friendly_chap

Try this for consumption based pricing (you can also host this yourself) https://github.com/1backend/1backend

Shameless self plug: we are also building an alternative[1] that enables you to run tons of services on a single node (and to call them easily from front end projects - with the help of autogenerated type safe clients).

[1] https://github.com/1backend/1backend

If anyone is interested in a fun open source alternative that's actually easy to connect to the outside world and databases, we are building a tool that is the result of 5 years of doing serverless/microservices at various companies:

https://github.com/1backend/1backend

Right now it's still in very early stages, but I think a lot of companies would gain from having an easy to set up platform that takes away the focus from building various bits of infrastructure and moving it to building actual apps and APIs.

We have a strong focus on the latter (APIs) up to the point of having a small DSL to describe the types your service/serverless function operates on and it generates a type safe client (Go and Angular/TypeScript right now, more is coming) and we publish npm etc packages at build time.

But it's still in an early phase so it's only for the adventurous. I hope you didn't mind the plug. Enjoy!

So what is the reason that white/indian/asian boys are preferred? Genuinely curious.

I have mostly experience in London and there the landscape is extremely diverse. Why would any company not hire any ethnicity if they are good at what they do?

That's a really sad story but not unusual or rare at all.

Send me an email (it's on my profile) and I will send you a couple of materials to help you cope with that kind of life situation.

Stay strong.

I believe history and literature are sensitive subjects politically, hence the official ways of teaching it are somewhat limiting (intentionally). However, most teachers I had contact with/heard of are exceptionally good, so I guess it comes down to luck.

But cogs are a symbol of patriarchal engineering. All those machines, they are generally built and maintained by men, and thus shall be abandoned.

I do find the backslash against cultural marxism both interesting and funny.

You can see 3 generations of psyops unravel in front of your eyes.

Likely this will be implemented at the ISP level, I expect 99.99 of the sites would not care otherwise.

Hey HN, one of the authors here.

Just wanted to specify that the github descriptions talks about "bash snippets", there is nothing specify in the codebase that's related to bash :))

You can install this tool yourself any time, web frontend, api and terminal client, and populate it with any content.

We are using our own live installation (https://ok-b.org) for bash snippets, because we find it such an obvious usecase (we are goldfish when it comes to bash snippets, haha).

Yes, login with Google at the very least is planned.

And yeah, there is an issue on some systems with dependencies of a go package. We are going to fix that, sorry.

Thanks for the issue.

If you feel like working on something like that, see my comment in this thread about Borg. We are pretty far ahead in the development, and happy to get contributors.

We have 4 members in the team but there are loads of work to do.

Borg is similar, but it saves the snippets to a centralized* server: https://github.com/ok-borg/borg

There is also a web interface https://ok-b.org/

Anyone can edit the public snippets (only bash for now, because it is such an obvious usecase), but private ones are coming too.

The plan is provide a way to save and search snippets from anywhere, terminal, web, phone, whatever.

It is also written in Go.

Edit: the mobile version of the site is not too responsive, but a new version of the UI is coming :)

*Edit 2: You can also self host the server/frontend yourself and change your terminal client to point to your own.

Don't.

Do you have an example of that?

That's fascinating! How is this possible? How come the traders (is that the right terminology) don't get poached by bigger firms?

Are they doing well because they know the local market?

I see. I think the two are really not the same. One is essentially total freedom, the other (conventional employment) is on a scale of 'do as you are told' - 'you 've got some say in how things are being run'.

Is this a feel good piece for the working class? Don't get me wrong - I have no experience with getting rich overnight (not that I'm not trying).

However, going back to employment seems like an utter waste of a millionaire's time - I have loads of plans which would make the world a better place, for example: launching an incubator/hacker camp for troubled kids in the poor area where I'm from. I only need maybe 1 or 2 millions to do that.

Why would I go back to working for a company where I have way less power to change basically anything, really?

Not breathing or being dead is surely a disadvantage when starting a company, but just because you breathe and you are alive does not mean you will be able to sell that as a core value. Tech must be only good enough. No customer cares about it unless it annoys the hell out of them. It's not Uber's USP.

That sounds incredibly stupid. Why didnt they distribute an GPS coordinate sending app to said drivers?

I find this rather surprising. I used to work for Hailo, and we failed mostly due to bad business decision (focusing way too much on regulations/instead of disrupting the taxi industry we tried to partner) with way-way less funding ($100 mil in all - at the time less than 25) we built an app of such high quality, almost every driver or passenger we talked to (tens of thousands) said while Uber's network is superior, they wish they could use Hailo's app because it's just faster, nicer, feels more polished and less buggy.

It is not rocket science, really. I don't think it's about tech quality. As our case proved, it's all about the extent of the network - people want a (cheap) ride, if they get it, they are happy.

Yes.

Borg is a terminal gister/snippet searcher - for now only shell snippets but in the future we plan to move towards way bigger goals. The thing can be self hosted to be a knowledge base for your company, something like a cross between a stacko/wiki etc. We have slack integration, and a bunch others are coming.

We plan to implement private entries and searches this month and also team/organisation management on the frontend (done on the backend).

Right now the front end is lagging behind in terms of features - we are migrating from Angular 1 to React. (https://github.com/ok-borg/web)

https://github.com/ok-borg/borg

License is apache 2.

That sign is a bit weakly designed compared to this: http://www.wipp.energy.gov/picsprog/articles/wipp%20exhibit%...

I wanted to use nomad, but at the time their tutorials (not sure about their current state) were not really good, so I ended up rolling my own solution which serves me well since then (https://github.com/crufter/puller).

That's something really interesting, and it comes handy for a side project I have, but I don't think it fixes the problem with people hijacking the docker repo - they will just change the Dockerfile itself, right?

Having code running in a container is still harder to exploit than just having full ssh access to the boxes?

I am not a security expert by any means, and this workflow was not created with security as a priority in any means, but the latter still rubs me in a worse way. It might be just an ignorant hunch though.

We use CircleCI, and since all our environments are on a VPN we opted for a pull based solution instead of CircleCI notifying/pushing anything to our servers.

The way it works, Circle pushes the containers built to Google Container Registry and there is a super simple tool I built (https://github.com/crufter/puller) pulls those images. This introduces a couple of minutes of delay but we find that acceptable.

I guess we are still exposed to the possibility of someone breaking into Circle, using the keys there to push to our GCR repos, but at least they won't have full access to our servers...

At first I was kinda surprised at your comment (not even sure why, maybe because it lacked snark...), but then I realised it is a prime example of how our (techies) work actually affects lives, experiences etc, something we often forget.

Thanks for reminding

Indeed, but the more experienced I get the harder/bigger problems I work on, so that balances it out. I still feel rather stuck on a daily basis, but I accept the situation and try to deal with it with a calm focus.