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mwjon Operation London Bridge: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death

I'm no monarchist, but how exactly do you think an alternative head of state will be different from the current royal family?

Effectively they are all ceremonial titles, who host other heads of state during grandiose state visits, do a bit of charity work and have the theoretical power to dismiss the government. At least the monarchy brings in a bit of tourist coin along the way

mwjon I was forcibly deported from the UK like a terrorist, restrained and under guard

It's not really a textbook case though is it? She's not some student over here to study "English" at some dodgy language course while working in a bar. She's married 20 odd years with British born children...

mwjon StrongSwan – IPsec VPN for Linux, Android, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Windows

What are you using for 2fa?

mwjon How Did Michelin Become the World’s Authority on Restaurants?

How would you pronounce those names?

mwjon Compose Is Joining IBM

Self hosting on AWS. The new MMS makes it pretty painless... clustering, backups, alerting etc, better IOPS and about a third of the price of compose.

mwjon Compose Is Joining IBM

We have also found their support and general attitude towards us (as a long term customer) getting worse recently, so much so that we are migrating off their platform.

mwjon InstaParse: Context-Free Grammars as Easy as Regular Expressions

Is there anything like this for python?

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What? I've got 10 CV's sitting on my desk in front of me right now and none of them have photos or any of the things you've mentioned above, except citizenship.

mwjon How I won the housing market without trying

"There's a reason that most people don't want to admit that 2008 was the housing bubble popping and instead insist that homes are "finally returning to their true value"."

It may have burst in the US, but certainly nowhere else

mwjon How I won the housing market without trying

Errr... have you been following the Battersea Power Station development at all?

mwjon America’s elite: An hereditary meritocracy

middle class degree educated white males on HN complaining about a mortgage being slavery...

mwjon µBlock for Firefox

How does this compare/contrast with Privacy Badger?

mwjon The growing irrelevance of MongoDB

What are you talking about? We run a 800+ GB mongo cluster and have never lost data.

mwjon The growing irrelevance of MongoDB

this is a ridiculous comment.

we use a mongodb cluster for a multi-hundred GB document store that powers ~50 various worker instances, 2 sites and an API with sub 100ms response times. we have never lost data or experienced downtime worse than other dbs i've used in the past.

at the end of the day you just need to do your job properly and read the documentation, not blame the tool when you can't use it properly.

*disclaimer - this is not to say postgres isn't awesome.