kfullert

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by kfullert 10y ago
Bytemark (a UK hosting company) have an anonymous hiring process which they've documented at https://careers.bytemark.co.uk/full-process which gives them as much confidence as possible that if you make it to the interv
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Refactoring at Scale – Lessons Learned Rewriting Instagram's Feed(realm.io)
2 points by kfullert 10y ago|0 comments
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The “Have I been pwned” API rate limit has been brought forward – here's why(troyhunt.com)
2 points by kfullert 10y ago|0 comments
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by kfullert 10y ago
Related, but Nissan have been running the GT Academy which takes online racers and turns them into real ones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GT_Academy - the first winner of GT Academy in 2008 competed in the 2011 LeMans
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Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns(theguardian.com)
77 points by kfullert 10y ago|119 comments
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by kfullert 10y ago
Ah, I was getting a loop saying "You need to subscribe to Workspaces" which would then take me to choosing a subscription which after selecting the Basic (free) one would take me back to saying "You need to subscribe to Works
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by kfullert 10y ago
OK, so Workspaces appeals to me (C# developer for a small company, no IT team, working from home) as redundancy - at present, if my laptop goes bang everything is backed up in "the cloud" (be that Azure, S3, somewhere) but it&#x27
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by kfullert 10y ago
Was it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11673058 (My url isn't your url) ?
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by kfullert 10y ago
My personal choice at the moment is Ruby with Roda[0] and whatever ORM meets my needs best, or even skip the ORM and use the DB adapter directly if it's something quick and simple [0]: http://roda.jeremyevans.net/docume
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by kfullert 11y ago
A better replacement in my opinion is Dynamics CRM (biased as I'm a Dynamics CRM consultant) ... speed of development is quick, runs everywhere with just one set of code (web, desktop app, mobile app, mobile web) and if you need to do
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by kfullert 11y ago
Yes, I'm in IRC channels for a LUG (general social chat) and a hosting provider (low-priority support things, plus more technical-based chat), plus I idle and am in the top-10 "idlers" for IdleRPG (#G7 on Slashnet) http:&#x2
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by kfullert 11y ago
Lanyrd was developed while the founders (Simon Willison and Natalie Downe) were on honeymoon, and was subsequently accepted into YC (Jan 2011) and has since been acquired by Eventbrite. The story of the site is well worth a read - http:&#x
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by kfullert 11y ago
For personal use, I use BigV[0] and for a pet project which deals with reasonably large datasets I picked up a Hetzner dedicated for $cheap in their Server Auction[1] with 32Gb RAM which is fine for playing around on :) [0] https:/&#x
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by kfullert 12y ago
Bytemark (an incredibly awesome UK hosting company) actively discourage working overtime and state it in their employment page https://www.bytemark.co.uk/company/employment/ DISCLAIMER I don't work for Byte
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by kfullert 12y ago
Clickable: http://breakmates.co.uk
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Ask HN: How can I explain this idea better
2 points by kfullert 12y ago|1 comments
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by kfullert 12y ago
Personally I just use Account Tracker on my iPhone to keep track of expenses and seeing how much money I'll have left at the end of the month (it's by Graham Haley on the App Store)
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by kfullert 12y ago
It's working with the Schedule data from National Rail (under their Open Data - http://nrodwiki.rockshore.net/index.php/SCHEDULE ) - the "full" file for initially populating your database is around 2.3Gb
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by kfullert 12y ago
Ruby at the moment - my original (monolithic Rails) v0 version takes about 5 hours to process it and create database records with ActiveRecord - that's about 600,000 records - the microservices are using Oj for the JSON parsing and raw
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by kfullert 12y ago
Not fully (ie in production) however a new side-project I'm working on which has many processes I'm building each as a micro-service, with RabbitMQ handling the messaging, Bunny to handle message processing and Sinatra/Farad
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by kfullert 12y ago
If you were UK I'd plug Bytemark - they provide bare-metal servers where they look after the hardware, you look after the OS/software ( https://www.bytemark.co.uk/hosting/dedicated/ ) I've been a cust
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by kfullert 12y ago
At the moment, just manually typing it out from the official price-list
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by kfullert 12y ago
Hi, This is related to an Ask HN I posted ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8464118 ) - to summarise, I'm a primarily C# dev working on extending/customising existing off-the-shelf CRM systems, but I want to ex
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Show HN: Postage Cost Calculator (UK)(postagecost.co.uk)
3 points by kfullert 12y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Where/how to get feedback/style pointers on first Angular app
2 points by kfullert 12y ago|0 comments
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by kfullert 12y ago
Interesting ... does this do any kind of store and forward or relaying? Say I send a message to a friend who happens to be out of range, but there was another GoTenna user who neither of us know, but who is in range of us both, will it rela
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by kfullert 12y ago
Yes, I use Symbiosis from Bytemark and run it on one of their BigV machines - Symbiosis wraps exim and dovecot for one of the easiest to manage virtual mail systems I've ever run - all the Symbiosis "wrappers" around the vari
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by kfullert 12y ago
What platform? We sell and use Qlikview on Windows which lets our customers run all sorts of revenue/business queries against data (which is populated from .csv into MSSQL and then we have processes which load the data from MSSQL into
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by kfullert 12y ago
Bytemark for 99% of things (now all on bigv.io, their cloud platform) and single machine for backup MX/DNS etc. at DigitalOcean
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by kfullert 13y ago
I work remotely and it would require at least a 100% pay-rise for me to work in the office every day

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