carbonica

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by carbonica 15y ago
"the death penalty is commonplace." This is why you're being downvoted so heavily, in case you were wondering. Such flamebait is not appropriate.
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by carbonica 15y ago
Did you notice that you were responding to a MS+PhD applicant? Placing him is going to be orders of magnitude harder than placing someone working on their bachelor's. If Google wanted to have him churn out features on Google Docs for a coup
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by carbonica 15y ago
That's because it is. Going from blog posts and mailing lists to 140 character messages was a real change in communication. Going from 140 characters to 110, because a couple of people have long twitter IDs, is just being a pain in the ass.
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by carbonica 15y ago
It also bugs me that @refs count against the limit. When I come across 3 developers having a conversation and I'd like to chime in, I'm already down to <120 chars just by including their names. And since Twitter's model means they can't
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by carbonica 15y ago
I personally only use OS X on my laptop, and here's what I had before Lion: 1. 3x3 Spaces grid 2. Each major application assigned to a space. Primary editors (vim, Textmate, etc.) in space 5 (center), others surrounding it. 3. Each applicat
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by carbonica 15y ago
The only new scalability issue that Facebook has tackled is how to scale one enormous MySQL database. They've primarily done this by sharding it thousands upon thousands of times and putting over 10,000 memcached instances in front of it. M
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by carbonica 15y ago
I'm a bit confused - this is about in-app purchases for the web. Are you saying that on Android, a web in-app purchase shows a lightbox for adding a credit card and does not temporarily redirect to Google?
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by carbonica 15y ago
Ah, I hadn't noticed that if you were already logged-in and had already entered CC information, that it uses an iframe lightbox, which you're right, naturally does not show a URL. But then, they won't be entering any CC information without
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by carbonica 15y ago
Those flaws were all over their entire codebase in very basic parts of the site's functionality. They had literally zero authorization checks.
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by carbonica 15y ago
PayPal does more than just send money - it can hold a balance for you securely, which given all of the hacking incidents (MtGox, BetCoin), is a pretty important thing for the BitCoin community to get right. Sending someone money without hav
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by carbonica 15y ago
The same way you already tell if the Google checkout dialog is legitimate? HTTPS?
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by carbonica 15y ago
I think the parent was just disappointed at using "hacking" to refer to something as mundane as getting guest accounts to the network.
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by carbonica 15y ago
I wonder what they'll push for. He sounds pretty screwed if this evidence pans out. Looks like he could even end up with a few years' time if the prosecutors want. 1. Wire fraud maxes out at 20 years outside of a presidentially-declared eme
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by carbonica 15y ago
I laughed at the article, but you have a really good point. If you have 30 projects and only want a place to put your code, you're far better off just using a private server, which you undoubtedly already have. If you have a development c
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by carbonica 15y ago
> Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. This isn't code, these are written assignments we're discussing. English is pretty damn flexible, and nobody gets suspended for "Abraham Lincoln died in 1865." There's no point invoking degenerate
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by carbonica 15y ago
28 students last year (out of about 4,000) were reported. 17 were suspended, 7 got probation, 3 were found not responsible, and 1 had the allegations formally rescinded. This is roughly consistent year-to-year.
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by carbonica 15y ago
Where I attended college, you get a year's suspension for getting caught copying a sentence without citation. Anything as egregious as this presented would've meant a class full of suspended students.
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by carbonica 15y ago
Dartmouth does this as well, and I agree the interface sucks in browsers. Especially since most browsers will gladly show expired certificates for you to choose so you have to manually prune your list.
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by carbonica 15y ago
The ex-googler who compares Protocol Buffers to MessagePack is either lying about his understanding of Protocol Buffers, or hasn't looked at MessagePack beyond a simple glance. First of all, MessagePack throws up a benchmark on their front
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by carbonica 15y ago
> Google+ doesn't support the broadcast/subscribe model that well, and although it helps posters keep stuff private when they want, it ultimately leaves the decision of how much information is too much or too little about some person up
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by carbonica 15y ago
I guess dropping tidbits of inside information for HN karma will never go out of style. NDAs apply after you leave, be careful...
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by carbonica 15y ago
Personally, I think you're right, but you sort of take a risk when you go for hyperbolic sarcasm. I'm not sure how much of the first paragraphs he believes; much of it, if he did, somewhat discredits him in my eyes as an engineer (let alone
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by carbonica 15y ago
> This effect is made even worse by most monitoring tools because most take samples every 5 minutes. Who exactly is using monitoring tools that sample every 5 minutes ? Goodness. Maybe I've been spoiled, but I couldn't imagine using su
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by carbonica 15y ago
Eh, I was definitely lowballing a lot with "a couple grand." You also need to factor in power and replication.
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by carbonica 15y ago
Yeah, I was a tad hyperbolic in just referring to the disks. I would expect the costs to be around $20/GB/year when you also factor in power - bigger drives are making a difference, but the other factors always cost more than the disks them
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by carbonica 15y ago
How do you know "the minimum size of a Colossus cluster"? Are you a Google employee leaking information?
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by carbonica 15y ago
60TB? That's about a couple grand worth of space. Why would that be a lot of space to Google?
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by carbonica 15y ago
It operates on JVM bytecode, not on java source code.
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by carbonica 15y ago
> The Moon is almost exactly 1000x closer to the earth than Mars[3], so I wonder if I used it for my mirror array instead if I could just put a station with 500 mirrors on it to accomplish the same thing. Plus, since the moon has synchr
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Facebook trapped in MySQL 'fate worse than death'(gigaom.com)
46 points by carbonica 15y ago|10 comments

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