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zackkitzmilleron There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train, but I did it anyway

Amtrak trains are very long. I've never seen anyone play a guitar or make any noise outside of the bar car. The passenger cars are quite comfortable. More room than a domestic first class flight. Also, usually the last car is the 'family' car, so babies and running kids are usually just hanging back there.

zackkitzmilleron There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train, but I did it anyway

I disagree.

I often take Amtrak from NYC to Chicago (and back) and just love it. The trip is about 24 hours each way. Train riders are generally friendly. Someone always has a couple of guitars, so it's fun to play and sing along. The bar car is typically friendly and the food car is generally pretty good eats.

Also, some of the stopovers in small midwest towns are a few hours long so you can get out, stretch your legs, and find a nice quaint diner or something to change things up. I've had nothing by great times on the train. Of course YMMV.

zackkitzmilleron Launch HN: Dockup (YC W19) – On demand staging environments for dev teams

This was a constant pain point for us as the engineering team grew. With a single staging environment, we could only have one changeset tested at a time. We built a tool like this internally and the engineers love it. When you have 20 feature going out in a week, it's not reasonable to have to wait for staging or qa to be available. We happened to call this 'review apps' but it's based on a similar principle. You can specify in the deployment tool which service you'd like to deploy as a review app, and a PR number.

This is incredibly useful with many interconnected codebases have related changes (I know, bad SoA. best practices are hard). Then I can point review-3918.SERVICENAME.service.XXX.stag's connection string to review-1111.SERVICENAME.service.XXX.stag to ensure that everything is working as expected.

zackkitzmilleron Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public

https://slack.com/security

These compliance certifications.

zackkitzmilleron An Update on the Security Issue

Doesn't the FB deploy process take a day in itself?

Edit: This hasn't been the case for years.

zackkitzmilleron Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

Atlassian is selling the defunct Hipchat to Slack.

zackkitzmilleron Ask HN: Which non-programming books are a beneficial read for programmers?

The Systems Bible

zackkitzmilleron IBM Plex – A new typeface

Incredibly.

zackkitzmilleron Why It’s So Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices

I'd say headphones are a must in any office.

zackkitzmilleron Dear Apple, please fix notifications

I think this is fixed in the most recent iOS version.

zackkitzmilleron Enter your address and find out everyone who represents you in U.S. government

It asks for address (not email address) to better locate your local representatives.

zackkitzmilleron How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp

It's strange to me that all projects have a designer and the designer leads the project management.

zackkitzmilleron Employee #1: Reddit

I couldn't get the damn modal to go away so I gave up. Too bad, seemed like a reasonable site.

zackkitzmilleron OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

Apple has always said it's "OS Ten"

https://support.apple.com/kb/TA22541?locale=en_US

zackkitzmilleron JustWriting – Markdown blog system

You/they might be interested in WardrobeCMS as well, it's a pretty nice markdown editor. http://wardrobecms.com/

zackkitzmilleron SeatGeek Raises $35M

waves

zackkitzmilleron SeatGeek Raises $35M

You can add live events at limelight.seatgeek.com, but it's more geared towards smaller bands.

zackkitzmilleron PinLater: An asynchronous job execution system

Is this open source?

zackkitzmilleron PinLater: An asynchronous job execution system

I'm curious here as well.

zackkitzmilleron Try to close this tab

Definitely doesn't work in Chrome. I just closed the tab as expected.

zackkitzmilleron Painting with Code

Edit: I can't read.

zackkitzmilleron This is how an engineer feels when he's surrounded by idiots

Lines, by definition, are straight. Otherwise it's a curve.

zackkitzmilleron Cross-Event Search

It also works well with sports, imagine a family trying to catch a Nets game. They probably don't care who the Nets are playing, they just want to get in the door as inexpensively as possible.

Full disclosure, I work at SeatGeek.

zackkitzmilleron Woman shares weight loss success on FB, FB tells her it's against policy

She has a Fan page, and was trying to by ads? This doesn't sound like 'Sharing a weight loss' story, it sounds like selling a book.

zackkitzmilleron Google Analytics for GitHub

GitHub recent sold Gauges to someone else.

zackkitzmilleron 37signals Job Board is closing down

37S really loves job boards, this makes what 3? 4 now?

zackkitzmilleron A simple virtualenv for Go

Very nice. A little while back I wrote something similar for those who use the fish shell. You can find that here, if you're interested: https://github.com/zackkitzmiller/gofish (Pull requests also welcome)

zackkitzmilleron [dead]

I think it is, and it is indeed a fascinating response.

zackkitzmilleron Fourier Toy

Very much reminds me of the Spirograph I had when I was a young.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph

zackkitzmilleron Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations

virtualenvwrapper will be a life saver for you.