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abababon Distributed Performance Testing in the Cloud with JMeter and AWS

>Also, could we stop using the term 'slave' to refer to distributed compute or storage nodes?

Agreed, I still stick with the old Loadrunner nomenclature "loadgen"

I'd use this if they ever add testing-related docs like JMeter, gatling, taurus, cucumber, selenium, etc.

abababon Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers

I'm not a Finder power user, but when I use it I always run into the same problem: I can't ever open Finder and make my way to a specific directory (e.g. ~). I work around it by opening a terminal and navigating there and doing `open .`. Is there something I'm missing? TL;DR: How can I open Finder and go to any specific directory I want?

abababon Analyzing JMeter Application Performance Results

Taurus sort of does this. http://gettaurus.org/

abababon Poll: What is your main focus?

Testing/Quality should be an option.

abababon Why not kill -9 a process?

Shouldn't that explanation be by followed by 'in order to request the termination of the process'?

abababon Show HN: Linux server monitoring web dashboard

Could you add installation/setup instructions?

abababon Feedly Found a New Way to Steal Page Views From Publishers

Here's a big list of readers to try out:

https://github.com/smithbr/rss-readers-list

abababon Questions to ask your potential employer

Could you expand on what you mean by assert-driven testing? I'm not finding any good explanations from a Google search. Sounds interesting.

abababon New Delicious

Years ago, Delicious used to have the killer feature. Nowadays, Google's Chrome Sync and Pocket adequately keep my bookmarks alive.

abababon Federal workers who check their e-mail during shutdown will be breaking the law

Not for the government, but I know some coworkers who do the same thing. Terrible idea to not completely decouple work and personal technology. There's no recovery process you couldn't achieve with a google, live, and yahoo account.

abababon This coupon code is a slap in the face

I have no affiliation, but I'll plug this awesome Chrome add-on[1] for finding discount codes at checkout. I'm not one to go actively hunting for discounts, and this has saved me probably tens of dollars since installing.

[1] http://joinhoney.com

abababon Digg Reader Rollout

Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/beNrvCU.png

My initial thoughts are that it's dead-simple (not what I had expected) with minimal functionality. The only feature I requested in my survey was to add a Mark All As Read -> Older Than A Day option.

I'm not too fond of the excessive whitespace in the reading pane. It could just be my browser.

abababon Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

FWIW, I started a vague attempt to round up the alternatives:

https://github.com/smithbr/rss-readers-list

abababon Ask HN: Which computer/laptop do you use?

Lenovo ThinkPad T430s