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by zimbatm 6y ago
> On this occasion, we launched a fundraising campaign, with the aim of financing the €60,000 that this development would cost us. It's amazing how much was achieved with so little money. Compared to many startups that raised 1M for
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by zimbatm 6y ago
At the end he is asking what he can do about it, to stop the surveillance. I didn't feel like he really got an answer for that unfortunately. Living like that must be like hell. Maybe the best option is total transparency. There people
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by zimbatm 6y ago
That's not really the argument either. If you cost $100/hour, it only takes 6 minutes of saved time per month to pay back for it. Plus lost opportunity if a potential customer doesn't schedule the call with you. Reducing the
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by zimbatm 6y ago
It wasn't clear to me how using user namespaces helped prevent the CVEs. Docker is already using them and it didn't protect them. Did I miss something in the design that's different than Docker?
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by zimbatm 6y ago
Or more accurately, you now have to understand both the nginx.conf file format, and the right way to nudge the YAML so it produces what you want. Plus some intermediate wrapper script that sets things up on container start that does more fu
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by zimbatm 6y ago
That's how I used to think as well. But you can also see Bash of being a standard on its own :) Obviously it all depends on the context.
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by zimbatm 6y ago
What cb321 said. Sometimes programs take a single argument that contains the whole command. @Q allows to safely escape the list of arguments. This is a synthetic example: args=("my" "arg" "with space")
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by zimbatm 6y ago
100% agreed, if you can choose your own language, there are certainly better options than Bash. It depends if you can do that or not. In some contexts, Python is also a pretty good option as it is available in a lot of places as well.
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by zimbatm 6y ago
I used to think that way, but POSIX is not that well specified and there are tons of little behavior changes that makes the task difficult past 10 lines of code. Writing portable shell scripts is like writing portable JavaScript in the IE d
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by zimbatm 6y ago
Once you are the top-committer in a project, you have the advantage. You know most of the code, even if it doesn't have tests. It's easy to figure out where reported bugs are, that you have introduced. Meanwhile, the rest of the t
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by zimbatm 6y ago
The JRE is 655.8M on my system.
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by zimbatm 6y ago
They are complementary. If a sub-process gets OOMKilled and the container doesn't die, then it's most likely that the parent process didn't handle that scenario. In which case the health-check wouldn't cover that issue.
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by zimbatm 6y ago
The first to implement a pure-ruby HTML renderer was Markaby[1]. This was without the reactive bits. I remember it being quite enjoyable to use. The barrier between ruby logic and HTML rendering is much lowered. The main downside is that re
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by zimbatm 6y ago
That's true to some extent. If you see a lot of users having the same issue it might be the case. Sometimes it's also people not bothering to read the documentation. As a maintainer it's also your right to develop a tool just
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by zimbatm 6y ago
> Thanks for your request. Now that we are talking, do you mind swinging by and do my dishes? They have been piling in my sink as I was too busy fixing other people's lives. > Yours truly
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by zimbatm 6y ago
Not all bugs are created equal. Some bugs are due to an esoteric setup of the user. There in a quasi infinite variation of those in the Linux world. Generally, supporting them makes the software more robust, but it's also very likely t
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by zimbatm 6y ago
That's only true for high-profile projects. Projects like YouTube-dl are usually born out of passion, and the best kind of projects.
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by zimbatm 6y ago
I started building a Slack bot just to get notified when GitHub is down. And then found out that it already exists: https://statusgator.com/ This saves me the recurring "is GitHub working for you" type of discussi
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by zimbatm 6y ago
Thanks for the correction. A thing I also remember is that Alex would tend to jump into deeper conspiracy land when pressed with details. Almost like a defense mechanism. It's exactly that kind of thing that makes the interview worthy.
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by zimbatm 6y ago
Agreed. That's exactly what I have done with a number of startups. In one or two weeks, they get a full CI/CD pipeline that allows them to be productive. All of them are very happy with the result. It's so important to be dep
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by zimbatm 6y ago
It works most of the time. I have also seen multiple in-place upgrades ending up in weird places. Or some resource having changed API and we had to rush to upgrade the code. What will you do if that happens? It's a bit like upgrading P
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by zimbatm 6y ago
Indeed. A single machine is often more than enough for early startups. It's easy for developers to understand and debug. What's important is to put the tooling in place to make the deployment reproducible. Deploy using Terraform a
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by zimbatm 6y ago
We have limited time available so I understand that simplistic heuristic. But it's just one episode over 1556. One of the nice aspect of these long form discussions is that you get to see a lot more of the guest's psyche and how t
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by zimbatm 6y ago
You still have to do upgrades every 3 months, sometimes with breaking changes. Because the underlying infrastructure gets replaced, it means spinning up a new cluster, deploying the application on it to make sure that everything is working.
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by zimbatm 6y ago
That's why k8s is not a good fit for early startups. It will consume too much of your time that is better spent developing a product that the public wants.
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by zimbatm 6y ago
It's a shame that Gerrit doesn't get more TLC. Now that GitHub is owned by Microsoft, it would be a good way for Google to combat the ongoing centralization of open source. Fundamentally, the Gerrit changes model is superior than
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by zimbatm 6y ago
I feel like there is an analogy with self-help books. Every personality and company is different and they have to do the work to find out what works best for them. Internalizing the meaning of things and leading your own thinking is probabl
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by zimbatm 6y ago
Probably https://codeberg.org/ since it's hosted in the EU. https://sr.ht/ might work due to its small size but it hosted in the US AFAIK.
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by zimbatm 6y ago
Isn't the issue that the arable land gets destroyed using the current practices[1]? Borrowing into the future and making farmers dependent on chemicals doesn't seem like the best strategy in the long term. [1]: https://
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by zimbatm 6y ago
WireGuard is a great example on how to do marketing for developers. It starts with technical elegance, something that speaks to us. Then great transparency and communication with no bullshit. And finally a lot of hard work. With that in han

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