Hacker News: mavus

New comment by mavus in "Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news"

mavus — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:54:11 +0000

> accents, dialects, and degeneration and creolization. There are just as many accents and dialects of English in the Americas as there are in Britain. Even your term "creolization" comes from Louisiana. It's a matter of perspective and something that all language learners will have the face, the difference between 'standard' English/Spanish/German and regional variations both within it's originating country and from abroad.

New comment by mavus in "Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook"

mavus — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:39:57 +0000

I've only recently started using it but if you're looking for something similar but cross platform and open source I recommend: https://boostnote.io

All the core features you would needs from a notes app for developers. It even has iOS/Android apps.

New comment by mavus in "AWS bastions and assume-role"

mavus — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:20:52 +0000

Very well written article with some good advice. We found very early on the need for multiple AWS accounts and managing varying levels of access to all of them has been challenging.

I also recommend looking into using SAML with your own login provider, if you have one, to assume individual roles in AWS accounts.

New comment by mavus in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)"

mavus — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:01:42 +0000

Ocado Technology | Hatfield, UK | Cloud Services Engineer We're looking for top notch AWS or public cloud experts to join our team at Ocado. We're building a full platform to run the entire online delivery stack for other retailers in the Cloud from an e-commerce site, to fleets of autonomous bots in warehouses, to fleets of vans on the road. Our offices are a short 20 minute train ride from North London.

Technology Keywords: Amazon Web Services, Python, Django

Cloud Services Engineer: http://careers.ocado.com/VacancyInformation.aspx?VId=25612

Cloud Services Technical Lead: http://careers.ocado.com/VacancyInformation.aspx?VId=26069

New comment by mavus in "Amazon Picking Challenge"

mavus — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 09:01:43 +0000

I think what was meant was that a winning solution to Amazon's problem is probably worth a lot more to them than $25000 to them. Eg. cents saved picking item would rack up to millions saved annually. Amazon bought Kiva for $775 million.[1] a top rank robotic picking and packing solution would be worth as much too.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-19/amazon-acq...

New comment by mavus in "Pastejacking"

mavus — Tue, 24 May 2016 15:02:15 +0000

Quite nicely iTerm2 will catch when you attempt to paste new line characters and warn you about it. Mostly it's useful when I've accidentally copied an extra line, but protecting against malicious abuse is a useful plus.

http://imgur.com/hPMtbU2

New comment by mavus in "How One Hardware Startup Solved Silicon Valley’s “Woman Problem” (2015)"

mavus — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 17:30:07 +0000

> This is not a company where micro-aggressions will fly. This is a company where the first bedrock rule is that nobody gets interrupted, and the second is that everyone gets their say.

If you take the whole quote from the article, it doesn't seem like it would stifle honest conversation at all, if anything micro-aggressions would reduce open communication by making people believe their input is valid or wont be heard.

New comment by mavus in "Chat app Kato will shut down on Aug. 31 – because ‘Slack ate the world’"

mavus — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 09:43:35 +0000

We examined both Kato and Slack for internal use at our company a while ago. I personally preferred Kato's split pane chat windows and handling of multiple team (which Slack still doesn't do right). We also thought it was more competitively priced. After we had made a case internally for team chat, we started a full department trial of Slack, at which point point our users became fairly enamoured with it, and probably unwilling to uproot and change to a new service.

I have a feeling this matches the world at large for Slack. By implementing a very personable interface users seem to grow a positive emotional connection to the service. This reflects in their usage which is also positive and casual, encouraged by features like custom emoji. All this comes together into not the most practical and functional features on paper, but definitely the most enrapturing user experience.

A good read if you want to learn more about Slack's on going world domination: https://medium.com/@awilkinson/slack-s-2-8-billion-dollar-se...

Chat app Kato will shut down on Aug. 31 – because ‘Slack ate the world’

mavus — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 09:26:10 +0000

Article URL: http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/13/chat-app-kato-will-shut-down-on-aug-31-because-slack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9883676

Points: 5

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New comment by mavus in "Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends"

mavus — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 16:36:39 +0000

Let's say you had 10 or so APIs that you wanted to monetise. You might want to bundle these up into groups that you sell. You might want institute different pricing tiers for different rates. To have to bundle all that into each application (along with communicating things like rate usage between them) might not be very appealing.

New comment by mavus in "Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends"

mavus — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 16:32:41 +0000

I have used Apigee a bit. Amazon's product does seem to me a direct competitor to Apigee. For anyone already on Amazon's infrastructure it's a logical step to use another of their products than buy a service from a third party provider. Amazon's pay-as-you-go service is also very appealing as you might pay for a lot of features you don't use with a provider like Apigee.

New comment by mavus in "Nobody Is Using Google+"

mavus — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:28:29 +0000

We use Google+ as our company's internal social network. This is helpful because it maintains separation between personal social media and professional. Communities can be a great way to organise social event or share common knowledge.

Circles let you differentiate the content you share with work friends and wider colleagues.

I have absolutely no interest in using G+ for my personal life but it's a very handy tool for internal communication in an organisation.

New comment by mavus in "Shrturl: Faking the web since 1942"

mavus — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 16:01:46 +0000

Anything from shrturl.co appears to be blocked at work for me. So I guess we already don't trust it.

New comment by mavus in "Downloading Software Safely Is Nearly Impossible"

mavus — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:13:28 +0000

Where did you get that flash drive of Linux?

New comment by mavus in "How I was able to track the location of any Tinder user"

mavus — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:37:36 +0000

Hence the 'See all friends using the Bang with Friends app' incident.

New comment by mavus in "David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need warrantless electronic surveillance"

mavus — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:47:45 +0000

The actual BBC article linked on boingboing is less editorialised and contains the actual quote: "In the most serious crimes [such as] child abduction communications data... is absolutely vital. I love watching, as I probably should stop telling people, crime dramas on the television. There's hardly a crime drama where a crime is solved without using the data of a mobile communications device."

While I strongly oppose any warrant-less surveillance bills. I can agree with the statement. Nothing makes me a sympathise with the police more than crime dramas. So much to the point where I feel some American TV procedurals are almost propagandist and a lot of people assume the police have more rights than they do because of TV. But this is reality and things aren't as black and white as that.

New comment by mavus in "Hacker News was down"

mavus — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:17:14 +0000

Traffic seems to be going through cloudflare. Probably to defend against a DDoS. Hitting the URL directly gave me an untrusted certificate. Going via http://ycombinator.com/ works fine.