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bmaeseron Ask HN: What are some examples of good code?

https://github.com/pallets/flask and https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests

both in python, but beautiful code, well structured and you would not need any docs, just read the code

bmaeseron They were guillotined 72 years ago today. And they deserve remembering

Sophie Scholl's last words were, “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”

Hans Scholl's last words shouted from the guillotine were, ”Long live freedom!”

bmaeseron Ask HN: Who's running a profitable productized service?

i think we need to define what a "productized service" is.

they are not: apps, saas, products (books, courses,..), fixed bids on custom projekts or anything you bill by the hour.

a productized service is:

something you do very well, has a very narrow and fixed scope, you normally would bill this by the hour. think of it like writing a custom proposal but sell it to anyone at the same price.

some examples:

- i change the car oil for x usd.

- checking a website for responsiveness and show you the biggest mistakes and how to fix them for x usd. (website teardown)

- a/b testing an online shop to increase conversion by 5%

i myself am in the middle of turning my freelance sysadmin/devops business into a productized service, so i am eager to hear what ppl on hn had success with - and what did not work out for them.

a great ressource on this topic is pretty much anything Jonathan Stark is publishing: https://expensiveproblem.com/ and http://www.ditchinghourly.com/

bmaeseron Ask HN: Best monitoring system?

for small setups munin and (m)monit are still my goto place.

dead simple, easy to configure and very reliable

bmaeseron Ask HN: Is anyone interested in a site to help you find co-founders?

have a look at https://www.startus.cc/

bmaeseron ØMQ - The Guide

zmq is not a message broker like rabbitmq. its more like a concurrency library. it kinda feels like working with sockets, except its not just sockets.

hn-thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6739231

bmaeseron ØMQ - The Guide

its actually not a successor, but a fork by one of zmq's core devs, Martin Sustrik.

there is a writeup in the docs how nanomsg differ from zmq: http://nanomsg.org/documentation-zeromq.html

bmaeseron One year with the Truly Ergonomic keyboard

my biggest problem with keyboard layouts always was, that with a german QWERTZ layout it was pretty much impossible to use (){}[]<> efficiently.

i tried NEO and DVORAK but somehow the english layout worked best.i still need to type umlauts (äöü) and ß, so i made a custom layout.

you can find it on github: https://github.com/bmaeser/coDE (osx only, sorry)

bmaeseron Ask HN: What's your backup setup? Manual or Automated?

on servers i run a couple of homebrew shell scripts to do backups. on some i use the backup-gem (https://github.com/backup/backup)

on my workstation/notebook (both apple computers) i use time machine with different external harddrives i rotate weekly.

all setups run automated, but sometimes i trigger them manually (usually right before and/or after some major change in configuration, or when lots of new data are on the drives (eg: i copy all the holliday photos onto my laptop)

i run regular checks on server backups, e.g. check if they "are there" and if i could restore them properly if needed.

bmaeseron EU Court Rules E-Books Are Services, Not Goods

paywall

bmaeseron Why it takes so long to get data back from New Horizons

"between here and pluto there is a very large number of nanoseconds"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8

bmaeseron Joker – Torrents to streamable video

developer of joker.org joined comments on product hunt: http://www.producthunt.com/posts/joker

bmaeseron Joker – Torrents to streamable video

sorry, not my site or tech. i just shared the link here on hn.

bmaeseron Show HN: I created an app to sync any folder with Dropbox

protip: symlinks :)

bmaeseron OpenWorm: A Digital Organism In Your Browser

tamagotchi 2.0? (a very sophisticated one)

bmaeseron Ask HN: Your favorite YouTube channels?

- https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce

- https://www.youtube.com/user/CGPGrey

- https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium

- https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile

- https://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth

- https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics

- https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile

- https://www.youtube.com/user/briantwill

- https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce2

- https://www.youtube.com/user/NextDayVideo

- https://www.youtube.com/user/MarakanaTechTV

- https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols

- https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay

bmaeseron Ask HN: Do we need another email service?

yes we need another mailprovider, with all the killerfeatures of gmail:

lots of storage / archive

contacts / sync

kalender / sync

decent privacy/ encryption

servers in EU

i dont care about webmail/mailclient.

bmaeseron HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

so is "asdf"

http://asdf.com/asdfgreen.html

bmaeseron ZeroMQ is just sockets

zmq is not simple a messaging framework. its more like a concurrency library. and there are a lot of reliability and high availability patterns for zmq: http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Chapter-Reliable-Request-R...

bmaeseron Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

quote: "Three language extensions are included with PostgreSQL to support Perl, Python and Tcl"

(http://aws.amazon.com/de/rds/postgresql/#language-ext)

bmaeseron Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

this is awesome! still, i miss one essential feature - compared to mysql on aws and heroku/postgres: there is no replication for read replicas. yes, you can deploy a "hot standby" replica in another availability zone for failover, but you cant read from it.

bmaeseron Ask HN: What open source project is your pride and joy?

http://bmaeser.github.io/iptables-boilerplate/

iptables-boilerplate is a set of predefined firewall rules that are typically used on "webhosts".

bmaeseron Poll: Do you use antivirus software?

please use [other] yes/no and specify in comments.

bmaeseron Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)

SEEKING WORK - [ Vienna / Austria ] or Remote

Full stack web engineer with devops-background, specialized in backend development.

Python (Django, Flask, Tornado), Node.js, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Redis, Cassandra

Interested in RESTful apis, Service-oriented architecture and 0MQ.

* Github: https://github.com/bmaeser

* WWW: http://bmaeser.io/

(please no recruiters)

bmaeseron Poll: Do you encrypt your email?

a couple of years ago i started signing my emails.

unfortunately a lot of my mails got deleted by the recipients, because there were "some very strange things" (the signature) at the end of my mails and they were afraid of malware like viruses or trojans.

i wanted to increase the level of trust in my messages and achieved the complete opposite.

i stopped signing my mails a couple of weeks later, after a clients secretary phoned me to inform me "i had a virus on my computer".

bmaeseron Poll: how do you encrypt your files in the cloud?

thx, added to answers.

bmaeseron Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?

3 awesome videos on very specific topics:

Dr James Grime / Numberphile - Encryption and HUGE numbers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kEpw1tn50

Les Hazlewood - Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WXYw4J4QOU

classic: Douglas Crockford - JavaScript: The Good Parts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook

bmaeseron "How I Explained REST to My Wife" taken down because of gender-oriented nature

archived version from 16.01.2013

http://web.archive.org/web/20130116034443/http://tomayko.com...

bmaeseron A story about Vienna. (an interactive narrative infographic)

worth mentioning hackerspaces / tech-coworking in vienna:

https://metalab.at/ http://www.sektor5.at/ http://vienna.the-hub.net/