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by 0xmohit 10y ago
StackPrinter [0] might be of help to those who are currently arriving at Stack Overflow via a search engine. [0] http://www.stackprinter.com/
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
I keep forgetting that, in today's world, people would even need to ask Siri or Cortana whether they are thirsty.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> During today’s earnings call, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also noted that Windows 10 users have now asked Cortana 8 billion questions to date. Not sure if this qualifies as an achievement. Too many questions would perhaps suggest that
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
SNS informing about down services would be too bad. So it must go down with others.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
AWS should design for resilience [0]. [0] This is a part of the wisdom shared by AWS support upon reporting an outage.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
It wasn't you. Somebody had set up auto-scaling at the behest of AWS support.
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I can't even ask Alexa if AWS is up.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
AWS would wish that all those downtime reporting services move to their infrastructure. That ways there won't be anyone to report the downtime.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> I didn't realize just how fragile TOR is. . . It's JavaScript that causes it (you could choose to disable it [0]). The FAQ [1] warns of it: But there's a third issue: websites can easily determine whether you have allow
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> I now focus my efforts on income expansion rather than cost control. This becomes all the more important when the real rate of inflation is in double digits. (Sounds unbelievable, it's not in certain economies.) Unfortunately, th
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Also worthwhile mentioning is functionalC [0]. The blog mentioned on the Github page is down but the relevant URLs can be accessed from the wayback machine at [1] and [2]. GCC also supports nested functions [3] (as a GNU C extension). Unrel
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Previous (recent) discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11921208
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The Humble Programmer by Edsger W. Dijkstra (1972 ACM Turing Award Lecture) [pdf](jdl.ac.cn)
3 points by 0xmohit 10y ago|1 comments
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Accessing it currently would result in Error establishing a database connection , though.
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Inside Nginx: How We Designed for Performance Scale(nginx.com)
3 points by 0xmohit 10y ago|2 comments
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Welcome to the world of context-sensitive search. Not that it's new, but it appears that the context has now been expanded to include the entire browsing history, just not the session. [One should really consider using Firefox, and D
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Comparison of Orleans with Erlang and Riak Core: http://christophermeiklejohn.com/papers/2015/05/03/orleans.h...
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> there is no evidence to suggest that Autopilot was not operating as designed Obviously, a dead man wouldn't be available to testify. > That Tesla Autopilot had been safely used in over 100 million miles of driving by tens of th
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Response from Tor: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trouble-cloudflare
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
your_server <--- no TLS ---> CloudFlare <--- TLS ---> Browser So there's a MITM here -- Cloudflare.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Cloudflare "make web properties faster and safer". Such statements are amusing at best. Seems analogous to an advertisement of a chocolate drink claiming to turn morons into Einsteins.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Crontab generator [0] is a good alternative that doesn't feature broken JS [1]. Moreover, the example and configuration page on the wikipedia page [2] are clear enough. [0] http://crontab-generator.org/ [1] https:&#x
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> 5 4 W * * > Really gave Chrome some grief. You are evil. It also gave Firefox a lot of grief. CPU usage shot to 100%.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
BBC recently figured out how to (partially) migrate to HTTPS [0]. Give them a few years to realize that video can be played without using Flash too. [0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/f6f50d1f-a87
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Here are a few: Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven Strogatz Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by John Derbyshire Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Sha
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Must say that the manner in which Windows 10 (installation/upgrade) pop ups appear on older versions of Windows is rather odd. That said, the manner in which MS chooses to address certain issues [0] is rather weird. (Not sure if this
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
From https://www.google.com/about/company/philosophy/ You can make money without doing evil. Placement in search results is never sold to anyone, and advertising is not only clearly marked as such, it
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
The point was that C9 offerings are likely to continue. The branding might change.
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C9 only adds to existing AWS offerings. Don't see a reason that it'd be shut down.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> Does anyone know the reasons behind this acquisition? One can make guesses: - expanding into new verticals - potentially "enabling" Cloud9 users to become users of other AWS services - world domination!

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