ben509

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by ben509 6y ago
I don't see a us-fail-1 region being set up for a number of reasons. One, this is not how AWS regions are designed to work. What they're thinking of is a virtual region with none of its own datacenters, but AWS has internal assump
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by ben509 6y ago
> I really don't want to store my passwords on your "servers", and I'm sure there are few others like me - not a majority. Businesswise, it makes sense as a first push: get a solid UX working for existing 1pass users
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by ben509 6y ago
jQuery was undermined not because it wasn't a good idea or it was poorly designed, but because it matured early on and Javascript evolved rapidly enough that the technical premises it was built on no longer applied. A more concrete exa
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> It made me want to send Rob Pike a thank you card. Do it, it'll make his day.
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I tried; the house began shaking, there was a sudden eclipse and blood started trickling down the walls. Is that supposed to happen?
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by ben509 6y ago
I think there is a distinction. A nested procedure ("function" is a bit misleading in imperative languages) can close over variables in the outer scope, but has to have its own isolated control. A truly[2] anonymous procedure can
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by ben509 6y ago
Both Pascal and C borrow heavily from ALGOL, which both languages tried to simplify by leaving out various features.
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by ben509 6y ago
> There's going to come a time where Apple is going to do something shitty with this ability. Or even "someone who has the credentials Apple owns" does it. I presume they require more than one employee to be able to do tha
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by ben509 6y ago
The app store concept is fine, we need a separation of concerns. These are all things I'd rather pay someone else to do: 1. A standard format and tools for code signing. 1b. Actively validating or rejecting code on the end user machine
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by ben509 6y ago
So, that's plausible, and I'm trying to wrap my head around the operational model of signed software. Apple has plenty of docs about it [1] [2] [3] but never really get into "how does this work in the long run when things fai
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Which it should. If Apple detects that there's a problem with a cert, they should revoke it. Presumably, there's a known problem and something isn't working, even if it looks like it is. Arguably, it'd be nice to have
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by ben509 6y ago
It is a popular algorithm, especially because it's stateless, but it only works if the maze is simply connected, so a simple loop can cause it to fail. A simple mechanism that would also make it more interesting would be for wall follo
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by ben509 6y ago
> That doesn't necessarily follow, as it depends on exactly what they have zero tolerance for. It does depend on that, you're right. "Zero tolerance" sounds so clear, it even has a number in there! But, nevertheless,
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by ben509 6y ago
> We have zero tolerance for misuse of credentials or tools, actively monitor for misuse, regularly audit permissions, and take immediate action if anyone accesses account information without a valid business reason. Okay, so who has bee
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by ben509 6y ago
Having a disincentive for merchants to have many refunds makes a lot of sense. The reasonable thing to do is to ramp up the fees based on the number of refunds. You want to push away the crappy billers, but not hammer developers that have t
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by ben509 6y ago
It's hit 35%, and has broken 40% in many countries: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html IPv4 will probably never go away because it's a better choice for private networks.
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by ben509 6y ago
Oh no... shades of RealPlayer.
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by ben509 6y ago
> There are multiple logical fallacies in this sentence. No, there aren't any fallacies in that sentence and can't be. The statement expresses a personal preference; to be fallacious there must be some logic that can be unsound
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by ben509 6y ago
It sounds very alarmist, but on a close reading, it makes two observations: 1. We have no idea what kind of seeds they are, and they could be invasive. 2. The packages originate from China. The juxtapoisition of the fact that they could be
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> They'll want to obey rules until they hit one that they feel doesnt' make sense and/or needs to be broken... What the rules are is complicated by all the unwritten rules. Many people speed, but never more than 10 over th
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> From extremely conforming people originality is met with immediate hostility. I'd submit a common case of that is someone with a new idea and being confronted with all the reasons it will never work. And that really does seem like
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by ben509 6y ago
No doubt, but people need constraints. So they'll cobble together ad hoc constraints in their applications to prevent their stuff from crashing or being wrong. A DBMS's raison d'etre is to take those ad hoc code patterns and
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In Firefox the / key is bound to quick find, so it's there in spirit.
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by ben509 6y ago
HDFS is the Hadoop distributed file system, but maybe they meant HDF5 files, which is a format the Pandas library saves in. That makes use of Numpy's n-dimensional arrays, so it's related to what these guys are working on.
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> TileDB is the first solution that can efficiently model all data with a single powerful data structure. How do you implement constraints in that model? Something like a foreign key constraint, for instance.
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No, the company just needs to have a net profit. Their market can be shrinking and, if they're able to fire people and reduce other costs, they can survive just fine. Growth is desirable for investors, but it's not at all necessar
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by ben509 6y ago
There just need to be snippets that can be taken out of context for you to be crucified by a mob. That's happening every week or so.
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How much can they obfuscate it if other clients need to be able to download it?
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The rarely triggered code is exactly where you want unit tests. That's an opportunity to describe, in code, what that path is supposed to do, and then make sure it does it.
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Yup. The debate over unit testing, being political, is a far bigger impediment to progress than the actual tests, which are a technical hurdle. It's essentially the same reason for linters and auto-formatters. It has a side benefit tha

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