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by ErrantX 12y ago
Looks like it will be 5.7 which is great! Just tested against our codebase, and it builds very quickly (maybe 15-20% increase in speed in unit tests) so very impressed!
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by ErrantX 12y ago
Normal bullying followed me home from school. Okay so life-penetration wasn't as deep. But, to the point that walking into town on a saturday was risky business. The difference with cyber-bullying isn't any of these things; it&#x2
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by ErrantX 13y ago
Agreed. In my experience a senior sysadmin can work as a above-passable developer. But a senior developer can rarely function as a sysadmin. As to DBA; I can't help but feeling that the OP hasn't worked with "real" DBA&#
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by ErrantX 13y ago
Fortunately, I picked this week to muck up some of our HTTPS endpoints... ready made excuse!
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by ErrantX 13y ago
So, your not a potential customer for Mod Notebook, which is fine. But that doesn't really add anything to this discussion :)
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by ErrantX 13y ago
Prime has hiked in price here in the UK too, with the bundled video. But. It's still worth it here IMO. In fact, Prime here in the UK is about a million lightyears ahead of the US because of the size of the country :) Free next day shi
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by ErrantX 13y ago
We have a rackspace 32GB dedicated machine which costs $750/mo. Just for a firm datapoint.
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by ErrantX 13y ago
Using up a bit of my HN Karma to post this! Especially as Charlie Chaplin is a really quite interesting hacker - and I know we love our classic films here!
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Show HN: My Brother's Latest Project (Classical Music in Sheffield)(kickstarter.com)
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by ErrantX 13y ago
Hash all the sha1 passwords with scrypt. Hash all new passwords with sha1 then scrypt. Your new hash mechanism is sha1 then scrypt. There is no excuse to do otherwise :)
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by ErrantX 13y ago
Definitely! We are using it in production for storing monitoring data (via sensu, if anyone is interested). It's fantastic because you can shove data into the index with a ttl of 1 year. And have a x month archival strategy for cold st
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by ErrantX 13y ago
I don't really follow you here; AWS is infrastructure. So all the chef/puppet stuff has to happen anyway. The benefit of AWS is that you have some immediate bootstrap, and simple auto scaling. This last is a killer feature. Being
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by ErrantX 13y ago
It's not 10ms. Halfway through a staged AWS migration now and the latency has really not been an issue. This is from a London data centre to AWS Ireland. At most it's been 4 to 6 ms. And that has coped with our heaviest load.
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by ErrantX 13y ago
There is almost certainly a majority that Google google.
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by ErrantX 13y ago
Not directly, no. But I work for a company that has a sales department that does cold calls. Interestingly, organic traffic performs better than cold calling. By a decent margin. But, on the road sales blows both out of the water. Obviously
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by ErrantX 13y ago
Forgetting legalese and merely applying common sense: it was abundantly clear from the KS [1] that the device was leased or otherwise returnable. That was the selling point!! Dirt cheap physical storage + cloud backup, with the trade off th
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by ErrantX 13y ago
I'm sure the Germans would have. Which is the point really; terrorism vs freedom fighter, war vs cou, revolution vs insurgency. It all depends which side your on.
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by ErrantX 13y ago
> Because it's a stupid idea not to have at least basic information on wikipedia about these language. Why? Why is it stupid? Why does Wikipedia have to cover it? This argument could be extended to everything. My company, that I w
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by ErrantX 13y ago
I've removed it again, sorry; this is not the way to fix the problem. Mostly all you're going to do is stir up bad feeling (especially with that attitude) and end up getting the article title protected from recreation. Unpleasant.
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by ErrantX 13y ago
That's really not true though, at least from my experience! In the AFD that is exampled here, the only sources offered were of the form of blogs and forum posts etc. Wikipedia has quite clear and explicit rules against those sorts of s
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by ErrantX 13y ago
Please: fork Wikipedia content into a programming wiki. That would be awesome!
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by ErrantX 13y ago
I've been kicking around there for a few years. Mostly writing about military history. :) my advice is to avoid the dramas and pick a nice quiet topic area to contribute in.
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by ErrantX 13y ago
We had this argument where I work (with thousands of consumer and business customers). Some quick A/B testing and surveying indicate that "People have email clients configured and they know how to use them" is very wrong :) W
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by ErrantX 13y ago
Okay, so a LOT went into marketing. But there is a significant development budget too... I was astounded as well, until I played it. The graphics are, as you say, very good. But what the money has clearly gone into is the production value.
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by ErrantX 13y ago
And who identifies them as incorrect? Not the editor.. Wikipedia looks for expert opinion published in reliable outlets to avoid the problem of people enforcing their own point of view. At least in theory. HN comments are usually interestin
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by ErrantX 13y ago
> they just went ahead and made it Upon such things, many successes are based :)
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by ErrantX 13y ago
My favourite piece of code that used to be in our code base was a set of empty PHP files with the comment "this file intentionally left blank". Created so that the core framework could be unit tested. (This was before I came on bo
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by ErrantX 13y ago
I'm coming from a team whose policy is to create a PHP docblock for everything. This is actually dead useful because at a glance you see who wrote the code, exactly what you can pass into the function and what it will spit back out.
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by ErrantX 13y ago
Uh, that takes much longer. Blame is useful in more elaborate context but... comments are instant :) And that is important.
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by ErrantX 13y ago
Speaking from experience of a) working in a team and b) maintaining legacy code: Your code, no matter how good, will not instantly make sense to someone else. Comments are essential. Writing good comments is as skilled a task as writing the

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