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by bjt 13y ago
Corporatocray is a weird word to use in this context. Amazon is a corporation wanting progressive regulation here, not resisting it. The fact that the FAA is in charge of the regulations gives me reason for optimism. Having a consistent p
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by bjt 13y ago
> i never understood why someone uses an external service for a simle discussion in a CMS While Django/Rails indeed make it simple to implement per-article comment threads, the hard part is not the collection, storing, and display o
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by bjt 13y ago
The law doesn't pretend that signatures and fax machines are magic. Contracts written on bar napkins can be enforced. Any time you introduce evidence, you have to establish its credibility. The first time a signing system like this i
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by bjt 13y ago
Stiglitz makes a good point about how farm subsidies made sense in the '30s when most farms were small and family owned. They were an antipoverty program then, and only since then were their rules exploited by ever-larger farms. This
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by bjt 13y ago
For http connections that's true. Websockets have a separate pool though, and a much higher cap (200 in Firefox). Nginx recently added websocket support.
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by bjt 13y ago
How is capitalism a political system?
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by bjt 13y ago
We do this with developers in the US, Canada, Latin America, and western Europe. We use plenty of IRC, Hangouts, and of course, email. A lot of our recruitment has been done through networks of contacts in the open source community, which
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by bjt 13y ago
I'm not sure why you think that's so easy to do. You need a person who: 1. Has the technical credentials and interviewing skills to get hired at Google (not easy). 2. Has a security clearance. 3. Wants to be a spy. 4. Can get the
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by bjt 13y ago
> To be fair, the import-compiled-transitive-dependencies-as-binaries pattern that Maven likes to employ is probably less easily adapted to natively compiled languages like C/C++ than it is to managed runtime languages (Java/Er
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by bjt 13y ago
It took me a minute to understand that this wasn't feedly.com open-sourcing their backend. You have a PR problem with this name, with risk of elevating into a legal problem.
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by bjt 13y ago
> These frameworks simply don't scale past the size of a small project. That is incorrect. From the Django side, see Instagram ( http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/wha... ) and Disqus
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by bjt 13y ago
PHP sites have been doing this with TimThumb for quite a while. https://code.google.com/p/timthumb/ I wrote https://bitbucket.org/btubbs/thumpy at work and we've been using it in product
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by bjt 13y ago
Two thoughts: - Docker is entirely dependent on LXC at the moment, so if you're developing in anything other than Linux, it's not a good solution for creating a dev environment. They're promising to make LXC just a plugin at
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by bjt 13y ago
Velociraptor author here. We don't yet integrate with Docker, though would like to once there's some kind of standalone mode (see https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/503 and https:/&#x2
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by bjt 13y ago
This article is right for the case of using HMACs for two parties checking the authenticity of a message passed between them (assuming they have a shared secret). But it's wrong about the database password storage. These days the real
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by bjt 13y ago
I assume your experience was on version < 2.4? Now that 2.4 is out I'm interested in seeing how much the switch to multithreaded V8 has improved that. http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/release-notes/2.4-javascript/
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by bjt 14y ago
Tech companies in Provo: http://www.siliconslopes.com/company/search-companies Maybe the double-take says more about the our prejudices than about the strength of the tech industry in Utah county. The BYU/Mormon association makes it not a
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by bjt 14y ago
Very often yes, when you consider that the "better" question is not one-dimensional. Rails and Django are good at building traditional web apps where the logic and data live on the server. They have less to offer on the client side, where
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by bjt 14y ago
You're citing a procedural detail that I don't think really supports the claim that his termination was unlawful. All that section says is that if the guy files a claim with the labor commissioner for wrongful discharge, then the commissi
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by bjt 14y ago
If it's purely the compartmentalization that upsets you, then you'd be happier if people were totally cool about tossing the Frisbee around with their dog Spot on Saturday, then cooking him up for Sunday dinner. Is that the case? Anyway, p
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by bjt 14y ago
If Palm had agreed "we won't hire anyone coming from Apple", that would be illegal under antitrust law. If they had agreed not to actively recruit Apple employees, that might be OK but would still look sketchy.
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by bjt 14y ago
> If he had decided to participate in the recruitment embargo, it certainly would not have been acknowledged in an email for all the discovery reasons that make this a compelling PR piece. Not so sure. For the companies that did part
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by bjt 14y ago
When two giants agree not to hire each other's employees in a particular industry (mobile) and a particular location (Silicon Valley), they do serious damage to those employees' wages and career paths. They've also violated antitrust law.
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by bjt 14y ago
As of October 2012, it's on EC2. http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/fogbugz-kiln-and-copilot-... I don't know how many instances, or what size.
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by bjt 14y ago
Not entirely sure, but I think he's getting that from this famous Winston Churchill quote: > No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those
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by bjt 14y ago
We use a Riverbed appliance for this at work ( http://www.riverbed.com/us/solutions/wan_optimization/ ). Would love to see a comparison on ease of setup, stability, and optimization benchmarks, if anyone knows of one.
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by bjt 14y ago
If you're trying to optimize a registration process, you want to minimize the number of people you lose at each step. If someone gives you a bad email address, and then you try to send the activation link there, you've lost that registrati
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by bjt 14y ago
"Do they make pink girly legos?" Why yes, yes they do: http://friends.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx They're controversial for the same reasons people are complaining on this thread, but they're selling. (See http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/bu
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by bjt 14y ago
We use CloudFront at work. It works well for us. We do a couple things differently though: 1. Instead of trying to purge all old files and upload new ones, we use cache-busting hashes in our static file names. This solves the stale-cache
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by bjt 14y ago
Very impressive! It's not an easy thing to do ( http://metafizzy.co/blog/mythical-drag-drop-multi-column-gri... ). I've been trying to fake it on a recent project for Stanford's recent HCI online class (see http://btubbs.github.com/slapda

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