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pavelevst··on Slack stores browser cookies without user consent
Completely agree. So annoying especially when it take half of mobile device screen

I think with tracking protection in modern browsers it should be absolutely fine to allow websites to store data in any possible way (cookies, local storage, websql etc)

pavelevst··on ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable
Only windows :(
pavelevst··on Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Rook Graduation
If cluster experience problems to run rook pods, then other pods that uses volumes will fail too. And it may cause situation where everything fails with timeout errors...

Nothing against rook, but the idea to run k8s storage in k8s is fragile

pavelevst··on Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up
It could be that tracker was noticed and sent to landfill, not the item
pavelevst··on Nano 5.0
Thanks to nano team for great work. It’s my favorite terminal editor for last 10 years. Too bad many systems has vi as default editor

Most liked features: kut lines, page up/down, easy search, syntax highlighting, editing long lines

pavelevst··on A Surprise AWS Bill
Good reminder to everyone including myself to use services that have budget alerts or spike protection. And to stay away from aws, even 23$ for static website hosting is a bit too much in 2020. At fairly priced hosting without fancy name, 30tb traffic can cost <10$
pavelevst··on WebTorrent Desktop 0.23
Watch/listen while downloading
pavelevst··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
Java, FortiClient
pavelevst··on Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?
AWS is one of most expensive hosting solution, I assume many of us somehow start to think that it’s a best one, in my opinion they all kinda same. Moving to other place will require effort but can let you reduce cost to 10-20% of current one. Some easy things that you can do with aws is to resize VMs, it will require to turn it off for a minute or so. Also can change to cheaper tire, eg t2 -> t3. Also can change VMs from ec2 to lifhtsail
pavelevst··on Ask HN: What PostgreSQL client do you use?
https://github.com/Paxa/postbird
pavelevst··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
UI for GRPC, similar to openapi, built from reflection information
pavelevst··on Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
AWS is one of most expensive options, and far not perfect, I can’t understand why people consider it as default choice... To compare - dedicated server on hetzner (core i7, 32gb ram, 20tb network) is cheaper than medium VM on AWS. If the product is growing, cloud cost can quickly become the biggest expense for company. Than it will make sense to spend some time make things run in more cost effective way

I think if you choose cloud hosting that costs about same as renting dedicated server plus settings virtualization by yourself - than it’s a fair choice (can check on https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/ or similar)

Another sweet configuration is dedicated servers with kubernetes: good user experience for developers, easy to setup and maintain, easy to scale up/down

pavelevst··on Show HN: A simple storage pricing calculator for AWS
Would be nice to see other cloud providers for comparison
pavelevst··on Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?
The food that we eat can make us lazy. Try to change and see if there is any difference. For me it’s fried, sweet and bread (as far as I discovered)
pavelevst··on Message DB: Event Store and Message Store for PostgreSQL
If add retentions with automatic backup to bigquery or cloud storage we'll get infinity messaging with very reasonable resource usage
pavelevst··on AMD is dominating Intel in Amazon's best-selling CPUs list
Hetzner also have some well priced offers with AMD cpus
pavelevst··on Stripe CLI
I’ve build something similar for our company about 4 years ago (also payment gateway) but made it as general free tool to test webhooks via ws https://waithook.com
pavelevst··on A CS degree is better than teaching yourself how to code?
IMO if need just get a job then having degree should help. If you enjoy building stuff and have curiosity then it will be more fun to learn it by yourself. Learning a language and basic concepts can take just few months, but that is just a beginning of an endless journey. The skill of learning by yourself is probably most important for engineers because there are always new things to learn, and every job will require you to learn something new. Keep in mind there are many other things that we can learn https://medium.com/our-team/the-tale-of-the-two-lumberjacks-... Knowledge should be like a lake, wide and deeper in a middle
pavelevst··on TextMate 2.0
Congratulations Textmate team, and thanks for hard work.

I still find textmate the best for my needs:

1. Nice search interface (sorry sublime) 2. Fast and memory efficient 3. Best autocomplete 5. Multi line editing.

But few things could be better: editor tabs not contrast, slow when editing files with very long lines, feature to see memory usage per project

pavelevst··on Ask HN: What do you do on an Android phone that cannot be done on an iPhone?
iExplorer (even trial version) gives almost same experience
pavelevst··on Ask HN: Do you use automated tools to create APIs, or do you code them manually?
I write API code manually and use testing tool that also generates openapi file and save it in git. This makes API docs always up-to-date and history of changes in actual API via git. (stack: rails, rspec and some gem for openapi)
pavelevst··on Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
Did you consider to create testing app to simulate customer experience? I can be a single html+js file in a git, for each major feature
pavelevst··on Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
I really dislike when companies don't put pricing on their website. 1. I need to spend hours or days just to understand if I should consider it or walk away 2. Feels like they may give different price to different customers and we have to negotiate price like on asian market 3. If price is kept in secret who know what else is hidden from us
pavelevst··on Software pirates use Apple tech to put hacked apps on iPhones
Whats the name of that service?
pavelevst··on TRIZ, a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool
There is nice online course in russian to learn TRIZ: https://universarium.org/course/734 https://universarium.org/course/481
pavelevst··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
Midtrans | Jakarta or Bali, Indonesia | Onsite, Full-Time, Visa | Senior Software Engineer

Midtrans is a leading payment gateway in Indonesia. Domestic e-commerce market growing rapidly over last several years, and we are confidently catching this wave, making hard things easy and watering online shops to grow. Also making our competitors to copy our products. With a constant growth we are constantly looking for engineers

https://midtrans.com/careers

pavelevst··on Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?
Probably you should keep your current laptop as long as it makes you happy or consider some high spec retina mpb 15”. Recent models with touchbars don’t have big performance improvement compared to previous generation (can search for benchmarks). For non-apple alternatives, there is a big chance to end up with tick square price of plastic (that shows square, plastic-looking windows), more elegant models with such specs will cost you more then 2k...

I would recommend you to look at iMac’s. IMO it’s a very good choice for software development and design tasks. I’m using iMac 27” ‘11 at work and it has same performance as latest mpb 13” (mid spec). You can choose old version with upgradable ram or new one with cool screen and slimmer body (non-upgradable ram)

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