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nicksantamariaon My unorthodox, branchless Git workflow

    No time spent creating new branches for new features.
    No time spent switching between branches to address feedback.

I'm sorry but these are non-issues with git. The approach you've outlined makes collaboration on features impossible. Cherry-picking and rebasing does not scale for either teams, or lots of parallel workstreams.

nicksantamariaon Tell HN: $13K Sales for “The Good Parts of AWS” on Launch Day

The Good Parts

...

CloudFormation

Really? I mean, I get you want to recommend an infrastructure as code tool, but I really wouldn't consider it in the category of "[features] which you almost never need to consider alternatives."

nicksantamariaon We Can’t See ‘Star Wars’ Anymore

Despite George and Disney's best efforts, a scrappy team of rebels have pieced together a glorious 4K version scanned from original 35mm prints.

https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/

nicksantamariaon Boeing to Suspend 737 Max Production in January

The screams during turbulence are one of my highlights when flying. Doesn't happen very often these days unfortunately... 20 years ago flying used to be like going on a theme park ride.

nicksantamariaon Tracking Electric Scooters in Lisbon

I haven't done this myself, but I assume you would install the certificate mitmproxy uses on your phone. That would result in a successful handshake

nicksantamariaon The rise of solar is ‘jeopardising the grid’ and it's a lesson for Australia

The purpose of the battery isn’t to power the entire state for 15 minutes.

It can respond to market demand within milliseconds, and after coming online was responsible for dropping the average wholesale price of electricity by 90%.

nicksantamariaon My own private Iceland

> Eight years ago Japanese tourism was near 100% domestic.

Nope, calling bull on this. Not by a long shot. Japan has been a major international tourist destination, particularly in the winter for at least 20 years.

nicksantamariaon Scott’s Cheap Flights no longer sending deals outside of the USA

Thanks for the thoughtful response Scott. All the best for this next phase :)

nicksantamariaon Ask HN: What chance is there of a TLD raising prices significantly?

I asked donuts (gTLD owner of .family) whether my domain renewal could be reduced (from $385 per year to something more reasonable for a genealogy hobby). This was their response.

Maybe it’s not worth reading too much into the “we can’t change the renewal cost” line.

—-

Hi Nick,

Unfortunately, we can't change the renewal cost for santamaria.family

If we ever start to change renewals, I will be sure to reach out to help.

Sorry about that.

[redacted]

Domain Consultant, Donuts Inc.

nicksantamariaon Airbnb Announces Intention to Become a Publicly-Traded Company During 2020

At least now there’s a bond yield inversion to give the prediction some substance.

nicksantamariaon Firms 'blacklisting' Australia over encryption laws, government contractor says

Spot-on analysis unfortunately.

nicksantamariaon Renault's driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen

I have a late model VW Tiguan and it has a great design with physical controls + large capacitive touch screen.

No critical driving functions are controlled by the touch screen.

I think this is a very usable approach.

nicksantamariaon Moa fossil footprints found in New Zealand river

These birds were huge. There’s a statue of one in Queenstown - worth a look if you are there. https://www.google.com/search?q=moa+queenstown&rlz=1CDGOYI_e...

nicksantamariaon Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon

90% of our population lives within 100km of the coast between Melbourne and Cairns.

However agricultural usage extends far inland in the temperate regions and there has been a lot of opposition to mining activities in our “wheat belts”.

nicksantamariaon Show HN: Tugboat – A fully working website for every pull request

Yep there are lots.

- gitlab review apps https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/review_apps/

- probo ci - https://probo.ci/

- m8s - https://github.com/previousnext/m8s

I think Lagoon has this capability too, but haven’t used it personally.

I’m forgetting a bunch too.

nicksantamariaon Is ‘culture fit’ merely a code word for unethical discrimination?

In my experience on the hiring side of the equation, recruiters often _demand_ a reason why an applicant was rejected. I'd prefer to diplomatically say they were a poor culture fit rather than explain that they were conceited, had poor english skills, or seemed high maintenance.

nicksantamariaon “Drupalgeddon2” touches off arms race to mass-exploit powerful web servers

The fact that php.module ever existed in the codebase is a downright travesty. As soon as any privileged user was compromised (i.e. someone with "administer users" or "administer site configuration" permissions) the attacker had arbitrary remote code execution.

My projects had a patch to remove that entire module from core on each build.

nicksantamariaon AWS Blockchain Templates

Run your distributed, trustless ledger inside a private network!

nicksantamariaon Looking at how many sites use vulnerable JavaScript libraries

This sounds interesting - can you explain further?

nicksantamariaon Pumped hydro could make Australia run on renewables alone within 20 years

The sad reality is that our government thinks only in timespans less than an election cycle. Any large-scale national infrastructure project is basically a non-starter now, the Liberals trashed the NBN and they will trash anything else that threatens their neo-conservative ideology.