sathyabhat

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Author: Practical Docker With Python (first & second editions) and co-author, The CDK Book.

Practical Docker with Python => https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7815-4

The CDK Book => https://www.thecdkbook.com

Work: Staff SRE.

Drop an email to chat hn@sathyasays.com

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sathyabhaton A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES

It's 62,000 free only if the emails are being sent from an EC2 instance, else it is $0.10 for every 1,000 emails you send.

sathyabhaton Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10

You're talking about pre-release software.

sathyabhaton Show HN: Quicktions – Answers to your quick questions

Interesting idea. I'm reminded of Aardvark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark_%28search_engine%29). That was a fun service before it was shuttered. What is this built on? Seems pretty lightweight.

Best wishes.

sathyabhaton Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

I use Networx( http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/manual/?lang=Eng...) , they have SNMP & UPnP for monitoring routers. No idea how they actually do it, I'm afraid.

sathyabhaton Awesome Sysadmin: Open-source sysadmin resources

No, no that's not like Super User - as parent mentions, "What is the best tool for ..." is offtopic for Super User too.

sathyabhaton Introducing Swift

that site's not related to Apple's Swift language

sathyabhaton Ledger, a powerful CLI accounting tool

YNAB should fit your needs well - I know it does for me. Using YNAB after trying(and failing, mainly because it doesn't support my currency/location)Mint.

https://www.youneedabudget.com/

sathyabhaton “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

Instamojo is one option; Flipkart have launched their own payment gateway as well - Payzippy ( https://www.payzippy.com )

sathyabhaton Bank of America Bot Cares About You

Yep, cotweet was the first app that I saw which seemed to adopt that style

sathyabhaton Bank of America Bot Cares About You

Generally, it's the initials of the Support rep who's replying to the tweet.

sathyabhaton Deconstruction of Pinkie Pie's 64-bit Chrome exploit

Chrome for Linux's been having 64-bit builds for a while now.

sathyabhaton What’s Up With Whatsapp? Facebook Might Want To Buy It, That’s What

I think it's cross-platform support plus the fact that you didn't have to sign up to create yet another account id that led to it's success. You install the app, run it and bam! Whoever's already using it is ready to talk, without having to invite/add and such stuff

sathyabhaton Steam for Linux Beta

Steam's community domain has been what you'd mentioned since quite some time. No need to be hesitant.

sathyabhaton Webcast: Windows 8 Launch (Live)

Not any more, they've gotten rid of that ( since M23, IIRC)

sathyabhaton AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents

so spend a few minutes posting an answer which is not so bad?

sathyabhaton Twitter-Owned Posterous Loses Databases, Offline for 2 Hours Plus

Your site's down, Justin.

    Connection to 173.245.61.33 Failed The system returned: Connection timed out

sathyabhaton Facebook Blames Email Problems On User "Confusion"

Wow, I didn't even know that there was an "other" folder there.

sathyabhaton Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed?

Well, not entirely. Reverting the CW restores the rep, subject to daily rep limit. The answer's been given 3 separate bounties (100, 100,50) which are not affected by CW.

sathyabhaton Diablo III coming May 15

That's been around since Blizzcon 2011.

sathyabhaton Microsoft Store hacked in India, passwords stored in plain text

Previous submission. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3582393

sathyabhaton Hackers exploit Microsoft online store

Posted about it last night - not much activity though. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3582393

sathyabhaton Show HN: Move photos b/w Flickr, Facebook and G+ by drag n drop

Thanks. Another thing: Clicking on "Like" on facebook shows "You've liked Index of /"

heh.

http://i.imgur.com/uKfNc.png

sathyabhaton Show HN: Move photos b/w Flickr, Facebook and G+ by drag n drop

No big deal. Just click on the ad if you wish to!

I don't think this is a wise line to have, IIRC it is a violation of Adsense ToS to ask people to click on ads.

sathyabhaton Microsoft, Apple, and Google: where does the money come from?

Presumably Xbox Live

sathyabhaton Amazon launches as Junglee in India

Hardly. As of now it's more of a marketplace listing, like eBay India.

sathyabhaton Juvia: Free software Disqus comment server

The test page http://juvia-demo.phusion.nl/admin/sites/1/test is giving a 404

sathyabhaton Markdown Editor

Is that link to AttackLab correct? It seems to take me to a shady spamblog. http://i.imgur.com/13tap.png

sathyabhaton Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

There are some existing recipes, however - you as a user aren't restricted by those recipes. You're free to create any recipe with almost any API supported by IFTTT as long as there are valid trigger points.

sathyabhaton Windows Phone 7 in the browser

Doesn't work under Firefox 8.0 though. Says browser's unsupported.

sathyabhaton New Arrested Development will appear exclusively on Netflix Streaming

bring Netflix in all over the world and then we'll talk about that.

Till they keep screwing people outside of US, I'll head over to the torrents.