zulgan

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1. 31.▲
   by zulgan 7y ago

   I guess this is cultural as well, I(anecdotally) absolutely feel shame when I am about to leave a company, or even negotiate.
2. 32.▲
   The Cloud(txt.black)

   244 points by zulgan 7y ago|158 comments
3. 33.▲
   by zulgan 7y ago

   "It's only on the brink of destruction that people find the will to change." -- The Day the Earth Stood Still It is the same with deep technical debt, change only comes after major outage and enormous loss.
4. 34.▲
   by zulgan 7y ago

   > What went wrong there? nothing out of the ordinary, probably some team had to increase some company wide KPI of engagement, and likely every team has their own spin on it. it was ab tested and provided statistically significant increas
5. 35.▲
   by zulgan 7y ago

   thank you!
6. 36.▲
   by zulgan 7y ago

   this was exactly my thought when I made https://scrambled-eggs.xyz/ , now I pay for gmail, google calendar, photos and etc way more than money
7. 37.▲
   by zulgan 7y ago

   Not paying for content (small games, blogs, vlogs, journalism, code, etc..) in the last 20 years, is now one of my biggest regrets. I remember back then I even had a small addon that was constantly showing me ads and I was getting money fo
8. 38.▲
   by zulgan 7y ago

   even more funny that in many cases they are stopped only by the law, and also in most cases they can only do some form of advertisement; if they could sell your soul for statistically significant conversion uplift, many people wont even thi
9. 39.▲
   by zulgan 7y ago

   i really do, i mainly miss: * people not being able to contact me 24/7 * not knowing what is going on in the world all the time (this i miss the most) * things being local * way less crap people used to own
10. 40.▲
    by zulgan 7y ago

    I believe that solid (benevolent) dictatorship is better(faster, can make unpopular decisions, etc) than democracy. I don't like any language, but tbh I hate go the least, and I believe this is because few very very dedicated people wi
11. 41.▲
    by zulgan 7y ago

    I really hated the cases were when "no" can not be explained. In some cases when there is "no" it comes with clear instructions like: hey you need to know v8 more or understand hotspot better and try again in 6 months, b
12. 42.▲
    by zulgan 7y ago

    I interviewed ~500 people in a fairly large (~2000 devs) company. Interviews used to take about 6-8 hours of my week, and I was usually completely destroyed by the context switch. I remember many days when a deadline was very close, and I a
13. 43.▲
    by zulgan 7y ago

    my laptop is pretty much extension of my hands, i eat with it, sleep with it etc.. the keyboard breaking because of breadcrumb going in and me begging apple to fix it, waiting and not being able to code was just too much for me 1 year ago i
14. 44.▲
    by zulgan 7y ago

    what is happening?!!
15. 45.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    As a sysadmin with 20+ years of experience, I always type `cat | grep`, completely involuntary, probably because "cat = read" is just burned into me, by the time I think about it the command is already written. Also maybe related
16. 46.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    there is absolutely no technical problem doing it on unmounted filesystem but it just imposes certain restrictions that I dont think are worth their cost considering in many cases you want to copy live files, you have to copy them to place
17. 47.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    tbh i just wanted to have fun building it having the ssh registration just makes me excited, i feel happy every time i try it out; using the api and playing with it is the same, like making a todo list on baxx https://github.com&
18. 48.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    i made a mailing list and slack slack: https://baxx.dev/join/slack google groups: https://baxx.dev/join/groups
19. 49.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    thanks! my process is actually much easier than you think i simply do some small transpositions on really cool(for me) names i have seen in world of warcraft :) such as zulgan and juun, judoc; jaxx -> baxx because backups start with b ot
20. 50.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    You are right. it is super cute though, I still get excited every time I try the registration flow. the registration api is quite easy ( https://baxx.dev/help/register ) curl -d '{"email":"your.em
21. 51.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    I setup shellinabox for https://ui.baxx.dev just because some of my friends dont have access to ssh from work and I wanted to show it to them
22. 52.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    tbh you I wouldnt trust anyone with my encryption, that is why in Baxx I advise people to simply upload encrypted cat file | encrypt -k .pass | curl --data-binary cat file | encrypt -k .pass > file.enc && curl -T file.enc h
23. 53.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    it is absolutely in alpha stage, and yes please use it as a toy and have fun in the future my plan is to do 5€/m for 1TB which is pretty much glacier price
24. 54.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    this is the tax for me in The Netherlands, given i am not a company, so it is normal income tax
25. 55.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    i will check it out thanks!
26. 56.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    changed the text to EUR thanks!
27. 57.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    at least not with Terminus
28. 58.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    * in the future it will use contextual bandits to probe for broken backups (such as: hey, is file XYZ with size X uploaded at Y weird?) and learn from all the customers triggering the AI flywheel, more backups more data, better contextual b
29. 59.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    thanks for the feedback having `scp file $BAXX_TOKEN@scp.baxx.dev:file` support is definitely in my list
30. 60.▲
    by zulgan 8y ago

    good point, I added 'make a mailing list' to the todo