Hacker News: katabatic

New comment by katabatic in "Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)"

katabatic — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 21:16:07 +0000

1) Most software gets its timestamps from the system clock 2) If you have a mismatch between the system time and the application time, then you just have log timestamps that don't match up; it's a nightmare - even more so around DST/ST transitions

New comment by katabatic in "Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)"

katabatic — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 21:14:00 +0000

Common, but not universal - from 2005 to as late as 2014 I worked for companies that used Pacific time on their servers.

New comment by katabatic in "Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games"

katabatic — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 23:57:53 +0000

StageCraft WAS Unreal Engine; it is not anymore.

New comment by katabatic in "Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th"

katabatic — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 17:38:52 +0000

Deaths are currently at around 2,000 PER DAY in the United States. That is not in any way, shape, or form "extremely lower" than earlier waves. The Omicron wave was equal to the initial wave in severity, and we're still not out of it.

New comment by katabatic in "Black 3.0 – The blackest black acrylic paint"

katabatic — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:39:34 +0000

Dragging Anish Kapoor never, ever gets old.

New comment by katabatic in "Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus"

katabatic — Wed, 19 May 2021 20:48:47 +0000

That's nearly 1% of the population of San Francisco. It's already shockingly high.

New comment by katabatic in "Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology on its platforms"

katabatic — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 22:52:27 +0000

Oh, the irony of publishing this on Medium.

New comment by katabatic in "No Radical Changes in GNU Project"

katabatic — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 03:36:53 +0000

2016 IS very recently. Three years ago does not count as "many years ago". Richard Stallman is 66 years old. To have only realized that pedophilia is bad at age 63, only when other people had to convince him..welp.

New comment by katabatic in "Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law"

katabatic — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:00:01 +0000

How is that different than, well -- anything? In the United States all 50 states can make their own laws; it's a fundamental part of our legal system.

As for every country making their own laws - well, yeah? That's what sovereignty is all about?

New comment by katabatic in "Go Creeping In"

katabatic — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:36:10 +0000

> There's a big difference between standard styling and optional styling.

THIS.

This is not stated enough in the value of gofmt - it's the standard formatting style for everything. I've worked in Java and C++ for a couple of decades, and while every team has had its own style guidelines, and occasionally tools to enforce them, even different teams in the same organization would have difficulty understanding each other's code.

The value of gofmt is that it's the only formatting standard, thus I never have to learn a new formatting style when reading the code for an open-source library, or coming in to a new job. It's exactly the same as what I've been reading for the last 3 1/2 years of working in Go.

New comment by katabatic in "SEC Asks Manhattan Federal Court to Hold Elon Musk in Contempt"

katabatic — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:10:28 +0000

This is true for every employee of every public company on the planet. We're discussing it here because Mr. Musk thinks the rules don't apply to him.

New comment by katabatic in "Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps"

katabatic — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:01:37 +0000

Paying a random consumer $20 does not make them a contractor. Do you think they all got 1099s?

New comment by katabatic in "Show HN: ColorMe"

katabatic — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:26:38 +0000

Very cool. One minor usability suggestion - it would be fantastic if the adjusters didn't reset when the base color changes.

Show HN: Go-metrics-charts – realtime charting of live go-metrics metrics data

katabatic — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 04:44:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/aalpern/go-metrics-charts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13282580

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by katabatic in "Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released"

katabatic — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:50:01 +0000

Go code compiles to compact, statically linked binaries with relatively compact memory usage and reasonably good concurrency support, and an excellent standard library for handling networking - it's a natural fit for monitoring stacks. Even some monitoring systems that aren't Go on the back-end have Go-based collectors.

New comment by katabatic in "Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released"

katabatic — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:36:35 +0000

Datadog will cost you $165,600 a year for 600 hosts. That is objectively equal to a very well paid engineer. So no, the statement is not untrue.

(I picked 600 because that was the approximate number of machines we had at my last job, where we used Graphite maintained by one guy, part time).

You included a LOT of redundancy in your OSS list. Multiple timeseries databases. Multiple collection daemons. Multiple dashboards. Multiple alerting systems (Who in their right mind would use Nagios AND Icinga?). You're effectively arguing about maintaining multiple monitoring stacks, some of which are quited aged.

Show HN: Data visualization of Adobe Lightroom photo catalogs

katabatic — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 01:41:30 +0000

Article URL: http://monster.partyhat.co/article/lightroom-catalog-visualization/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378959

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by katabatic in "Smartcrop.js – content-aware image cropping in JavaScript"

katabatic — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 19:35:04 +0000

Indeed - I'm working on integrating this into the static site generator I use, so it's only run offline.

New comment by katabatic in "Deploying ECMAScript 6"

katabatic — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:53:05 +0000

Yes, however some features in TypeScript are only supported when targeting ES6 (such as "const"), so there's still some value in double-transpiling from TypeScript -> ES6 -> ES5 (I'm doing that on a couple of projects).

That may have changed somewhat in the TS 1.5 alpha - they're supporting more features on the ES5 target than they did in 1.4.

But yes, you still can't use ES6 features that TS doesn't know about.

New comment by katabatic in "First successful beam at record energy of 6.5 TeV"

katabatic — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 07:53:12 +0000

Thank goodness 60mph+ baseballs don't annihilate matter when they impact baseball bats!