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by asymptotic 16y ago
RE: Nitrogen. I've started using an Erlang RESTful HTTP toolkit called Webmachine ( http://webmachine.basho.com/ ) paired with an Erlang-based distributed key-value store called Riak ( http://wiki.basho.com/ ) and I am very pleased with th
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Time-based bugs are a nightmare to debug but in my opinion the far more insidious side to them is that, even once you've found the bug, there's an easy workaround - just reboot the box! Papering over problems is asking for disaster, as the
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Hahahah he uses a Unicode snowman as his example delimeter! $ echo '{"abc/def": 123}' | jsonpipe -s '☃' ☃ {} ☃abc/def 123 I'm ready to face the day with a smile on my face.
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Readability works on the page: https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets
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by asymptotic 16y ago
I like this a lot, thanks for posting this. However, I can't seem to access the actual articles by clicking on a post - is this just my browser or does this not happen? How does one go to the actual articles? And it would be helpful if ea
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Chapter 6 of "The Mind of God" by Paul Davies also addresses this topic ( http://www.amazon.com/Mind-God-Scientific-Basis-Rational/dp/... ). I read the book a long time ago but IIRC this was a particularly interesting chapter, as was Chapt
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by asymptotic 16y ago
This is fantastic, thank you so much for posting this. I felt like pointing out another headless Webkit project, PhantomJS ( http://www.phantomjs.org/ ), which can also perform HTML to PDF conversion. edit: I've just run a comparison betwe
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by asymptotic 16y ago
You've missed the point the article. FTA: "Enrique Allen, the firm’s designer and the founder of its accelerator program, announced The Designer Fund today at 500 Startups’ first Demo Day. He noted that many successful startups including Y
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by asymptotic 16y ago
You're welcome! I'm always glad to help. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=node.js+chat+site%3Aycombinator.com
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Remember twitch.me (node.js realtime chat)? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840914 Chat.io, new HTML5 / Node.JS-powered social group, launches http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2343840 Show HN: Node.js console chat http://news.y
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by asymptotic 16y ago
The slidedecks from two presentations are far more interesting and enlightening than the original post, which instead refers to a new batch of available data. From DEFCON18, titled "An Observatory for the SSLiverse": https://www.eff.org/fi
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by asymptotic 16y ago
I don't want to come across too harshly, but I've looked through the site for about ten minutes and couldn't figure out what this is. This app is a replacement for the default Android home screen? Or does it replace lots of other UI eleme
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by asymptotic 16y ago
In case anyone else stumbled upon this thread, I've always thought running a VirtualBox VM in Bridged Networking mode still did not allow the VM instance to be externally accessible. However, then I read this ServerFault thread and realised
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Sorry, there seems to have been a misunderstanding; I completely agree with you. I thought you were asking "Why bother using sessions keys, rather than encrypt the whole message using RSA?". My bad.
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by asymptotic 16y ago
It goes without saying that you shouldn't do a simple "rm" on the password file. I'm not going to put on my tin-foil hat and start gibbering about magnetic alignment and electron tunnel microscopy but this is just "one of those things" tha
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Agreed. /dev/urandom should be mixed with other sources of entropy (system statistics, epoch, low-level counters, cryptographic PRNGs like Yarrow) and then "combined" using a cryptographic hash. Such a principle is used in e.g. Fortuna. S
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Speed, because cryptanalysis via cipher-text only attacks becomes easier as you get more and more ciphertext associated with a given key, and because if someone attempts to analyse a memory core dump or the memory space of your computer hop
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Yes. It turns out 12GB of RAM does come in handy. (I have the same setup, Win7 w/ Ubuntu VM). What's more annoying is doing port mapping through VirtualBox's XML configuration files, but this is a one-off task and not too complex. I'm ser
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Everyone here's already given solid advice to you, so I'm here to offer my two cents from a slightly different perspective. In "Outliers", Malcolm Gladwell points out research that indicates there are three requirements for a job to be sati
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by asymptotic 16y ago
I try to automate tasks in a hierarchical, re-usable fashion, based on log file output, and always in a pragmatic, least-cost approach. No-one is paying me to make my life easier. For example, I'll find myself performing tasks X, Y, and Z
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by asymptotic 16y ago
I found myself chuckling at all the odd little pictures used to denote invalid memory areas or edge conditions (16-bit Windows is a semi-truck stuck in mud, integer truncation is the top of a truck getting shorn off by an overpass). Haha!
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by asymptotic 16y ago
"In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him." --Ralph Waldo Emerson Humility my man, humility. Everyone's eaten humble pie before; if you don't eat it on a semi-regular basis you're not pushing y
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Interesting that you mention this. I'm almost done re-reading "The Logic of Failure" by Dietrich Dörner and have come across this gem (p170) (s/war/software engineering/, s/commander/developer/): "The effects of "methodism" - the unthinkin
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Sorry, NoScript stays on by default. Your move.
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by asymptotic 16y ago
The Boost Interval Container Library (ICL) is relatively new; it's new from 1.46.0, which came out on 21st February 2011, hence it's quite likely few people have heard of this before. Also, the underlying implementation ( http://www.boost.o
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by asymptotic 16y ago
This strikes me as a novel approach of getting around the difficulty of setting up large numbers of little scripts and dependencies on a server. However, for those of you who don't want to both renting out an EC2 instance or launching a VMW
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by asymptotic 16y ago
I think there's a much more important angle to this story than "lol the guy doesn't know crypto basics". The angle you're looking for is "White, Jewish kaffirs can't make anything as pure and effective as our Muslim bretheren". I did a qui
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by asymptotic 16y ago
If you open-source under the GNU General Public License (GPL) then competitors would be prohibited from re-using your code without applying the same license to their codebase. Would looking at your code be sufficient to put you at a disadva
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by asymptotic 16y ago
RE: your GitHub section on the right hand side. I couldn't care less how many repos you're watching. I care about what you're committing, its quality, and general use by some (any) community. However, putting such details into a CV is way,
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by asymptotic 16y ago
I'm surprised noone pointed out this post from Sriram Krishnan, a product manager at Microsoft: Stuff I've Learned at Microsoft http://www.sriramkrishnan.com/blog/2009/12/stuff-ive-learned... "Ask for forgiveness, not for permission ... A

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