baudehlo

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by baudehlo 10y ago
I'd love to see an active record (npi) of that 2m active web sockets. It's trivial these days to make 2m connections (it's just a RAM problem), but marshalling data between them is the non-trivial problem, as is actually havi
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by baudehlo 10y ago
It shouldn't be, but it is.
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by baudehlo 10y ago
It's ok but once you start implementing things it gets a bit hairy. Mostly because folders aren't really folders in their API, even though they are in every app that uses them. And their search API to find folders is flaky at best
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by baudehlo 10y ago
Exactly. I have a reasonably popular github project (Haraka, an SMTP server) and frankly the stars mean nothing. What really means something for an open source project is two things: - for ego only: the large scale users (eg one user I spok
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by baudehlo 10y ago
This feels like you lack an architect who can see the bigger picture of your applications. I don't mean that insultingly, but with experience you tend not to need that second system syndrome. Do you find there's less rewriting ove
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by baudehlo 10y ago
Tech talent is tight in Toronto. There are too many jobs and not enough talent. Job postings suck at attracting people here. You literally have to crawl through LinkedIn to find people. Stack overflow careers is actually pretty decent thoug
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by baudehlo 10y ago
Rock climbers in Ontario tend to be taught quite well in their training about the environment. At least I was. We tend to be quite strict about it to the point of instructing others if their actions are having a negative impact on the envir
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by baudehlo 10y ago
I am still yet to see an answer to the liability question on driverless trucks. Are the truck manufacturers going to take that insurance on? It cost Airbus billions of dollars when their software screwed up and they got massive amounts of g
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by baudehlo 10y ago
The core of MessageLabs (now Symantec's) cloud anti-spam system. 2001. Still processing around a billion emails a day. That Perl code stood up amazingly well.
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by baudehlo 10y ago
True, I can't say for sure. I'm just very hopeful.
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by baudehlo 10y ago
The religious arm in Iran is desperately trying to hold onto power. And sadly they do so with brutality. But talk to any modern Iranian with access to the Internet and they want regime change. The students tried recently and were brutally b
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by baudehlo 10y ago
Some people's bodies just burn more calories in resting than others. Or their resting isn't as resting as they think - look at people who sit but their leg twitches up and down. Ultimately it's still calories in vs out. But t
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by baudehlo 10y ago
They tried that recently. Sadly it ended with many students in prison :( Unfortunately Iran is going to have to go through a slow revolution. Where the elders die off and the young take power. In some ways this is better than a Big Bang rev
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by baudehlo 10y ago
You honestly had really shitty spam blocking before. That's all. Nothing more. They didn't invent spam free email. My morning routine involves marking at least ten emails as spam on my gmail account. They really aren't the be
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by baudehlo 10y ago
I haven't seen any yet, but Colorado is being studied very closely.
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by baudehlo 10y ago
I kind of wanted to downvote you for such a dumb post, but whatever let's leave it in your post history. Breaking the law (when you disagree with it) doesn't make you cool. Being cool makes you cool. I agree with the change in thi
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by baudehlo 10y ago
Did you try using plain SQL with unnest()?
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by baudehlo 11y ago
I still to this day feel like I never got the full system slow downs that our current OSs get on my Amiga. It may have had no memory protection and thus crashes took down the whole system, but it sure was a joy to use. It's a great sto
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Email has been scaling just fine for years. And I've run some reasonably successful open source projects (including SpamAssassin at the height of its success). I really don't see the problem. The fact that an email is easy to send
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Replying here because the above comment is too many levels deep: this shows exactly what is wrong with hiring. Especially the HR manager who is so used to getting 100 resumes and trying desperately to find a reason to throw out 80 of them.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
I had something similar happen to me on 9.2.1 - switch to readability mode in one app stopped all links working from Facebook. Took me forever to debug it.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
TAT-14 going down was the closest thing to this in my lifetime. It was a pretty crazy time. But it affected the UK more than it did the US.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
The problem is crypto is far more important than the performance of a sort algorithm, or any other standard comp-sci algorithm. And it's hard. I've been in this industry over 20 years, and been involved in a bunch of high-ish prof
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by baudehlo 11y ago
No it doesn't. It comes with template strings. Any sprintf type functionality requires you to call functions on the input. It is a tiny tiny step forward.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
No it really doesn't. It is so far away from even Perl's printf (considered ancient by most JS programmers) that it is not even funny.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
JavaScript much to my dismay has no sprintf. It's one of the most annoying omissions ever for server side work.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
It's not good that it sucks to run your own mail server. It actually sucks. But it is reality because spam burned the world. Companies that provide these services have to spend countless hours stopping spammers using their services to
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by baudehlo 11y ago
As someone who created a reasonably popular SMTP server you basically just listed why it's hard. That plus the problems of sending (ever end up in a blacklist? It's not fun). Setting up a mail server is often worth it, but require
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by baudehlo 11y ago
I actually had an idea to provide A/B testing of transactional email providers, with feedback on deliverability (using their own stats). Would that be a valuable service to anyone?
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Honestly what is the enterprise these days? Internal apps are getting very quickly replaced by SaaS. Some of them are built on Node.js and many of them aren't. Most of the larger ones are built on a mix of technologies. And so is the e

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