silas

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   by silas 2y ago

   Looks like they have a migration guide available here: https://expressjs.com/en/guide/migrating-5.html
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   by silas 3y ago

   Also noticed that the Status page linked from the logged out https://twitter.com page has been expired since Aug 29. Not especially interesting, but probably an indication that some of the non-core stuff is getting overlooked.
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   by silas 5y ago

   Goodreads allows you to export your library via CSV.
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   by silas 12y ago

   Linode also charged you the $20 right up front and held on to it for the month.
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   by silas 12y ago

   Yeah, this is why spamming your general status page with lots of information is a bad idea. I have no idea what's going on there. At first glance it looks like half their services are having issues, which makes me think it always looks
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   by silas 12y ago

   Linode opens a ticket for all affected users and emails them proactively, I think this is the right way to message this type of outage.
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   by silas 13y ago

   Hacked together a Vagrantfile if anyone wants to try it out: https://github.com/silas/vagrant-lmctfy
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   by silas 13y ago

   This is super nice for anyone running RHEL/EL, lets you use recent versions of Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.. without having to package everything yourself.
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   by silas 13y ago

   Google Test Automation Conference talk on Appium if you're interested: https://developers.google.com/google-test-automation-confere...
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    by silas 14y ago

    Gmail is written using the Closure library: https://developers.google.com/closure/faq#gwt
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    by silas 14y ago

    Only one (wristband texture) and removing it still produces a pretty good result: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/LmEkn
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    by silas 14y ago

    I've had good experiences with Thinkpads, Ubuntu has their own list: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/
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    by silas 14y ago

    Every scribd link is marked as private for me Hacker News for some reason, is this broken for anyone else or..?
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    by silas 15y ago

    I created pretty much the same thing about two weeks ago, although I think your library looks much nicer (I'm just getting into Go). https://github.com/silas/bcrypt.go
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    by silas 15y ago

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179492
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    by silas 16y ago

    Interesting bit from the linked comments via "egoodman85": Hey, just want to clarify something as an Etsy employee. It's not your purchases that are public - it's your feedback on those purchases. I know it's a small distinction, but it's
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    by silas 16y ago

    $ curl -s http://bit.ly/test | grep AOLserver <P ALIGN=RIGHT><SMALL><I>AOLserver/4.5.1 on http://127.0.0.1:7200</I></SMALL></P&#62 ;
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    by silas 16y ago

    1. Quit Dropbox 2. rm -fr ~/.dropbox-dist 3. Start Dropbox
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    by silas 16y ago

    Sweet, I'd take: nyc.ww.com => nyc.sewell.ch (CNAME)
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    by silas 16y ago

    CentOS, Fedora and RHEL use Python for most of the system tools and as such integrating or contribute to those projects will be easier if you know Python. That said the recent/popular systems automation and conifguration tools (Puppet, Chef
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    by silas 16y ago

    I wrote something similar a while back to offload parts of legacy sites on Google App engine. http://github.com/silas/gaem
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    by silas 16y ago

    http://github.com/tidg/tyrion A lightweight systems management tool that uses XMPP for transport and is written in C++.
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    by silas 16y ago

    I think in the immediate feature innovative mobile products could unseat a lot of the current platforms, many of which have been slow to (or done so poorly) implement mobile interfaces. I think just like we've moved from desktop to web appl
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    by silas 16y ago

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowNDA
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    by silas 16y ago

    Might be a fun project to implement the XMPP Microblogging XEP ( http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0277.html ) as a start. XMPP seems to have a lot of the basic features for a distributed social network (buddy list, pubsub, established protoco
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    by silas 16y ago

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937175
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    by silas 17y ago

    I'm using Dropbox because it supports Linux and has worked extremely well thus far. I can't speak to ZumoDrive's performance or reliability (although I'm sure its fine), but it does look like they have more pricing options if you want a sma
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    by silas 17y ago

    ... for free.
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    by silas 17y ago

    fastcgi++: http://www.nongnu.org/fastcgipp/
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    by silas 17y ago

    Check out GlusterFS: http://www.gluster.org/