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Re:Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0 on Friday April 10, 2020 @04:40AM (#22831135)
5 seconds of research yields this: https://jitsi.org/built-on-jitsi/#partners
Re:Ask HN: What are some examples of good code? on Sunday March 12, 2017 @09:42PM (#13854598)
https://github.com/pallets/flask and https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests

both in python, but beautiful code, well structured and you would not need any docs, just read the code

Sophie Scholl's last words were, “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”

Hans Scholl's last words shouted from the guillotine were, ”Long live freedom!”

Re:Ask HN: Who's running a profitable productized service? on Thursday March 09, 2017 @11:12AM (#13830222)
i think we need to define what a "productized service" is.

they are not: apps, saas, products (books, courses,..), fixed bids on custom projekts or anything you bill by the hour.

a productized service is:

something you do very well, has a very narrow and fixed scope, you normally would bill this by the hour. think of it like writing a custom proposal but sell it to anyone at the same price.

some examples:

- i change the car oil for x usd.

- checking a website for responsiveness and show you the biggest mistakes and how to fix them for x usd. (website teardown)

- a/b testing an online shop to increase conversion by 5%

i myself am in the middle of turning my freelance sysadmin/devops business into a productized service, so i am eager to hear what ppl on hn had success with - and what did not work out for them.

a great ressource on this topic is pretty much anything Jonathan Stark is publishing: https://expensiveproblem.com/ and http://www.ditchinghourly.com/

Re:Ask HN: Best monitoring system? on Friday July 22, 2016 @05:01PM (#12146740)
for small setups munin and (m)monit are still my goto place.

dead simple, easy to configure and very reliable

Re:ØMQ - The Guide on Sunday May 31, 2015 @01:47PM (#9634884)
zmq is not a message broker like rabbitmq. its more like a concurrency library. it kinda feels like working with sockets, except its not just sockets.

recommended read: http://zeromq.org/topics:omq-is-just-sockets

hn-thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6739231

Re:ØMQ - The Guide on Sunday May 31, 2015 @01:41PM (#9634864)
its actually not a successor, but a fork by one of zmq's core devs, Martin Sustrik.

there is a writeup in the docs how nanomsg differ from zmq: http://nanomsg.org/documentation-zeromq.html

Re:One year with the Truly Ergonomic keyboard on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @12:57PM (#9606015)
my biggest problem with keyboard layouts always was, that with a german QWERTZ layout it was pretty much impossible to use (){}[]<> efficiently.

i tried NEO and DVORAK but somehow the english layout worked best.i still need to type umlauts (äöü) and ß, so i made a custom layout.

you can find it on github: https://github.com/bmaeser/coDE (osx only, sorry)

Re:Ask HN: What's your backup setup? Manual or Automated? on Thursday May 21, 2015 @12:44PM (#9583833)
on servers i run a couple of homebrew shell scripts to do backups. on some i use the backup-gem (https://github.com/backup/backup)

on my workstation/notebook (both apple computers) i use time machine with different external harddrives i rotate weekly.

all setups run automated, but sometimes i trigger them manually (usually right before and/or after some major change in configuration, or when lots of new data are on the drives (eg: i copy all the holliday photos onto my laptop)

i run regular checks on server backups, e.g. check if they "are there" and if i could restore them properly if needed.

Re:EU Court Rules E-Books Are Services, Not Goods on Thursday March 05, 2015 @10:53AM (#9151419)
paywall
Re:Why it takes so long to get data back from New Horizons on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:07AM (#8990685)
"between here and pluto there is a very large number of nanoseconds"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8

Re:Joker – Torrents to streamable video on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @11:42AM (#8521522)
developer of joker.org joined comments on product hunt: http://www.producthunt.com/posts/joker
Re:Joker – Torrents to streamable video on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @11:19AM (#8521396)
sorry, not my site or tech. i just shared the link here on hn.
Re:Show HN: I created an app to sync any folder with Dropbox on Sunday October 19, 2014 @05:17PM (#8479649)
protip: symlinks :)

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