NyxWulf

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by NyxWulf 15y ago
We use the authentication in our apps. It's simple, and as Zephyr suggested I wouldn't recommend using that as your only security - it's not our only security, just part of the overall approach.
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
I'll play. I worked at a financial institution for several years. On the one hand you'd think we were secure because we used a relational database, but we also had a heavily segmented network with all of the databases in their own VLAN's
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
We use hadoop, cassandra, and redis in production. I've never found Information Week to be a high quality source of information, and unfortunately this is no exception. Data systems almost always rely on being in segmented and protected p
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
They are all for 1/4 of the year, it's just that the other segments are for Q4 and that segment is for Q1.
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
I've read through a large portion of the PDF version of your book quite a few times. It is very well written and helped me understand a number of different techniques very well. I definitely recommend Sean's book as a starting point if you
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
From a branding point of view I like this name much better. It's much easier to communicate, two simple words with obvious spellings. If I say hey you should checkout Crossfilter, they can easily look that up. With Tesseract, not so much
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
This is an interesting idea. It's hard to say how probable it is, because that requires certain tipping point actions to occur like we saw in the Arab Spring to get a mass movement going. The reality is though that our current system is ba
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
This article was focused on the business landscape and Apple's competitors. Saying that some new technology may emerge in the next decade or two to unseat it is missing the point. If the Ipad turns out to be unbeatable for the next decade
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
I just checked out lean domain search, it actually looks pretty handy. I like how fast it is at generating domain names and checking for availability. One feature that would make it much more useful is the ability to specify multiple word
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
I'm at the airport heading home from Strata right now. I have to say the conference was very disappointing. There were far too many commercially "sponsored" sessions. There seemed to be no quality or content guidelines for the talks and
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
I believe that was in reference to the construction of logic gates. In that context I don't think probabilistic gates are considered conventional.
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
The systems I work on are pretty sizable in scale, right now we are doing about 120 million calls a day on one of core clusters. I don't claim to be the end all authority on scaling, but I do have some observations based on what I've dealt
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
It all depends on the nature of the request. Our nginx servers are tuned to burst to 7000 requests/second and run stable at 4800 requests/second for simple content. Our overall scale is about 1/5th of what Tumblr is doing daily and we hav
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
In support of the notion that Under a microscope, everyone is a criminal I'll add this data point. The police raided the house of a veteran here in town a few months back for possession of small amounts of marijuana. The veteran opened fir
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
I agree. In particular I don't find the efficacy argument very strong. Making murder against the law doesn't stop it either, does that mean we should just let it go? China also knows that their censoring doesn't stop everyone, but it stop
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
I haven't seen any one product that does all of that, but generally I want to separate heartbeating and status updates from the other queue functionality. ZooKeeper will do a lot of the heartbeating, presence, status changes, list clients,
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
I have to say that this type of behavior is the exact thing that moved me from Reddit to HN. Something one of organizational behavior professors said stuck with me: anonymous online discussions have a disinhibiting effect. The point was c
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
Bribing the foreign officials would definitely violate the foreign corrupt practices act. Paying the developer 100k to sever the relationship would not have been a bribe. They may have been outraged by that, but depending on the nature of
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
Criminality is related to breaking laws. Doing business internationally is difficult because the laws are not consistent and cross-border enforcement is difficult in the best of cases. When entering into a business relationship you often
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
Queueing theory is a prominent topic in Operations Research. If you want to read a detailed book on it, Fundamentals of Queueing theory by Thompson et al is the bible. A couple of additional thoughts, pooling queues like this only works if
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
My experience was more like yours as well. Here are some metrics you can use to evaluate certain things, but here are the 50 problems with using this metric in isolation. Generally I think the curriculum taught in my school was fantastic,
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
My experience with pharma was similar to the GP sans the weed. I take Adderall.
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
@antirez and the Redis team. Thank you for the wonderful work you do. Redis is an integral part of our infrastructure, and we have truly enjoyed working with it.
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
The repos update too slowly for them to be up to date on Redis, at least at the current pace Redis is moving at. You can find the latest build here: http://redis.io/download it's pretty simple to build and install. Setting up a producti
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
Sociopath is a tough word because it means a lot of things and it really isn't used in clinical diagnosis. Based on the historical patterns though a sociopath was typically someone lacking any type of empathy, so they would do things hurt
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
This is my favorite response. One of the reasons I came to HN from Reddit was that the proportion of populist/echochamber articles and comments to well thought out and insightful articles and comments changed unfavorably imo. It makes me
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by NyxWulf 16y ago
I wasn't talking about seeing advertisements or pictures. I mean literally see one. I don't see them in the stores anywhere, and I certainly have never seen one in someone's hands out in the wild.
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by NyxWulf 16y ago
Your argument is based on tangential statements relating to your mores. I made no moral or value judgements, just a simple analysis of the situation. None of what you said even addresses my central premise, that the ecosystem is the issue
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by NyxWulf 16y ago
Apple doesn't need to do this to keep competitors at bay. I don't think they will do it, but that's a different story. Right now Apple's biggest strength is their ecosystem. Developers creating high quality applications and users willing
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by NyxWulf 16y ago
I don't have the clock turned off, but all of the other cognitive distractions were removed long ago, particularly notifications of any sort. Sometimes I forget how distracting that stuff was because it's the first thing I do when I set up

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