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Re:Adblockers Performance Study on Saturday February 16, 2019 @07:01AM (#19178238)
The problem with those external HTTP filtering proxies is that the usage of SSL/TLS is pervasive nowadays.
Re:Ask HN: What's your stack for your side projects? on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:48PM (#19040441)
Could you elaborate when you choose Python and when you choose Go? Does these two languages complement themselves or they are substitutes?
Re:Ask HN: Which new programming language are you planning to pick up ... on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:45AM (#19026664)
I’m conflicted between Go and Rust. As my codebases get bigger, maintaining them in Python is not fun.
Re:Ask HN: What day to day tasks do you automate? on Saturday December 29, 2018 @03:21PM (#18785481)
> How often do you use this script?

I run once in a couple of days. Didn't automate the execution of this "meta-script" because I don't want it to run whenever I am using the resources its updating.

> is there any other part that you failed or found very boring

Yes, the VM updating part. Starting each VM, waiting for them to start, updating packages via apt-get, stopping, waiting for them to stop. This was boring and done on trial and error until it just works now.

> I loved sandspiel

I am not the author, just saw on lobste.rs and reposted here because I loved it too! All credits go to this guy: https://github.com/MaxBittker

Re:Ask HN: What day to day tasks do you automate? on Saturday December 29, 2018 @10:30AM (#18783996)
I have a script called update-my-things.sh, which updates my Python’s pipsi scripts, my Python’s pew virtualenvs, my Rust toolchains, my VMs, my local software Git mirrors, etc.

All stitched together in (bad) Bash.

Re:Ask HN: What elements of websites annoy you the most? on Friday December 28, 2018 @03:52PM (#18779323)
- Nags to install apps on mobile (ex: opening reddit on mobile)

- Videos autoplaying on some news sites

- Cookie prompts

- And the worst: overlays that appear on scrolling

Re:Bring Your Custom Image to DigitalOcean on Friday October 05, 2018 @06:44PM (#18152318)
Why only ext3/4 filesystems? Why not XFS?
Re:Firefox nightly is now built with clang LTO on all platforms on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:45PM (#17973734)
Just of curiosity, what OS do you run? Why do you build everything from source?
Re:Thunderbird 60.0 release on Monday August 06, 2018 @06:36PM (#17702382)
Anyone knows how to convert all mbox mailboxes to maildir? Just enabled "mail.store_conversion_enabled" but can't see any UI do make the conversion.

Update: found here - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3039509

Re:Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third p... on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @11:41AM (#17610103)
You can have two encrypted external HDDs and mantain one with you, and the other in a friend/family house. Rotate frequently.
Re:Someone live coding a distributed content network similar to YouTube on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:06PM (#17361018)
Which editor is this?

Ask HN: How to prioritize on hundreds of issues?

Posted by 15DCFA8F on Saturday May 26, 2018 @07:26PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi!I'm struggling with prioritization, and would like to know how people are tacking in, as I think it is a very common problem. Article and book recommendations are welcome (already read Time Management for Sysadmins).I work on IT at a SMB company, and our issue control software has ~300 open issues. Issues are related to problems/adaptations on our ERP, developing/fixing problems on dozens of...

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Re:Website Meta Language (2006) on Saturday December 09, 2017 @08:34PM (#15889265)
Debian seems to use WML for its website, managed by CVS: https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/
Re:Ask HN: How is Firefox Quantum for you? on Saturday November 25, 2017 @05:40PM (#15778386)
Try set "ui.key.menuAccessKey" to 0 in "about:config".
Re:What are your preferred text editors for each language? on Friday October 06, 2017 @09:58PM (#15421832)
Take a look at NERDTree.
Re:Ask HN: What is your current Linux distro and why did you choose it? on Sunday August 20, 2017 @02:51PM (#15059703)
Debian (yes, stable) for laptops, desktops, VMs, bare metal servers, containers. Everything.

- It's a solid and trustworthy distro.

- It's general and universal, and adaptable for most uses.

- I have tons of Ansible tasks and roles developed for Debian, so pretty much anything is automated and standardizing helps a lot.

Re:Linux 4.7 Released on Sunday July 24, 2016 @05:52PM (#12155081)
I don't know who maintain those changelogs, but WOW, thanks for this great detailed and methodical piece of work.

Ask HN: As a Python developer, what am I missing for not using Ruby?

Posted by 15DCFA8F on Thursday June 30, 2016 @08:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Over the last couple of years I have been programming in Python almost exclusively (and some JavaScript, Bash and Go for some specific tasks, easily chosen for the task at hand instead of Python).What I found with Python is that it is a great platform for doing my things, like web services, data transformation, general Linux automating, infrastructure monitoring, and so on.As it is good enough...

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Re:Announcing NetBSD 7.0.1 on Saturday May 28, 2016 @06:09PM (#11793803)
Does anyone runs NetBSD on desktops or laptops? How it is the experience, compared to Linux?

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