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I'm guessing this is a parody?
by alexchamberlain 13y ago
I'm guessing this is a parody?
- abat 13y agoYes, look at their upcoming product: /dev/random as a Service: Do you think every random-number-generator is broken? Well, we do! Simply trust us and use our numbers as your only seeding source!
- alexchamberlain 13y agoNah, that's almost useful. It could be a crowd-sourced random number stream based on noise generated by a network of mobile phones.
- TallGuyShort 13y agoI could see a service that just accepts any HTTP you send to it as being kinda useful for early testing of client-side software. Personally I'd just use netcat, but maybe a service would be easier for some people.
- cben 13y agohttp://requestb.in/ http://requestb.in/ , http://httpbin.org/ http://httpbin.org/
- mikeash 13y agoIt's almost useful if you need random numbers that aren't secret, but it's useless for crypto, which is probably the major use of good-quality random numbers.
- toomuchtodo 13y agohttp://www.random.org/ http://www.random.org/ "RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. People use RANDOM.ORG for holding drawings, lotteries and sweepstakes, to drive games and gambling sites, for scientific applications and for art and music. The service has existed since 1998 and was built by Dr Mads Haahr of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland. Today, RANDOM.ORG is operated by Randomness and Integrity Services Ltd."
- chops 13y agoI'm guessing it's inspired by the video "MongoDB is Web Scale" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
- aroman 13y agoWow I can't believe that video has gone viral — I remember showing it around to a few friends 2 years ago or so when it only had a few thousand views. Ironically, MongoDB has since become my go-to DB of choice...
- kansface 13y agoHave you read http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb ?
- donretag 13y agoIf /dev/null is fast in web scale I will use it. Is it web scale? Does /dev/null support sharding?
- einhverfr 13y agoYes, and it is much faster than MongoDB as there are no write locking issues.
- AsymetricCom 13y agoNo, this is real life. Services just like these already exist.