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ahmetmsft

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I work for Microsoft. http://twitter.com/ahmetalpbalkan
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ahmetmsft··on You cannot start a tweet with “D. Tusk”
Because they are still used on the web as well. I still use "D {handle} {message}" to DM people.
ahmetmsft··on Show HN: Phishing as a service
I was doing exactly the same project probably 8 years ago when I was still a high school student. I used to have a lot of websites, too but I never launched as I thought phishing is probably illegal and unethical.
ahmetmsft··on Airbnb Raises $1.5B in One of Largest Private Placements
Can we please stop posting articles behind a paywall? I can't read this at all, not even in incognito browser mode.
ahmetmsft··on Snoop Dogg for CEO of Twitter
5 days old.
ahmetmsft··on Show HN: Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback Machine and Hacker News
Links don't work on this.
ahmetmsft··on Redis re-implemented in Rust
Care to post details about this? Is this actually fast? Does it implement all features and guarantees of redis? Should anybody actually use this in production (maybe because it works on Windows)? Is it well tested?

Looks like a really cool effort but authors of open source projects often think people would read the code and figure out all, the truth is people usually look at what's in the readme and that's all the attention span most people are going to have. My 2c: improve your README.md.

ahmetmsft··on Albert Woodfox's Forty Years in Solitary Confinement
<off-topic> Can we have a HN rule stopping people from posting paywalled content? This is getting really annoying apparently I ran out of my quota for visiting newyorker.com pages this month. I know how to overcome it, but that's a website I normally wouldn't visit from some other website than HN and this feels annoying. This is like the new DRM.
ahmetmsft··on How to tell a colleague that their breath stinks?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tell+people+they+stink
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ahmetmsft··on Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
This has been my long time dream. There's so little that prevents this from happening theoretically (obviously there's a lot of coding will be done, but hey that's the fun part). I am very glad Microsoft is taking all the right steps to bring two world closer: Linux and Windows.

With all the announcements around stuff like Docker for Windows Server Containers and cross platform .NET, this was nearly inevitable. Now the server management also steers in the right direction.

Disclaimer: ms employee doing tons of open source.

ahmetmsft··on Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool
Are you an one man army? Congrats! :) This is great. How do you plan to react to potential changes in rendering engines? Would those be shown as test failures as well?
ahmetmsft··on Maze Generator and Solver
It probably calculates the path in advance (note the "please wait" indicator appears just after you hit 'Solve') then it follows the path with an animation that gives you exactly the impression that it never falls into a trap as it goes.
ahmetmsft··on Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail
Why don't you host the source code on GitHub?
ahmetmsft··on Fish shell
For those who like the autosuggestion feature of Fish but can't leave oh-my-zsh, there's a plugin for that: https://github.com/tarruda/zsh-autosuggestions
ahmetmsft··on Show HN: Shrink, a free menu bar app for your GitHub issues
That's exactly what I need. I would probably pay for something crafted well that does this.
ahmetmsft··on Gigo: Pip for Go
You should probably add to https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go as well
ahmetmsft··on Reproducible Builds in Go
Can somebody please share a mirror? App Engine instance seems like it has exceeded the quota. (lol)
ahmetmsft··on Docker 1.6: Engine and Orchestration Updates, Registry 2.0, and Windows Client
Boot2Docker also comes with a docker client for Windows. In that case you don't have to run or install VirtualBox at all. You can just point it to your existing Docker host.