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ldonley

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ldonley··on Migrating from Google Analytics
I've been playing with Matomo recently and opted to use a premade container [1] for it and that was working pretty well.

[1] https://github.com/crazy-max/docker-matomo

ldonley··on YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M
I don't know if starting a rice farm is a feasible way to pay off student loans or mortgages for most people.
ldonley··on Registered domain one day, got 23 calls from marketers the next
I had this recently happen as well. I always go through namecheap and use their (now free) privacy offering, yet from one of my domains (a .digital) I received lots of spam calls from Indian dev shops offering their services. Thankfully it only lasted a few days.
ldonley··on Creating a simple bastion host with Ansible
Hey, I created this simple project/guide for a use case I had. I figured it would be a good opportunity to demonstrate a basic infrastructure-as-code project that others might also find helpful.

My use case was to create a bastion host, or an environment on the edge of my homelab, which is the only ingress point from the outside web.

ldonley··on Ask HN: Advice for someone struggling to learn Django
It might be worthwhile to use a library like Flask which has less batteries included. This will force you to figure out which pieces of the puzzle you are missing and will (hopefully) allow you to learn a lot through exploration.

Once you understand what everything is doing, going back to Django, you should understand what all of the components are doing.

Django & Flask are not exactly one-to-one with the way they handle a lot of things, but I think it would still be a useful exercise.

ldonley··on Amazon Echo Spot
Maybe I'm just wearing a foil-helmet, but the presence of a front-facing camera on an always-on device is concerning to me when there is no real good reason to have it.
ldonley··on Stagit – A static Git page generator
It looks like this is the GitHub for the project: https://github.com/oxalorg/stagit
ldonley··on 1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
I'd just go on Amazon and find some cheapo phone like the BLU R1 HD. Just find one that is compatible with your provider.
ldonley··on Free resources for learning full-stack web development
Maybe I am biased, but I agree with the other user on here that Ansible is a good solution for keeping the environments the same.

However, if you're feeling brave, you should definitely check out OpenShift (community version at http://openshift.org). OpenShift is basically Kubernetes with a bunch of cool stuff added, one especially useful feature is source-to-image.

It pulls your code from a scm repo and finds a builder image (or you can choose one) and it will build the docker image for you. You can have it pull whenever there is new code and rebuild the image and deploy if you want.

On top of that you get lots of cool docker orchestration features.

ldonley··on Speed Reading is Bullshit
I'll check them out, thanks!
ldonley··on Speed Reading is Bullshit
Do you have any book recommendations for these techniques? I tried the "memory palace" or the method of loci and had a small degree of success, but never found it practical. I'd love to give it another go though.
ldonley··on Graphviz in the browser
Is this somehow relevant to the topic or are you just blindly advertising your shirts?

I like the robot one, but I don't believe that these in any way contribute to the post.

ldonley··on The going rate for self-driving talent is $10M per person
Where do I sign up?
ldonley··on July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa
This is tangential to your point about remaining on this planet, but it is much easier to survive on our planet, polluted or not, than it is to setup shop on a different planet.

I am fully in agreement with your view on how messed up things are on our planet due to human action. I just felt compelled to point out that any adjustments to be made on other planets can be done here. Can't breath on mars? Build a dome and generate air into it. The same thing could be done on Earth if the situation was bad enough. Can't survive on the surface of Venus due to hot and thick atmosphere? Live floating in the clouds. We could do the same on Earth.

The process of getting to another planet is so infeasible at this point and probably will be for a long time yet. We can hope, but I like to play devil's advocate. Also, Human's are very good at adapting and I'm sure the will to survive will keep our species alive even if pollution degrades our environment to the point of toxicity.

ldonley··on ASCII Art Weather
I was thinking the same thing. If those were made in ASCII as well it would've been delightful.
ldonley··on Why you hate Comic Sans
This is too true. Best is when the opinions on these are formed with no previous experience with it. I have to use Perl at work and whenever someone finds out they say "I'm sorry that you have to use that terrible language!" Sure, I would prefer to use Python, but Perl has some useful features that other languages don't do as well which is why I use it. Conveniently, nobody who comments to me about Perl has ever actually used it. Same with when I have used Java in the past.
ldonley··on Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
Based on the video from Jamie, I would say yes, it is probably a fake. But that's just my thought.
ldonley··on Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
If anyone is interested in some more drone chainsaw action, they should check out when Jamie from Mythbusters attempted to make one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fe9IDx3vCs

He was unable to get it to work effectively or safely, though his drone was not as heavy-duty as the one from this thread.

ldonley··on Meteor Galaxy, a cloud platform for Meteor applications
You missed out on calling this meteor belt.
ldonley··on Ask HN: What job perks appeal to you?
Laissez-faire approach to management. Being micromanaged causes too many distractions which leads to decreased productivity.
ldonley··on Mysterious disease that kills patients within 24 hours leaves 18 dead in Nigeria
How can they identify weight loss as a symptom if they die within 24 hours of becoming ill?
ldonley··on Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Extend the Age of Oil
It's sad isn't it? The Islamic world was the pinnacle of scientific discover for the past millennium.
ldonley··on Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
This book is very interesting. It is taking me eons to read because of its density, but it is well worth it.
ldonley··on Code Keyboards
I'd be willing to bet you haven't looked very hard. Sure the Apple keyboards look nice but the feel and responsiveness of the keys are far from the best.
ldonley··on Ask HN: Prove me wrong: email ain't dying
Serious question: are you joking or is this a serious comment? I can't imagine a company deciding that moving to pinterest or snapchat would be a more efficient method of communication.
ldonley··on Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimited Cloud Drive Storage
No, this is pretty typical in terms and conditions for cloud storage providers.
ldonley··on Basic income: the water room analogy
I agree with your argument. Basic income will never work in our society if we are giving it out in the form of spendable money. Basic income in the form of a free amount of utilities provided by the government such as X amount of water and electricity every month I think could work in our capitalist society. Even 'universal' healthcare falls prey to the same flaws as the $1000/month since the quality of the free healthcare will be reduced and the wait times will increase. The best doctors will continue to have private practices that will charge rates that only the richest can afford. As long as capitalism is an integral part of our society, I do not foresee basic income being a good solution to any of our social issues.
ldonley··on How many people read HN?
I imagine a lot of people don't register an account until they feel the need to comment on something. I had browsed HN for a long time before I decided to register and the only reason I did register was so I could reply to someones comment. This is of course anecdotal but its easy to imagine the same case for many people.
ldonley··on Ask HN: Best Linux ultrabook?
I suppose its a good deal if you're willing to clean install.
ldonley··on Show HN: Fakespot – identify fake reviews Amazon
How do you know that the "fake reviews" that you have in the database to compare to are actually faked?
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