aroman

78 ms·

751.
by aroman 13y ago
I used Gentoo a while ago, and I did enjoy the experience, but found the culture and system to be a bit mired in old stubborn tradition. An interesting fork-ish project is Exherbo, which is basically Gentoo but much lighter (in architecture
752.
by aroman 13y ago
Interesting. I wonder if anyone has built (or it would make any practical sense) a distributed silent bot net not for DDoS of websites but rather of math . Imagine a small, otherwise-benign virus which simply spends some of your CPU cycl
753.
by aroman 13y ago
> Twitter no longer wants to be a web app. Twitter wants to be a set of APIs that power mobile clients worldwide, acting as one of the largest real-time event busses on the planet. Wait, then why are they actively destroying their thir
754.
Punching data on computer cards [1969](youtube.com)
1 points by aroman 13y ago|0 comments
755.
by aroman 13y ago
Some excellent points here. The inflexibility of the auth page and the anti-"magic" stuff really hit home.
756.
by aroman 13y ago
This five thousand times. This is precisely my sentiment on the matter. I'm not such a fanboy as to believe Apple's infallible, but I do firmly believe they'll know when they've screwed up. You can bet there are plenty
757.
by aroman 13y ago
Said no one at Apple ever? I'm being facetious of course, but really, Apple changes their designs up on the regular, even if it isn't "broken". See: the iMac product line.
758.
by aroman 13y ago
I thought about this too, but then realized it's a completely moot point unless you are black/white color blind (which virtually nobody is). Differing colors are NOT being used to indicate differing actions. They're just bein
759.
by aroman 13y ago
That really doesn't offer feature overlap with FileVault2's full disk encryption. Though using TC is a great alternative for specific disks and folders -- not an entire system from preboot through log-in.
760.
by aroman 13y ago
This. I didn't say anything on the Brython post from yesterday, but I certainly wasn't very impressed having seen it at least twice before on HN and what with the dozens of foo-to-JS transcompilers that have been cropping up lately. I didn'
761.
CoffeeScript 1.6.3 released(coffeescript.org)
1 points by aroman 13y ago|0 comments
762.
by aroman 13y ago
From step #2: "One thing that older employees often don’t understand about Millenials is that Millenials have been rewarded their entire lives for doing things as fast and as efficiently as possible. Video games, homework assignments, text
763.
by aroman 13y ago
Isn't a major point of these websites that you can exceed the low filesize cap of email?
764.
by aroman 13y ago
#25: "The ability to Find My Friends without having to open up an app covered in leather. This will allow vegetarians to finally use the product."
765.
by aroman 13y ago
Because when you're not operating at significant scale, or have certain specific use cases, it's a fantastically elegant solution and one that's very quick and easy to set up. I have used mongodb for a number of smaller projects, and I have
766.
by aroman 13y ago
I really don't understand what your service does. Nor do I understand what it is offering that I can't do already with a simple few-line Makefile. We're developers. Saying "it does X" means much less than "it does X by Y". How exactly doe
767.
by aroman 13y ago
So where and how do you store these passwords which you don't know?
768.
by aroman 13y ago
And also whether "hashed" means salted and hashed or just simply hashed. Honestly, I would feel much more comfortable if sites publicly disclosed their password encryption strategy. Just saying "oh they're hashed" really doesn't make me fee
769.
Contact Yahoo (1998)(docs.yahoo.com)
79 points by aroman 13y ago|36 comments
770.
Why YouTube views freeze at 301(geek.com)
7 points by aroman 14y ago|0 comments
771.
by aroman 14y ago
Well then it wouldn't be very private, would it? I mean if you're trusting this website with your commit logs, presumably they would also have access to all of your source code... I guess it depends on your needs for privacy.
772.
by aroman 14y ago
I'm glad that someone posted this :) See also a longer spin of of this talk at the more decent dotJS conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8xNAc2ic8
773.
by aroman 14y ago
Thanks for shedding some light onto your thought process about this. I can definitely understand it a bit better now. I guess I feel differently when you say "if you're not paying us for the service", since I pay ~$50/mo in addons through H
774.
by aroman 14y ago
While that's true, I just really don't understand why I have to resort to sucks hacks to simply eliminate idling. I am a paying Heroku customer with a CC on file... I just want to give them money to do something properly which I could hack
775.
by aroman 14y ago
"Do single 2X dyno apps idle? Yes. Idling affects single 1X and 2X dyno apps alike." I genuinely do not understand this. I'm still paying for it. I run a node.js app for my school that gets decent traffic, but not enough to warrant adding a
776.
by aroman 14y ago
They're working on it; it's called ES6. But in terms of your claim that "It's no longer reasonable for people to deny that JavaScript doesn't lend itself well to optimizing run-time performance", I'm not sure what to say to that. JavaScript
777.
by aroman 14y ago
I wonder what it would take to make an adapter for this to Backbone. I'm sure i'm not the only one a little annoyed by the amount of boilerplate I need to write to define every API endpoint I expose from MongoDB as a Backbone-compatible RES
778.
by aroman 14y ago
Is there even a reasonable situation where a one-sided "forbearance agreement" is ever appropriate? Or even remotely fair? That seems like basically writing up a contract that says "By signing this you owe me $100" but entrenching and obf
779.
by aroman 14y ago
As a node developer, I'm curious to know what if anything asm.js can do for node? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but wouldn't asm.js allow basically all of node's core to be written in JavaScript itself, rather than in C/++? I think
780.
by aroman 14y ago
This is absolutely fantastic. Reminds me of: http://www.constellation7.org/Constellation-Seven/Josiah/Ind...

More ›