article does not go very deep and is missing many essentials. What I was mostly missing is more about keeping configuration parameters as simple as possible. A much more detailed best practices can be found here: https://www.libelektra.org/ftp/elektra/slides/cm/