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by bluesmoon 5y ago
Older folks in India still refer to these as Jerrycans. We used to use them to hold kerosene when I was a kid.
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by bluesmoon 5y ago
When I was a child about 40 years ago there was a slogan "हम दो, हमारे दो" which translates to "We are a couple, we will have two children". Then in my teens it turned to "हम दो हमारे एक", ie, "We are a co
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by bluesmoon 5y ago
How much of the increase was due to reloads since when facebook goes down, the performance of sites that include FB javascript tends to get worse. For example, see https://www.akamai.com/blog/news/the-impact-of-thi
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by bluesmoon 5y ago
Obligatory mention of Greg's Cable Map which has been around since forever: https://cablemap.info/ and now under new ownership at https://www.infrapedia.com/app
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by bluesmoon 5y ago
Yes, Lotus 123 came out 38 years ago :)
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by bluesmoon 5y ago
IQR is 75th - 25th, aka, the middle-50%
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by bluesmoon 5y ago
This is exactly the algorithm we developed at LogNormal (now part of Akamai) 10 years ago for doing fast, low-memory percentiles on large datasets. It's implemented in this Node library: https://github.com/bluesmoon&#x2
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by bluesmoon 5y ago
I tied my shoelaces with a fisherman's knot. This only has to be done once per shoe for life. I never have to untie them. Just slide on and off. The bottom of the shoes wear out before the laces ever come loose. Doesn't work as we
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by bluesmoon 6y ago
In Boston it's called the Big Dig
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by bluesmoon 6y ago
Also in the Boston Area. The sun, Mercury and Venus are in the Museum of Science. Earth is supposed to be in the Royal Sonesta hotel, but I believe it was moved to clean the area and never put back. Mars is in the Galleria mall, Jupiter is
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by bluesmoon 6y ago
until someone runs a spellcheck on this code and changes all locations to fortytwo
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by bluesmoon 6y ago
yeah, those techniques predate CORS, but even back then, you'd typically add your anti-csrf token to the payload rather than the header. CSRF is application level logic rather than protocol level.
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by bluesmoon 6y ago
Another thing to note about custom headers is that when used in an XHR (eg: X-Requested-With), they will force a preflight request (with the OPTIONS method). If your webserver isn't configured to handle OPTIONS and return the correct C
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by bluesmoon 6y ago
It often causes a double-take for me when I see projects on HN with the same name as projects I once worked on. Way back in time, maybe around 1998, a friend an I worked on a steganography tool that we called Spyder. I don't remember w
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by bluesmoon 6y ago
Some recent results are at https://tech.bluesmoon.info/2020/11/understanding-emotion-fo...
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by bluesmoon 6y ago
The simplest way to measure impact on users would be to just use boomerang which gets you all of this out of the box: https://github.com/akamai/boomerang To do it yourself, you need a combination of PainTiming and meas
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by bluesmoon 6y ago
This study is flawed for a few reasons that I'd mentioned to the author when it was first published, but they ignored my comments. The main problem is that they confuse DOMInteractive for Time To Interactive. The two events are very di
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by bluesmoon 6y ago
As an answer to your first question: Between 2000-2003, I worked on components of the cross protocol IM backend used by many of the multi-protocol messengers back in the early to mid 2000s (eg: Adium, Trillian, Fire, Ayttm, and more). Each
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State of Women in Tech and Startups 2020(womenwhotech.com)
1 points by bluesmoon 6y ago|0 comments
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by bluesmoon 7y ago
We had similar experiences with boomerang when we first implemented sendBeacon (I think about 3 years ago). You can see our solution here: https://github.com/akamai/boomerang/blob/master/boomerang.js...
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Turn open source code into a glitch-art dress(haute.codes)
1 points by bluesmoon 7y ago|0 comments
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by bluesmoon 7y ago
lucky you :) there was no wikipedia when I first ran into this algorithm. Foxpro for DOS & Novell Netware had an implementation of Levenshtein distance that I ended up using as part of a college project on database basics. I used it to
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by bluesmoon 7y ago
Speaking as someone who built an analytics business while still maintaining an open source version of the code, I can confirm that it's hard. Sometimes it starts off as one small patch that only makes sense for the hosted service, but
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by bluesmoon 7y ago
Anyone remember browserver posted to HN 7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366555
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by bluesmoon 7y ago
Not that I know, but I suppose you could ask Simon.
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by bluesmoon 7y ago
RequestMap does the same but also categorizes domains by type (eg: advertiser, analytics), and uses a coloured force-directed graph. http://requestmap.webperf.tools/
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by bluesmoon 7y ago
Counter point by Susanna Zaraysky: https://createyourworldbook.com/livinginitalian/ Susanna is fluent in several languages, and has written a few books. It's always interesting getting her take on language learnin
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Alternative Periodic Tables(en.wikipedia.org)
77 points by bluesmoon 8y ago|14 comments
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by bluesmoon 8y ago
Reminds me of work I did at Yahoo a long time ago that eventually resulted in publishing basic programming patterns in sed: http://tech.bluesmoon.info/2008/09/programming-patterns-in-s...
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by bluesmoon 8y ago
We've (the boomerang dev team) seen many frameworks do this. For many parts of boomerang, we need to get the url of an object (img, a, iframe, anything that could have a url), and just looking at the object's `src`/`currentSr

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