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New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: Would you really pay for a social network?"

jpetersonmn — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 03:11:53 +0000

I guess it depends on what is considered a "social network". I canceled my facebook a couple years ago and don't have twitter or instagram or anything else like that. I do however belong to some forums (vbulletin type sites) and pay for some extra perks on them. Like being able to post in the classifieds, etc... I notice that since getting off of facebook I started going back to forums that had specific topics. I find that the discussions on there are much friendly an about a specific topic.

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: What your thoughts about the bulletproof coffee?"

jpetersonmn — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 03:06:30 +0000

Haven't heard of this stuff before, but I"m with you. "Brain Octane Oil" :rollseyes:

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: Best monitoring system in 2018?"

jpetersonmn — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 03:04:02 +0000

We use a combination of splunk, solarwinds' server & application monitoring and new relic. We're about to start using prometheus for monitoring some apps that we've moved into containers. We also have several thousand monitors/alerts that are setup in ipmonitor that we're trying to get moved over to sam.

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: I have a job; should I still go on Patreon for free open-source stuff?"

jpetersonmn — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 17:59:43 +0000

Maybe I'm missing something, but why even use Patreon, just ask for donations directly from people. As for the original question though, just because you have a job doesn't mean you shouldn't be rewarded for your open source work as well.

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Python 101"

jpetersonmn — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:56:04 +0000

This is pretty good for beginners.

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

What I found helped me the most was find some real world things that you'd like to accomplish and just start digging in. You'll learn the things you need along the way. I don't usually find tutorials very helpful as they just tell me to type some exact thing and surprise surprise I get the response from the tutorial, that doesn't really teach me much.

Good luck.

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback"

jpetersonmn — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:31:10 +0000

Or Google...

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: What production features have you built using AWS Lambda/Serverless?"

jpetersonmn — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 20:27:37 +0000

I've been using it for lots of things lately. The last thing was to process ebs volumes that get left behind when leostream deletes instances from it's pools. (we need fresh machines all the time, so that's why we delete these instead of re-using) We have it delete the machine from the pool, and the ami is set to not delete the volume. I use a cloudwatch event to detect this, spin up a new ec2 instance, attach the available volume, process some logs from it and then delete the new ec2 instance along with the volume.

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?"

jpetersonmn — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:12:53 +0000

I used to use a combo of python tools. Requests, beautifulsoup mostly. However the last few things I've built used selenium to drive headless chrome browsers. This allows me to run the javascript most sites use these days.

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: Do you use a dash cam?"

jpetersonmn — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:45:56 +0000

I've been thinking about building one of these, looks pretty cool. They want quite a bit to just buy one, I wonder if they'll ever sell just the case.

https://dride.io/

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Show HN: Screen.rip – API for capturing web screenshots"

jpetersonmn — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 18:45:11 +0000

I've tried 7 different pages from our setup and not one of them worked.

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: Best remote desktop app for customer support?"

jpetersonmn — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:09:53 +0000

We use ISL Pronto for connecting to external connections over the internet to users desktops.

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: Best remote desktop app for customer support?"

jpetersonmn — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:08:50 +0000

We use this as well, although I don't think this is what the op is looking for. It sounds like he's looking to be able to connect remotely to a users desktop over the internet, not RDP into a machine on their network/s.

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?"

jpetersonmn — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:54:36 +0000

My most recent thing I did after getting a macbook was write a python script that went through interfacelift.com and downloaded all of the desktop images for my specific screen resolution. They sell them all in a zip for like $40 but it felt better getting them for free.(almost free, took about 30 minutes to write the script)

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: What's been your experience with AWS Lambda?"

jpetersonmn — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:36:48 +0000

I've been using AWS Lambda for a few weeks now. Mostly for trivial things like tagging and infrastructure automation. I like it as it supports python. For what I'm doing I don't need any external libraries so it's pretty slick. No server to maintain, etc...

I'm struggling a bit to find event patterns that work in cloudwatch to trigger my lambda functions though. For instance when a volume becomes "available" I can't find an event pattern that triggers off of that, etc... If anyone has any tips or documentation you can point me to that would be awesome.

New comment by jpetersonmn in "List of Sites Affected by Cloudflare's HTTPS Traffic Leak"

jpetersonmn — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:54:24 +0000

Are you sure about this? Just because they terminate ssl on the proxy doesn't mean the traffic between the proxy and the web service backends was plain HTTP. That's certainly not how we do things.

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: What do you use to monitor your infrastructure and system health?"

jpetersonmn — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:46:44 +0000

Solarwinds Orion Server & Application Monitor, Splunk, Lots of custom stuff using python/selenium/phantomjs to go through end user flows, etc...

New comment by jpetersonmn in "SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure"

jpetersonmn — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:57:14 +0000

How many teslas started on fire? How many of them were not modified by their owners? How many have they sold in total?

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: How do you monitor several servers?"

jpetersonmn — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 15:09:54 +0000

We use several things including custom scripts to monitor and alert when needed. However our main tool is ipMonitor. We monitor hundreds of servers in multiple environments (dev, test, prod) and the thing that I don't like is all the noise that gets created. It makes it hard to find the real important issues. I believe monitoring is great, but any alert should have an actionable items to perform.

New comment by jpetersonmn in "How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about"

jpetersonmn — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:49:03 +0000

There should not be a profit motive involved with incarcerating people. That's just plain immoral.

New comment by jpetersonmn in "Ask HN: Is Dropbox good enough to sync code between computers?"

jpetersonmn — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:20:35 +0000

I mostly write small 1 file python, PowerShell scripts along with some VB.Net utilities. I just save my work in my drop box and I'm able to work on them on any computer. Works pretty good for small projects that you're working on alone. I should figure out git one of these days I suppose.