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11881.
by api 10y ago
... and now we know why most network protocols are over engineered junk.
11882.
by api 10y ago
Yes, I've seen standards committees and this is very typical. For most committees take the average IQ of all members and divide by member count. The only exceptions are those that are very well run by people with social skills and a go
11883.
by api 10y ago
The ciphers aren't the problem. The protocols are. IPSEC is insanely over engineered, as are most protocols these days. It's not just in crypto. I was looking at the guts of web sockets the other day and was like WHY WHY WHY WHY W
11884.
by api 10y ago
While it could be the NSA, I think with things like IPSEC simple over engineering is more likely. Over engineering is an absolute plague in software. In ordinary cases it just makes things buggy, hard to maintain, and bloated and inefficien
11885.
by api 10y ago
I tend to try to write monolithic services in such a way that they could be broken up into microservices if that were ever desired. I don't go too far with this, just avoid things like shared static state and other anti-patterns.
11886.
by api 10y ago
I wasn't saying it's a good thing, just that it's a fact. Wealth brings the luxury of caring about the environment. Poverty is absolute desperation. If you are dirt poor the only thing that matters is not being dirt poor. Thi
11887.
by api 10y ago
There's a third reason that I've thought about for a while. I call it "it's better to reign in hell." Extreme poverty is worse than most natural disasters. I wouldn't be surprised if infant mortality is substan
11888.
by api 10y ago
Postgres is horribly painful to cluster though, while RethinkDB clusters are trivially easy to set up.
11889.
by api 10y ago
Absolutely. Tangent but... I've long thought that "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is sort of a waste of breath... not because it's wrong but because over-engineering is a far greater problem today than
11890.
by api 10y ago
You've really hit on the elephant nobody talks about because talking about actual inborn differences in human ability is taboo across the board. What we will see in the 21st century is a large fraction of the human population fall off
11891.
by api 10y ago
Absolutely. He believes nothing and only cares about winning. That makes him trivial to manipulate. Just stroke his ego and make him think it's his decision, or that it will make him go down in history, etc.
11892.
by api 10y ago
Question: what is the primary grievance against the EU?
11893.
by api 10y ago
I said few, not none. I give Sanders and Paul credit.
11894.
by api 10y ago
To be fair nearly everyone voted for that. Few had the spine to be "soft on terror" in the 2000s.
11895.
by api 10y ago
I realized we lived in what almost is a one party state after Obama took power and not much changed. Surveillance expansion continued or even accelerated, as did our endless wars. Obamacare is a Republican proposal even... it's based o
11896.
by api 10y ago
This illustrates what's wrong with GPG: it's too hard to use. Why so many arguments for a common task? Why aren't the defaults acceptable?
11897.
by api 10y ago
We pay our engineers near or maybe a bit below the average for the Los Angeles metro area. Our coworking space is a bit cheaper than what you quoted, but not radically so. We pay about $800/month for three desks, storage space, and ame
11898.
by api 10y ago
I've been saying this for years: science is far too conservative, dogmatic, and risk-averse. The reality is that genius minds are intellectually fearless. Newton was into alchemy and fringe theology. Edison tried to build a machine to
11899.
by api 10y ago
Really? That blows my mind. We are small granted but for us office space is a little under 3% of our burn. Of course we're in SoCal and use an economical coworking space. Are there no such things in the Bay or do they cost way more?
11900.
by api 10y ago
I've said for a long time that if investors insist on only funding Bay Area companies they should just skip the middleman and cut checks directly to real estate owners and speculators.
11901.
by api 10y ago
I'm not sure about that. A lot of what I've read about sounds like they were chasing Netflix with a lot of cash but no idea how to compete. The article mentions that big cos are using BitTorrent for cluster upgrades. There's
11902.
by api 10y ago
"Third, because of the freedom extended by the two most popular open source licenses these infrastructure vendors can host successful open source projects without constraint. And because of their scale, they can do it at a fraction of
11903.
by api 10y ago
They should have picked one single niche application for BitTorrent and built a killer product around that.
11904.
by api 10y ago
Dell should buy Ubuntu. That might be interesting.
11905.
by api 10y ago
Ice could work. I wonder if it could be polished to work as a window?
11906.
by api 10y ago
Unfortunately the maxim continues to prove true: "nobody cares about privacy or security." I've come to the conclusion that technical loss of privacy is inevitable because customers don't care, and that when the you know
11907.
by api 10y ago
I love "stupid" questions like this. We can say that the vast majority of living beings on Earth do not seem to seek any form of radical self improvement beyond ordinary developmental learning and mastery of survival skills. There
11908.
by api 10y ago
Things like this always make me think of Martian settlement and what kinds if clever building methods we might discover there.
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by api 10y ago
Standard Republican military Keynesianism. Too bad we are so against domestic Keynesianism. I'd rather have national high speed rail.
11910.
by api 10y ago
Couldn't this also allow you to have Yubikey-like secure enclave SSH and SSL keys?

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