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by markbnj 11y ago
Sort of came here to say this. Interesting article, especially some of the design choices (such as http for the interface), but I am most curious as to why redis, or memcached, or some other k/v store was not good enough?
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> Anyone can be a programmer. Anyone can be a doctor or lawyer too. I know what you mean, I think, but I don't know if I buy the distinction. There is a formal pass-the-bar testing event for lawyers. For nurses and I believe doc
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> The most alienating and hostile aspect of the conventional job interview is on-the-spot whiteboard programming. You shouldn't have programmers write code in interviews at all, if you can avoid it; instead, take a week or two a
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by markbnj 11y ago
Laughed out loud when he introduced the power roadblock, and the pic of that connector.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Sad and fascinating. Couldn't stop clicking. Way to go San Jose State, getting in there three times is an achievement.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Seems to me this is the basic difference between a search and situational approach to evaluating game position. Backgammon is another great example, and one that I think has a higher branching factor than even Go does. Minmax only works whe
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by markbnj 11y ago
This is awesome. Props to you all.
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by markbnj 11y ago
This is literally one of the funniest things I've heard about in months. Look for my new python library isDict, coming soon.
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Tips for debugging Docker containers(medium.com)
1 points by markbnj 11y ago|0 comments
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by markbnj 11y ago
Author here. This image arose out of a desire to possibly do some performance testing in kubernetes and ECS. It's configurable to run in client or server mode, and example files are included to create repl. controller./services in
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Show HN: Cluster-iperf, a configurable docker image for iperf testing(github.com)
6 points by markbnj 11y ago|3 comments
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by markbnj 11y ago
Basically tooling that takes you from a collection of images and service/replication controller definitions to a running stack. The main questions we ended up trying to answer were things like: how many nodes in the cluster? What machi
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by markbnj 11y ago
Yeah in many respects it is a general use framework, but there are gaps. Build tooling and automation to deploy images and update service and replication controller definitions is an area k8s really doesn't cover. There are a lot of di
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by markbnj 11y ago
Nice idea to generalize this. At my last job we did a lot of this automation against k8s on GCP using make and bash scripts calling gcloud and kubectl. A general use framework for promoting docker images to k8s services could be quite cool.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Neat idea, and props for the https. Are the files encrypted on the server?
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by markbnj 11y ago
Data is the remaining elephant in the room. Containers have made code and config ephemeral and trivially replicable. But then you get to data, which represents billions of actually valuable magnetized bits of platter or flipped nand gates o
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by markbnj 11y ago
When we first started containerizing back end components a couple of years ago I spent a lot of time thinking about containers this way: how many pieces of my app should go into each container? After doing it for awhile and paying attention
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by markbnj 11y ago
This is really a great idea, imo. At my last gig we had four projects in GCP using kubernetes to deploy various clusters, and essentially all but one of those projects were for testing branches. Will be keeping an eye on this.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Author here. This script arose out of earlier work I did on venv2docker, a script that builds a docker image from a virtualenv. Any feedback good or bad is appreciated!
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Show HN: Venvpack – archive a python virtualenv into a file and restore it later(github.com)
1 points by markbnj 11y ago|1 comments
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> The best process was the one where I finally got a job. We talked on the phone for an hour and a half and by the end you could just tell we had that, "developer bond". His approach was the best I'd seen. He just talk
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by markbnj 11y ago
If it were positioned as an article about writing thoughtful code then I doubt the comments would be as focused on the claim in the headline. Knuth's point was that even thoughtful programmers could get caught up in pursuing performanc
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by markbnj 11y ago
All interesting replies, but as I am not an erlang programmer could someone briefly explain the threading model? Whatever the unit of code packaging is ultimately it all has to get scheduled onto a core. On what platform is 2,000,000 thread
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by markbnj 11y ago
We run containers locally for components that our code needs, i.e. if the code needs redis, or elasticsearch or whatever it's easier to spin up a local container, keeps the dev system free of clutter, and what you're running can o
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by markbnj 11y ago
Having done an e-banking startup in the mid-90's I agree generally with every point the author makes. The reason people continue to go after the space is that it's a very rich one.
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by markbnj 11y ago
This website has a back-end, imo. It has crawlers, indexers, jobs, etc. Really the only thing it doesn't have is an api, a monolithic request handler, or a database. Well they don't show a db but they probably have at least a list
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by markbnj 11y ago
Author here. I've been working on this for the past few days and would love to get some feedback on it. Some caveats: it's a pretty young script, has only been tested in bash, and only on ubuntu 15.10 and debian jessie. If it work
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Show HN: Venv2docker – create a docker image from a python virtualenv(github.com)
8 points by markbnj 11y ago|2 comments
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by markbnj 11y ago
Thanks!
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by markbnj 11y ago
https://github.com/Markbnj/venv2docker Work in progress but pretty complete. Packages a python virtualenv into a docker container.

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