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grey-panther.net 3y ago

Remembering the OG ad/malware blocking hosts file

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www.fastcompany.com 4y ago

Steve Wilhite created GIF, the graphics format that ate the world

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Tell HN: The Gitlab compensation calculator is no longer public

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archive.org 9y ago

New HN data dump available with over 14.5m entries

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gpanther.github.io 10y ago

Show HN: Js-geolocation, a free client-side geoip service

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www.javaadvent.com 10y ago

JavaAdvent: Project Jigsaw Hands-On Guide

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www.javaadvent.com 10y ago

Reactive file system monitoring using Akka actors

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www.javaadvent.com 10y ago

An Introduction to Spark, Your Next REST Framework for Java

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www.javaadvent.com 10y ago

JavaAdvent: Migrating Spring App to MicroServices App on AWS

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www.javaadvent.com 10y ago

Reactive (Java) Development Using Vert.x

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www.javaadvent.com 10y ago

Writing BDD Tests with Cucumber JVM

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www.javaadvent.com 10y ago

Two decades of Java: A timeline of the notable events

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www.javaadvent.com 10y ago

The Java/JVM Advent has started

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Show HN: Download the first 10,002,378 HN comments/stories as one archive

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reviewable.io 11y ago

Reviewable: GitHub code reviews done right

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www.udacity.com 12y ago

Udacity Course: Make Your Own 2048

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www.udacity.com 12y ago

Udacity: Intro to Punch Card Programming

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blog.cr.yp.to 12y ago

Djb has a weblog

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crypto.junod.info 12y ago

About Obfuscator-LLVM, Dual-Use Tools and Academic Ethics

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hype-free.blogspot.ro 12y ago

Programming advent calendars for 2013

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: What do Computer Scientists know about the Scientific Method?

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www.os2museum.com 12y ago

Fantasy History at Ars Technica [OS/2 Museum]

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www.change.org 12y ago

AOL: Keep Winamp alive or let it go open source

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Show HN: Videos from Coursera class "The Science of Gastronomy"

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www.hackerfactor.com 12y ago

The New Yorker using faked in article about chemical attacks in Syria

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techno-anthropology.blogspot.ro 12y ago

I made this for hacker news, but that doesn't mean you can't hire me too.

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: What's happening to the "Learn X the Hard Way" series?

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thebuild.com 13y ago

PostgreSQL as a Schemaless Database

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www.indiegogo.com 13y ago

Crowdfounding initiative for PyDev - the Eclipse based Python IDE

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Show HN: Java Advent Calendar

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Here is my use-case for a trustless architecture: there are parts of my families digital life which I would prefer to continue working as much as possible, even if I'm temporarily or permanently unavailable. "Pay this amount of money monthly/yearly for this to keep working" is a straight forward concept for 99.999% of the population. "Poke around in docker debugging logs if this stuff stuff" is not.

And, if stuff has to be hosted by third parties for me, I prefer it to be encrypted.

Who knows what the problem could be - if you want to invest time into this, you could try collecting some debug logs to see if it indicates anything. For me and my family it works pretty well (~300G of data across 10s of thousands of photos / videos). Face recognition / AI search works reasonably well. It's not perfect, but I'm happy to keep our photos under our control rather with some big tech company which could decide on a whim to erase all of my data (or even worse, report me to the police and then erase all of my data).

Of course I also dump all of the data about once per week on a NAS, just in case :)

Cool project, but seems to be abandoned. At one point I was a subscriber to their premium version, but then started getting spam to the (unique) email address I used for the subscription. I emailed them to warn that their account database might be compromised but never heard back from them (this was back in '22).

Also, back then, their map tiles loading had a very high failure rate when loading, so I wrote a custom caching proxy to make it tolerable (which had built-in retry and also cached any successful response for a very long time).

I lead a migration very similar to this. We had taken over a system that was handed to a business person with all the technical team leaving because of a dispute. We rewrote the system and migrated all the user accounts over to the new system in a couple of months, after which we ran it for a couple more years, until the company got sold.

I would say the most important learnings were:

- there is lot of "extra stuff" around the product that is somewhat independent of "how complicated the product is". Even a simple CRUD app needs source control, a test suite, (ideally) some automated system for source quality check (like linters, analyzers, formatters, etc), a system for deploying it to a dev / staging / production environment, etc.

- production also needs monitoring (both "is it working" and "is it working within the expected parameters" - for example is it fast enough). Ideally there would also be some alerting around this monitoring so that you don't have to wait for users to complain to find out that something is not working.

- there is a saying of "use boring technologies" (https://boringtechnology.club/), which I 100% subscribe to. That will ensure that there are lots of examples for each aspect of the product you're trying to implement (for example authentication and authorization, creating an admin dashboard, etc).

- In addition I would say "use some managed platform to offload lots of these worries". Yes, it will seem weird to look at the bill at the end of each month and say "why are we paying $Xk each month for Heroku when I can rent a server from Hetzner for less than $100?" - but managing that Hetzner server (and probably more than one server, to make sure that a single hardware failure doesn't take down your entire product), ensuring backups are working, etc would cost more. Optimizing between "buy" vs "build" is a delicate balance.

In the end I think programmers who like to start new projects are a rare bread. I'd be happy to chat about this more (I'm also in Europe). Feel free to reach out to me at cratt[at]grey-panther.net.

Here are things I found that worked well for supporting family/friends that are not OS specific (of course, if feasible, I advocate for installing GNU/Linux):

- make sure that auto-update is on. Recent OSs are pretty good about this. GNU/Linux / MacOS are also pretty good about updating 3rd party apps (since they come through the package manage / app store), Windows needs a little help (there was Secunia PSI which is now deprecated)

- run the user as a "restricted user" (ie. not superuser / admin). Again, this is mostly given with recent OSs. This also mostly blocks them from accidentally installing software (I generally set up machines with all needed software - like browsers, office suites, media codecs, etc and tell them that they don't need anything else and if something/somebody tells them they need to install something else, they should treat it with extreme suspicion and call me first)

- the big one: ad blocking. I usually combine hosts file based, DNS based and browser plugin based blocking (like uBlock Origin). Seems like lots of scams / malware are going through advertisement and since starting to blocking advertisement over a decade ago, the problems my family / friends are seeing with their devices went down dramatically.

Thank you HN 8 years ago

Happy to hear that you're doing well and on your path. Just a quick suggestion: you could take a look at honeypot.io. They take care of pre-filtering both the companies and candidates, so using their "market place" is less stressful and less time-consuming than going directly to the companies / recruiters.

Yes, due to an unfair advantage. As per the text you quoted:

charter schools don't serve special needs students. More than that, charter schools bias towards engaged and interested parents. Because of policies like No Child Left Behind, it is really bad for local neighborhood schools to have all of their high performing students leave for charter schools.