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Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hardcoded based on how I think the market will evolve in the long term, currently holding BTC, ETH, XMR, and XRP among a couple others.
Been a pretty rough week, reminds me why I should never put more than 10% of net worth here
Chamath Palihapitiya says you should keep 1% of your net assets in Cryptocurrencies.
Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
#183Stock market trading systems, so I don't have to watch screens, also backups and also constantly improving monitoring for smooth operations
How can I get started with this? Did you create machine learning algorithms too?
First you need data 20 years will do and then you start back testing every trading system you can find with the main focus on limiting losses when you figure this part out you just need to find a slight edge in the market and the compounding will make you rich in the comming years...
Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I had spent the time to learn a "proper" configuration management system, it would have been a loss. I had a very limited amount of time to make it worth automating what amounts to a few hours of manual work. > you didn't learn anything substantially different So what? Learning something substantially different wasn't one of my requirements. My goal was to automate a few simple deployments, including my personal l…
>> You only added shell script SSH executor to your toolbelt > You've said this enough that I'll push back. That's definitely wrong. [...] For one, [Ansible] checks the current state of the system it is configuring to determine whether or not software needs to be installed. So you claim that Ansible learns the state of the system through some magic that is not possible to be called from shell? Because I could do pret…
> So you claim that Ansible learns the state of the system through some magic that is not possible to be called from shell?
I never claimed that.
> Because I could do pretty much the same in a shell script just fine.
So could I. But I didn't have to. Because Ansible does it for me. So right there, just by comparing my declarative configuration with the current system state, it's clearly adding more value than "shell script executer".
> There are many big companies that throw money at dumb processes only to make them running
You said it can't scale. You're now moving the goalposts to "well, it can scale, but it takes more money".
> You should have asked a sysadmin
Fortunately I didn't ask this sysadmin because you keep confusing your own requirements with mine. I was never looking for a product that is best of class but takes weeks or months to learn. I've already made it dead clear several times that my most important requirement was "easy and quick to learn". Ansible is the best product of those I tried when that's the primary requirement.
> You see, precisely this is the issue here.
The only issue here is that you can't accept that Ansible was the best fit for my requirements.
> For some strange reason, programmers tend to avoid tools available to sysadmins, which is a quite big blind spot
Some programmers have enough common sense to not spend months learning a tool to automate a few hours of work that happens a few times a year. I asked my friend which would be the quickest to learn, he said Ansible, I wasn't hot on it because Chef and Puppet were more popular, so I tried learning Chef and Puppet and when I realized how long that was going to take I tried Ansible. Within a few hours I had everything automated with Ansible. It was hands-down the best solution based on my requirements. So I do agree there is quite a big blind spot here. But I wouldn't say it's on my side, or the friend who's advice turned out to be spot on. ;-)
Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
#185carving up marble with industrial robots https://vimeo.com/94076571 Cad -> robot code compiler is built on top of pythonocc
Very nice. :)
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to write trading systems for Amibroker. This one signaled the 2009 march bull market in equities and oil. But it is a swing/longterm trading system. I was a daytrader so it is not really useful for that. https://github.com/tebelorg/Tump/blob/master/trading_z.js
Reading into this, and this seems pretty dense. Any suggestions for beginners who are Software Engineers but need more explanation in this domain?
You can check my older posts for books I have recommended to get you started
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#187I read a lot of articles by saving them to Pocket and reading via my ereader. I wrote a little PHP browser based application that interfaces with the Pocket and hn.algolia.com APIs that helps me to follow up on articles in related forums such as Hacker News and track my reading habits.
Naturally I called it Pocket Lint.
Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
#188Library book renewals. I have an AWS Lambda function that runs daily, scrapes html from my public library (they have no API), and if a book is due within the next day, renews it. If I've reached max renewals, it sends me a notification.
Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
#189Wrote a program that tracks Australian movie release dates for movies I'm interested in. Sends a daily email if a release date moves, or there a new movies for me to flag my interest in.
Interfaces with themoviedb.org for plot summary, cast and crew info and such. Interfaces with Google Calendar for writing entries for each movie I'm tracking.
Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
#190Library book renewals. I have an AWS Lambda function that runs daily, scrapes html from my public library (they have no API), and if a book is due within the next day, renews it. If I've reached max renewals, it sends me a notification.
Do you have this project hosted anywhere?