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pjvds··on The Evolution of a Software Engineer
Best presentation of the last 10 years of my career. Spot on!
pjvds··on Ubuntu 14.04 released
Desktop and server pages are now pointing to 14.04 as well:

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop [2] http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server

pjvds··on Ubuntu 14.04 released
amd64 images use BIOS or UEFI. Macs use a variant of EFI (an earlier version of what's now called UEFI), they apparently can't cope with multi-catalog CDs and the MAC variant images fix this.

See: http://askubuntu.com/a/40480/117820

pjvds··on Ubuntu 14.04 released
Amsterdam, The Netherlands is now serving the latest release.
pjvds··on Ubuntu 14.04 released
Not all data center serve the latest page yet.
pjvds··on Incorporated – Open Sourcing Our Blog
I based mine on some else his blog as well and open sourced mine as well in hope others benefit from it. I am glad to see most jekyll/middleman/octopress users open source their blog. Without it, mine wouldn't look as good as it does. What I have added is a way to turn jekyll a bit more into a CMS by automating the generation and deployment: http://born2code.net/blog/2013/05/27/simplify-your-jekyll-pu...
pjvds··on Ask HN: What's your blogging platform?
Jekyll, hosted on AmazonS3 and auto deployed by wercker: http://born2code.net/blog/2013/05/27/simplify-your-jekyll-pu...
pjvds··on Hacker News Amsterdam meetup?
Sounds like a great plan to me! Will we keep this one on HN, or create a meetup page for it?
pjvds··on Hacker News Amsterdam meetup?
We are located at the Lauriergracht 116, Amsterdam and should be able to provide room for 25 hackers :)
pjvds··on Hacker News Amsterdam meetup?
You are welcome at the wercker office! I am sure I can arrange some beer and pizza.
pjvds··on BDD testing for golang: Ginkgo and Gomega
Here are 3 alternatives:

1. Mao: https://github.com/azer/mao

2. Zen: https://github.com/pranavraja/zen

3. GoConvey: https://github.com/smartystreets/goconvey

pjvds··on Host your Docker containers in the cloud
This article was already posted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6478322
pjvds··on Oldest Domain Names
Indeed, interesting to known why. The domain came online at May 2, 1991.
pjvds··on A Billion Rows per Second: Metaprogramming Python for Big Data [video]
My takeaway is, that the reason that this is possible is that they care about data structure. A language can give you an order of magnitude performance, but - according to Ville - you can almost get infinitive improvement if you rethink the algorithms and data structure.
pjvds··on Building and testing a cluster of RethinkDB Docker containers
If you like to play with Docker on wercker, you can apply for the Docker beta: http://wercker.com/docker/
pjvds··on The Microsoft/Nokia deal visualized
That is an interesting point. Microsoft has now became a direct competitor of Samsung and others on the Windows Phone marked.
pjvds··on 9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands, shaded according to year of construction
I like the detailed number it now has
pjvds··on Build, test and deploy a Go application to Heroku
This is an interesting scenario. I've resolved this by running the entire build pipeline on wercker and only deploy the binary on Heroku by using the null buildpack. I'll write up a post on this in the coming days.
pjvds··on Build, test and deploy a Go application to Heroku
I also spiked leveraging caching on wercker to improve build time: http://born2code.net/blog/2013/07/26/improving-Go-build-time...
pjvds··on Ask HN: What kind of music you listen to when coding?
It various, from something electronic as The Glitch Mob, to the popular Chemical Brothers to something spacy as The Orb.

According to last.fm:

I'm into electronic, ambient, minimal, techno and dubstep, including: The Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Paul Kalkbrenner, Solar Fields, Moby, Max Richter, James Blake, Prodigy, Burial, Johnny Cash, Asaf Avidan & the Mojos, Bonobo, Mono/Poly, Modeselektor, Take, Four Tet, Flying Lotus, The Orb, ZZT, Amon Tobin, Glen Porter, The Glitch Mob, Pogo, Emika, Siriusmo, Matmos, Free the Robots, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Pantha du Prince, Nicolas Jaar, Skream, Kosheen, Ellen Allien, LCD Soundsystem, Apparat, Daft Punk, Jon Hopkins, Kraftwerk, Eartha Kitt, The Flashbulb, Proem, Aphex Twin, Robot Koch, Caribou, Massive Attack, Gold Panda, Nosaj Thing, 2econd Class Citizen, Helios.

pjvds··on [dead]
The site seems to be down after it got trending on Google Plus.
pjvds··on TIOBE Programming Community Index for August 2013
I totally agree that Go is a pretty awful name, especially if you consider that it came out of worlds largest search company.
pjvds··on TIOBE Programming Community Index for August 2013
After questions like "Why is Go doing so poorly in the Tiobe index?" it seems it now moved from place 42 to 26.
pjvds··on Adding a staging environment to your Jekyll blog, with Wercker
Here I've written a related post on how I automated the delivery to Amazon S3: http://born2code.net/blog/2013/05/27/simplify-your-jekyll-pu...