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medium.com 11y ago

‘You cut, I choose’

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chimeracoder.github.io 11y ago

Docker without Docker

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www.kryogenix.org 11y ago

The Next Big Thing Is Privacy

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www.firstpost.com 12y ago

Facebook to make its first India acquisition with app tester Little Eye Labs

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www.cucumbertown.com 13y ago

Scheduling morning emails with Python and Celery

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www.kickstarter.com 13y ago

Ostrich Pillow - take a nap anywhere

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www.facebook.com 13y ago

Facebook revamps Messages

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www.osa-opn.org 13y ago

Ultrafast Camera Could Detect Wandering Cancer Cells

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www.chromemote.com 13y ago

Chromemote - a Google TV remote that lives in Chrome

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

ZangZing is shutting down

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www.forbes.com 14y ago

Facebook forces @facebook.com email address on users

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chiragchamoli.com 14y ago

AWS - Each Service in Simple English

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sethgodin.typepad.com 14y ago

Today, we're never finished, and that's okay - Seth Godin

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blogs.forrester.com 14y ago

Apple doomed to end up like Sony: Forrester CEO

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mashable.com 14y ago

Asana launches premium version

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cheat.errtheblog.com 14y ago

All the CheatSheets you ever need

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bramcohen.com 14y ago

Never make counter-offers

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www.npr.org 14y ago

Da Vinci's To-Do List

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techcrunch.com 14y ago

Trouble Hiring? Create A Cult.

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fury.com 14y ago

How not to recruit

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I could never get my head around Make except for very simple commands.

Was very recently looking for an alternative for automating frequently used commands for our Elixir app – especially for local dev (without using docker) and came across Taskfile (https://taskfile.dev/) and have been liking it quite a bit.

Can someone explain a bit more?

(a) Does this mean that there will be an sqlite version that can be deployed as a process accessible over network in servers?

(b) Does this mean that sqlite will now have the capability to do concurrent reads/writes, but that it is upto users to implement a process that can take advantage of this and create something like (a)?

Thank you so much for the slides - even though I've been following the Docker/Rkt/LXC developments ever since Docker came out (albeit passively), this is the best resource I've come across that explains what happens internally in an easy to grok manner. The fact that you can do nearly everything in systemd is indeed a bonus.

I'm sorry if I jumped the gun before the blogpost was ready. :) Hopefully, the discussion will help even more!

Quick feedback: Browsing the Go section, each sub directory(at all depths) in the Docker project seems to be listed as a separate project. Leads to showing a few pages of results linking to the same project(ie, Docker). Also may explain why Go seems to have far more number of projects listed than anything else. :)

Update: Better wording

Ten years of Ubuntu 12 years ago

Yup, the free CDs is what I remember as the first thing about Ubuntu - and the fact that it worked out of the box.

There is a fun story as well: We were in college (in India) at the time and my friend went ahead and ordered 100 CD's or so (they actually encouraged it at the time for distribution). The package arrived at the local Post Office after a few weeks and he was asked to go collect it, which seemed strange. Anyways, he went and to his wonder was told to pay import duty on it by the customs! He argued for a while saying it was educational material and that it was being shipped for free - to no avail. He finally gave up and asked them to keep it for themselves and walked out.

In the end, they chased after him before he left the premises and gave it to him - no import duty, nothing.

I got my CD from this set. :)

Recently spent some time organizing my dotfiles and discovered fresh[1] which I've been using to great success. Both for servers I manage and on my mac.

The fact is that most people are going to be reusing (and probably be better of) a lot of code from other well tested dotfiles. `fresh` lets you pick and choose what you want directly from other's repos in addition to adding whatever you want and produces a single bundle (or multiple if you need it).

As far as I can tell, its a self contained shell script and does not have any dependencies (if that is a concern). Its definitely worth checking out.

[1] https://github.com/freshshell/fresh

Yes, and apparently you can take advantage of React's faster/smarter rendering (http://www.williambrownstreet.net/blog/2014/04/faster-angula...)

That said, I would be uncomfortable mixing something as opinionated as Angular with another framework that expects to "own" the DOM/rendering. My guess is that Angular will implement their own version of VDOM in the next few months since it shows demonstrably better performance.

My dad has been a MM patient for close to 6 years now and you are spot-on about the disease's general behaviour..

We started with Lenalidomide and was on it until end of last year with breaks of up to 6-8 months where there was no specific meds.. He's now on a Bortezomib cycle which will end in a couple of months and we hope to have some months free of meds again..

We never did the bone marrow transplant considering his age and stress/recovery he would have to go through.. MM is sympathetic in the sense that people who respond to meds can have a high quality of life even while undergoing treatment (my dad is still a practising medical Doctor). Lenalidomide is a tablet that you take at home while you go in once every week or two for Bortezomib shots.. The treatment is also considerably cheaper in India (still not inexpensive by any measure)..

The overarching fear for MM patients is the fact that its indeed incurable and how far/long we can go on before running out of treatment options.. Personally, seeing such trials and success gives us hope and comfort.. OV looks a promising approach and I hope my dad and others will be able to benefit from it..

"If you are planning to learn filesystems, start from the scratch. You can look from the first commit in this repository and move the way up."

Slightly off topic - I've always thought this is a very interesting use case for Github and open source in general - especially for understanding such low level concepts and their implementations. Provided the commit history is clear and comprehensive, this might be the best way to learn, other than do the whole thing yourself from scratch. Has somebody actually taken this path? What's your experience?

Very excited about the possibilities and convenience that Docker opens up. Will be taking it for a spin soon.

Few questions regarding performance compared to running the processes directly on Linux (I guess this applies to LXCs in general - forgive me if these are due to a lack of knowledge about how LXCs work in general):

- How much extra memory and CPU does each Docker process take? - Is there any performance hit with respect to CPU, I/O or memory? - Are there any benchmarks from testing available?

Again, kudos to all the people at dotCloud behind Docker and extra props for open sourcing!!

Its really nice to see them bringing in even more flexibility in platforms and environments.

I just hope they had taken a little bit more care in ensuring backward compatibility - both my apps (which I have been running for 7+ months) lost code deployment ability (errors on deploy). The fact that it happened exactly at a time we discovered a major issue in our code base and were stuck without being able to push hot fixes was a major bummer.

Shot off an email to their support 2 hours back - haven't heard back yet.

Fortunately, we sniffed the issue to the new buildpack and found a work around by pointing our apps to use an older buildpack (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks). While it caused us real heartburn for quite some time, kudos to them for building an infrastructure that is extremely configurable (which enabled the workaround).

Update: Heroku support got back with the same work around. They are debugging the issue with the new buildpack.

There is always a heaviness in your heart when you hear a company is shutting down.

Anybody know if there were any specific reasons for ZangZing?

Honest question: How does YC give feedback to companies that are rejected? Is it pretty much like the author described? Or do they take pains to be truthful? (given that PG is known to speak his mind)

Talk about the timing!

We currently have a setup that needs S3 access to reliably develop/test the app I'm currently working on and I had just sat down planning to remove this dependency, since I will be on the road the next week or so.

This will save me a bunch of time immediately and probably some money later on. Thanks!

Most of it applies to photosharing websites as well - especially the bit about keeping the title/headline below the image. I'm irritated every time the title is at the top and I need to scroll up to see the title (The initial response for me is to inspect the photo - exactly as mentioned in the article).

Building one myself, I instinctively felt this should be below the image, but my designer disagreed and that's the way it is right now. We will definitely push this down - evidence always wins :)

Jason was my favorite at TC. Although not as prolific as the other, his stories were well written and in an unassuming style.

More than anything, I enjoyed TC Cribs the most since they were the closest thing to really see Valley startups at work - unless you worked for one of them. :)

Ramos alarm clock 14 years ago

Great, now I can put the panel on the night table, key in the code half groggy in the morning and go back to sleep. :)

Seriously, $135 for an alarm clock?

It started stinking from the time CrunchFund was announced and I couldn't understand all the "moral highground" support bullshit that Arrington was getting - most notably from the TC staff.

Journalism is a lot about perspective - I dont care if you occupy the highest moral grounds, your perspective changes dramatically once you have significant interest and money invested into something you are talking about. What you would normally call a Spade now becomes a Diamond.

Arrington's and MG's responses to the Path issue is proof enough for this - can you imagine both of them so mellow and supportive if Path was not CF funded was not around? I think not. And ohh yeah, I nearly puked reading MG's "rant" few days back. For someone who is so hypercritical of anything on the borderline of wrong (except if its from Apple - or any CF company it seems now), it felt especially nauseous.

To their credit, they do have disclosures - which definitely make a difference - if that is enough, I'm not sure.

Credibility is built by calling a spade a spade. It also tends to take the fast route down if you stop doing that.