amichal

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   by amichal 9y ago

   And very visible in practice. In one case we had a bucket with about 50,000 documents posted to s3 the with 204 created replies. A separate process runs to verify the uploads has 10 or so outliers taking 30s or longer to for a GET to see
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   by amichal 9y ago

   https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5516876633341952
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   by amichal 9y ago

   actually if you read the attachments at the end of the referenced complaint[1] the FBI is claiming he did a bit more then look up the agent and his family. He also sent various semi-threating messages to them on facebook. Still not sure w
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   by amichal 9y ago

   This is good. It also appears that a larger share of US e-waste is actually handled in the US then I remembered (its been trending up since the 1990s i think). I have no idea of the numbers but environmental regulations be equal (which they
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   by amichal 9y ago

   Most "Recycled" electronics are sent back to china at least in part Edit: summary at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste_in_China
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   by amichal 9y ago

   My phone does 90% of this for any car I'm in even without the OBD-II interface. The few things I would like it to do that doesn't do well (in older cars) are: * Manage climate control * Provide good old fashion FM radio re
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   by amichal 9y ago

   This video is one of my favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ Edit: Most like contains strong language...
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   by amichal 9y ago

   Clever -- bummer if you are hosting in India and have Customers in the Arab world or vis-versa i guess.
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   by amichal 9y ago

   The complexity was more in our customers application logic then in Stripe. Stripe understandably enforces quite a few sensible limits that 'normal' usage probably wouldn't hit. For us the 2 biggies were: * There is a (undocum
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    by amichal 9y ago

    Per https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/img > A purely decorative image that doesn't add any information In general, if an image is decorative but isn't especially page-specific, for example an
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    by amichal 9y ago

    check https://phd.aws.amazon.com/phd/home?region=us-east-1#/event-... when this happens... As of now it says for me "04:36 PM PDT We are investigating network connectivity issues for some instances in a singl
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    by amichal 9y ago

    I am just now in the process of completing a migration from Paypal PayFlow (Recurring Profiles) to Stripe (Subscriptions) While Stripe's API documentation is MUCH easier to understand on the face there is a lot of undocumented complexi
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    by amichal 9y ago

    Opt-in via published policy or some silly explicit checkbox?
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    by amichal 9y ago

    Found a source for this opinion. Here [1] are instructions from the Dutch Government's "Personal Data Authority" on setting up GA in compliance with their laws in a way that does (did?) not require an explicit notice. See [2
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    by amichal 9y ago

    I don't know what firefox addon pages does (and i see they have a special arrangement) and am not taking sides but for IP at least there is an option partially scrub it before it gets to disk at Google. https://support.googl
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    by amichal 9y ago

    True... as long as you know what output you are expecting for all 2^32 patterns (Not your point I know)
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    by amichal 9y ago

    Or server-side. We used it to provide quick insight into API useage with a tool the client was already using
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    by amichal 9y ago

    Very cool. The explaination of "shadow accumulation" would have been a bit closer to reality if they had used hours in their example. shadows don't move anywhere near that far in 1 minute.
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    by amichal 9y ago

    From the article: > And finally, there was "reading code." This is what I did. A lot. And typed-in the code (found in magazines) I didn't understand. The reading code bit is I one of the two* important skill that I don&#x2
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    by amichal 9y ago

    Guess: a) their misspelling dictionary is populated with past searches instead on english seed directory without taking into account if they found anything. and b) folks typed "anyhting" more often (maybe even just once) then &quo
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    by amichal 9y ago

    This is what saved bootstrap as our goto framework in our shop. Every new project starts with most modules commented out and some early attention to setting the global variables and using the mixing. This keeps things small while new module
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    by amichal 9y ago

    google managed to index this within 2 hours and so it now shows this comment as the only instance of that "word" on the internet
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    by amichal 9y ago

    I live in a part of a very small town where we get mail delivered via the post office for a neighboring town (both about the same size). Mail sent to the zipcode for my "town" won't make it to me at all (due to some postmaste
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    by amichal 9y ago

    Frustratingly the default guidance from HHS on preventing de-identification of PHI uses the first 3 digits of ZIP codes (ZCTAs actually) in their examples [1]. We've had fun conversations on publishing analyses that rolled up to other
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    by amichal 10y ago

    For me: XXX is for putting into log messages you want to grep for while debugging. They get commented or turned into useful log messages before committing/merging. Edit: I have never used them for comments... Those either have TODO&#x2
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    by amichal 10y ago

    My much less polished bash script: $ tt 2017-03-21 repo1 author date commit desc commit desc repo2 author date commit desc function tt { local day=$1; local d=$PWD; local buf=""; echo $day;
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    by amichal 10y ago

    Storing and comparing UTC is the minimum for sure but you often need to store local time and zone as entered and sometimes you do need to change what that is in UTC after the fact. I worked on a internationally-focused scheduling applicatio
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    by amichal 10y ago

    i once worked on a project (about 15 years ago) where we had access to a reverse phone book listing that was generated in part by having a copy of every distinct paper phonebook in the US (also things like school directories) sent overseas
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    by amichal 10y ago

    That's awesome, My worst DELETE fail however was: DELETE * FROM table WHERE [long condition that resolves to true for all records] Now i write SELECT or SELECT COUNT(*) over and over again until i see the data i expect and th
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    by amichal 10y ago

    Yep. Before that we used to wrap things in table cells to simulate page-break-avoid. This mostly worked. "Orphan" control was impossible at the time. I think most of the browsers do an ok job. Price ml does it all. Including th