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namidark··on Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs
Has anyone gotten whisper.el/.cpp to work on OSX with the microphone permissions and Emacs?
namidark··on What's the best SaaS starter kit?
Is there anything similar to jumpstart for go?
namidark··on A Surprise AWS Bill
AWS bills are un-auditable. I'm convinced every org is being over-charged for bugs in their billing and tracking software. I've asked on multiple occasions where charges randomly started appearing (despite no infra changes), which weren't there the month before, and no one was able to answer on the AWS support side.
namidark··on The personal info of what could be Instacart customers is being sold online
Anecdotally, both credit cards I used on Instacart got popped for fraud right after each other in the past week.
namidark··on Moving from Go to PHP Again
Buffalo has made it a pretty pleasant experience in the past year or so
namidark··on Kubernetes on Bare Metal
I used bare metal to combine both bare VPS providers and regular hardware -- basically anything without 'cloudy' options (ie: VPCs, ELBs, etc)
namidark··on Semantic Import Versioning
Can you expand on "you know, the "official experiment" that suddenly got discarded to the surprise of its developers" and where that announcement was made?
namidark··on What happens if you turn off the traffic lights?
After several hurricanes - you should treat them as 4 way stops, however a large chunk of people just run through them (most recent example is from Irma)
namidark··on S3 was down
No
namidark··on Implementing Backup
I was testing table loads with a few millions rows and kept running into issues with deleting the data and consistent performance (compared to postgres). Postgres won the performance over view and after finding out DELETE would lock the entire DB process (you should use DROP instead) - I moved on.
namidark··on Product Integration Testing at the Speed of Netflix
> The only way to succeed in a micro services architecture is with a strong focus on quality inside each service and consumer driven contract testing between.

Do you have any examples from other large companies that do micro-services at Netflixs' scale?

namidark··on AWS Elasticsearch Service Woes
Last I checked a month or so ago it was still around 5-7k per node so that sounds accurate
namidark··on Docker 1.12: Now with Built-In Orchestration
I wish they would address stability issues first, like this bug[1] that has been around 2 years and is still happening on the latest versions.

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/5618

namidark··on Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic employees
I actually found league's community refreshing compared to DOTA2 which was a toxic mess in low MMR
namidark··on Ask HN: What are you currently building?
Continuing work on adding more OS support for https://sysward.com - patch management and security notifications for a range of linux OSs ( Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, OpenSUSE )
namidark··on Darktable 2.0 released
About -> Screenshots
namidark··on New Dyno Types and Pricing Public Beta
I didn't like the fact that this installs its own docker that is incompatible with the docker from the official site.
namidark··on Moving from PHP to Go and Microservices
Upstart + net/http
namidark··on Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot
Very impressive :)
namidark··on Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot
If you look at the source its using something called blekko.php - which upon googling heads to a "IBM Watson purchased this".

Is this using watson behind the scenes?

namidark··on Ideas for Improving Ruby During Google Summer of Code 2015
Is it just me or is it odd that Sidekiq is in there when it has a corporate side to it?
namidark··on The $30/hr Data Scientist
Genuinely curious about this - why do developers who are from those country not charge more?

Why is their work deemed $30/hr where as a Western counterpart could get away with charging $90? Same goes for people in India as well - if they are genuinely good at what they do why do they not charge a higher rate?

namidark··on DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
Jails are awesome
namidark··on Payola – A Rails engine for Stripe
Does anyone know of something similar for Paypal?
namidark··on Rockwool vs. Perlite vs. Hydroton vs. Soil
Do you have any suggestions or DIY ways to get the nutritional values? I'd be glad to take them to a lab or ship them as long as it wasn't crazy expensive. I noted what nutrients I used ( Maxigrow veg ) but I have no idea how to get the nutritional values (such as vitamins).
namidark··on The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada
Trader Joe's has had quite a few food recalls lately.
namidark··on CVE-2014-7169: Bash Fix Incomplete, Still Exploitable
Thanks for the heads up - I'll take a look!
namidark··on CVE-2014-7169: Bash Fix Incomplete, Still Exploitable
Shameless plug as the owner: https://sysward.com/ - this is one of the reasons I built this - there is even a package view so you can apply just this package update across your systems. Message me if you have any questions!
namidark··on Show HN: Picnic.css, a lightweight Bootstrap alternative
Can you explain what you mean 'fighting'? I've heard this argument before but haven't seen any concrete examples.
namidark··on Ask HN: What is Your Approach to Migrate from MySql to Postgres
You can use taps [1]

[1] https://github.com/ricardochimal/taps

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