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Ruby's rmagick Gem looking for a maintainer(github.com)
51 points by andrewvc 16y ago|13 comments
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by andrewvc 16y ago
That's true 99.99% of the time. However, just to play devil's advocate, there is a class of attacks based around injecting code into logfiles since they'll log the query string of a GET request. If you can then get the server to say include
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by andrewvc 16y ago
PoF built critical mass via marketing. OKC is a superior product in every way except sheer number of users.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Plus selectively painting the mask of an adjustment layer is useful as well
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Technically yes, but not at all in practice. Once you run 3 adjustments you generally want to tweak the first. Without adjustment layers you usually just run a fourth transformation.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
If you're interested in reading it, you may as well just go for the whole collection of his amazing non-fictions: http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Fictions-Jorge-Luis-Borges/d...
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Borges' 'The Garden of Forking Paths'. A Hypertext Novel?(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by andrewvc 16y ago|2 comments
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by andrewvc 16y ago
The arguments may be bunk, but I do think we should challenge our base assumptions from time to time. From that perspective I find this sort of thing fun.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Agreed, good for Rich. Personally, I'd have no problem blowing people off who ask for more than they were promised if it got to this point. Then again, that might bring negativity to the community, so I can see how the decision to just stop
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A Journey Through fork(2), and clone(2) with strace(1)(blog.andrewvc.com)
3 points by andrewvc 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Yep: $ grep fork /usr/include/asm/unistd_64.h #define __NR_fork 57 __SYSCALL(__NR_fork, stub_fork) #define __NR_vfork 58 __SYSCALL(__NR_vfork, stub_vfork) $ strace -f ruby -e 'syscall 57' 2>&1 | egrep 'fo
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I caught the same thing, but learned something interesting while double checking I wasn't crazy (from man 2 fork): Since version 2.3.3, rather than invoking the kernel's fork() system call, the glibc fork() wrapper that is provided as
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by andrewvc 16y ago
One other thing a lot of people don't know about Rubinius is that its fundamental concurrency primitive is Rubinius::Channel, similar to channels in Go. For example, see Rubinius' implementation of class Mutex: https://github.com/evanphx/r
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by andrewvc 16y ago
For more information about Rubinius: http://rubini.us/ More language implementations on top of Rubinius: http://rubini.us/projects/
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Typhon is a Python implementation for the Rubinius (ruby) VM(github.com)
50 points by andrewvc 16y ago|5 comments
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by andrewvc 16y ago
It is a meritocracy in that simple projects often only have 1 person working on them. One would think, given that , there'd be more women involved, as there's no discrimination there.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Here's my question. Where are the girls in FOSS? Given that 15-17% number, you'd think there would be more. What are the barriers?
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Thought I'd chime in and mention em-synchrony, EventMachine(Reactor Loop) + Fibers(coroutines).
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Interesting article, but I'm not sold on the benefits of N rack mini-apps vs a rails app w/ multiple controllers, the author even mentions that each mini-app is, in-essence, a controller. It honestly mostly just sounds like more of a pain i
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I use vagrant every day, it's really a must-have for a complex stack.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I wonder what the performance benefit of adding optional type hints to ruby or python would be.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I love the idea of this not for performance but for ease of administration and security.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
ROR is NOT for those who are willing to just get it done . What does that even mean? I work full time as a Rails developer, and I'd love to give a counterpoint to your obvious distate for Rails, but I have no idea what you're even trying t
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Agreed. I think it's pretty hard to not know what it's like to feel stupid at least some of the time. Even most geniuses are 'stupid' in at least one area. Most of us have felt the sting of seeing a colleague, friend, or stranger pick up a
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I would call made up statistics about the greatness of your framework (11x better!) hilariously inflammatory. In fact the humorous depth of the statements' detachment from reality kinda takes any real power to incite away from them.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Is David Pollak trying to take on DHH for the title of most inflammatory framework creator? If so, well played.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Wow, thanks for brining that up. PoF is always trotted out on HN as a scaling success and a model way to run a business. I'd say it's more a story of reaching critical mass and doing a mediocre, but good enough job to keep people from leavi
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by andrewvc 16y ago
The real tv journalism gets done by PBS's Frontline.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
The article does a decent job of introducing the concepts of peering and transit. However, it's pretty long winded and goes through a number of tortured justifications. Here's a much simpler explanation: Comcast is charging Level 3 because
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Removing the Seatbelts: Implementing/using mmap in Go(blog.labix.org)
1 points by andrewvc 16y ago|0 comments

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