DonPellegrino

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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
Read my response to willvarfar. If you have ideas and suggestions on how to deal with that problem, I'm all ears!
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
That's fantastic, thank you very much!
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
VPN traffic and VPN providers aren't even seriously targeted in pretty much every oppressive country I can think of. The authorities know that there'll always be a way to pass data through short of scealing the whole country off t
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
I'd like some feedback about the idea and implementation. If you've got any ideas to make it better, I'd love to hear them. The code is also on Github: https://github.com/SGrondin/unblock.us.org
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Show HN: A different approach against online censorship(unblock.us.org)
51 points by DonPellegrino 13y ago|17 comments
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
Nice list, I've used most of those tools at the previous startup I worked at. Shameless plug: You might find this tool I wrote useful in plenty of situations: https://github.com/SGrondin/bottleneck
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
Basically, catch SIGINT, then stop listening to a socket/port. Finish all current requests and exit. The "watcher" parent process will restart the process with the new executable. Repeat for all other processes listening to t
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
My friends and I were heavy Wave users back in college. It was simply the best tool available by combining chat, Google docs and forums into a single tool. It was slow at first, but after the first 6 months of improvements it became progres
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
I disagree. Even back in 2005-2006 - almost a decade ago!, in Guild Wars pvp, it was possible to interrupt a 1 second spell with a 1/4 second one, leaving you with 750ms for human reaction time and latency.
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
I'd like to mention my favorite tool to deal with Callback Hell: Streamline, a JavaScript (and CoffeeScript) language extension that can compile to either 1) callback spaghetti 2) Node-fibers or 3) generator code. It basically writes t
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
Good article, terrible link-baity title.
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
Not true for marketing-oriented companies that grew huge by having a really good salesforce and managing to become the go-to name in slow, bureaucratic markets such as governments.
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
I find it amusing that the content is served from a .su (Soviet Union) domain.
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
If anything, it's a good thing that the cycles are getting shorter. There's more ideas going around between languages, more experimentation, etc. Language evolution is accelerating and it's exciting.
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
The thing about math is that you don't know what you're missing until you learn more. It sometimes lets you solve hard problems in an incredibly obvious and simple way because you knew a mathematical solution existed. Ignorance of
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
Yup, but CoffeeScript introduces 99 other ways for beginners to create awful code, it's way easier to shoot yourself in the foot than with just JavaScript. I still prefer CoffeeScript, though.
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
...and that's why no one but brand new beginners use "==". If it was up to me, "use strict" would turn "===" into "==" and there would be no "===". It's too late now because it wou
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
Sadly true.
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
The Montreal office is on Ste-Catherine, near Place Ville-Marie. Afaik they work on Chrome.
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
ETS also makes students do a co-op after only one term and considering that 90%+ of the students there come from a CEGEP degree (technical degree) and have already completed 2 co-op terms, I can safely say that UW isn't alone.
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
That's actually exactly what happens. Co-op programs are huge in Québec and that's a good thing. Government jobs usually pay 30-40% less and most of the time the less skilled students end up doing their co-op(s)/internship(s)
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
I'd like to know what this will do for bacteriophage therapy. Georgia has been the center of phage research since the 20s and has a massive bank of phages for all sorts of infections. Can someone more knowledgeable of this topic explai
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
Jobs was strongly against the stylus and famously said something like "God gave us 10 styluses at birth". Maybe part of his legacy is a company filled with people having the same opinion.
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
Look at the libraries you're using. For me, it was caolan/async. One evening, I sat down and thought about how he was doing it and I recreated all the most interesting features without looking at the code. In passing, I found a lo
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
I love it. It has that cold war propaganda feel to it. Great for headlines.
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
Yes, many (most?) accountants that don't specialize in personal accounting and tax filing recognize the value in having someone more knowledgeable than them take care of documents with a large impact on their lives.
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
It doesn't make sense for Ebay to own 2 Paypals. The reason they bought Braintree in the first place is to extend their reach into a different market. Braintree customers chose Braintree because it is NOT Paypal. If I was you I wouldn&
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
There is another attempt at it. That language has been in development for a few years and is almost ready. Rust combines the best features of C and functional programming and through a very clever pointer system manages to eliminate race co
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
Reddit uses a hellbanning system like HN. Spammers and the like don't realize they are banned until they try to read their own posts from another account. The auto-downvote system along with score caching makes it a lot harder to tell
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by DonPellegrino 13y ago
That's exactly how I do it for my Node programs. Any service that I want to have 100% is using the cluster module, resulting in multiple processes listening to the same port. When I want to update, I replace the files and kill the proc

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