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by bgentry 9y ago
The UCSD Dalai Lama incident is literally the subject of at least the first four paragraphs of this article.
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by bgentry 9y ago
Do any of the major CI providers make this trivial to use yet? Travis CI, CircleCI, Buildkite, etc.? Anybody have any positive or negative experiences to report with actually using headless Chrome?
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by bgentry 10y ago
previous discussion was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12893793 Though the report does say it was recently updated, unsure what the diff was.
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by bgentry 10y ago
There seems to be conflicting info on whether the lights themselves support ZigBee Light Link (ZLL) or only ZigBee HA. Has anybody tested this? Also I'm curious if they're still ZigBee 2 or if they're ZigBee 3.0, which essent
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by bgentry 10y ago
In California, I don't believe you can file against a local branch. You'd need to file against BofA at their central legal location for service, which I believe is in LA. However, I think (though not sure) you can still file the c
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by bgentry 10y ago
I think this is not an argument against nuclear power, but an argument against the very complicated reactor designs that are in widespread use. Because they start with an inherently unsafe design, they can only be made safe with many layers
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by bgentry 10y ago
yes, that's another good point and probably something many folks mess up. I am explicitly specifying my algorithm for both encode/decode :)
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by bgentry 10y ago
Assuming that: - your JWT libraries don't do anything dumb like accepting the `none` algorithm - you're using HMAC SHA-256 - your access tokens have a short (~20 min) expiration time - your refresh tokens are easily revocable Can
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Getting Started with JSONB in Postgres(craigkerstiens.com)
4 points by bgentry 10y ago|0 comments
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by bgentry 10y ago
1. Do you support individual/non-employer accounts? 2. What are the investment options for the accounts? Can I put it into low-fee Vanguard index funds? 3. Can I roll over from an existing HSA provider, and if so, how painless do you m
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by bgentry 10y ago
Seems to be good for me now too. For a while I was just getting an error page in German after a long delay :)
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by bgentry 10y ago
Site's down. Text-only cached version at least lets you read some of the content: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kJ5Zk-7...
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by bgentry 10y ago
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886 , also on the front page
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by bgentry 10y ago
This really does look great. Edit: since I haven't been running Keybase for the past 2 weeks, I missed the fact that they disabled continuous background proof verification due to my concerns: https://github.com/keybase
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by bgentry 10y ago
Not to mention that he's stranded in Russia not by choice, but because the US State Dept revoked his passport while he was in transit.
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by bgentry 10y ago
The Vice show Weediquette had a good episode [1] where they looked at these aspects of the cannabis industry in The Netherlands. It's bizarre that the coffee shops are fully allowed to sell something that there is no legal way to produ
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by bgentry 10y ago
I'm not sure that mdo and the rest of the team get enough credit or thanks for all the work they put into Bootstrap, so here's another: Thank you! I'm loving the changes made in v4, especially switching to 100% SCSS. Bootstra
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by bgentry 10y ago
Here's a partial list from my Little Snitch config on macOS Sierra: - com.apple.geod.xpc tried to establish a connection to gspe19.ls.apple.com on port 80 - App Store / softwareupdated uses port 80 to download updates from swcdn.a
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by bgentry 10y ago
Apple's own services make extensive use of plaintext HTTP. Even if they're only doing so in ways that are safe (due to other application layer encryption mechanisms like in iMessage) it's hypocritical for them to enforce a re
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Simpler Web Payments: Introducing the Payment Request API(blogs.windows.com)
2 points by bgentry 10y ago|0 comments
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by bgentry 10y ago
last time I used this, it had many significant differences from the real DynamoDB. Different enough that I don't really understand what purpose DynamoDB Local is actually supposed to serve.
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First-Ever Redis Modules Hackathon Winners(redislabs.com)
5 points by bgentry 10y ago|0 comments
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by bgentry 10y ago
YoEmber is a nice modern example app with a full tutorial to accompany it: http://yoember.com/
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by bgentry 10y ago
The PBS show Nova attempted to recreate this bomb on an episode called Bombing Hitler's Dams: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/bombing-hitler-dams.ht... They dug a giant hole to build a test dam for
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by bgentry 10y ago
I started a new Ember.js project recently and got frustrated with Ember Data and JSON API. In my experience, it's the weakest part of Ember by far. Out of curiosity, I tried wiring up Apollo Client to my backend instead. Turned out to
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by bgentry 10y ago
cross-post: If you're having issues with people accessing your running Heroku apps, it's likely because you're running your DNS through herokussl.com (with their SSL endpoint product) which is hosted on Dyn. If you can update
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by bgentry 10y ago
If you're having issues with people accessing your running Heroku apps, it's likely because you're running your DNS through herokussl.com (with their SSL endpoint product) which is hosted on Dyn. If you can update your DNS to
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by bgentry 10y ago
It took a 30 minute phone call just for them to flip the switch that starts charging me an extra $50/mo. Followed by another 20 minute call to get my plan price reduced with a promotional rate. At least the 2nd rep was nice and told me
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by bgentry 10y ago
seeing enough reliable reports of this to believe it's at least a somewhat widespread issue: https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/775748665226895360 https://twitter.com/dhh/status/77575
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by bgentry 10y ago
Thanks!

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