jonathanoliver

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by jonathanoliver 4y ago
IRQ 5, DMA 1--but I had to adjust my COM mouse to use a different IRQ. Also, I had a highly tuned config.sys and autoexec.bat to get as much memory as I possibly could for King's Quest 3.
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by jonathanoliver 4y ago
We are seeing the same. Any alternative hosting providers with comparable features that you prefer with better uptime?
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by jonathanoliver 5y ago
I believe the IRS facility in Holtsville existed first. Then, due to mail volume, a ZIP Code was created to facilitate routing of letters.
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by jonathanoliver 5y ago
This one made me laugh out loud and I had to come to HN to post this. You beat me to it.
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by jonathanoliver 5y ago
My company and I have been using Beancount since 2017 for all financial records. My company has about 60 employees and there are three individuals working in/on the financials regularly. Beancount (plaintext accounting) was the only so
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by jonathanoliver 5y ago
I always format my filesystems (macOS) as case sensitive and I'm surprised by the software that has a hard time with that. On Unix/Linux we've grown up with case sensitive by default but everywhere else it still seems to be a
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by jonathanoliver 5y ago
What? No HyperTerminal? Looks like I'll be forced to run commands from the CLI: echo ATDT > com1
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by jonathanoliver 5y ago
Where I work, we have this post as part of our software developer on-boarding experience. It's required reading.
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
I just got started using the ofxget command in the ofxtools package. It was a simple "pip install --user ofxtools". After that, I read some of the docs for ofxget and configured these with the settings from ofxhome.com and I'
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
I think Loony Tunes captured this perfectly with the whirlwind/tornado effect around the Tasmanian Devil (Taz).
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
UHF! I caught that reference. It took me years to understand that reference fully. When I saw UHF originally it bugged me that I knew it was a reference to something but I didn't know what. Finally, a decade later I saw Close Encounter
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
I too have wondered why IdenTrust would want to do this. As has been mentioned in this thread, it appears they focus on enterprise-level customers, governments, medical, among others. Generally speaking, the way that new competitors enter a
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
In my blog post from 2014 I was mostly illustrating a typical workflow that I've seen over and over and over at numerous Microsoft shops in 2000s all the way through 2014. I was always interested in messaging queuing systems and NoSQL
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
I am thoroughly impressed with you what your team has accomplished. Roughly 7-8 years ago, the company I work with switched away from .NET (to Go) largely because our performance with IIS for HTTP traffic running .NET was...poor by comparis
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
Oh this brings back memories. I was browsing around this site and came to a section that gives the complete, start-to-finish set of instructions to beat The Black Cauldron. I can't tell you how many hours I spent on that wonderful game
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
When I started getting reports from customers on my company's website about issues, I was baffled for a few minutes because all my tests with OpenSSL and cURL, etc. were passing...on my Arch Linux install. Then I switched over to my Ma
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
I just downloaded it and I'm trying it out. It's sooo convenient. I know most of the commands from memory, but it's really nice to be able to run them with only a few, simple keystrokes, e.g. getting logs for a given pod or d
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
Oh! This looks like a very interesting project. When I finished reading the headline description I was immediately turned off by the mention of Zookeeper. But it then goes on to say "OR etcd OR consul". If this project does what i
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
So when I use the EC2 web dashboard and try to add my SSH key, it gives me an error unless it's an RSA key. Obviously once I'm logged into a given sever over SSH, I can change my key to be whatever is supported by the underlying V
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
I wonder if Star Trek IV: The One With the Whales had anything to do with this.
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
I'm still waiting for AWS EC2 to allow non-RSA keys. I've got other keys for everything else but an RSA for EC2.
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
I wrote this article 6 years ago and it got quite a bit of traction here on HN and Reddit: https://blog.jonathanoliver.com/why-i-left-dot-net/ Virtually every single item on my list is now completely irrelevant. Althou
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
Various teams at Microsoft should be congratulated for their efforts. A few years back, ASP.NET was last (or near last) on this benchmark for simple, plaintext requests. They've come a long way and put some serious engineering into the
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
Correct. In my use case, I just need a simple replacement for time.Now(). If I needed more (time.After, for example), there's a point that bringing in an external dependency makes sense.
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
There are two ways I've done this. 1. Pass in a value called `now func() time.Time` into the constructor function of my struct. This allows me to call `inst.now()` on a particular instance of my structure. 2. Have a global field in a p
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
My understanding is that NATS (a protocol) and NATS streaming were related but separate: https://github.com/nats-io/nats-site/issues/217 (The issue is from 2017 but illustrates a distinction)
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
He and Martin Sustrik both created ZeroMQ. Then after that, they saw some of the limits of ZMQ and created nanomsg. It's excited to see what cool stuff they were working on. It's a little hard to see ZeroMQ become abandonware from
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
+1 for everything that's been said. Another thing to consider is message throughput, if that's a concern. In the case of multiple channels per single connection, note that a connection is a single TCP connection such that multiple
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
Durability. If you need to push messages that don't get lost, RabbitMQ is a pretty solid choice. In years past the clustering situation wasn't great and there was some potential for message lost and that seems to be resolved now w
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by jonathanoliver 6y ago
MassTransit is awesome! I love what Chris Patterson (the author) did. It essentially allows you to swap out RabbitMQ for SQS or Azure Service Bus or a few others. Pretty cool stuff if you're in .NET land.

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