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Christian Verkerk myfullnamewithnospaces with gmail

Dutch/American developer (mostly Django/Python + HTML/JS/CSS)

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www.bloomberg.com 3y ago

Europe’s $1T Energy Bill Only Marks Start of the Crisis

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hackernoon.com 6y ago

Consider gRPC for Mobile APIs

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www.forbes.com 6y ago

Why California Is in Trouble

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chrisdown.name 8y ago

In defence of swap: common misconceptions

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: What's up with AWS lately?

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pip.pypa.io 11y ago

Pip version 6.0 released

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ballingt.com 11y ago

BPython Curtsies

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: What happened to the python.org redesign?

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everydayeconomies.net 13y ago

Sardex: Euro-based bartering system

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gigaom.com 13y ago

Oracle buys private-cloud pioneer Nimbula

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inoveryourhead.net 13y ago

The complete guide to not giving a fuck

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

Music box with a mobius strip

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www.diversity.net.nz 13y ago

Nimbula Joins the OpenStack Community

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

Live presidential debate on YouTube

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c4urself.github.com 13y ago

Shown HN: AMD-compatible jQuery plugin template

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972mag.com 14y ago

Is Israel’s search through visitors’ email accounts legal?

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nimbula.com 14y ago

EC2 Founders' Nimbula releases 2.0 version of product

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pyvideo.org 14y ago

Dancing robots at Pycon 2012

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github.com 14y ago

A jQuery Plugin Template

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

The Pirate Bay now blocked in the Netherlands

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Which podcasts do you listen to?

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groups.google.com 14y ago

Google 404 page has common typo in title

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www.youyube.com 14y ago

Youtube phishing site

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www.stypi.com 14y ago

Watch PG make mistakes on Stypi

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maps.google.com 14y ago

Firefox logo in field on Google Maps

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www.bbc.co.uk 14y ago

EU plans to spend billions on boosting Internet speeds

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www.vg.no 15y ago

Hold sammen, hold hender

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www.economist.com 15y ago

Debt crises: Europe and America, increasingly alike

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site.layar.com 15y ago

Layar Amsterdam is looking for iPhone and Android developers for the summer

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blip.tv 15y ago

DjangoCon EU 2011 Videos

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Sad to see them go, happy user for a long time as well -- anyone know what went wrong? Why did they sell to BBVA / is it just financially infeasible to run a web-based bank?

Bazel Release 1.0 7 years ago

Agree. I've been dealing with Python rules for Bazel at work and the default implementation of re-downloading everything with pip became a real pain real fast. Decided to generate the third party py_library with a separate tool instead and much happier for it. As an aside for those looking to start with Bazel, it's worth checking out the BazelBuild Slack -- https://slack.bazel.build/

One of the key pieces that we've been missing is an HA setup for Jenkins. We use JJB to automatically create jobs, have everything set up with configuration management, so that works but we still have some downtime if our master loses connectivity etc.

It may have also been what your friend said — French people are quite formal compared to Canadians and Americans — I know some French and was corrected a couple of times based on how I started the conversation: “Good evening” first, then start... most Americans at least don’t talk that way

Wow just had a facepalm moment realising what you said is spot on. To make matters worse small-engined tools that pollute the environment are used weekly to keep the yard nice... what a waste

The problem is that all the issues you name are only marginally bad for the average consumer — there isn’t much motivation to move when the problem isn’t that bad for most. And most importantly all the issues you mention were already solvable with Bluetooth.

Site Reliability Engineer | Tubular Labs, Inc.| Mountain View, CA and Kiev, UA

Tubular Labs is the worldwide leader in online video intelligence.

Tech we use: Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Spark, Docker, Kafka, Mesos and a variety of hosted solutions on AWS.

Responsibilities: Manage all aspects of the infrastructure as a key hands-on leader.

Note: SRE positions are available in both locations; manager would be in Mountain View

Apply (manager): https://jobs.lever.co/tubularlabs/37bb5fca-48d4-4347-aaba-2d... Apply (SRE): https://jobs.lever.co/tubularlabs/3a49fc11-4576-4ff2-9d81-74...

We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard -- AWS Status

Well that explains all the green checkmarks /s

It is, of course the checkmark will stay green throughout this as Amazon doesn't care about actually letting its customers know they have a problem.

pretty sure you're referring to God as the "third party" -- but I'm not sure how it was revolutionary considering Judaism had a very similar system in place where offerings were presented to God for forgiveness. Jesus is just the ultimate offering in that sense for Christianity.

Wonder if the advance of virtual reality could improve these peoples lives in some way -- kind of what they're doing in the Hogewey complex -- simulate a life that is somewhat "normal" to these people to reduce stress and anxiety.

I believe it's "Forward Deployed Engineer" ... heard it said that Palantir doesn't like the term consulting and makes up its own titles...

You're misunderstanding how CSRF works. Say a user is logged in to the site JoeNotProtectedByCSRF.tld with a session cookie or similar authentication token. SpammySite.tld comes along with a form to POST some change some value on JoeNotProtectedByCSRF.tld such as a password field. Because your browser always sends along the cookies to the end domain, your session cookie will be abused. With a check against a unique-to-the-user CSRF token as a hidden input on the form this doesn't happen.

Seriously, there's a lot of FUD on this thread. Right now it's anecdotal evidence at best that there is a relationship there at all. But most people here seem to be talking about it as if it's already proven fact. Come on HN.

I was actually hoping for an alternative to using alert() in IE7, as that's the only place I still use it for debugging purposes

I disagree, they're in an ideal location for people from both SF and down to San Jose and Fremont.

That gives their employees a whole lot more choice for housing and makes it more attractive. Every time I see a company that's in SF offering jobs I shudder at the travel time from the valley. It's wonderful if you've already got a place in SF but makes anyone think twice about joining a company when they consider the crazy living costs in SF.

I read about halfway through the article before I realized they weren't talking about sriracha literally catching fire. Good read nonetheless.