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knite

228 karma · joined March 17, 2009

Sysadmin, network engineer, coder, web developer, etc. Wearer of many hats.
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knite··on Carina – High-Performance, Instant-On Docker Containers
How does this compare to Joyent Triton?
knite··on MagicStack: Python syntax highlighter for Sublime Text and Atom
Why is the issue closed and locked?
knite··on MagicStack: Python syntax highlighter for Sublime Text and Atom
Could you compare/contrast MagicStack with PythonImproved generally? Would love to know if MS is strictly better.
knite··on Relay Technical Preview
I've skimmed the Relay and GraphQL repos, but I can't for the life of me figure out which database backends are supported. Can I put this in front of Postgres? Redis? How do I stand this up in front of an existing DB?
knite··on High Availability for PostgreSQL, Batteries Not Included
How does this compare to RDS - both in terms of HA, and generally speaking?
knite··on Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?
Not the most responsive maintainer - still waiting on him to tag a 1.0.0 release for autoenv - https://github.com/kennethreitz/autoenv/issues/82
knite··on Starfighter, Summer 2015
Wow, THT! I was their Director of IT around 2007-2010. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
knite··on The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay
Not sure if you'll see this, but this thread inspired me to send an email to 80K, which I've known about for a while. I'm planning to become a 50+% donator in the next couple of years.
knite··on Dockerception: Docker building dockers – keeping them small
I started using Alpine a couple of weeks ago. Really curious what sorts of problems you've encountered. The only big one for me so far is the change to DNS resolution.
knite··on Introduction to Apache Mesos
What particular issues have you run into with etcd and/or CoreOS?
knite··on The Hiring Post
Thomas,

Great article. The prelude to the interview with books given to candidates is especially interesting. I'd love to see that reading list, and would further like to suggest posting it on your careers page. I would imagine that anyone who goes to the trouble of working through your suggested materials would be providing a very strong signal of quality and investment.

knite··on Ask HN: Do you use microservices?
Do you have any recommendations on articles or books about getting started with microservices? I'm an experienced Django dev - I began using Docker a few months ago and microservices seem like the natural next step. But most of the blog posts out there about the big picture reasons to switch to microservices, I haven't found much about implementation details.
knite··on The Shape of Rome (2013)
This is an absolutely marvelous bit of history!
knite··on DigitalOcean Partners with CoreOS for Large-Scale Cluster Deployments
This is a really great point. I may raise it on one of the CoreOS mailing lists.
knite··on Docker 1.2.0, with restart policies
Hm...this sounds like a bit of a disconnect from the 1.2 announcement post, which says:

"Note, however, that changes to these files are not saved during a docker build and so will not be preserved in the resulting image. The changes will only “stick” in a running container."

If I do RUN echo "127.0.0.1 somehost" >> /etc/hosts or COPY container_hosts /etc/hosts, according to the announcement wording, this will not persist in my image.

If this is incorrect, could you clarify what isn't saved during docker build? If this is correct, why is docker build unable to retain these changes?

knite··on Docker 1.2.0, with restart policies
Why is this not supported during docker build? I'm not very familiar with the --privileged flag - isn't that only related to sharing on the host?

Edits to /etc/hosts in a container don't affect the host, so it seems like everything should Just Work.

knite··on Docker 1.2.0, with restart policies
Why is boot2docker a mess? I find it unusable due to lack of file sharing from the host through to a container. Are there any other showstoppers?
knite··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)
Adam, I think Benzinga and I may be each others' unicorns. Would love to chat directly before emailing the careers email. aris@pike.as
knite··on Why is San Francisco public transportation so bad?
I moved from Chicago to San Francisco, and find that San Francisco is significantly easier to get around in.

The public transit is worse, but the city itself is smaller, and Uber/Lyft/etc rates are low due to competition, which effectively means personalized pickup/drop-off throughout most of the city is <$10. For an individual, that's often worth it. For a group of 2-3, when compared against the sum of their total public transit costs, it's almost always worth it.

knite··on CoreOS Beta Release
Docker ambassadors - http://docs.docker.io/use/ambassador_pattern_linking/#introd...
knite··on CoreOS Beta Release
I'm also interested in this. I'm used to running my Django/(formerly gunicorn but soon switching to uwsgi or passenger)/nginx/PG stack on EC2. I've been exploring Docker and Vagrant, and have almost finished setting up a useful dev environment. I'm trying to figure out the right way to do deploy my containers, and where CoreOS fits into everything.
knite··on Vagrant Feature Preview: Docker-Based Development Environments
These feature previews need a download link, or at the very least a release date.
knite··on SSL Labs: Stricter security requirements for 2014
Yes, please!
knite··on Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion
You can't teach a financial analyst how to analyze code in a single comment, but you can certainly give them some rough pointers:

(using Python as an example) def function(): This is a "unit" of code which performs an action. raise Exception(): This means something bad happened. ...etc.

droneStrikes is asking for something along these lines. We're not expecting to become experts at financial analysis after reading a paragraph, but we'd at least like to leave more informed than when we arrived.

knite··on The Engineer Who converted 12,100 Cups Of Pudding to 1.25 Million Air Miles
Note: Maneesh runs the site he's promoting. See his submission history: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=maneesh
knite··on Edward C++Hands
How often do you need to reverse a string, or even a list?
knite··on Bootstrap 3 RC2
I agree with the parent. The term "Release Candidate" comes with certain expectations, including but not limited to: feature freeze, API freeze, and few(er) serious bugs. Calling Bootstrap 3 in its current state an RC is misleading to developers and may adversely impact the project's reputation.

With that said, I've been using the 2.x releases on multiple projects over the past year. Thanks for all of your hard work!

knite··on Saltstack: Changing RSA public exponent from 1 to 65537
You CAN fly a plane without knowing about the weather, because the pilot does the flying for you. All you want is to get from point A to point B via plane.

A crypto library is the pilot. A crypto library that allows you to use insecure settings is a pilot who crashes the plane into a mountain because you asked him to.

knite··on A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember
I expected to see Batman and/or Knockout on this type of comparison.

Also, I may be biased because I haven't heard of CanJS, but this article seems suspiciously favorable toward it. Was the article written with a bit of promotion in mind?

knite··on How to solve the problem that the topmost comments get all upvotes
Perhaps I'm a bit dense today, but why are you unable to link to descriptions of one or more of these better approaches? Many people would find the information useful and interesting.
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