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by amirmc 11y ago
> "Can't comment on the content as I was too annoyed with the UX to read past a few slides" Then just don't comment at all. Someone generously put a slide deck of their talk online. A deck that was actually designe
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by amirmc 11y ago
That reasoning could also be applied to anyone who's suffering in an abusive relationship (whether emotional or physical). It would be inappropriate then, just as it's inappropriate here. In addition, not everything has to be dec
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by amirmc 11y ago
Most people do not have a background in security so this is anything but a 'duh' moment for them. The more news like this that makes it to the mainstream media, the more hopeful I am that regular folks will learn the state of secu
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by amirmc 11y ago
> "I don't know if the editor changed after 2004, but me and many other readers have the feeling that after 2004-5 the quality dropped incrementally." I'd concur with this. Even though I disagreed with some of the a
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by amirmc 11y ago
There's a nice post about entropy in such (virtualised) environments, with specific regard to unikernels. https://mirage.io/blog/mirage-entropy
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by amirmc 11y ago
> "One can't make a self-driving car by edict, ..." An edict can put a man on the moon. http://history.nasa.gov/moondec.html
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by amirmc 11y ago
My point was to refute the assertion that it's "because developers don't run companies in general." If we're going to add lots of caveats to what 'developer' means, then we're essentially making a &#
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by amirmc 11y ago
True, but there's a difference between 1. your employer having a bunch of information about you and 2. your employer signing up to a ToS with third parties that effectively hands over all your info to them. Point 2 is probably not unus
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by amirmc 11y ago
That comment is just a way of saying 'they' are not like 'me' (but trying to make it sound general). Facebook, led by a (former) dev, has gone all-in on open plan offices - which is a direct counterpoint. That people a
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by amirmc 11y ago
Network effects mean that there are few pragmatic options left. The GP may well be free to use alternatives but at what cost? Should they be selecting future employers based on the employer's choice of software? I may well be free to g
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by amirmc 11y ago
> "... meaning that a customer that sits half a day with a laptop costs Starbucks money." If you consider that the largest cost is probably rent, then people sitting around probably add only a tiny amount more. It's o
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Organized chaos: managing randomness(mirage.io)
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Royal Society Milner Award - Xavier Leroy for the OCaml Language(royalsociety.org)
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by amirmc 11y ago
That's an utterly ridiculous criterion/comparison. Of course, I'd turn around and go back home for the device that people expect to reach me on (irrespective of how 'smart' that device is - it's my phone af
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by amirmc 11y ago
> "Frankly, I live my life in front of a computer on a desk. My calendar and a million other things are one click away and in a format far more convenient than a phone ..." This exact argument also applied to smartphones, y
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by amirmc 11y ago
> "There are certainly a lot of karma coming to a lot of people who deserve it, ..." That's an extremely judgmental comment.
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by amirmc 11y ago
I also added a feed of your OCaml posts to OCaml Planet [1, 2] (just so that doesn't catch you by surprise) :) [1] http://ocaml.org/community/planet/ [2] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.or
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An overview of OCaml(simongrondin.name)
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by amirmc 11y ago
The very important difference is that at a job you get paid regardless . You can even shift your mental model such that "it's just a job" and start leaving the crap 'at work'. In a startup (esp if it's your o
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by amirmc 11y ago
Have you come across Rumpkernel? I'd recommend looking at that since it can work with legacy code. There's a static-website tutorial that describes how to use Nginx as a unikernel. http://rumpkernel.org/ https:&#
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by amirmc 11y ago
I wrote up a post about the event with some additional information, which now has a few clarifications/errata at the end. I'd welcome any feedback! http://amirchaudhry.com/unikernels-polyconf-2015/
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by amirmc 11y ago
> "...to benefit the US" More specifically, I think it benefits US corporations . There's a sleight of hand in politicians/lobbyists presenting it as benefiting the US as a whole.
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by amirmc 11y ago
Yep, that the bug was recently introduced was implied from the notice they put out. For interest, the line that was fixed from the first commit is: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/da084a5ec6cebd67ae.
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by amirmc 11y ago
> "their strategy of releasing all episodes at once for shows they produce." Interesting that they don't (can't?) do this for all the shows. For example, Better Call Saul was released on a weekly schedule in the UK
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by amirmc 11y ago
I think it's already taking off and the key difference between now and then is virtualisation. This provides a stable target and avoids the pain of having to deal with device drivers while also providing good isolation. Another way of
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by amirmc 11y ago
As an aside, you can also see how the self-hosted site is doing via https://mirage.io/stats/gc :)
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One of the really useful things is that there is now a (peer-reviewed) paper on the work, which covers much more detail about the motivation, as well as performance results ("same handshake performance as OpenSSL and 73% – 84% for bulk
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by amirmc 11y ago
Making it straightforward and easy to build/deploy secure unikernels is an important step forward. It's pretty neat that we've been able to do this using our OCaml libs throughout (we previously had instructions that used Op
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Easy HTTPS Unikernels with mirage-seal(mirage.io)
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by amirmc 11y ago
Unfortunately, that article perpetuates the same (false) dichotomy between emotion and reason. It also suggests that emotions and higher-order functions are 'competing' for control. The reality is that if the brain regions known t

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