metachris

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   by metachris 9y ago

   Hello all, author here. I built this during the past few weeks as fun and hopefully useful micro-project, playing around with Vue.js for the frontend. Happy to answer any questions!
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   Show HN: Boilerplate generator for Python 2 and 3, with various configurations(python-boilerplate.com)

   12 points by metachris 9y ago|5 comments
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   by metachris 9y ago

   Backend: Django as soon as you want an admin interface for your models. It just saves so much time, and nobody enjoys writing those dumb CRUD routes. If you don't need an admin interface and want to stay in Python, I'd recommend F
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   by metachris 9y ago

   I second Hugo as a static website generator. I've been using Jekyll for a long time, but it is just too slow for a nice workflow, especially as the site/blog grows to more than a handful of pages. Hugo is blazingly fast, has a ver
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   by metachris 10y ago

   I've implemented Swagger with several APIs and agree that it's crazy complex and time-consuming to write Swagger files manually. I believe the best use-case for Swagger is to develop the API (perhaps just defining the routes with
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   by metachris 10y ago

   And the related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388721
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   by metachris 10y ago

   https://nofile.io/security/ "Your file is first securely encrypted using a secret key (AES-128) with Javascript on your device. Once it has been encrypted, the encrypted data is uploaded to a NoFile storage server
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   by metachris 10y ago

   The reason being that the US still requires visas from 5 EU countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania. And "The EU says it notified the United States in April 2014 that it was not meeting EU visa rules, and had given the
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   by metachris 10y ago

   Never share without a fee then? Not quite the world I want to live in...
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    by metachris 10y ago

    The strong point of Electron is easy _cross-platform_ application development and packaging (spits out .exe, .app and Linux binary), with no further dependencies. Ever tried packaging a QT application for Mac, Windows and Linux? I can tell
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    by metachris 10y ago

    The developers moved to MariaDB, which is what everyone uses nowadays anyway rather than MySQL.
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    by metachris 10y ago

    This is so true. Point in case - Instagram also runs on Django!
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    by metachris 10y ago

    Syncing can be achieved by placing the password file in Dropbox or Google Drive.
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    by metachris 10y ago

    Also you have search and don't expose the other passwords as you would in a textfile. There is pretty good apps for Keepass, which offer a Keepass Keyboard so you don't need to use the clipboard (which can be read by any app on An
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    by metachris 10y ago

    yes, see here: https://github.com/metachris/jekyll-boilerplate/blob/master/...
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    by metachris 10y ago

    I recommend a static generator such as Jekyll [1]. If you want a boilerplate to get up and running quickly, i've put the source of my blog [2] on Github: https://github.com/metachris/jekyll-boilerplate [1] https:
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    by metachris 10y ago

    Added, thanks!
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    by metachris 10y ago

    Check out api.ai, for instance the demo in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SUAuy9OJg4
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    by metachris 10y ago

    Thanks! And no, no particular order ;)
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    by metachris 10y ago

    Thanks, added!
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    by metachris 10y ago

    Author here. Let me know if I missed any that you think are good!
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    Great talks and presentations at 33C3(metachris.com)

    63 points by metachris 10y ago|17 comments
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    by metachris 10y ago

    Thanks for sharing! Do I interpret your numbers correctly in that with the $100 budget and about $5 per lead, you generated just 20 leads, of which about 7 finally bought the book?
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    by metachris 10y ago

    Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/
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    by metachris 10y ago

    > unless they perform mitm attacks Which any state-sponsored actor can easily do, of course.
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    by metachris 10y ago

    http://debugproject.com/how/ Looks like they mate with females, which still lay eggs, but the won't hatch. So less bad bugs mate and produce offspring. Needs large numbers of good bugs though.
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    by metachris 10y ago

    It's top of HN because a lot of people find a physical/technical introduction interesting...
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    by metachris 10y ago

    Yes! For instance stealing all your SSH keys and shell history, eg. by some node module down the dependency tree.
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    by metachris 10y ago

    By starting a hedge fund.
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    by metachris 10y ago

    A good place to start is an Arduino [1], and connect a button, sensors, actuators to play with. When you want to move more into networking, step up to the Raspberry Pi [2], which runs Linux and also includes digital GPIO pins. [1] https:&#