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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
I love this, thanks! I was actually just thinking of trying to design something similar and expose it as a browser plugin. Nice!
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
Blergh, just a PR puff piece. Sorry I clicked.
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Ask HN: What's the State of the Art in Fake Amazon Reviews?
36 points by bespoke_engnr 9y ago|14 comments
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
You're absolutely right. I'm sorry. What can I do?
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
I've just updated and it seems really nice so far. Best of all, the "Tree Style Tab" extension works again, and it's glorious.
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
I've had good experiences with Vultr as well. I'm surprised they're not more popular.
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
Aw thanks, I hope you get something useful out of it! Feel free to message me with feedback; I read all of it.
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
As I've started trying to be more professional about it, the time it takes to produce content has grown quite a bit. 20 minutes of me talking into the camera takes 2-4 hours to plan, outline, film, and edit. 30 minutes of screencast ta
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
I have a Linux/Programming/Tech Career YouTube channel ( https://youtube.com/c/tutorialinux ) that just hit 50k subscribers (yay!), and it makes around $450/month in ad revenue. I also made a poorly targ
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
Heh, maybe you'll get a kick out of http://nand2tetris.org/ (if you haven't come across it already). I finally finished part 1 of the course (implementing the Hack machine) and it was one of the best and most cha
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
I just saw this come up in an arpilisp discussion thread ( https://github.com/marcpaq/arpilisp ). ChrysaLisp is an Assembler/C-Script/Lisp 64 bit OS. MIMD, multi CPU, multi threaded, multi core, multi user, and
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ChrysaLisp – A 64-bit Lisp OS with GUI(github.com)
306 points by bespoke_engnr 9y ago|121 comments
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
At the moment, I don't actively promote videos except by notifying subscribers on YT, twitter, and occasionally facebook. Others in this comment thread have convinced me to start actively promoting via e.g. Adwords, though. I'll s
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure why I haven't started running AdWords campaigns yet, but I need to get on that. I'll try that; thanks for the kick in the pants!
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
My engineering instinct says, "I could build a simple little video-course platform in a weekend or two," but I know where that kind of thinking leads :-D. More practically, I'm thinking about using something like Teachable fo
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
Just an average Udemy creator here, but maybe what I've learned is useful. I started doing Linux tutorials on YouTube a few years ago ( http://youtube.com/c/tutorialinux ) and then created a course on Udemy about
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
I see some people arguing that "you should use a dev/staging environment with a public IP" instead of having ngrok tunneling traffic directly to your local dev box. When you're editing HTML/CSS, you don't have
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
Is it safe to have that apiKey parameter in your 'book' links? That just jumped out at me. It looks like a cool project; good luck!
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Whatever You Do, Don't Expose the Docker Socket to a Container (2015)(lvh.io)
2 points by bespoke_engnr 10y ago|0 comments
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by bespoke_engnr 10y ago
Unfortunately Comcast is one of the two companies (along with Verizon) that have monopolized the ISP market in the US. Together they own most of the market, and have agreements to stay out of each others' territories. This affects some
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by bespoke_engnr 10y ago
Don't worry too much about it. I had the same feeling, since I read HN a lot. Now I'm going through the interview process with several companies and have had a great experience with all of them. Not at all what I expected, based o
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by bespoke_engnr 10y ago
I'm assuming that this was originally sarcastic, but bare metal can actually turn out really well in some situations. If you're big enough to save just $50k/month by moving from AWS to physical machines, that's several S
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by bespoke_engnr 10y ago
Just spent a bit of time working around some problems to get Dwarf Fortress and the Lazy Newb Pack installed on Ubuntu 16.04. It's a bit more complicated than running it on Windows , but still works just fine: https://tutori
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by bespoke_engnr 10y ago
I don't understand the appeal of Docker on FreeBSD. The native jails on FreeBSD basically do the same thing by default (spin up a jail, execute a command, exit) unless you explicitly tell them to persist (at that point, they behave mor
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by bespoke_engnr 10y ago
I don't know what's happening with this now, but I remember the Pond ( https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/11/10/pond.html ) project working on something like this. I believe they were trying to do
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by bespoke_engnr 11y ago
Perhaps the middle part of the argument is missing? People who care about privacy == people who use encryption. People who use encryption already have all of their communications flagged and stored, if the rumors are true.
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by bespoke_engnr 11y ago
Ahh, thanks for the explanation (and the link). Much appreciated.
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by bespoke_engnr 11y ago
I'm an American living in Europe. I report my income to the IRS every year, like you. Reading your comment gave me a scare -- what exactly would trigger the $20,000-80,000 fine or asset seizure? Is it a failure to report income taxes a
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by bespoke_engnr 11y ago
I love HN as much as the next person but suggesting that the people who hang out here are somehow representative of anything except for the most lucky, wealthy, and privileged members of our society seems a bit strange. The point you'r
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by bespoke_engnr 11y ago
Aside from the "needs many gigs of RAM, even without deduplication turned on" angle, the lack of ECC memory would prevent me from using ZFS on raspi. Sooner or later you will trash your data unless you're using ECC memory (wh

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