jonathanoliver

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   by jonathanoliver 2mo ago

   I came here just to post that link. I still have that song in my head when I hear the word "floppy".
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   by jonathanoliver 8mo ago

   Kinda reminds of the time Microsoft used git internally but was pushing Team Foundation Server.
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   by jonathanoliver 8mo ago

   Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br4-VsvRcII
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   by jonathanoliver 1y ago

   For Go, we've been using this library which supports ZSTD. https://github.com/klauspost/compress
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   by jonathanoliver 1y ago

   Founder of Smarty here, so there's some obvious bias. We've been in the geocoding space for over 12+ years. A geocoding API should be easy to set up, deliver rooftop-accurate geocodes, be transparent about accuracy, persist in per
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   by jonathanoliver 1y ago

   Debian is fat?? I always thought it was a nice, minimalist server distro.
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   by jonathanoliver 2y ago

   We use Nomad where I work and we LOVE it. Previous to Nomad we used K8s for several years which, at that point, allowed us to become cloud agnostic. With the move to Nomad about 3+ years ago, we were able to transition away from cloud and b
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   by jonathanoliver 2y ago

   I just replied to an earlier message on this thread with the same offer: I’d love to have you email your mailing address to support@smarty.com with a link to this HN thread. We may be able to help fix some of this.
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   by jonathanoliver 2y ago

   Send your address to support@smarty.com and link to this HN thread. I’ll keep an eye watching out for it. I’d love to see what our system does with your address. We have non-postal addresses and a lot of other mechanisms to help here. We al
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    by jonathanoliver 2y ago

    Thanks for the shout-out. Founder of Smarty here. Regarding article, it really depends on the use case of whether to use ZIP Code (TM), postal code, Canada Post Forward Sortation Area, lat/lon, Census Bureau block and tract, etc. As ha
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    by jonathanoliver 2y ago

    A.Z. Fell has a decent bookshop but when I called recently they said: "Fell's Bookshop. We probably don't have what you're looking for and we wouldn't sell it to you if we did."
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    by jonathanoliver 2y ago

    They should put it on all of their officially supported ones too! https://killedbygoogle.com/
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    by jonathanoliver 2y ago

    This reminds me of the droid in the 1987 Robocop movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYsulVXpgYg What could go wrong?
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    by jonathanoliver 3y ago

    Why would you start with the two-smartest species on the planet? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...
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    by jonathanoliver 3y ago

    Aeron is another awesome project from Martin Thompson (Disruptor, Simple Binary Encoding, Mechanical Sympathy, etc.). That guy really knows his stuff regarding performance.
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    Obligatory Spaceballs reference about combing the desert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYge6ehH9fo
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    I probably shouldn't mention how much seawater I accidentally swallow whenever I'm in the ocean swimming.
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    When I saw this idea all I could think of was the ASP.NET "postback" form data and URL data! I'm glad to not have to deal with that anymore.
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    I only had Notepad (the default Windows text editor). I longed for Microsoft Frontpage and HoTMetaL and Dreamweaver. Looking back, I'm glad gained experience on the native experience rather than through the editor abstractions because
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    I've been running Arch Linux for about 2 years two high-powered desktop machines (home and work). I run `sudo pacman -Syu` every day and I've only had one video driver update (nvidia) that broke me. I had to login from the CLI (wh
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    Just bought the 12-pack version. I love Julia's website.
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    Lab grown? That's beyond impossible.
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    Whenever these tales arise, I can't help but read them. I know that they're not particularly relevant to anything I do or even have done. Even so, it's like watching an archeological dig.
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    My favorite quote from the article: > Watching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf.
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    I have a co-worker who was in charge of the build system at WordPerfect back in the early 90's. He worked on the the UNIX edition and he managed the whole workflow using a series of Makefiles linked across various shared drives. I&#x27
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    I've been chroot wrong for years. I learned recently that it's "shroot" not "C. H. root"
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    One other area that can be complicated surrounding dependencies is licensing. Specifically, you use a library imported from PIP/NPM/Maven/NuGet/etc. and maybe, if you are a diligent dev, you review the license. If you&#x
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    I believe UpCloud is Finnish: https://upcloud.com/about/
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    We stumbled upon UpCloud last year and have been using them for a few production workloads in their Seattle, WA facility. They have the simplest offering of all the various "second-tier" cloud providers--which is something we appr
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    by jonathanoliver 4y ago

    +100 for Aiven on managed databases. We moved from AWS Aurora (MySQL) to Aiven years ago because wanted to be on MySQL 8.x (unavailable on AWS at the time). We've been running a 3-node HA cluster using Aiven's control plane with p