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c4urself

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About c4urself

Christian Verkerk myfullnamewithnospaces with gmail

Dutch/American developer (mostly Django/Python + HTML/JS/CSS)

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/c4urself; my proof: https://keybase.io/c4urself/sigs/iec_A5QaDghM2ad42rTaJXP98ETR5rEqxXh0ioUKEmY ]

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    Sad to see them go, happy user for a long time as well -- anyone know what went wrong? Why did they sell to BBVA / is it just financially infeasible to run a web-based bank?

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    Comment #21420539

    Take the survey here: https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/c9-python-developers-survey...

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    Comment #21215809

    Agree. I've been dealing with Python rules for Bazel at work and the default implementation of re-downloading everything with pip became a real pain real fast. Decided to generate …

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    Comment #18707713

    One of the key pieces that we've been missing is an HA setup for Jenkins. We use JJB to automatically create jobs, have everything set up with configuration management, so that wor…

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    Comment #18550305

    It may have also been what your friend said — French people are quite formal compared to Canadians and Americans — I know some French and was corrected a couple of times based on h…

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    Comment #18543286

    Wow just had a facepalm moment realising what you said is spot on. To make matters worse small-engined tools that pollute the environment are used weekly to keep the yard nice... w…

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    The problem is that all the issues you name are only marginally bad for the average consumer — there isn’t much motivation to move when the problem isn’t that bad for most. And mos…

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    Comment #16881968

    https://xkcd.com/1053/

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    Comment #15993624

    My thoughts exactly, getting “real” work done requires coming in early, staying late or WFH.

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    Site Reliability Engineer | Tubular Labs, Inc.| Mountain View, CA and Kiev, UA Tubular Labs is the worldwide leader in online video intelligence. Tech we use: Elasticsearch, Cassan…

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    > We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard -- AWS Status Well that explains all the green checkmarks /s

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    Comment #13755735

    It is, of course the checkmark will stay green throughout this as Amazon doesn't care about actually letting its customers know they have a problem.

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    Comment #13072671

    Great idea, we had part of a private repo accidentally made public at some point and these kind of honeypot keys would've been triggered pretty quickly and let us know. Would defin…

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    Ask HN: What's up with AWS lately?

    Getting a bunch of "The instance is running on degraded hardware" events where they're (presumably) cycling hardware and forcing a restart of the EC2 instance. I've had at least 10…

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    Comment #10625354

    pretty sure you're referring to God as the "third party" -- but I'm not sure how it was revolutionary considering Judaism had a very similar system in place where offerings were pr…

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    Comment #9547721

    Do what you like -- but reserve instances so you can do it for longer.

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    Comment #8799812

    SaltStack or Ansible

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    Wonder if the advance of virtual reality could improve these peoples lives in some way -- kind of what they're doing in the Hogewey complex -- simulate a life that is somewhat "nor…

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    I believe it's "Forward Deployed Engineer" ... heard it said that Palantir doesn't like the term consulting and makes up its own titles...