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jensenboxon CloudFlare (and subsequently CDNJS) is down: check your assets

I can concur.

jensenboxon Going long long on time_t

No humor at all, it is real and frankly, I am worried for my children. http://y2038.com/

jensenboxon Google - Our History in Depth

They really need to add in the 'deaths' or transitions of their products as well.

jensenboxon Stop Using Digital Ocean Now: The Aftermath

I left them long ago after super crap support.

No thanks and good luck.

jensenboxon Cmd.fm

Great idea!

jensenboxon Star Wars opening crawl from 1977 in HTML/CSS/JS

I wish I could see it - seems busted on Chrome 29.0.1547.65 - Crunchbang Waldorf x64

Logo appears and fades out then nothing but music and blackness.

jensenboxon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

Nice pun in the title.

jensenboxon Rackspace Launches Developer Discount

:( credit card required

jensenboxon An open social media network that encrypts your posts and distributes via RSS

It is dead for me too.

jensenboxon WebM for Internet Explorer

The comment was not just about Reader - it is about fact: http://jensenbox.github.io/timeline/

jensenboxon WebM for Internet Explorer

Wikipedia talks of its birthday here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM

jensenboxon WebM for Internet Explorer

Find the source code and you will have your answer. Click on the installer help link on the download page - I could not find it there.

jensenboxon WebM for Internet Explorer

Or they will use it to track every video you watch and post it on Google+ - for your convenience. All the while serving ads that are suited to your taste based on the video you are watching.

jensenboxon WebM for Internet Explorer

Or they will make it play an advertisement before you can watch anything.

jensenboxon WebM for Internet Explorer

Just give it time - it will get discontinued like every other google project.

jensenboxon Digital Ocean was down on the West Coast

I would gladly get on a phone call with you. My contact information is attached to droplet id: 281363

jensenboxon Digital Ocean was down on the West Coast

It wasn't so much about the response time, but more like they just did not care about my request.

There Debian image is not a standard image and I wanted to know what they had done so that I did not get caught by another 'difference' and they said that they did not have any documentation on what they had changed but I was free to change it to be however I wanted.

The problem with this is that if you use Vagrant or any other automated deployment anywhere else, you will either have to make changes to your build script to account for the changes they made or make your images to be like theirs are.

The entire process is rather busted - they should just use standard images or let me upload my own.

Their response was not at all feeling or understanding.

I have 1 $40 instance and will use it until all my credit is done but will not be returning.

jensenboxon Digital Ocean was down on the West Coast

Zero timezone customization as well - In times of stress, who want to have to calculate UTC... really.

jensenboxon Digital Ocean was down on the West Coast

And... back up.

I know summer is all about Roller Coasters, hot dogs and whatnot but I did not expect to be riding a virtual roller coaster today!

jensenboxon Digital Ocean was down on the West Coast

Whoops... spoke too soon... DOWN again!

jensenboxon Digital Ocean was down on the West Coast

They are back up for me now.

I have not been at all happy with the support I get from DO.

I think they only employ BOFHs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell)

jensenboxon Ask HN: What exception tracking service do you use?

Personally, for a Django project, Sentry is probably the best integrated solution.

We use the self hosted solution. Works great!

jensenboxon Celery - Distributed Task Queue

So if I am reading this right, what you are saying is that RabbitMQ is more 'push' and a DB is more 'pull' or rather 'poll'.

Perhaps they should break the brokers down into those two groups.

I seem to recall Redis having a pubsub style interface, which makes it much more push but still is a bit cloudy in my mind.

Thanks for the reply!

jensenboxon How Close.io (YC W11) built per-recipient email tracking

This is really in poor taste. Can you imagine if the email to Bob said "hey lets meet at the pub at 6" and the email to Alice said "hey lets meet at the pub at 4".

I know this is unlikely, but sending an email that looks like each party is getting the same thing but in fact are getting different emails just is bad.

The tracking thing is not a big deal, seems like everyone does it. Just block images and you are golden.

jensenboxon Celery - Distributed Task Queue

I have yet to read anywhere why using Postgres or Postgres with Django is a bad idea. Everything says a vague "suboptimal" without any real backing of that statement.

Anyone know the real reasons behind that statement?

jensenboxon Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

If and when they have plans to do so, I hope to have it posted here: http://jensenbox.github.io/timeline/

jensenboxon Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

If you are interested, I have been keeping score: http://jensenbox.github.io/timeline/

jensenboxon Poll: HN Linux users, what desktop environmemt do you use?

I too was hesitant because it was so vanilla, it took me about an hour to get it 'just right'.

I doubt I will ever switch to anything again. My system has never been faster. I feel like I am getting everything I used to get with Gentoo but without the gritty pain of compiling every damn thing.

jensenboxon Poll: HN Linux users, what desktop environmemt do you use?

#! Waldorf - I have used Ubuntu all the way up to 13.04, Mint 11,12,13 and 14. So far Crunchbang Waldorf is everything a developer would ever want.

So I guess Openbox

jensenboxon Google+ Games is shutting down

Please send me any data regarding Google shutdowns.

http://jensenbox.github.io/timeline/