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Someone make this but with Docker instead. Linux containers start up in seconds, but you'd probably have to consider security a lot more.
Re:Why ev decided to stop exercising in the morning on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @05:37PM (#5864881)
> Many programmers have flexible work hours they can use. You don't need to be in Silicon valley or have a pile of cash to work in a flexible work environment.

Yes and no.

Many programmers can start work when they want, and end work 8-10 hours after that. One segment.

Only the very well off or upper management are able to truly work flexibly. Show up in the morning for a few hours, take off and go to the gym or home, show up later and work for a few more hours. No problem for the founder of Twitter.

Re:About a Month at Yahoo on Sunday June 09, 2013 @08:46PM (#5851539)
What about the opposite, are you outcasted like a freak if you abuse the free services and eat all your meals there?
Re:Ask HN: How can I see top HN posts Not about NSA/PRISM? on Saturday June 08, 2013 @08:35PM (#5846942)
Here's a bookmarklet I wrote real quick to filter/highlight keyword-based articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846934

Show HN: Bookmarklet to filter HN by regex-enabled keywords.

This is a small bookmarklet that adds a background color to articles matching keywords, making it easier to distinguish links important to you. Tested in Chrome 27, Firefox 21 and Safari 6.0.5.Preview: http://i.imgur.com/6A3CU6T.png1. Modify the OPTIONS.color and OPTIONS.keywords properties to your liking. You may use regex in the keywords. Keywords are case-insensitive.2. Paste the bookmarklet...

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Re:NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program on Thursday June 06, 2013 @08:28PM (#5836310)
He probably has an agenda against Google. It's very common on HN. HN hates Google, but loves Apple and Facebook.
Re:NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program on Thursday June 06, 2013 @08:20PM (#5836258)
Why stop at Google? Here's Facebook too:

http://www.facebook.com/help/214376678584711

Re:Using Docker as a Open Stack Nova hypervisor on Thursday June 06, 2013 @06:15PM (#5835514)
(The blog was posted 4 hours ago and it's already dropped to the 4th page; people don't like Docker?)

I would really like to see the Docker provider for Vagrant happen. Vagrant is so easy to manage, and it would make Chef/Puppet provisioning easy. It also makes cross-platform and EC2/DigitalOcean deployment easy with their respective providers. (i.e. you can deploy an image to EC2 that then runs Docker containers)

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/404

I would really like to see the Docker provider for Vagrant happen. Vagrant is so easy to manage, and it would make Chef/Puppet provisioning easy. It also makes cross-platform and EC2/DigitalOcean deployment easy with their respective providers. (i.e. you can deploy an image to EC2 that then runs Docker containers)

I'm not sure it will, it seems stalled.

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/404

Why is it "Fork Us on GitHub" instead of "View our GitHub"?

How often are projects forked anyway? Here I am, viewing open source project XYZ, and the upper right of the page says "Fork Us" and tends to be the only link on the entire page that points to GitHub. Most people just want to view your GitHub project page, they don't actually care about forking your project. I think almost all cases of "Fork Us" could be re-marketed as "View our GitHub" or...

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Re:Tiny Helicopter Piloted By Human Thoughts on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @06:59PM (#5829213)
He was being humorous.

(HN is so pedantic)

Re:Show HN: Too busy for online dating? Try Wednesday Night on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @06:40PM (#5829144)
These dating/find-a-friend services that require Facebook show up often on HN, and like clockwork are berated because they are Facebook-only (and the privacy issues that go along with it).

Yet people keep making them. Am I correct to deduce they are popular and there is market for them, and that it's only HN that hates them?

How about this.. take samefisher's idea:

> I think maybe each bug could have a pot where people could to put an amount, and if a developer fixed that bug and enough people agreed he would get that pot.

Except leave out this part:

> That way developers could pick the bugs where people are willing to put their money where their mouth is.

Instead, completely hide showing how much money was donated to a bug. From everyone. When a developer fixes a bug, they may get a nice surprise for their contributions, that may further encourage them to work on issues.

A little like GitTip, but you're tipping whoever solves an issue, ahead of time. And because it's invisible, it doesn't make your hobby feel like a job because you don't know which issues are worth the most. (although it may be possible to guess by issue popularity)

Re:Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @03:26PM (#5821582)
Great article, I've read many like it, BUT what I can't find is information pertinent to how one should host their API. I submitted an "Ask HN" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5820761) earlier, but could some folks please advise me on the hosting side of "Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API"?

Ask HN: How do you properly host an HTTP API service?

Note: This is not about documentation hosting.I'm suffering choice overload. I have a working OpenResty HTTP API that talks with a PostgreSQL server. Now I need to decide how best to host these servers.Uptime required: 24/7/365Storage: < 50GBBandwidth: < 5TB/monthFeatures: Easy deployment, back ups/replication, logs/statistics/reports, quick customer service, fast network. A lot of these...

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Re:Why I Dislike EC2 on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @07:43AM (#5818793)
> So yeah, if you need a box to run your webserver 24/7/365, you can find a better deal elsewhere. But that's really never been what EC2 is for.

What Amazon offering is? This is AWS we're talking about. They have a service solution for nearly everything. You're saying in 2013 they still don't have a service for 24/7/365 website hosting?