abritishguy

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by abritishguy 10y ago
With great difficulty it seems.
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by abritishguy 10y ago
I'm curious as to what makes you think that Java is preferable to Go for a large webapp that "spends most of its time talking to databases or message queues". I would have thought that the Go's concurrency model would gi
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by abritishguy 10y ago
Electron (formerly called Atom-shell) was created for Atom. The source you cited even says this!
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by abritishguy 11y ago
If this is what it seems then that is ludicrous.
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by abritishguy 11y ago
I like this a lot, it's always tempting to think that we can create a perfect language that would be the best in all situations but we can't. Rust is great for projects where its values are valued: - Speed - Memory Safety - Concur
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by abritishguy 11y ago
LONDON ONSITE Head of Security & Android Engineer Mondo Bank, London https://mondo.workable.com/ We are a startup, building a bank from scratch. We recently closed a funding round that included £1m in 96 secs via crowdc
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by abritishguy 11y ago
You can add you American Express (or whatever) card to Apple Pay, the protection and points are not in the plastic.
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by abritishguy 11y ago
I know but the semantics are different.
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by abritishguy 11y ago
I wonder how buggy thus is. For example, how do symlinks work given windows doesn't have an equivalent that behaves the same.
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by abritishguy 11y ago
What happens if a package is depended on but contains pirated things?
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by abritishguy 11y ago
I've always liked this article by one of Stripe's interface designers: https://medium.com/@bdc/chrome-is-the-new-ie-1a21c1efc133#.3... >Chrome is unfortunately contributing to the web’s bad reputation by c
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by abritishguy 11y ago
One of the difficulties Concorde had was the sonic boom, drawing attention to it doesn't seem wise.
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Ask HN: What's with the black bar?
1 points by abritishguy 11y ago|2 comments
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by abritishguy 11y ago
The former, something like Rust.
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by abritishguy 11y ago
So many memory corruption issues, I'd like to think in 5/10 years time this would be solved and everything written in a safe language but maybe I'm being optimistic.
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by abritishguy 11y ago
If this is genuine then it is absolutely inexcusable - this isn't some complex attack, that is web 101 stuff.
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by abritishguy 11y ago
Agreeing to the terms could be giving permission though...
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by abritishguy 11y ago
Insurance is for if someone suffers losses because a valid certificate was issued to someone it shouldn't have been.
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by abritishguy 11y ago
It doesn't say anything about remote install - in fact it says "physical possession" several times.
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by abritishguy 11y ago
[I work at Mondo] >at the expense customer experience and true security I always call this "lazy security"[1] and it's what you get when you hire some security professionals to "make it secure". It's a mista
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by abritishguy 11y ago
[I work at Mondo] Like any bank we will have an anti-fraud engine that proactively declines transactions that have a high risk of fraud. We are going to work very hard to ensure the false positive rate is very low. That being said, the syst
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by abritishguy 11y ago
>After 2008, unfortunately, regulations have made it much more difficult to incorporate a bank The capital requirements to launch a bank have actually been relaxed since the financial crash. The government wants more competition in the i
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by abritishguy 11y ago
Not the only one, I wonder if it is US only (I'm UK)
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by abritishguy 11y ago
I don't see a distributed lock implementation being both 100% correct without any support of the resources guarded by the lock and actually feasible. For data which absolutely must never violate the lock then the underlying data storag
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by abritishguy 11y ago
This is interesting, I'm not sure how digital ocean would be a good fit for a startup.
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$250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups(blog.ycombinator.com)
12 points by abritishguy 11y ago|2 comments
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Lazy Security(medium.com)
5 points by abritishguy 11y ago|0 comments
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by abritishguy 11y ago
Check out https://getmondo.co.uk/docs/
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by abritishguy 11y ago
That is harder than just running the experiment online.
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by abritishguy 11y ago
Wow, strange that people weren't reporting these merge issues when they were clearly impacting people.

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