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antipaucity
Personal blog · antipaucity.comsystemsculture
antipaucity is a personal blog at antipaucity.com about systems and culture. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 82 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as a dockerized setup guide for Jitsi Meet, the open source video conferencing tool, covering a multi-site server configuration on CentOS.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Just think if Google actually decided to "take the day off" ...like I did a dozen+ years ago: https://antipaucity.com/2008/01/09/what-if-google-took-the-d...
Comment linking /2008/01/09/what-if-google-took-the-day-off/
on “Google outage – resolved”Submitted The failure of the technical sales cycle in enterprise software as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThat's exactly how Opsware Support worked when I was there: https://antipaucity.com/2011/09/15/the-ticket-smash-raw-metr...
Comment linking /2011/09/15/the-ticket-smash-raw-metrics-and-communication-how-to-have-a-successful-support-organization/
on “Software engineering topics I changed my mind on”Submitted Asymmetric Communication – The Facebookification of Society as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn trying to get this to work on a multi site configured server. My friend and I got it working. He wrote up a guide to getting it working on Centos. https://antipaucity.com/2020/03/20/basic-dockerized-jitsi-de...
Comment linking /2020/03/20/basic-dockerized-jitsi-deployment-with-an-apache-reverse-proxy-on-centos/
on “Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom”Submitted Restful webservices as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>We never asked current salary because it wasn't relevant. I knew what I could pay and that's what was offered. If they asked for more and were worth it, then I would try and find money to make it happen, but generally it wasn't an option. Thank you! Some honesty and forthrightness for a change. (It's something I put in a blog post ( https://antipaucity.com/2013/03/25/what-to-offer-to-be-the-b... ) 5+ years ago ...y…
Comment linking /2013/03/25/what-to-offer-to-be-the-best-possible-employer-ever/
on “Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role”Submitted Not the year of the Linux desktop (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's because culture-fit is the single most important aspect of any hire Followed by teachability/ability to learn Sure, technical ability (in whatever role you're trying to fill/enter) is important, but if you clash with the team(s) you'll be working with, it doesn't matter how "good" you are - as I wrote several years ago[0], "all-star teams" are horrible: what matters is that as a team you can [very close to] "th…
Comment linking /2014/06/25/who-wants-an-all-star-team-anyway/
on “Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?”Submitted There’s never enough documentation – there’s too much documentation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's a higher-res PNG: https://antipaucity.com/project_flow.png
Comment linking /project_flow.png
on “Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?”Submitted Sshuttle – a simple transparent proxy VPN over SSH as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFirst, slow down - choose 1 or 2 topics at a time Second, work towards the goal of "be an and" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855775 ) Don't limit yourself to just one thing, but do limit yourself to learning only 1 or 2 things at a time - and learn them as deeply (or shallowly) as you like (since no one is forcing you to do this (ie it's all voluntary on your part)). For a suggestion on how you might appr…
Comment linking /2012/12/10/finding-your-niche/
on “Ask HN: I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that?”Submitted Basic Dockerized jitsi deployment with an apache reverse proxy on centos as a story · 2 points
HN discussionthat has to be one of the dumbest things I've read all year. this is too hard: https://antipaucity.com/2016/02/26/automated-lets-encrypt-ss... ?
Comment linking /2016/02/26/automated-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificate-renewal-on-centos-7
on “Let's Encrypt has issued its first million certificates”Submitted Gus Gorman Takes on the Election as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI mostly agree with a recent Big Think article [0] (HN discussion [1]) I also tell people "don't blog" [2] ...for the wrong reasons Do blog for the right reasons [3] - if you find it too tedious to write-up your notes into a format you and others can reference later with all the "whys" and not merely the "whats", then don't do it ... but I'd wager you'd benefit from doing it :) As I commented here [4] recently, "I p…
Comment linking /2012/11/05/why-blog/
on “Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?”Submitted Bring Back Boom-and-Bust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAnd "good enough" is just that - good enough . Same with Northern Tool & Supply: some things just don't matter where you get them. Wrote about it 6+ years ago - https://antipaucity.com/2011/02/24/how-much-does-quality-mat...
Comment linking /2011/02/24/how-much-does-quality-matter/
on “Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America”Submitted Fallocate vs. dd for swap file creation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSocial voting is broken - and probably shouldn't exist ( https://antipaucity.com/2015/09/16/like-problems-social-voti... ) That said, I'm not asking for notifications on upvotes (like Stack Overflow does) I'm asking for the basic functionality of all internet fora I've interacted with for the last close to 30 years that tell you if you have any replies
Comment linking /2015/09/16/like-problems-social-voting-is-a-bad-idea/
on “Ask HN: Why doesn't HN alert users in some manner to new replies?”Submitted LaaS Technologies – Purveyors of the Latest PaaS Techniques as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDon't blog to compete with others[0] Do blog to: - connect with new people - get feedback on ideas - engage in discussion - learn to write better - finding new opportunities - keeping up with your friends - educating others - and more ------------- [0] https://antipaucity.com/2014/04/11/dont-blog/#.YlGIUrgpBAc [1] https://antipaucity.com/2012/11/05/why-blog/#.YlGIUrgpBAc
Comment linking /2012/11/05/why-blog/
on “Ask HN: Why Blog at All?”Submitted Group Admin in the Era of Facebook as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>They're ordered by the magic, not by the correctness or usefulness I agree 100% on this: a well-curated set of search engine results or directories (like how Yahoo! started back in the day) would be immensely useful today Getting to the well-curated list, though, does bring its own Catch-22: who determines what's "good" initially? How do you collect enough "qualified" editors/submitters to get it rolling? How do yo…
Comment linking /2015/09/16/like-problems-social-voting-is-a-bad-idea/
on “Ask HN: Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of information?”Submitted What level of abstraction is appropriate? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>In the pre-Internet era, when you were curious about tech X, you'd walk to a store, skim through a bunch of books, pick the one you liked the most, and take it home Nothing prevents you from still walking to a store, skimming the titles, and picking one (more-or-less at random, it sounds, from your description) Or going to your local library Or checking what book(s) are required/suggested reading for a course on th…
Comment linking /2006/10/23/authority-issues-online/
on “Ask HN: Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of information?”Submitted Don't Blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA [good] local library or bookstore And I follow my own advice ( https://antipaucity.com/2012/12/10/finding-your-niche/#.Ybit... ): "grab the first book [or magazine] in the history section that starts with an “A” in the title – then go for “B”, “C”, etc. Then do it from some other section of the shelves – maybe relationships, scifi, teen, romance, home improvement, etc"
Comment linking /2012/12/10/finding-your-niche/
on “Ask HN: What do you read for general knowledge?”Submitted The Coop (With In-Progress Pictures) as a story · 1 points
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