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by colinhowe 13y ago
I'd love to see photos of the women to see which is more accurate (to my eyes)
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by colinhowe 13y ago
Changi airport is exactly what airports should be like. It's a nice place to be instead of a horrible warehouse with lots of signs warning you that you're an accidental bottle of water away from being labelled a terrorist.
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by colinhowe 14y ago
Has anyone made an alternative interface for git that tidies this up without drastically changing how you use git? Or would this condemn someone's sanity to the graveyard?
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by colinhowe 14y ago
Given the quantity of information like this out there, do people bother with running anti-virus on Linux servers? It feels like something that you'd do just to err on the safe side.
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by colinhowe 14y ago
Didn't mean it to come across like that - just curious as to what their strategy is and how they argue it. My comment is somewhat OT though so I'll kill it
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by colinhowe 14y ago
How do you find Durandal? It looks pretty much exactly what we want
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Ask HN: What JS framework do you use for web apps?
13 points by colinhowe 14y ago|14 comments
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by colinhowe 14y ago
Took me a while to find how FoundationDB thinks about data... it's an ordered key-value store with nice scaling properties.
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by colinhowe 14y ago
xcanary would be better... e.g. alerts on mysql, django, ubuntu... anything :)
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by colinhowe 14y ago
Will the lobbyists now sue the EU for copyright infringement?
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by colinhowe 14y ago
Looks like multi-AZ to us too
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by colinhowe 14y ago
I now regret using EBS boot.
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by colinhowe 14y ago
If so, a nice feature would have been to add the removal of this to Ubuntu Tweak
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by colinhowe 14y ago
Wired - a producer of wires
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by colinhowe 14y ago
Sure! Will try to do it more often :) I don't often want to write about these things as they are silly mistakes... but, if it's helpful, I'll share!
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by colinhowe 14y ago
They're not particularly exciting. Example: we accidentally left detailed logging enabled on a secondary server and weren't monitoring the space left on the drive for logs. The disk got full and the secondary failed. Annoying that it failed
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by colinhowe 14y ago
We've been using MongoDB in production for our main content store at Conversocial for over a year now. We've gone from 1.8 to 2.0 to 2.2 and we're happy. We have ~400gb of data, 220 million documents all on Amazon's SSD instances. We have d
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Ask HN: What do you use for chat?
9 points by colinhowe 14y ago|19 comments
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by colinhowe 14y ago
I never truly appreciated how many planes are in the air until now..
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by colinhowe 14y ago
London UK. Mid/Senior Engineer. Conversocial. We provide companies with a SaaS solution that helps them do customer service on things like Facebook and Twitter. We're excited about improving customer service, we're excited about making ente
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by colinhowe 14y ago
Whenever I've looked at drawing tutorials they give stages. Just tried the hands tutorial. I can see what circles and bits to be drawing first and why they are there but only because I've done other tutorials. More steps and explanation wou
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Statprof - statistical profiling for Python(github.com)
1 points by colinhowe 14y ago|0 comments
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by colinhowe 14y ago
I've made it easier to start adding more metrics... could you pop this one in a github issue? I'll be able to actually remember to do it :)
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by colinhowe 14y ago
Added!
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by colinhowe 14y ago
htop is nice but it's not so usable for generating output that you can graph up and use for comparing things.
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by colinhowe 14y ago
Switched around the process architecture. Less code now :) Will look at dropping the target-output option.
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by colinhowe 14y ago
Good point! Changing it now :)
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by colinhowe 14y ago
The monitor is stopped as soon as the target process finishes - which means that the very last reading emitted will only contain information from during the run of the target. If it were done the other way around then we'd have to poll for
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by colinhowe 14y ago
I believe prstat (the Python library I'm using) has this. I'll probably add it in the next few hours :)
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Monner - Monitor CPU, memory and network whilst running a program(github.com)
56 points by colinhowe 14y ago|21 comments

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