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by clarkdave 9y ago
Yes, it works very well. Earlier this year AWS automated the process of setting up a cluster backed by a spot fleet[0]. It's a very cost effective way to run lots of containers. We actually use a combination of on-demand and spot conta
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by clarkdave 9y ago
If you don't mind tinkering, I highly recommend Buildkite. They provide the management & cloud UI and you run the actual build agents on your own infrastructure. When you get it going it blows everything else away in value for mone
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by clarkdave 10y ago
Agreed! The bar is incredibly sensitive. I run it in customised mode and often when hitting backspace I'll brush against the bar and activate something. It got so frustrating that I gave up and added loads of whitespace to the far righ
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by clarkdave 10y ago
There's an extension to add partial support of this to Postgres: https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables I have used it in production for years and it works great, but does indeed use a lot of disk space if yo
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by clarkdave 11y ago
A really cool feature I love about 1Password is that you can open up the `agilekeychain` file in a web browser and unlock it to view your passwords right there without the application. [0] One of the few unique passwords I remember myself i
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by clarkdave 12y ago
It's not just the blog - news.bbc.co.uk also intercepts middle clicks to external sites. Middle clicks on links to other bbc.co.uk pages work fine though. Is it an accident or intentional? Anyone know?
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by clarkdave 12y ago
I asked a PSA why it's slow and she told me that when under manual operation the train is "off the grid", so to speak, and is speed limited for safety reasons (other trains no longer know where it is) The door closing works w
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by clarkdave 12y ago
I'm getting Logistics more often and haven't had any problems yet. It seems to be evolving fairly quickly - they now send me emails when a delivery has been signed for which they didn't do a few months ago. I hope that one-ho
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by clarkdave 12y ago
Thanks everyone at Hashicorp! This tool looks awesome. I wish it had been around years ago so I might have a nice version-controlled set of configuration files instead of a bunch of wiki articles and post-it notes ;) I have a quick question
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by clarkdave 12y ago
I have this too in Chrome 35 on Windows 7. Here's how it looks: http://imgur.com/SSMV8j6
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by clarkdave 12y ago
Intl is rather excellent, and if you do want to use it there's an nice shim for it here: https://github.com/andyearnshaw/Intl.js I've been using this with great results so far. It works well with a loader (e.
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by clarkdave 12y ago
It's not hard work to skip the "www" these days. DNS providers like Cloudflare support CNAME-like functionality on the apex domain, and if you're using AWS then Route 53 provides special "alias" records which l
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by clarkdave 12y ago
I can't find an official word from Three about this, but I think this doesn't apply to existing plan holders. I've done about 50GB/mo tethering last month and this with no ill effects yet. I'll be holding on tight t
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by clarkdave 12y ago
I've recently had a few of my Prime deliveries come via "Amazon Logistics" and it's lacking compared to DPD who used to do most of them. Amazon Logistics has no depots (that I can see - they don't tell you who the c
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by clarkdave 13y ago
I'm a fan of Sentry, and their hosted service is very affordable. The fact you can push data to it on your own terms is great. I use it in combination with Logstash as an output, so any logged errors reaching Logstash are automatically
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by clarkdave 13y ago
I live in Bethnal Green (just down the road from "Tech City") and our entire apartment block can't get fibre, just a measly 4Mb/s. I don't know if BT is to blame, or the building itself, but it sure makes finding a
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by clarkdave 13y ago
Maybe you need 3 dynos to match the performance of Ninefold's starter tier? I wouldn't have thought so though... 2 dynos will be plenty responsive and won't need to be kept alive with New Relic/Pingdom etc either.
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by clarkdave 13y ago
There's a pretty neat Sublime plugin[0] which shows the base64 string of any image you open in the editor. This has saved me time on a lot of occasions. [0] https://github.com/tm-minty/sublime-text-2-image2base64
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by clarkdave 13y ago
Native "enums" (types) in PostgreSQL are a mixed bag. They do have some advantages: - you can treat them like strings (e.g. `SET status = 'approved'`, but they are a fixed size (four bytes) - when queried they appear as
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by clarkdave 13y ago
I really liked Everpix as a "fire and forget" method for backing up my photos. It's a shame they're shutting down. As an alternative I'll probably switch to Dropbox, who have been improving their 'photo upload&
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by clarkdave 13y ago
I can't speak for streaming or free books, but I'm a secondary on a Prime account and I can rent books through the Kindle Owner's Library (in the UK).
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by clarkdave 13y ago
I set up a mini cockroach farm to feed my lizard (a bearded dragon). They're easy to look after, very low maintenance, never bite and don't make much noise. I can't say I've ever wanted to eat one, but I can see why they
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by clarkdave 13y ago
I tried switching to (Iced)CoffeeScript to write tests (using Mocha and Sinon) for a Node app (written in JS). It went something like: Week one: this is awesome. It's so clean! Week two: asynchronous stuff is still an utter pain though
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by clarkdave 13y ago
Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana are just fantastic. After being unsatisfied with a whole bunch of Logging As A Service providers (I tried loggly.com, logentries.com and splunkstorm.com) I spent an afternoon setting up Logstash and co and
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by clarkdave 13y ago
Reqwest ( https://github.com/ded/reqwest ) has worked well for me, and has EnderJS support too. The API is similar, but not identical, to jQuery.ajax.
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by clarkdave 13y ago
Looks interesting. I've been a Thunderbird user for a long time but the fact it appears to have been practically abandoned[0] by Mozilla is a shame. The 'Import from Thunderbird' wizard appears to be a bit broken, though. It
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by clarkdave 13y ago
Two alternatives often mentioned on here are DigitalOcean and RamNode. I've only used DigitalOcean. My anecdotal experience from running a Chef Server on a 1GB instance has been pretty mixed. The price is good, but network and CPU performan
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by clarkdave 14y ago
I believe it does - I use Cloudflare with my blog and every file, including *.html files, appears to be served by them.
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by clarkdave 14y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5347289
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by clarkdave 14y ago
I use Chrome and often have ~100 tabs open. I spread them across multiple windows and try to keep related tabs together in their own window. I use the excellent Session Buddy[0] extension to make this easier. With that, I can save windows (

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