deejbee

One thing I've always missed is tabbed consoles. I've use Cmder (http://cmder.net/ I have no affiliation) for quite a while now and has been totally awesome as it provides a tabbed container window with any mixture of cmd.exe, bash shell, launching as Admin and best of all it persists all your windows after reboot.

My experience has been it is way over priced. It costs over $40/month for a 1CPU/1GB RAM node while linode, amongst others is $5 + $20 for a load balancer. I noticed in the google pricing calculator that you can set the Cores/vCPUs per hour to 0.05 and it goes down to $7/month! I'm not if I can do anything do with 0.05 of a core though, or if it automatically increases if it decides to.

Automating logging into and data capture for financial/banking sites, building a new finance aggregation service.

Does anyone know if there is any research on WHY this algae acts in this way? Would it be possible to either synthesise the chemical compound(s) involved, once identified without having to farm it?

Coming from a slightly different angle but it may be of use, I wrote a chrome browser extension that automates logging into banks and other financial sites. It also scrapes the balances once logged in to provide a net worth total. It currently works on around 25 banks (mainly UK). You can also build your own logins and all passwords/private data are stored encrypted in the browser.

I wrote it as I just spend too much time digging out passwords all the time and the usual crowd like LastPass are a) stored online and b) fail to login automatically to complex input sequences like banks.

The missing right to life felt like a fairly glaring omission to me, but as you say it might just have been left out for brevity.

You can spin up a http server from the Main process (we do spin up websockets on our app) if you need to, and if you're writing a single page app using angular for example then you can just specify the .html page using loadURL()

Not scraping but banks don't even do this for their security which I found surprising. I just finished building a chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/uyp-free-blasts-th...) that auto-logins into pretty much any bank or financial web site without having to type anything. The key difference to other password managers is it can auto-fill pretty much anything.

I guess it's part password manager (it stores passwords encrypted in browser storage, not remotely) and part automation wizard :)

This sounds like more of an issue with technical debt management. I'm much more of a proponent of Kanban, whenever possible, so in this case if a user story requires a refactor or architectural change then that's just fine. Also regular code reviews to eliminate hacking and sanity checking automated tests shouldn't be made optional, they should be actively encouraged by the team leads and dev manager.

From what I've experienced and read about, it seems the best approach is not to create/destroy objects at run time since it can be an expensive operation and cause frame rate issues. It's better to hide them and build as many as you can when the app is started up.

I tried that with a so called credit checking agency in the UK called "Credit Expert". These [scumbags] deserve a Dark Pattern gold star. To see your credit score you have to sign up with a credit card for a subscription. They know full well that everyone wants to just make sure that their credit score is ok, not be charged a monthly rate. They tell you it will cost X a month so you try to cancel within the given time. You have to call a phone number- can't do it online. That's also deliberate. You have to wait x minutes on the phone until you get to their cancellations department. I tell them I want to cancel. They say I 'signed up' and cancelled a year before so they are going to charge me the first month anyway. I am forced to accept and I call my bank a perform a chargeback. 2 months later the chargeback is reversed and I'm charged the full amount because the bank apparently investigated and deemed it a valid transaction.

I'm not affiliated with it but Agent Ransack just does search the old fashioned way, but fast. Sear inside files works properly too, without waiting for some sort of index that may, or may not be complete.

I only read the title and just thought... so Apple 'invented' their own HTTP/2 protocol now. that really wouldn't surprise me. one. little. bit.

Does it copy/paste image data too? My brief look at the docs doesn't seem to mention it but it would be ace if it did...

Why don't interviewers just have a conversation or is that so totally lost these days? I find it a whole lot easier to just ask the right technical questions in the first 2 mins. to decide on hiring.

I keep seeing more and more dis-associative non-communication being presented where the interviewer attempts to do less and less. Its lazy and a crap way to treat people.

I think Visual Studio does it too with its Analyse Solution for Code Clones. It's an Ultimate edition feature though.

That my plan too. By using dual clouds (again in UK and US), we're getting the highest failover protection we can afford. I can't afford our e-commerce platform to be down and the evidence shows that a single cloud is robust enough. We call it "Cloud Docking" :)