Hacker News: nbarbettini

New comment by nbarbettini in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

nbarbettini — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:47:51 +0000

I became so conditioned to waiting hours(!) for DNS propagation that I'm always pleasantly surprised when it takes <5 min these days.

New comment by nbarbettini in "Okta Personal"

nbarbettini — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:14:34 +0000

Case in point, https://stopthesso.tax/

New comment by nbarbettini in "Heroku Login and Deployment Down"

nbarbettini — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:19:46 +0000

Now updated to say the entire Platform API is unavailable. https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2558

Edit: Maybe back?

New comment by nbarbettini in "Is Heroku’s DNS down again?"

nbarbettini — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:18:02 +0000

Now posted as an issue on status.heroku: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2454

New comment by nbarbettini in "Issues with upstream DNS provider"

nbarbettini — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:54:43 +0000

Do you have a CNAME record pointing to a herokudns.com domain? Replace it with an A record that points to the IP instead. You can find the IP by going to https://securitytrails.com/domain/

New comment by nbarbettini in "Ask HN: How do I get $2.2M dollars?"

nbarbettini — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:56:12 +0000

... a year ago.

New comment by nbarbettini in "A Planetary Scientist: 'I Do Not Want to Live on Mars'"

nbarbettini — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 20:35:39 +0000

I think you have that backwards? Taking off from Mars is significantly easier than earth because of lower gravity and a less-dense atmosphere.

New comment by nbarbettini in "After the end of the startup era"

nbarbettini — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 20:22:21 +0000

"640K ought to be enough for anyone" - Bill Gates, ~1985

New comment by nbarbettini in "The Little ASP.NET Core Book"

nbarbettini — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:28:59 +0000

Thanks for the feedback! I don't have anything in the works right now, but will definitely consider it.

New comment by nbarbettini in "The Little ASP.NET Core Book"

nbarbettini — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:28:13 +0000

I have fond memories of learning VB3 from Teach Yourself Visual Basic in 21 Days, which had to be 500+ pages. It turns out it's tough to have a good introduction to a topic without going really long.

New comment by nbarbettini in "The Little ASP.NET Core Book"

nbarbettini — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:27:10 +0000

Very good points, thanks. I struggled with this myself as I was trying to plan out the structure of the book. I ultimately went with the "path of least resistance" (ASP.NET Core MVC ships with Bootstrap, jQuery, etc) but I agree that it could be better in future versions. :)

New comment by nbarbettini in "The Little ASP.NET Core Book"

nbarbettini — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:25:41 +0000

Thanks for filing the issues. And thanks for reading!

New comment by nbarbettini in "The Little ASP.NET Core Book"

nbarbettini — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 04:00:27 +0000

That StackOverflow runs on .NET is one of my favorite little-known facts.

New comment by nbarbettini in "The Little ASP.NET Core Book"

nbarbettini — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 03:59:36 +0000

Thanks for reading it!

New comment by nbarbettini in "The Little ASP.NET Core Book"

nbarbettini — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 03:59:24 +0000

I think it's a great time to jump into .NET Core if you've been on the sidelines. There was a lot of version pain early on, but it's way better now. Being able to write C# code on my Windows box that runs natively on my MacBook Pro feels awesome.

New comment by nbarbettini in "The Little ASP.NET Core Book"

nbarbettini — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 03:58:04 +0000

LINQ and the async/await pattern are my two all-time favorite things about C#.

New comment by nbarbettini in "The Little ASP.NET Core Book"

nbarbettini — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:33:37 +0000

Thanks man!

New comment by nbarbettini in "Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem"

nbarbettini — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 16:53:43 +0000

SpaceX spending almost a decade developing, testing, and then deploying rockets that can land and then be reused is a good example.

New comment by nbarbettini in "Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars"

nbarbettini — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 16:51:24 +0000

FYI - this is a PDF version of Musk's presentation at IAC in 2016.

New comment by nbarbettini in "Climeworks carbon dioxide capture device"

nbarbettini — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 14:53:05 +0000

We ultimately need to do both: burn less fossil fuels, and capture or sequester CO2 from the atmosphere faster than the planet does naturally. Otherwise, what we keep adding will stay around for a long time.