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neokya··on Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
Performance is vastly improved in last few years. Until 2020, Jira Cloud was really slow.

Atlassian changed their strategic focus from on-premise to cloud, and they are making lots of improvements, including performance.

neokya··on Finishing my first game while working full-time
Creating small task lists seem to be the way to go.

Does anyone know what app the author is using to create nested tasks for 'lightweight sprint'?

neokya··on Tell HN: Launch HN Test
It works ;)
neokya··on Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app
haha it already started https://imgur.com/gallery/Ajh7HB6
neokya··on Python Application Dependency Management in 2018
Excellent article. I think `poetry` is future as it seems to take fresh approach to Python packaging hell.

However, I am currently still sticking to pipenv as it seems to be closer to pip/venv and lot easier to migrate to. I also found UX quite nice. However, I keep hitting into bugs from time to time.

neokya··on Most popular Python packages now support Python 3
Yup, grass is getting greener :)

On the side note, glad to know that my small effort (I operate that site) is useful for people I highly respect.

I was very surprised when I saw it on HN front page today.

neokya··on Most popular Python packages now support Python 3
In last few years, Python 3 has got momentum. Frankly, for me it feels great to follow this progress.
neokya··on A Berlin Borough Buying Out Private Landlords
I am quite not sure how it would be expensive for existing residents even after sale to so called foreign investor. As far as I understand, in Germany, rents are fixed for existing residents and landlord can not evict them (few exception exists, probably won't work for investors).

That 10% increase rule is only for new tenants.

neokya··on The slow demise of Wikipedia Zero on the subcontinent
Also it's not that Nepal shut it down.

It's one of the telecom companies which was offering free access to Wikipedia and Twitter ended it citing low spending customers.

neokya··on Python Versions Used in Commercial Projects, 2016 Edition
well, you can install ansible outside local virtualenv. It's a single program like Firefox, so probably you won't need different versions and could be installed as such.
neokya··on Python Versions Used in Commercial Projects, 2016 Edition
Well, have a look here http://py3readiness.org without having to figure where 9 of those come from ;)
neokya··on Delhi’s air is so toxic that schools are closing, expats are fleeing
In fact most of South Asian cities are in same dire state.

I was in Kathmandu in April and you can hardly breathe not because of smoke but mostly because of dust (as construction for road and water supply is going for a while.)

I lived in India and been to Mumbai many times. Man, the whole city stinks.

neokya··on Berlin Is Bringing Back Subway Trains from the 1950s
On the side note: We built and maintain that posted website. I hope HN traffic doesn't kill it ;)
neokya··on Ask HN: Who is firing?
> dealing with German bureaucracy

This is too much exaggeration. If you can find another job, dealing with bureaucracy is piece of cake. You just go to Foreign Registration Office and change company name.

neokya··on Ask HN: Who is firing?
I just had to wonder what you meant by 'non-existent countries'.

According to this meaning here, these countries don't exist?

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/nonexistent

neokya··on Ask HN: Who is firing?
Not really for Berlin. It's more than average pay, see http://www.nuberlin.com/2016/01/average-salary-in-berlin/

Also note, 38K is for person with science/engineering background. Otherwise, lower limit for EU Bluecard is around 48K

neokya··on Vim for Humans
This is exactly what I feel too.

After watching Bret Victor's talk https://vimeo.com/67076984, I feel like Vim way of using computers is backward. I am probably wrong because I never got proficient with Vim. Using it only when I SSH to remote server.

neokya··on An Open Source, Self-Hosted Heroku
Looks like this is great project.

We are using powerful dedicated server to host multiple sites/apps like the way shared hosting providers do. Maintenance and upgrade is so painful, I am trying to move to something else.

I looked into Docker but seems things are still not stable. Another approach I am looking into is KVM virtualization.

Aactually, all I want is something like Heroku (but self hosted or German providers cause our clients are German and that's important) where we can host each app on it's own container.

So far, this meets all the requirements.

neokya··on Paper Planes
It seems "Join on your phone at paperplanes.world" actually means 'Join on your phone with Chrome browser at paterplanes.world'

Firefox is my primary browser even on Android. It didn't work and I suspected and tried it on Chrome. It works there.

neokya··on Making Django CMS as easy to install as WordPress
I really want Aldryn to succeed. I have tried to test it out, and my major issue is documentation and not so clear UI.

For example, it's not clear to me how can I clone project I created on Aldryn and work on local. It's been about 10 minutes I am clicking around, still can't figure it out. Do I have to use Mac app? Can I work on as usual Django project on command line and just do git push when ready? Even docs here isn't clear to me http://support.divio.com/hc/en-us/categories/200815715-Local...

Btw, that django cms demo with Aldryn boilerplate is kick ass.

Edit: After lots of clicking, I found how to install aldryn client.

pip install aldryn-client

neokya··on Hitler Uses Docker, Annotated
If you understand German, this video is not fun at all.

I can't follow what's written in subtitle. I really tried hard, but no - my mind doesn't follow subtitle. What's the point of doing so with audible audio?

neokya··on Open Source Exploitation and Burnout
Could you post some references I could read? I am quite interested why they didn't work.

As far as I see, popular licenses are: 1. Commercial source 2. Open source - copy left eg. GPL 3. Open source - liberal, do whatever you like eg. MIT

which are just handful, when software is eating the world ;)

neokya··on Open Source Exploitation and Burnout
You don't pay anything to use GPL licensed software. So that's the difference.
neokya··on Open Source Exploitation and Burnout
Food for thought: Can we create a license which allows source distribution and collaboration openly and is free to use for individuals and non-profits but companies have to pay if they use it for commercial purpose.

It could solve companies vs open source developers situation and give developers financial support. If current open source developers had means to support themselves without full time job, I think that would solve the problem of burnout and depression.

I mean just complaining that companies are taking full advantage without giving back is not working. So time to think outside box?

neokya··on Nepal's Ban on Production and Use of Plastic Bags Comes into Effect
Exactly. In Germany, return payment is 0.25 EURO and it works great. Most people at home collect them and bring to supermarket. Those who throw them on streets, homeless people are more than happy to pick up and cash in. Win-win situation in every angle.
neokya··on My First 10 Minutes on a Server
You are right about automating.

Here is Ansible playbook I recently created https://github.com/chhantyal/5minutes

neokya··on Show HN: First 5 Minutes on a Server – automated with Ansible
Hi Everyone,

After reading this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5316093, I realized a lot of people are looking for automated version.

So I tried to automate with Ansible. Feedbacks welcome :)

neokya··on Python 2.7 Retirement Countdown
Overrides are mostly for drop in replacement. So you could use mysqlclient but chance very little in existing code.
neokya··on Python 3 Is Winning Library Developer Support
I will take note and update it ;) It should update those overrides daily but seems like it is not.
neokya··on Funding Django is not an act of charity, it's an investment
No, that's fixed since 1.6 release. You can keep database connection persistent, just change the default setting https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#conn-max...

By default, it uses historical behavior.

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