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silas

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About silas

https://sewell.org

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    Comment #41508143

    Looks like they have a migration guide available here: https://expressjs.com/en/guide/migrating-5.html

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    Comment #38233388

    Also noticed that the Status page linked from the logged out https://twitter.com page has been expired since Aug 29. Not especially interesting, but probably an indication that som…

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    Comment #30504075

    Goodreads allows you to export your library via CSV.

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    Comment #8739773

    Linode also charged you the $20 right up front and held on to it for the month.

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    Comment #7542697

    Yeah, this is why spamming your general status page with lots of information is a bad idea. I have no idea what's going on there. At first glance it looks like half their services …

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    Comment #7542633

    Linode opens a ticket for all affected users and emails them proactively, I think this is the right way to message this type of outage.

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    Comment #6487399

    Hacked together a Vagrantfile if anyone wants to try it out: https://github.com/silas/vagrant-lmctfy

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    Comment #6401962

    This is super nice for anyone running RHEL/EL, lets you use recent versions of Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.. without having to package everything yourself.

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    Comment #5706840

    Google Test Automation Conference talk on Appium if you're interested: https://developers.google.com/google-test-automation-confere...

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    Comment #4894598

    Gmail is written using the Closure library: https://developers.google.com/closure/faq#gwt

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    Comment #4372912

    Only one (wristband texture) and removing it still produces a pretty good result: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/LmEkn

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    Comment #4139627

    I've had good experiences with Thinkpads, Ubuntu has their own list: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/

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    Comment #4112340

    Every scribd link is marked as private for me Hacker News for some reason, is this broken for anyone else or..?

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    Comment #2724954

    I created pretty much the same thing about two weeks ago, although I think your library looks much nicer (I'm just getting into Go). https://github.com/silas/bcrypt.go

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    Comment #2479657

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179492

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    Comment #2324865

    Interesting bit from the linked comments via "egoodman85": Hey, just want to clarify something as an Etsy employee. It's not your purchases that are public - it's your feedback on …

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    Comment #2044262

    $ curl -s http://bit.ly/test | grep AOLserver AOLserver/4.5.1 on http://127.0.0.1:7200 ;

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    Comment #2018644

    1. Quit Dropbox 2. rm -fr ~/.dropbox-dist 3. Start Dropbox

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    Comment #1796617

    Sweet, I'd take: nyc.ww.com => nyc.sewell.ch (CNAME)

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    Comment #1759788

    CentOS, Fedora and RHEL use Python for most of the system tools and as such integrating or contribute to those projects will be easier if you know Python. That said the recent/popu…

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    Comment #1733940

    I wrote something similar a while back to offload parts of legacy sites on Google App engine. http://github.com/silas/gaem

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    Comment #1570951

    http://github.com/tidg/tyrion A lightweight systems management tool that uses XMPP for transport and is written in C++.

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    Comment #1465780

    I think in the immediate feature innovative mobile products could unseat a lot of the current platforms, many of which have been slow to (or done so poorly) implement mobile interf…

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    Comment #1364551

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowNDA