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by gedrap 9y ago
Also, it really depends on the environment, the nature of secrets, etc. It's never great, but the level of badness varies dramatically. If you have a team of 2-3 people, where everyone has access to everything anyway, and the secrets c
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by gedrap 9y ago
>> storing my.cnf in VCS is a better idea than updating it in prod. Eh, 'but we can't store things/API keys/passwords in VCS! It's bad!' is a pet peeve of mine. No, let's not 'just update it man
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by gedrap 9y ago
I get you, wrong wording, it's not exactly a standard unit test, etc. But it doesn't change the meaning and intention of it - treat infrastructure as you treat code (I guess that also includes debating whether something is a &#x27
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by gedrap 9y ago
My pet peeve with all these time trackers is that... It's just a wrong metric, unless what you're doing is an assembly line equivalent, where you just need to put in the hours. And don't get me started on such trackers having
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by gedrap 9y ago
Good to see this. I think that hiring remotely and paying Bay Area salaries (or very close to it) does indeed open up access to talent that might be harder to reach otherwise. Especially, if hiring globally remote. Win-win for everyone invo
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by gedrap 9y ago
I've been working remotely from home for the past 7 months, I live in Vilnius, Lithuania (so the local job market is way more limited than in SF, London, etc). I think that it largely depends on the company. Because remote work doesn&#
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by gedrap 9y ago
I've tried both Google and HERE maps when traveling to a number of countries, and found HERE significantly better offline. It was constantly able to detect my exact position and update it as I kept walking, while Google Maps were quite
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by gedrap 9y ago
I like iStat for this purpose https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
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by gedrap 9y ago
This whole thing looks rather silly. Like, you either find a decent exchange, expect it to be legit and that includes cooperating with IRS and other parts of the government when needed. You know, like you expect responsible financial instit
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by gedrap 9y ago
What would be a feasible alternative?
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by gedrap 9y ago
That applies to other kinds of reliability testing too, especially everything that goes through a network. It's easy to handle when something is completely unavailable (i.e. instant error), but when something, be it a database or some
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by gedrap 9y ago
I don't think that anything new could be said about bitcoins right now, and it's been like that since summer, really. Some people do indeed believe in them, whether for technical reasons or for simply being invested, while others
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by gedrap 9y ago
> Yeah I'm pretty disappointing in the quality of this article, especially considering its coming from the Economist. The Economist is not really written having crypto enthusiasts or HN crowd in mind. The article is a decent summary
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by gedrap 9y ago
I guess quite likely? In this scenario, it sounds like the goal of Series C was just to get some, any return. And getting back your initial investment sure sounds better than getting nothing back.
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by gedrap 9y ago
Same. Might be a cultural thing or something but I'd absolutely hate the idea of being pinged about work things on personal channels (whatsapp, messenger, etc), especially after working hours. I know because I used to work at a place w
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by gedrap 9y ago
That's pretty much my reaction the first time I went to SF. My first BART experience was 16th and Mission and that left... quite an impression. It's surprising how people get used to it.
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by gedrap 9y ago
Maybe I'm just unlucky but the vast majority of all 'awesome lists' that I've seen are just massive dumps of links, of extremely varying quality (I mean the links themselves), which isn't that helpful.
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by gedrap 9y ago
Working from home is often touted as a solution to all problems but it's just not that simple, and many people who do actually work remotely will tell you that. Allowing remote work is not enough. It requires effort from both parties.
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by gedrap 9y ago
> TransferWise captured the UK<> Poland corridor and expanded from there. Close! They started with UK <> Estonia, both co-founders are Estonians. IIRC in the very very early days, the whole settlement was done by users themse
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by gedrap 9y ago
Neat project! I did something similar a couple of years ago in python: https://github.com/gedrap/xs-vm these toy projects are really good to try new things and, you know, just build something :)
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by gedrap 9y ago
> GOOG, FB, AMZN A tiny nitpick, but what's with the trend of using stock symbols in non-financial context? GOOGL isn't much shorter than Google, same with AMZN and Amazon. It just looks... annoyingly out of place. Regarding th
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by gedrap 9y ago
I'm a monthly bundle subscriber since inception. I don't check the monthly bundles regularly (more like two-three-four times a year), but always find games that I enjoy and wouldn't have discovered otherwise. For $150/ye
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by gedrap 9y ago
> I locate and bribe/extort your main influencer/s to push your project into the ground (block work, object to everything, whatever) or in my preferred direction How's that any different from the current state? Execs of cu
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by gedrap 9y ago
All is good when it's working well, but when something's not right... well, you really wish that you had that monitoring. The truth is that most load balancing solutions are capable of handling _a lot_ of traffic, way way more tha
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by gedrap 9y ago
Sure, definitely impossible to put random person's picture and some generated name under it...
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by gedrap 9y ago
Totally agree. I am a fan of Test Pyramid model, where at the top you have a very small number of long running, complex tests (usually e2e), and at the very bottom you have a lot of small, isolated and very fast unit tests. Testing everythi
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by gedrap 9y ago
Maybe good enough is just good enough for some business owners? If you are making good profit already, which more than covers your needs, why bother looking into improved efficiency, automation, getting better gigs, etc? It's not that
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by gedrap 9y ago
Yes, `wp-contents`, `wp-includes` and basically anything else prefixed with `wp-` is a very clear signed that WordPress is behind the site.
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by gedrap 9y ago
Just treat adults as adults, show a little bit of trust. I don't like strict schedules, where you have to just sit through the required number of hours, or show up at some specific time for no reason (i.e. it does not affect other peop
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by gedrap 9y ago
> if you're downvoting me for this comment then you don't know what you're talking about. Happy to debate! Well, it's just that it's fairly obvious what is meant by the headline given the events of the past coupl

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