shimon_e

868 karma · joined September 20, 2011

shimon_eon Website load and speed analyzer

Google does optimisations based on user agent. Ilya Grigorik does not recommend hosting the fonts from your own server.

shimon_eon Website load and speed analyzer

I specify only the characters I use in custom fonts. I budget no more than 30kb to fonts when making a website.

These tools complain that Google font's css is only cached for 2 hours. Which is something none of us can control. Even Google's own page speed tool complains about this. I get perfect scores in everything but Google fonts so it sticks out like an eye score.

shimon_eon Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

netdata is a good tool if you are looking for precise data on where the bottlenecks are on your server.

shimon_eon Website load and speed analyzer

I hate how all of these tools complain about google fonts. This looks like Google's page speed tool with a nicer UI.

shimon_eon How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe

The PayPal form is roughly the same number of lines. The real break through for stripe was it was an alternative to PayPal with a modern UI.

shimon_eon Is Amazon getting too big?

Thanks for the link. This was a great read. Hope other countries follow this lead.

shimon_eon Is Amazon getting too big?

That is the definition of price dumping.

shimon_eon Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person

Somewhere there is a community of retailers that hates Amazon as much as Slashdotters hated Microsoft.

shimon_eon Show HN: Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda

Another platform that supports headless chrome: https://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/

The error report given by this are some of the best.

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Musk getting verbal approval from someone in the White House for such a project, is like me getting verbal approval from a janitor at the IRS that I no longer need to pay taxes.

shimon_eon Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the person’s birthday

No less secure than most people's bank accounts.

shimon_eon Audi claims the A8 is the first production car to reach Level 3 autonomy

Should people still to learn to drive today?

shimon_eon Ask HN: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers?

And this is why I love arch linux and even use it on all my servers. These days I rarely run into a package that doesn't work or is severely outdated.

shimon_eon Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do the sane thing”

Any reason why we can't have journaldfs?

shimon_eon Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $100M investment fund

Actually, I just crunched some numbers and its not unreasonable to estimate that you are currently doing 8 figure sums monthly.

Maybe it's not a bad idea to invest in cloudflare :)

shimon_eon Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $100M investment fund

What is cloudflare's endgame for investors? For some reason I don't think there are enough enterprise customers for cloudflare to become a multi billion dollar company.

I love cloudflare and am a happy customer but I'm really interested to know what these investors are thinking before they put up 100s of millions in investment.

shimon_eon Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory

OVH have a beta RDS-like service. https://www.runabove.com/index.xml

shimon_eon Serving 39M Requests for $370/Month

I use linux on my desktop and have for almost 20 years. Managing a server is a piece of cake for me. AWS is much more difficult for me.

shimon_eon Launch HN: Solve (YC S17) – We Save International Travelers Hours of Time

Israeli sims have free roaming in EU. No reason why the UK can't keep that.

shimon_eon Windows93 SP2

Back button goes back to previous app. If this can get the back button to work correctly why can't Google AMP?

shimon_eon Plan9-9k: 64-bit Plan 9

Linux is no longer pure Unix. Linux has adopted parts of plan 9.

shimon_eon Why Infrastructure Is So Expensive

Elon Musk's goals with the boring company don't sound so unachievable anymore.

shimon_eon How to avoid picking the wrong technology just because it's cool

>DOE

Can be confused with Do Over Engineer.

shimon_eon Comey's opening remarks [pdf]

This isn't r/news. Nothing wrong with breaking news. It just doesn't belong on hacker news. A lot of people here care about the signal to noise ratio. Allowing discussions like this here adds what many people consider noise.

Ironically, this is one only places where it is possible to see a sensible political discussion without it into a cesspool / circle jerk.

shimon_eon Too many people are buying cars using financial products they do not understand

Tax deductions and other such shenanigans.

shimon_eon Benchmark: Java, Python, PHP, C, JavaScript, Swift, Ruby, Perl, Go, Lua, Rust

Compare it to Nodejs and Go.

shimon_eon Ask HN: How would you take this business to the next level?

Arjun, I am in bangalore. Add you contact details to your profile.

shimon_eon Show HN: ObjectCropBot – Interactively Crop Objects from Photos with AI

Looks nice. May I recommend getting free credits from OVH. https://www.ovh.com/us/dlp/

Are you available for consulting? I have a project in this domain that you may be interested in.

shimon_eon Linux utils that you might not know

  for extra in fun   
  do   
      watch -t -n 1 "factor \$(date +%s)"  
  done

shimon_eon Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus

Even better, HN should hide the real title until hover to reduce the number of clicks clickbait articles get.