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by alexforster 11y ago
You may want to reconsider. CoPP only goes so far, as we've learned the hard way.
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by alexforster 11y ago
You may want to go pinging around some of your own tier 1 crossconnects. I bet you'll be surprised.
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by alexforster 11y ago
Stopping them from directly hitting our routers has been the most difficult, because our routers have IPs on 1000+ /24's, which means RTBH can't work because no tier 1 will accept 1000+ null routes. The same is true when they
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by alexforster 11y ago
We appreciate this more than you know. Many of us have had the holidays ruined by these utterly relentless attacks, and it's a difficult thing to try and explain to our loved ones. Support from the community really helps.
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by alexforster 11y ago
We know that we've dropped the ball here. To be frank, it's just been extremely difficult to take our people off of mitigation long enough to write something more coherent than "they're attacking our webservers", &q
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An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks(status.linode.com)
143 points by alexforster 11y ago|100 comments
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by alexforster 11y ago
I would hope it is obvious based on the extent and duration of the attacks that RTBH is not an option in this case.
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by alexforster 11y ago
This is the first time I've ever had a "real" website block me for using an ad blocker. The "continue to site" button loops back to this screen until you turn ABP off. http://imgur.com/qacLPmC.png
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by alexforster 11y ago
Intel has produced some of the best quality low-level OSS codebases in recent history. I'm currently deep into DPDK, a userspace networking library with performance unmatched by Snabb et al. I remember learning about TBB at 17 and feel
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by alexforster 11y ago
> How does the rest of the world manage instant transfers? The same way the US stock markets can do 5 billion trades per month in realtime, with technology: technology that costs money, wipes out a major investment revenue stream, and ne
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by alexforster 11y ago
Interesting Twitter cheat related to this- if you go to ads.twitter.com and sign up with a credit card, you'll get a lot of new metrics exposed to you without ever actully having to spend any money. I have an abysmal "engagement&q
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by alexforster 11y ago
Both are well-known TLDs that can't be acquired without verification by the US government. Presumably the assumption is that these URLs can be guaranteed to never exist.
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by alexforster 11y ago
They're mostly all some combination of lock-free/wait-free single-producer multi-consumer datastructures, meaning one thread can produce some data (think, an epoll/kqueue I/O thread) and then many other threads can consu
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by alexforster 11y ago
It's actually used as a way to avoid casting into and out of void* on every line. Think C++ templates. The documentation is somewhat lacking, but it's not too hard to figure out the APIs, and once you do, actually using the libr
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by alexforster 11y ago
I'm not a statistician, which is why I really like this kind of approach. It feels "FiveThirtyEight" trustworthy to me – a weighted average of different opinions. The claim that it "dynamically adjusts the weight of each
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Typescript adds support for React's inline JSX syntax(jbrantly.com)
2 points by alexforster 11y ago|0 comments
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by alexforster 11y ago
Hardware-wise, you'll be using the same spec hypervisors that are in all of the other datacenters. Network-wise, it's difficult to get consistent, low latency connectivity to the entire Asia Pacific region, but we're already
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by alexforster 11y ago
This is about right. A lot of the performance seems to be coming from lower hypervisor CPU overhead and better I/O virtualization with virtio.
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by alexforster 11y ago
There's also a new Singapore datacenter that launched recently– https://blog.linode.com/2015/04/27/hello-singapore/
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Linode turns 12, transitions from Xen to KVM(blog.linode.com)
168 points by alexforster 11y ago|49 comments
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by alexforster 11y ago
A first class API for cross-document communication is something that has been sorely needed for a long time. I've solved this problem in the past by treating LocalStorage as a page of shared memory and using it to create a publish&#x2F
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by alexforster 12y ago
Laughed hard at timeoutSet()
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by alexforster 12y ago
"The first commit of 2014 was to bump the copyright date, but then jsing jumped the gun and bumped it again at the end of the year, resulting in a copyright year one day shorter than the calendar year. Last commit, for the curious.&quo
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by alexforster 12y ago
I'm hoping it'll be an allusion to Rust and an article about how none of this nonsense is necessary, but I don't think so based on his past writing.
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by alexforster 12y ago
The salt for the email could be a CRC, or a Fisher-Yates, or any of a dozen other novel one-way transformations.
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by alexforster 12y ago
Southern New Jersey, Philadelphia, northern Delaware | In-House or Remote | Full-Time Stack (professional): C# + .NET (ASP.NET MVC+Razor, etc), Javascript (jQuery, React, Backbone.js, TypeScript), HTML5/CSS3, MSSQL/MySQL/Post
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by alexforster 12y ago
Southern New Jersey, Philadelphia, northern Delaware // In-House or Remote // Full-Time Stack (professional): C# + .NET (ASP.NET MVC+Razor, etc), Javascript (jQuery, React, Backbone.js, TypeScript), HTML5/CSS3, MSSQ
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by alexforster 13y ago
I don't understand why NSS[1] isn't more highly regarded. It's the crypto library that both Chrome and Firefox use, and it has a comparatively good security record[2]. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US&#
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by alexforster 13y ago
Unfortunately, that isn't compatible with the DNS spec. Specifically, it conflicts with the concept of "short names" versus "fully qualified names" (FQDN's). A DNS resolver interprets a "dotless domain&quo
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by alexforster 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weiser He appears to have died within a year or two after this site was last updated. http://www.std.org/ is also referenced as the website of his band. This domain is

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