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by mryan 14y ago
I imagine there is some overlap in parts of the logic for Sentinel and repmgr (a similar tool for PostgreSQL). For example, checking to see if members of the cluster are in-service, and choosing a new master in the event of a failover. I wo
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by mryan 14y ago
> Calling .get() on a dead server returns None on failure, the same thing that is returned when there’s no value. I suppose they were doing a .get() to check if the server was still up, and assuming None meant "there are no values to ge
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by mryan 14y ago
I use a similar process to this in my infrastructure - I use Puppet to configure instances, then a Fabric command to create new AMIs based on these Puppet configurations. This gives the best of both worlds - version controlled configuration
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by mryan 14y ago
In the UK, "fixed penalty notices" (parking tickets) cost e.g. £35 if you pay them within 14 days, or £70 if you pay them later. This is spun as an "early payment discount", but can also be viewed as a "late payment punishment". A surprisin
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by mryan 14y ago
Getting off-topic here, but would you mind sharing what happened in your case, when the court was shown the picture of the officer/solicitor as drinking buddies?
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There is a difference, even if you are unable see it. Consider this: Is linking to copyrighted material Google's sole purpose? Was linking to copyrighted material the sole purpose of TVShack? The intent of the person behind the site is clea
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by mryan 14y ago
This is a really good idea, nice work! Making this work internationally will be very important if you want to be a legal competitor to movies.io. At the moment, none of the links work for me on any of the movies I tried. I saw links to iTun
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by mryan 14y ago
It uses TOTP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_Al...
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by mryan 14y ago
The article about the new MacBook Pro line also included a discussion of Airs and Mac Pros. Sometimes the discussion strays beyond the boundaries of the headline. Most of the time that is a good thing - I for one am interested in the point
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by mryan 14y ago
Dude, that's like, totally SO not true. You might want to read the HN posting guidelines - your comment history suggests you have not done so yet. I have no interest in continuing a conversation with you, based on the level of discourse evi
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by mryan 14y ago
Not entirely related to the OP, but I would love to see ssh://<public DNS name> links on the EC2 instance page. It sounds trivial, but being able to click these links to login to an instance (instead of copy hostname, open terminal,
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by mryan 14y ago
You did not mention any of these things in your original post. Why would you assume that he doesn't understand them, if you didn't even bother to type them? But yes, completely failing to mention a point when attempting to make an argument
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by mryan 14y ago
I think the flood of replies disagreeing with you suggest you might want to rethink that assumption. Another reply to your post said you are making a 'religious argument' - I think there is some truth in that. If you had said "in my experie
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by mryan 14y ago
The term "cloud" is nebulous at the best of times, but I think most people would disagree that "renting servers" == "cloud".
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by mryan 14y ago
"business logic should be written in code, not in data and not in the database" This makes no sense. Stored procedures are code - just code that executes within your DB, instead of on your app servers. I agree that it makes sense to keep
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by mryan 14y ago
You should try relaxing a bit more, this seems like an incredibly silly thing to get worked up about. There are plenty of legitimate things in the world to get angry about - object serialisers are not one of them. IMHO, aggressive comments
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by mryan 14y ago
I think you are right - 99% of people who use it haven't heard of him. However, they probably copied the idea after seeing it on someone else's blog. Apparently Curtis is the one we have to blame/thank for initially popularising this partic
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by mryan 14y ago
Underneath your sarcasm, I believe your point is that these models were sustained by paid advertising, thus Pinterest could become profitable by following the same model. The cost of ads has plummeted in the last few years, and I seriously
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by mryan 14y ago
The UK has a scarily-advanced automatic number plate recognition system in place throughout many parts of the UK, particularly London and the south east. The police can, and do, track vehicles in real time using this system. This is particu
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by mryan 14y ago
Good post, but I think the title is a bit misleading - "configuring an HTTPS site with Django and Nginx" might be more appropriate. "Deploying Django... over TLS" suggests (to me, at least) some method of deploying Django over a secured con
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by mryan 14y ago
Assuming this is a valid question, and not just a way of telling HN about your site, you need to read this: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection... I found this by googling for "google analytics event tracking", wh
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by mryan 14y ago
In terms of raw hardware, CloudFront is never cheaper than scaling your own servers. But when you compare the cost of CloudFront to running your own globally distributed network of servers, pushing media to edge locations, etc. it works out
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by mryan 14y ago
Nice post, thanks for sharing. I recently had a similar problem - I needed to serve dynamically resized images via CloudFront (with the images being stored in S3). Images are resized on-demand - if they exist they are served directly from S
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by mryan 14y ago
Nice work Rob, I can see this being very useful. Some feedback: The title of each code snippet should be a link, which takes you to the same page as the "comments" link. I imagine people will want to bookmark or email their favourite links,
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by mryan 14y ago
At the infrastructure: yes, all servers should be UTC, (almost) no question. As for guessing timezones - I use GeoIP to get the user's approximate location, then figure out the timezone based on that. It is not perfect, but I needed somethi
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by mryan 14y ago
I work for a very cool startup in Amsterdam, and we are hiring Python/Django/JS devs. My email is in my profile - please get in touch.
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Don't worry, you don't need a sense of fashion to work here. It was one of the first things I asked in my interview - if it was a pre-requisite, I would have had no chance :-)
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No, but here's one: http://www.fashiolista.com/content/fashiolista-jobs/ :) You can contact us via that page, or feel free to email me directly (email in profile).
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PS: I had someone email me to see if this post was serious. It is - if you know Django/Python and want to live in Amsterdam, please email me.
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Ah, the "30% ruling". For those that haven't heard of this wonderful piece of legislation if means you only pay tax on 70% of your salary if you qualify as a knowledge migrant. Yes, you get 30% of your salary tax free. There are also other

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