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by bjt 11y ago
Use https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn .
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by bjt 11y ago
A before/after in a whole country is not as clean an experiment as the randomized trial done in this study. With the whole country, there could be a whole bunch of other variables changing in the before and after time frames. (Like m
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by bjt 11y ago
A Brazilian company with a presence in the US could absolutely be subject to a US court order without any court in Brazil needing to be involved. You don't get to dodge the laws of a country you're operating in just because your
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by bjt 11y ago
I haven't tried Falcon. I hear it's fast.
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by bjt 11y ago
This is wrong on a couple levels. 1. The protocol is open. It's not Philips' IP. 2. Even if the protocol were closed, and Philips put some DRM on it to lock out 3rd parties from reverse engineering the protocol to make compatible
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by bjt 11y ago
Most of Flask's heavy lifting is done by Werkzeug, which had its last PyPi release a month ago. I use Werkzeug directly rather than Flask, so I can't speak to whether Flask is abandonware or not, but I'm very happy with Werkz
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by bjt 11y ago
On one hand, awesome to see Django getting first class Websockets support. On the other hand this feels a bit like "Build the web applications of today, tomorrow!" I think that's an inherent problem with kitchen sink framewo
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by bjt 11y ago
I suspect that the flexible "unpaid vacation" scenario you're describing is much more rare than you think. If your team is pushing for a major release and you decide just not to show up, your days are numbered. If you spend
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by bjt 11y ago
Node.js made server side Javascript a reality, but it was done by outsiders using Google's V8 engine rather than by Google itself. What would be wrong with server side Swift being similarly pushed by a 3rd party?
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by bjt 11y ago
While I agree with the basic argument that we are hurting ourselves with an irrational aversion to nuclear power, some of Thiel's arguments seem weak or overreaching. The worst, in my estimation, is this: > Critics often point to t
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by bjt 11y ago
Two of the linked examples are benchmarks that let you compare the React renderer with direct updates. I saw no difference (both were at 60 fps for me).
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by bjt 11y ago
There is a pretty well documented bias that people tend to think that negative people are smarter than positive ones. I think the critical/dismissive breed of assholes are playing into that. I agree with the author that if left unche
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by bjt 11y ago
It's reasonable to think that the bias would decrease over the company's lifetime. In early rounds there is little data on the company, so more decisions are made on hunches, and there's a lot of potential influence for bias
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by bjt 11y ago
I have a near-immediate distrust of anyone who says "you're all doing REST wrong." I've built my share of REST APIs. I've seen firsthand the tradeoff they face as more use cases are added, between letting the payl
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by bjt 11y ago
Yeah, react-dom is a separate package now.
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by bjt 11y ago
Container images don't have a kernel, but they do have userland portions of an OS (e.g. libc).
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by bjt 11y ago
Mine: > More to the point, this is why the soi-disant-designer snob ... comes across as such a douchebag. It’s not “minimalist” if you buy a new one every two years; it’s conspicuous consumption with chamfered edges.
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by bjt 11y ago
Yes, YouTube needs to honor DMCA takedown requests, but that doesn't stop YouTube from creating another YouTube-specific kind of request that people can make if they want to make some money off their content that other people have uplo
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by bjt 11y ago
Very cool project. But two weeks to shave off 6 seconds of build time? I gotta wonder: https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by bjt 11y ago
I read that but I can't see what he's getting at. Go is garbage-collected just like Ruby and Python, right?
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by bjt 11y ago
In Django, as an example of one web framework, the email address would still be in the users table. There'd be a flag somewhere else in the database to indicate whether it had been confirmed or not. Only a sign up system that has sep
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by bjt 11y ago
I see a few distinctions between code and prose. Code is written with two kinds of readers in mind: the computer and other humans. Prose is written just for humans. With code, there is a very precise set of rules determining whether the co
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by bjt 11y ago
> Does not pay properly or on time. That means quit. If the CEO is willing to be that damaging to employees' personal lives, it will probably never be a nice place to work.
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by bjt 11y ago
In my experience Celery brings more cost in complexity than value. It's got several abstraction layers to make a variety of backends (Redis, Mongo, relational DBs) all look more or less like AMQP. My life got better when I stopped usi
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by bjt 11y ago
This is the part that feels the most misguided to me: > a fundamental conversation about where we want to push the web forward to. There's no such thing as a "conversation" between the billions of people with a stake in th
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by bjt 11y ago
The "right to repair" under the DMCA is not freestanding like the rights to free speech or a jury trial. It's an affirmative defense ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_defense ) to an anti circum
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by bjt 11y ago
Yeah, I don't get it either. > CEO Alex Karp announced in 2013 that the company would not be pursuing an IPO, as going public would make “running a company like ours very difficult.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by bjt 11y ago
Unlike AirBnb and Uber, a co-working location is usually used for weeks, months, or even longer. There's little stopping the participants from cutting SpareChair/Desktime/whoever out of the loop, once they've built up s
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by bjt 11y ago
Having read the article, it just looks like they run QUnit to test the JS bits of the admin and GIS contrib apps. It doesn't look like anything you couldn't have cobbled together before.
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by bjt 11y ago
At work we built something that's maybe halfway in between the data lake and data warehouse. It's working well for us. The basic setup: - All data is CSV or json-document-per-row text files on Amazon S3. - We have a Django web a

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