KayEss

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by KayEss 11y ago
The slab allocator is a great strategy, but of course only works for memory, which is really a special case of one out of all of the resources we want to manage. If you're writing long running processes you need to care about any numbe
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by KayEss 11y ago
I disagree -- the determinant is about state management and locality of error handling and this is all about how your code is structured, not whether the error is expected or not in some nebulous sense. If you can handle the connect failure
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by KayEss 11y ago
This seems to be a failure to understand when exceptions and when error codes are to be used. I'm just starting a big infrastructure project that needs to be high uptime and distributed across a large number of machines, and I'm d
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by KayEss 11y ago
The parent is being slightly confusing by bringing temperament into the discussion. They mean that the 12 notes are evenly spaced on an evenly tempered instrument, which means of course that you don't get the 'perfect' fourth
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by KayEss 11y ago
My knowledge of this comes from the dot com crash 15 years ago. I'm pleased that the employees now come ahead of the tax man.
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by KayEss 11y ago
The Indian won't also be paying taxes in India. America is the only country that taxes its citizens on their worldwide income -- something my (American) business partner here in Thailand is not happy about.
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by KayEss 11y ago
Number one preference is the tax man isn't it? At least in the UK, he always gets paid first.
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by KayEss 12y ago
One problem I've hit a few times is parsing of strings with escapes in YAML. In JSON it's absolutely clear how escaping is works, in YAML, in practice, different parsers do subtly different things.
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by KayEss 12y ago
What we really want is some way to be able to check the fingerprints to make sure that the cert that's being used is the expected one. This unfortunately doesn't seem possible without some out-of-band communications system. Here i
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by KayEss 12y ago
> in most cases when I've seen kids pushed into things that are fundamentally not in their disposition, the effort doesn't clear the end of the runway. If you had better luck, that's awesome for you and for your kids This
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by KayEss 12y ago
It's a little more complex than that I think. The truth is that the young are more flexible than the old. The nature/nurture debate actually works the other way around than what people think. When young it's nearly all nurtur
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by KayEss 12y ago
Strange how I'd never noticed "missing persons" as being an odd construct before. I guess I'd just heard it so often I wasn't really aware of how the phrase was constructed.
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by KayEss 12y ago
When did the plural for "person" become "persons" instead of "people"? Is this just some weird Americanism, or is there a specific difference in police jargon?
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by KayEss 12y ago
> Monsters University took an average of 29 hours to render Wow, when I was doing CGI work in the mid-90s our budget was generally 20 minutes per frame. The highest quality work we did was around 1 hour per frame, and this was for TV adv
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by KayEss 12y ago
You wouldn't need to render the whole frames. You'd get even better results from randomly sampling over a number of frames to contribute to nearby pixels. In effect you're trading less work for more noise, and noise is kind o
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by KayEss 12y ago
It's still useful in helping people to avoid blocks on Facebook. That you're connecting to a Facebook server is still obvious over a TLS connection, but going via Tor that is hidden and your ISP can't find out.
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by KayEss 12y ago
I think part of the difficulty here is that it's almost like Haskell's point free style, but not quite. It isn't really clear where the arguments to avg go. It seems that it's meant to be a bit like this: avg list
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by KayEss 12y ago
No. It's in a monitoring system we've been working on, but the principle is pretty simple. We may well end up open sourcing quite the rest of it sometime in the future -- a lot of the code already is.
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by KayEss 12y ago
The problem with sqlite for this is that as you write more and rows into a table then the writes get progressively slower -- it simply isn't able to do O(1) writes over a long period of time so you'd have to rotate the database fi
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by KayEss 12y ago
I clearly need to learn a lot more about FreeBSD (and it's cousins) but unfortunately we're committed to Docker for server deployments.
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by KayEss 12y ago
That sounds like a pain for my desktop, but implies there's still hope to use a simpler init on my servers so long as the coupling doesn't increase.
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by KayEss 12y ago
One of the main things I'm using it for are reproducible development environments for a rather complex project comprising nearly ten web services. We have a script that builds a few different docker images that the devs can then pull d
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by KayEss 12y ago
This just came up in another comment on HN: http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...
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by KayEss 12y ago
Indeed, the two are very different. Later on the author says this: >The point of Peter Baldwin’s fascinating and learned (and also repetitive and disorganized) “The Copyright Wars” (Princeton) is that the dispute between analog-era and d
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by KayEss 12y ago
The only real problem markdown has is the use of () around links, because both of those can be in the link (i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_(disambiguation) ). It really should have picked something like <>
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by KayEss 12y ago
What's the reason for not keeping the PRNG data in a page of its own which is marked INHERIT_ZERO?
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by KayEss 12y ago
You're both right, if you talk about different sorts of risk. There's far more chance that you'll get authentication wrong than Facebook -- and that's a risk. It's probably more likely that your authentication servi
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by KayEss 12y ago
The seriousness of this depends on the consequences of the failure and how much of the time the lock is held. If the failure causes double charging a customer that's likely far more serious than if it double emails a customers. And if
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by KayEss 12y ago
Looks like you overflowed when when_was == 9, or maybe there's a time machine involved?
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by KayEss 12y ago
Might be interesting, but the site is down already

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