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That’s an UI issue with the tool.

The underlying behavior is correct though - people with open handles have the priority unless they have explicitly stated that deleting a file while they use it is OK.

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If you haven’t seen it, give a quick skim to “The Mindbody Prescription” by Sarno.

Several years ago I had a very strong on-and-off hip joint pain for several months. This thing helped overnight, with permanent effect.

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One man’s “beautiful” is another man’s “flat and bare” :)

That said - $20 feels right for this sort of thing. Gotta be light, polished and snappy though, truly exceptional. Not of an Electron variety. The fee is basically a pat on a back for the developer for a job well done.

Certainly not more, because it’s a goodwill purchase. But if it’s less, then it’ll look like a temp side project with a limited life expectancy.

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Since we are now showing our "Yet Another ..." projects, here's a small weekend project from ~10 years ago.

Make sure to right-click and switch to Lyapunov fractal, because that's ultimately what Yafe is all about, e.g.

https://swapped.cc/content/yafe/img/lyapunov-2048-bw.png

Source is over at Github - https://github.com/apankrat/yafe

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It is indeed pretty OS specific.

Not the SMART part, but how you talk to the drives and controllers and how storage is generally sliced into partitions, volumes, etc. Windows has a fairly comprehensive version of Software RAID, but in true Microsoft fashion they do things ass-backwards in more than one place. For example, striped volumes (RAID 0) will use only a part of a partition for each stripe, but to learn that you'd have to talk to Virtual Disk Service rather than regular Disk/Volume management API. This is, basically, as unportable as it gets.

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Might be a good time to plug my little baby - https://diskovery.io

If you want to have a quick, but in-depth look at your drives, it'll give you lots of data, including the SMART table interpreted in a vendor-specific way. It also understands some RAID setups, and more support for this is upcoming. Windows only, at the moment.

To explain a bit of a context - SMART data comprises a set of attributes and each attribute has a value, a threshold and a raw value. Values are opaque 8-bit somethings that are only meant to be compared to thresholds. When they fall under then, then it may indicate a problem. They aren't really interesting. What's interesting is the "raw" values, but as the name implies, they are vendor-specific and require decoding. Some vendors publish the specs, but most don't. Specs that are published are often incomplete or plain wrong. So there's a LOT of reverse engineering and guesswork involved, which makes writing a SMART tool both frustrating and interesting at the same time. But if you need just the "dying / healthy" indicator, it's a very easy thing to extract from a drive.

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I wrote a tiny DNS filtering daemon that does exactly the same -

https://github.com/apankrat/dnswhisperer

I've been using it routinely for past couple of months and it works really well. It blocks web ads, but it's blocks in-app ads and tracking as well. Tailing a log when launching an iPad game make for an interesting read. If anything slips through, just check the log, add the offender to the blacklist and restart the daemon.

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I originally posted this on Dribbble, but I think it might actually be of more interest here. This was ultimately an experiment in software marketing, so what follows in as a postmortem for others to learn from. Hope you, guys, find it useful.

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A couple of years ago I had a weird idea to try and enter our software product into the Red Dot Award [1] competition. Somehow a thought of being able to stick that swirly red sphere on our website was highly appealing, so I emailed them and asked if there was a way to enter with a software product.

Surprisingly, that exact year they decided to start collecting money on that front as well and included the Interface Design sub under Communication Design category. For mere few hundred euros one could submit their work for their expert analysis on condition that they were prepared to part with additional 1.5K upon obtaining an award.

Long story - short, we applied, paid the fee and I then killed a couple of weeks of drafting this presentation. Mind that there were absolutely zero guidelines on what they expect from it except that physical products should be shipped well in advance. One of the options was to submit a link to the presentation (rather than a PDF), which is what we ended up doing.

Being expertly versed in modern web technologies we added a couple of lines of Javascript to report some events from the page when it was viewed.

The judgement time comes and we get a page hit.

Very exciting as you can imagine, but then we look at details and see that they read through about 1/3 of the application, looked at one animation, scrolled to the bottom and left. And that was it. In and out in two minutes.

You'd imagine that judging an Interface Design competition entry would involve, you know, trying out said Interface or perhaps reading through the actual application, but I guess that'd be setting the plank too high. So needless to say that was quite underwhelming and as you can probably guess we won a nice round zilch.

In any case, here's our application in all its three-color glory. I still like it and I still think we did a pretty good job with this particular piece of software, Interface Design included.

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[1] http://www.red-dot.de/

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If you want an answer, drop me an email. I'd rather not disuss this in public, but we have no hiring restrictions per se. In fact, we routinely contract out bits of work.

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Cantonal requirements beyond our control.

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Pipemetrics | Switzerland | Remote within Switzerland

• C/C++ programmers with considerable Windows experience

• Backend programmers with LAMP experience

For details see here - https://pipemetrics.com/hiring

We develop simple, elegant and highly performant desktop software with particular focus on rigorous engineering and meticulous UI design.

We have a large and very enthusiastic fan following and we are now working to create more products built on the same design approach.

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This was literaly the first AB test I did in my 20+ years in business and to say that I'm imressed with the results would be an understatement. First time's a charm I guess :)

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External requirements beyond our control. Feel free to drop me an email and I can explain in private.

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Pipemetrics | Lausanne, Switzerland | Remote within Switzerland is OK

We make high quality desktop software for Windows [1], got an amazing user following [2], and we are now expanding to make more products. Shocking, I know. Windows and all.

Looking for experienced Windows C/C++ developers and the right person to take over online marketing and promo activity. Details are here - http://pipemetrics.com/hiring

[1] https://bvckup2.com

[2] https://bvckup2.com/opinions

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> Good luck getting people to pay for it.

No luck needed. There's a metric ton of people who just crave well-crafted software. I have a project of that nature now and I am absolutely blown away by the amount of compliments and thank-yous sent our way. It's really quite something.

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Would this count - https://bvckup2.com/wip ?

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Pipemetrics - Lausanne, Switzerland

We are a small Swiss company specializing in design and development of desktop software with a particular focus on polish and quality. Our first product is Bvckup 2 and we are now looking for people to help us grow our product line.

Basically, if you like your C/C++ code light and optimized, all i's dotted and t's crossed, we should talk. There are people out there who recognize and appreciate the software quality as a feature in its own rights. These are our users, this is whom we are after. Come and join us -

1. Senior developer - C/C++/Windows

2. Junior developer - summer internship

3. Marketing & communication expert

  Must be legally authorized to work in Switzerland.

Details - http://pipemetrics.com/hiring

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> But still, come on, guys...

libnetsnmp used to make close to a million calloc() calls when responding to a query for a number of CPU sockets on the machine. That was kind of amazing in its sheer brazenness.

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Additionally, we are considering adding a couple of summer internship positions for EPFL students. If you are at EPFL and the above looks interesting enough, drop me a line.

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Pipemetrics - Lausanne, Switzerland - Local only

Senior developer, C / C++ / Windows

Looking for experienced developers to help expanding our existing product into a suite of complimentary products and services (https://bvckup2.com).

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Basic requirements - Solid C/C++ with a focus on producing lean and efficient code; considertable experience developing and shipping software for the Windows platform.

Good to have - Knowing one's way around Linux, both the development toolchain and the shell; PHP, JS, SQL; people skills for communicating with users.

Nice to have - Embedded and kernel development experience.

Ideally, you should be reasonably comfortable with all elements of a system that allows controlling a Windows app through an externally hosted web interface - from Windows, through the network to the PHP/SQL backend to the HTML/JS web frontend.

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The company is built around the notion of "doing one simple thing, but doing it really well." This doesn't mean creating simplistic software, but rather having a single primary function that captures one specific user need and then providing a host of supporting features to make things simple and convenient. This is a fairly alien approach on Windows where the software still tends to compete on the length of the feature list first and foremost. However, the good news is that there is a substantial demand for simpler, but better-made software. This is what we do.

Prior to founding Pipemetrics, I was the principal person behind Hamachi VPN service (http://swapped.cc/hamachi).

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Get in touch - hello-at-pipemetrics.com / alex-at-pipemetrics.com

Submissions

Yafe – Yet Another Fractal Explorer [2011]

Show HN: Our Red Dot Design Award submission (from 2014 and no, we didn't win)

AB-testing PayPal as a Payment Option

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