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misframeron Amazon Prime’s latest perk is a new Rewards Visa Card with 5% back

Yep. My Amazon account reflects the new benefits already.

misframeron Amazon Prime’s latest perk is a new Rewards Visa Card with 5% back

If you already have an Amazon Rewards Visa Card and are a Prime member, you're automatically upgraded to this card.

misframeron Ask HN: Should I blog on Medium for my open-source project, or self-host?

I think you can copy and paste code and it keeps the double quotes intact.

misframeron Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, interesting problems?

How do you define "hard" and "interesting?"

misframeron Crytek to receive $500M investment from the Turkey Government

That doesn't work for me either.

misframeron Ask HN: How do you deal with interruptions in the workplace?

I put on headphones, only check email a few times a day, and set my status to "busy" or "do not disturb" on chat.

misframeron Ask HN: How much do you sleep?

I get about 6.5 hours of sleep every night on weekdays. Closer to 8 on weekends.

I graduated from college a year ago and I used to get around 6 hours of sleep daily with a 20 minute nap.

I'm 23, by the way.

misframeron Ask HN: How do you monitor MySQL queries?

Shameless plug: I work at VividCortex[0] and we're building a database monitoring SaaS. Someone else wrote "nothing beats the slow query log though for monitoring for problem queries" ... give our tool a shot and see how it compares :).

[0] https://www.vividcortex.com/

misframeron Hello admins of EU AWS systems – DNS outage in eu-west-1

It's in the documentation [0].

    An Availability Zone is represented by a region code followed by a letter identifier;
    for example, us-east-1a. To ensure that resources are distributed across the Availability
    Zones for a region, we independently map Availability Zones to identifiers for each
    account. For example, your Availability Zone us-east-1a might not be the same location
    as us-east-1a for another account. There's no way for you to coordinate Availability
    Zones between accounts.

[0] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-reg...

misframeron Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

It looks like OVH doesn't charge hourly for those.

misframeron Humble Book Bundle: Unix

They say "name your price of $1 or more."

misframeron British NHS DDOS attacks itself via email sent to 1.2M staff

Reminds me of the "Bedlam DL3" story from Microsoft [0].

[0] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2004/04/08/me-t...

misframeron Network Update: Multihomed, Increased Transit, Peering

> It seems like a few strategic strikes could deal a devastating blow to our edge infrastructure.

Imagine a large meteorite impact :).

misframeron Network Update: Multihomed, Increased Transit, Peering

> On the other hand, maybe it shouldn't matter, and you should always act like the network is compromised.

What about cases like AWS's VPCs?

misframeron Ask HN: How is your time spent as a DBA / ops?

Clickable:

[0] http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/498921/eBooks/The_Hidden_Cost_...

[1] https://www.vividcortex.com/hubfs/Blog/Data_Operations_Infog...

[2] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeagAsxJ8lMPMr9OHUX...

misframeron Bedrock – Rock-solid distributed data

How do you monitor a database / system like this?

misframeron Bedrock – Rock-solid distributed data

Here's Expensify's CEO (David Barrett) posting on the p2p-hackers mailing list about this. It's from April 2016.

http://p2p-hackers.709552.n3.nabble.com/p2p-hackers-Advice-o...

misframeron Ask HN: Who do you bank with?

Same here. I've been using Simple less and Ally more. It's nice to have a checking and a savings account at the same bank (instant transfers). Check books are also convenient.

misframeron Show HN: SummitDB – In-Memory NoSQL DB

There are several key-value stores you can choose from. RocksDB, LevelDB, lmdb, Berkeley DB, Tokyo Cabinet, sophia, and others. What about those? You can always build abstractions on top.

misframeron Ask HN: When are you considered a “senior” programmer?

I really liked this comment by @stray [0] from a similar Ask HN from a few months ago. That thread was titled "Ask HN: What makes a Senior Dev".

    Mistakes, rewrites, late nights, firefights, and deadlines.
    Core dumps, memory leaks, hardware faults, and plain bad luck.
    Big O, data flow, always learning -- or out you go.
    Manager metrics, schedules hectic, methodology hegelian dialectic.
    Taking the heat, feature creep, open office, uncomfortable seat.
    Holy wars, revolving doors, carpal tunnel, all you can take? There's always more.
    Fucking suits, random reboots, and the ever present "thousand language stare".
    Oh yeah, pressure -- lots of pressure. And time, time, time.
    Metric shitloads of time.
    Time, man. You gotta do your fucking time.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11341567

misframeron Ask HN: How long is your daily commute?

Around 6 minutes via car each way.

misframeron OpenBSD 6.0 released

Doesn't DigitalOcean use KVM?

misframeron Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a sandbox or API?

They have a $500/mo minimum, last I asked (a few months ago.)

misframeron Practical File System Design: The Be File System (1999) [pdf]

Yep. According to Adam Leventhal, he was the lead engineer of APFS at Apple [0].

[0] http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/19/apfs-part1/

misframeron Soylent Bar Has Arrived

Where are you seeing the bottles on Amazon for $28? I see the same price as Soylent.com ($34.00 without a subscription).