Twirrim

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by Twirrim 13y ago
I find that I miss data centre work I used to do for a mid-sized hosting company for precisely this reason. I miss doing stuff with my hands. Racking and unracking servers, network equipment and similar is cathartic in a way that is hard
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by Twirrim 13y ago
Is the JRuby environment sufficiently different that you can't TDD against MRI and then save JRuby for final validation testing and deployment? They shouldn't be that different, unless you're not writing pure ruby code. Al
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by Twirrim 13y ago
> and the community should feel very lucky that such an obvious vulnerability was in the wild for so long without being exploited. We have no reason to assume they haven't. The 0-day market is extremely lucrative, and they trade ex
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by Twirrim 13y ago
Yet somehow, when you get into the tech industry, you discover the bullying, derision and such like are all there. In the community you'd like to call home. If you're not doing it in Ruby/Clojure/Java/Python/J
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by Twirrim 13y ago
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." It could be any number of things, like a problem with one of their peering providers. I wouldn't take one customer support age
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by Twirrim 13y ago
That's not exactly much evidence of a hack
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by Twirrim 13y ago
I'm baffled by the idea that anyone was ever deluded that it was.
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by Twirrim 13y ago
If you rely on a single secure (for certain values of the word 'secure') messaging system or protocol you're absolutely insane. You'd want to be splitting your communication across multiple communication sources, with n
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by Twirrim 13y ago
That's interesting. Only about a year and a half ago when there was the leap second fun that disrupted so many people they were running on CentOS 5 (and so weren't affected): https://twitter.com/adrianco/stat
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by Twirrim 13y ago
Then use a local storage one, like password-safe (Win & Mac. password-gorilla for Linux). Combine that with spideroak, dropbox, google drive or whatever file syncing utility you want.
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by Twirrim 13y ago
Welcome to HN, home of the shameless plug and the nearly mindless rants.
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by Twirrim 13y ago
3 letters
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by Twirrim 13y ago
Sure, I'll give you SSH access to my servers. I know I can totally trust you!
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by Twirrim 13y ago
RedHat and a sizeable number of companies will disagree with you there. Open source is perfectly profitable and competitive.
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by Twirrim 13y ago
That makes a lot of sense, thank you :)
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by Twirrim 13y ago
The javascript engines (spidermonkey, v8 et. al.) have undergone a terrific amount of work optimising the performance of the VM over the past several years. Unless I'm thinking about this all wrong, doesn't this just show that spi
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by Twirrim 13y ago
Confirmation bias 101? This is probably the most "echo chamber" friendly statement of any I've seen here. An assertion with no evidence, seemingly rooted in a self satisfying sense of superiority, based on the bizarre proposition that the o
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by Twirrim 16y ago
See that's not actually solving the problem. Thats more like pretending that the problem doesn't actually exist. Instead of investigate and fix permanently so that customers don't experience problems they'd rather just keep letting the pr
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by Twirrim 16y ago
It's undocumentable because as strange as it seems, no two problems are the same. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, not even a one-size-fits-many. At best we have a series of one-size-may-fit-you-if-you're-lucky options. Disqus isn
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by Twirrim 16y ago
Why the obsession with using one or the other? Why not see that both have their appropriate uses, strengths and weaknesses? My focus as a Sysadmin is Linux, purely by nature of the type of work I'm in, so I tend to keep up only with the ben