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Chris Hager

Hacker, maker, engineer. chris@linuxuser.at

http://www.metachris.com

https://twitter.com/@metachris

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/metachris; my proof: https://keybase.io/metachris/sigs/T0NHmn2uJ0bZzgm_XeSOg5LZ3Pv6Db3kYopUiMfim5Y ]

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metachris··on Oracle's letter to Russian IT companies
This is the PDF in English (via Google Translate): https://www.metachris.com/download/PostgreSQL_Oracle_en.pdf
metachris··on Let's Encrypt has issued its first million certificates
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll update the post tonight. Didn't notice / cannot reproduce - it seems to work for me in all browsers.
metachris··on Let's Encrypt has issued its first million certificates
acme-tiny is another good and simple client, which I personally prefer.

I've recently compared 10 different Let's Encrypt / ACME clients: https://www.metachris.com/2015/12/comparison-of-10-acme-lets...

metachris··on Watch LetsEncrypt issue its millionth certificate live
For reference:

* Certificate # 250k: Jan. 5, 2016 [1]

* Certificate # 500k: Feb. 4, 2016 [2]

* Certificate # 1M: Mar. 8, 2016

Seems they went from 250k certs per month in Jan to 500k certs per month in Feb.

[1] https://twitter.com/letsencrypt/status/684221075966705664

[2] https://twitter.com/letsencrypt/status/695077737380208640

metachris··on Watch LetsEncrypt issue its millionth certificate live
It jumped from 997,800 to 998,500 to 999,905 within the last 30 minutes. So i guess in in the next hour they will break 1M.
metachris··on Watch LetsEncrypt issue its millionth certificate live
It refreshed a few minutes ago. Perhaps all 15 min?
metachris··on Why Go solves so many problems for web developers
Take a look at Django [1], for instance.

[1] https://www.djangoproject.com/start/overview/

metachris··on Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer
Here in Austria its 38.5hrs, 5 weeks vacation, and in June and December employees receive a doubled monthly salary ("vacation money" and "christmas money").
metachris··on G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft
I think many people just don't want to coordinate with strangers, like a pickup time, place, etc.

This will be much smoother if you just open an app like Uber and it tells you the next pickup time for where you want to head.

metachris··on Darktable 2.0 released
The website really should provide some screenshots of the software!
metachris··on Comparison of 10 ACME / Let's Encrypt Clients
Resubmitted, thanks HN mods.

Let me know if I missed any clients, I'm happy to update the post!

metachris··on Comparison of 10 ACME / Let's Encrypt Clients
Thanks for the input, updated the post.
metachris··on Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub
BitBucket has free private repos
metachris··on Europe Remotely – EU-friendly remote dev jobs
> Typically, you are "tax resident" if you spend more than 180 days per year in a country. (Note: that doesn't mean that if you split your time equally between three countries you avoid being tax resident at all. If only avoiding tax was that easy...)

I've been informed by my tax consultant that you are tax-resident in the country where you spent the majority of time in a year. If you split your time between three or more countries this still applies.

metachris··on Let’s encrypt automation on Debian
You can sign up for the private beta and get access pretty quickly: https://docs.google.com/a/allaboutapps.at/forms/d/15Ucm4A20y...
metachris··on Creating standalone Mac OS X applications with Python and py2app
Thanks for the thought!

I haven't tried it, but this post [1] describes a project that got everything to work with the Mac App Store.

[1] http://dafoster.net/articles/2014/06/24/submitting-a-python-...

metachris··on Creating standalone Mac OS X applications with Python and py2app
Thanks, added a link to the post!
metachris··on Creating standalone Mac OS X applications with Python and py2app
py2app has experimental support for Python 3. I've just tested it with a simple Python 3 tkinter interface and it works just fine!
metachris··on Staticman: user-generated content for static sites
If you want to make this project a success, consider to release it under an open source license!
metachris··on Staticman: user-generated content for static sites
Spam detection of some sort would be a necessity.
metachris··on Deepart.io – Generate images styled like your favorite artist
Current wait time: "more than 263 hours"
metachris··on Show HN: PDFx – Extract Metadata and URLs from PDFs, and Download Referenced PDFs
Thanks, you found a bug! I've fixed it right now. You can update pdfx with

    $ easy_install -U pdfx
metachris··on Show HN: PDFx – Extract Metadata and URLs from PDFs, and Download Referenced PDFs
Thanks, interesting read.
metachris··on Show HN: PDFx – Extract Metadata and URLs from PDFs, and Download Referenced PDFs
I don't know! If you could send me sample PDFs I'm more than happy to look into it!
metachris··on Show HN: PDFx – Extract Metadata and URLs from PDFs, and Download Referenced PDFs
Thanks for the stack trace. Yes please, sample PDFs with problems would be great! You can find my email in my profile.
metachris··on Show HN: PDFx – Extract Metadata and URLs from PDFs, and Download Referenced PDFs
pdfx will output json if you use the -j flag!

    pdfx -j <file-or-url.pdf>
jq looks neat btw.
metachris··on Show HN: PDFx – Extract Metadata and URLs from PDFs, and Download Referenced PDFs
Good point, and I will definitely take a look at that!

Would you open an issue on Github, and perhaps reference a few papers?

metachris··on Show HN: PDFx – Extract Metadata and URLs from PDFs, and Download Referenced PDFs
Glad if this tool/lib is useful to some. I'm happy to answer any and all questions!

A Kivy [1] based cross-platform GUI would be a nice addition at some point.

[1] http://kivy.org

metachris··on Deploying a Django App with No Downtime
Yes, its built in now: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/migrations/

Of course a database rollback may loose information from any newly created fields.

metachris··on How is NSA breaking so much crypto?
Interesting paper (https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf) and lots of good references!

Inspired me to write a little tool to download all referenced pdfs from any given pdf: https://github.com/metachris/pdf-link-extractor

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