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xelfer

1,443 karma · joined July 18, 2008

MLOps/Cloud Engineer. Wollongong, Australia.

nick @ triso.me

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xelfer··on Why you don't steal from a hacker.
A single terminal session counts as a user, probably has a few open, plus the system login etc.
xelfer··on Why "Coupon Code" Should Not be a Field on Your Payment Form
I've tried one from retailmenot in the past week or so which failed, but I think you're right, it's bugmenot that rarely works.
xelfer··on Why "Coupon Code" Should Not be a Field on Your Payment Form
Has anyone ever had a code from here work? I can't think of a single instance where I've had one accepted.
xelfer··on App.net
I managed to upload all my screenshots, seems to be working, thank you! the site looks great.
xelfer··on App.net
Did that! looks much better now, thanks!

When trying to upload a second screenshot I'm getting this (google chrome): http://i.imgur.com/Agk8l.png (after a refresh it seems to be working properly.. odd bug)

xelfer··on App.net
Great site, well done! I found a few problems with your templates you may want to look at (especailly with a longer app name):

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

http://i.imgur.com/DgnnK.png (I had to highlight the text to see it)

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

xelfer··on Persona - A concept email client
I'm guessing it was filmed with a Digital SLR with a high aperture lens, something like a 50mm 1.4 or 1.8 (doesn't look shallow enough for a 1.2).
xelfer··on Google+ Notifications Chrome Extension
Love it, could you make middle/shift click or some other way to bring up the + homepage in a new tab?
xelfer··on 20 minutes with my Chromebook
Default Windows 7 install here and I hear a ding noise every time I change the volume.
xelfer··on TrueCrypt User Held in Contempt of Court
Oh, my bad then. I guess I should look at my volumes closer. :)
xelfer··on TrueCrypt User Held in Contempt of Court
Truecrypt can have hidden volumes, the truecrypt file may be split into 1.5gb / 0.5gb. The truecrypt file reports 2GB, but different passwords mount different the different sized volumes, hence putting in the 512MB password will mount a 512MB volume of a 2GB file.
xelfer··on Exposed: Facebook’s Secret iPhone Photo Sharing App (Which Looks Amazing)
They recently added the high quality upload option, I'm guessing most people just want the faster upload and use the compressed versions.
xelfer··on Ask HN: Ads in apps, what can I do better?
Thanks, I'll give it a try. mobclix does have the admob support but I've never looked into setting it up.
xelfer··on Ask HN: Ads in apps, what can I do better?
Contractually I'm not allowed to sell my app, that's why I'm using ads. I was thinking of adding an in-app purchase of 'ad removal', that seems to fall our of the 'selling the application' condition.
xelfer··on Guy Asks For Software Crack, Creator Provides Free App Instead
Have your sales increased due to it?
xelfer··on Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
reddit, somethingawful
xelfer··on Time-saving tips for Linux
The 'learn bash, it's available everywhere' really bit me when I moved from being a Linux Sysadmin to an AIX Sysadmin. Only ksh is available in this case. It took quite a few months to get used to.
xelfer··on Show HN: "Never wait on hold again" service built with Rails and Twilio
Internode in Australia also do it, however they don't offer it to the caller until you've been on hold for 8 minutes. An option at the start of the call would be much better.
xelfer··on Random Startup Generator
A polar panorama? http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/create-your-own-panor...
xelfer··on FreeBSD now supports the Playstation 3
Which part of transcoding is being a pain in the ass? I find fuppes ( http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de/ ) to be working perfectly. If you're trying to transcode high def mkv/ts/etc, I agree.
xelfer··on Diaspora Developer Release
They really need to do something about that name. They seem to be having trouble with it themselves: http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/commit/708e9f88a55cc3713...
xelfer··on Executive Leaves Apple After iPhone Antenna Troubles
What is the significant financial impact? Have apple reported any? The phone has been out in Australia for 2 weeks and is still constantly sold out at every single phone store, with no signal problems reported at all on our cellular networks.

http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/?tag=I4Stock shows how much this thing is still selling.

xelfer··on This was a triumph.
Contributors can view the list of contributors who have specified their username on the paypal checkout form (it's probably not public) at http://www.reddit.com/r/lounge/about/contributors - it's currently at 5715 donators. No word on amounts yet though, a few people are doing surveys in the subreddit.
xelfer··on This was a triumph.
There is a 'lounge' subreddit that only donators can get into. I don't think they should treat people differently on the main part of reddit, it'll cause too many issues/arguments.
xelfer··on This was a triumph.
I found a tiny amount of USD in my paypal account left over from something (I'm not from the US) so I donated $5.
xelfer··on Ask HN: Is this true?
I'm a Linux Syadmin. I build large student computer laboratories, build, configure, and maintain servers, with bits of desktop support thrown in there. I'm not a strong programmer. Sure, I've made a few iPhone applications and do a little bit of bash scripting, but I don't have the time in my job to maintain the skills that an excellent programmer would have. When I've spent a few weeks programming I get better, but when we don't have time to maintain that skill, I can lose it pretty quickly.

I've worked with some amazing python programmers and without using it day in and out there's no way I could have the in depth knowledge of all the python libraries like they do, so compared to them I'm pretty useless.

xelfer··on Interesting pricing experiment ($0.99 iPhone app changed to $350.00)
Wouldn't it appear as $299.00 in the app store though?
xelfer··on [dead]
What do you want to do with it? I'm mostly a PC gamer and use my PS3 for streaming media from my PC to my TV, as well as watching blurays and play the occasional game. Both could fulfill this job, so I guess it could come down to which of the exclusive titles you want to play.
xelfer··on NBC's broken Olympic coverage
This is pretty much the exact problem we're having here in Australia. We get 3 hours of coverage a day at 9am, which is summarised further and shown at 9.30pm. They only show us events that Australians appear in and barely show the rest. I think they showed about 5 minutes total of that USA vs CA hockey match in our prime time.

We have a 'pay tv' network which has 4 channels dedicated to Olympic coverage, and it costs $65 extra for the privilege.

xelfer··on Avatar still only #26 when box office receipts are adjusted for inflation
In Australia we have to pay an extra $1 for the glasses (which you can keep or recycle).
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