Ixiaus

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by Ixiaus 10y ago
Most chip manufacturers keep their firmware very close to the chest and from my anecdotal experience, a lot of that firmware is of a low quality; mush a smattering of shoddy chips together and you end up with really weird behavior. FCC cert
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
No it was not, it was a home-rolled solution. Nerves is pretty neat but at the time I wrote our solution it wasn't as mature as it is these days. I rolled our own buildroot + erlang release + "firmware" deployment system (inc
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
Supervisors aren't just for restarting processes that crash, they're also responsible for cleaning up processes when the tree is being shutdown. If you're using spawn to fire off a long-ish running process that is too small i
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
A few ideas come to mind: 1) Use systemd; I've taken the time to learn it and the tooling it exposes for codifying process dependencies, how weak or strong they should be, and restart behaviors is thoroughly designed 2) Use Erlang&#x2F
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
It is faster for large programs. For small programs, I think Python is great but you also have to consider that there is no such thing as prototype code and a small script (usually but not always) balloons into something more involved than
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
Yeah a book on nixos would be valuable I think. Understanding nixos really comes down to reading all the docs then trying to accomplish what you need to do, learning by doing and reading source code. I love nix, my biggest gripe would be th
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
Nix derivation and nix store managed artifacts is a superior model to many language specific package managers (though the learning curve is non-trivial), we use it with Haskell extensively, for instance.
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
No. They do not. Docker wants to manage containers but nix wants them in the store. I went so far as writing a derivation and tool for pulling a container into the nix store without docker so it could be docker loaded. I really don't l
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
What's hilarious is that we use both nixos and docker...
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
It's not just presidents that don't have the balls, it's also consumers and other policy makers.
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
I don't even know you so don't take what I said personally, I was attempting to be helpful :) I think stating the salary range and then providing examples of the CoL in the area without trying to justify the salary range in comp
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
> ...because of people like you. Your generalization is not true. There are many reasons why a company does not want to post salary ranges and I'm quite sure that direct and non-hostile feedback about how copy for a job posting on H
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
Salary will range from $80-120K. (That's like $150-$200K in CA with Idaho cost of living adjustment :) ) It's fine to post the desired salary range for a candidate no matter what that range is, you'll filter out the people
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
Emacs and org-mode.
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
Or, run Riak with their S3 compatibility layer. Riak is extremely stable and the work Basho has done to make a truly robust distributed database is significant. http://docs.basho.com/riak/cs/2.1.1/
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
There's nothing wrong with the path you've chosen for yourself but I can say based on my anecdotal experience that human social dynamics, particularly in groups, can be counter-intuitive and are definitely a "you get what you
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
GNUNet / SecuShare though it isn't quite mature enough...
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
I would checkout Christopher Meiklejohn's website, he's a researching working on this stuff and doing some cool OSS work: https://christophermeiklejohn.com/
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
Yeah I'm excited to see what you guys come up with on delta CRDTs. Our node cluster sizes are fairly manageable so we can tolerate the inefficiency right now but it will be nice to have a solution in-place when we want to optimize. I d
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
noelwalsh also included a bit about CRDTs, which he didn't expand upon, but is pretty different from "the Map-Reduce programming model" in a few ways. I expanded on the CRDT comment above.
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
This is a good reply and I'll add to it. Note that CRDT stands for Conflict free Replicated Datatype and there are a few sub-acronym expansions: Convergent Replicated Datatype and Commutative Replicated Datatype. [EDIT] I wanted to add
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
Use kms and dynamodb with key enveloping, or this tool: https://github.com/fugue/credstash Don't initialize into env vars and don't store in repos, even private ones.
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
Probably want to use a secret management tool and just not initialize into environment variables... https://github.com/fugue/credstash
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
From my last and admittedly cursory look it wasn't that simple. IIRC JSON wasn't even used, I think it was a binary protocol.
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
When you set the location in Google it customizes the cookie with a named field that is a capital L I believe. That field is encoded or encrypted and I could never figure it out so I just constructed a rainbow table by using phantomjs to se
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
No because then you'd have to use a headless browser that can execute js. That increases time and cost when scraping, though it wouldn't surprise me if it ends up going that way.
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
It was indeed pretty rough it wouldn't surprise me if Google moves to js generated dom elements to combat rank trackers, at the time it was fine because they want to service non-js browsers but that might change. Parsing it wasn't
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
Oh and I just used a generic HTTP request client in Erlang and xpath / HTML parser to extract what we needed.
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
We had a pool of IPs we were leasing on our own, proxy services get abused and are poisoned. We didn't rate limit, we would just increase the size of the cookie pool if a captcha was hit, which was rare because we would scrape n-pages
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by Ixiaus 10y ago
I also built a rank tracker (WhooshTraffic at the time - no longer around) and we scraped the Search Result Pages as the user would see them, spoofed the session cookie and used human captcha solvers. We would then cache the cookies generat

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