Erwin

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by Erwin 14y ago
A certificate can also have a number of alternate names, which providers call a Unified certificate -- UCC. The nice thing about that is that you can add/remove names after you've bought the certificate without having to go through the proc
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by Erwin 14y ago
An interesting new pattern here (from the creator of MVC) is DCI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data,_Context,_and_Interaction Essentially it's a way to move code where multiple objects collaborate to achieve something into its own separat
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by Erwin 14y ago
SAS70 -- that depends who you sell to I guess. Every major client we have that will put a bit of data on our servers asks about things like SAS70, physical security, environmental factors like power backup, disaster protection etc. etc. Min
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by Erwin 14y ago
Here in DK we have edbpriser, which isn't quite as nice UI wise: http://www.edbpriser.dk/mobiltelefon-u-abn/gb--id-6788288.as... Compare with: http://www.prisjakt.nu/produkt.php?p=1172708 edbpriser was bought by Aller in 2005 at which p
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by Erwin 14y ago
I haven't see any RS-wide outages in my datacenter (IAD) for many years (I vaguely remember some networking issue, but that was something like 5 years back). So they have their infrastructure (network, power) working very well. The downtime
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by Erwin 14y ago
On FreeBSD (and maybe Mac OS X) you can press Control-T to send a SIGINFO signal (non-standard extension. This prints out how far dd has gotten (and perhaps other FreeBSD utilities too).
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by Erwin 14y ago
glibc sprintf supports that as something like %2$s %1$s which Python could potentially support. I don't buy the internationalization argument however. You have to explicitly select strings for i18n anyway and run them through something that
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by Erwin 14y ago
If you want an approximate count you can do something like to get data for all your tables: SELECT S.nspname || '.' || relname, reltuples FROM pg_class C, pg_namespace S WHERE C.relnamespace = S.oid ORDER BY rel
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by Erwin 14y ago
You can explicitly export functions you want available outside, disabling the name mangling (using export "C"). I'm not sure how else you think C++ could handle its goals without the name mangling: overloading and compatibility with C's lin
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by Erwin 14y ago
Compare with SoftLayer which has decided to charge through the nose for their RAM upgrades: going from 16 to 64GB RAM on their E5 servers is an additional $1200/month. They're far more expensive than e.g. Rackspace there for some reason.
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by Erwin 15y ago
I saw this proposal lately that would allow proportional fonts everywhere: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/
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by Erwin 15y ago
What do you mean "runtime" ? You have to compile some C code with macros to wrap a unique type signature for each function you want to wrap, so this seems to require a compilation step unlike e.g. ctypes which is a runtime FFI. If there's a
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by Erwin 15y ago
I don't know whether the technology is there, but I could see AR glasses being paired with a (RFID? Bluetooth?) ring you wear as a pointing device. The demo uses speech but I haven't found the Google voice search very impressive so I have
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by Erwin 15y ago
What's new since 1991 -- multiplayer? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Construction_Kit
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by Erwin 15y ago
Isn't Redis still single-threaded for queries, but saving in the background? That seems a little risky: you've got your 100 million users setting bits in your bitsets and suddenly everything blocks for 10 seconds while old data is being loa
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by Erwin 15y ago
Our customers develop online questionnaires. Most of those are stock controls which don't require any logic, like asking a question about the user's about age. Sometimes you need simple or complex control logic, e.g. display these additiona
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by Erwin 15y ago
I'm not sure what this does what Zope's Restricted Python doesn't do already, except possibly be more performant. Zope's module requires no patches and is being widely used. I had a good experience implement this Restricted Python (unrelate
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by Erwin 15y ago
I've had the same experience with Amazon, when orders have gone wrong which I think is even more impressive given they're much larger and public. It shows is possible not to put short-term profits first -- some people excuse "evil" acts by
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by Erwin 15y ago
The screenshot is looking great. Ignoring form factor, is the new iPad going to match Kindle's reading quality? I generally read fiction on the Kindle (2nd gen) and anything that has graphics or requires rapid page turning on the iPad (1G).
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by Erwin 15y ago
There's an affordable (USD 299, free 7 day trial) commercial tool for C/C++/Javaallowing structured, context-sensitive code browsing and refactoring that actually integrates into Emacs: http://www.xref.sk/xrefactory/emacs.html In fact it
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by Erwin 15y ago
Are "private" bits special and privileged still? If one user entrusts another with a risque digital picture but that digital picture is now distributed to a million third parties, did any violation occur? If individuals are allowed special
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by Erwin 15y ago
A man is caught speeding by a speed camera; he is sent a picture of the car with his license plate visible, the speed measured and the ticket to pay. He sends back the police a picture of the money to pay for the ticket. The police send bac
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by Erwin 15y ago
I've been told by my Rackspace rep that they're working towards moving away from VMWare and onto something else (based on their Open Stack system). Supposedly (and take that with a grain of salt since this information is a few layers remove
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by Erwin 15y ago
We use the fudge module, and I have a small context manager that lets me do this: with autopatch(foo, bar, baz): foo.patch.method = something # first test here foo.patch.method = something_else I've found that
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by Erwin 15y ago
If you like this sort of bit-level puzzles, this is a nice book: http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-Henry-S-Warren/dp/0201... -- probably the only book at such a low level I remember buying in many years.
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by Erwin 15y ago
Unless Ars have started serving HTTP via UDP, establishing a TCP/IP connection over the Internet with a fake IP address will be be near impossible.
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by Erwin 15y ago
I don't follow -- the first time which translates to Feb 29th is entered as 0th March. So that underflows to Feb 29th -- the day before March 1st. The second time you have, is 0th February. So that underflows back to the previous day, Jan 3
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by Erwin 15y ago
The C (or at least POSIX) functions that accept broken-down (i.e. seconds, minutes, hours) datetimes allow numbers outside of the range which makes it possible to advance the calendar one month even if you're already in December. For exampl
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by Erwin 15y ago
I've found it occasionally helpful, but it will in no way fix procrastination -- in fact you can procrastinate (by e.g. reading through top 100 random stories on reddit) more efficiently and with fewer regrets. If you can get into the "flow
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by Erwin 15y ago
For a nicer looking wrapper around V8 in a dynamic language, see http://code.google.com/p/pyv8/ -- here your class instances become the namespaces accessible to your JS code and objects are nicely converted back and forth. I experimented

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