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by chrisfarms 12y ago
Cassette loading was probably what piqued my curiosity. I distinctly remember being baffled by how playing special "music" could turn into something on the screen and spent along time forcing a poor spectrum to listen to my "
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
If the current trend of very large phones continues, the "it's easier than getting your phone out your pocket" feature might actually be enough of a pull for an entire class of wearables. I've recently got a Nexus 6, and
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
Yeah this is not great practice. We built an app where sending a validation email upfront was not a practical option some time ago, and the best strategy I found for ensuring the email was valid was to lookup the MX records and ask the mail
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
heh... > (#11) People’s names are all mapped in Unicode code points. Well, not really sure how to fix that one!. Maybe one day postgres will be able to index a column of handwritten images, but until then I think I'll just stick wit
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
This looks pretty great. Getting closer to a world where The Young Lady's Primer is possible :)
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
I assume this is BGP routing as a service (which sounds cool). But, would this not break the internet if everyone used it? routing individual IPs (rather than large blocks) sounds like it would end in chaos?
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
Fantastic intro doc. I read the entire thing without really thinking. I like the aim, and I think I could learn to accept the weird looking javascript floating in the root node (though I think it might look easier on my eye if wrapped in a
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
One thing I love about the repetitive err pattern is that I find my self wrapping/appending errors with useful context more frequently (rather than say catching an exception five frames further down and just appending "mylib: oops
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Kefir vs. Bacon.js tree performance demo(pozadi.github.io)
1 points by chrisfarms 12y ago|0 comments
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
When I first moved into my flat I discovered that the previous owner had wedged some kind of brass plate across the contacts for the cooker circuit. Terrifying.
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
UNIX groups could be handled by KeyCards, with the nice weird additional feature of User1 being able to let User2 into an area usually outside their permissions. But really... idqd ... now bring on pid 1!
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
I see, thanks. So there _is_ extra¹ care taken over the protection of the keys vs the protection of disks to significantly raise the barrier. ¹not saying that they just leave their data centers open to the public, but you know what I mean :
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
This is encrypting the disk that the RDS instance is using to store the data right? And amazon are holding the decryption key. What exactly is this protecting against? (Genuine question not rhetoric). Without encryption, I guess someone wit
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
This looks incredibly comprehensive! ...almost too good to be true, I'm waiting for the gotcha.... Does anyone have any experience to share experimenting with it yet?
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
The data is stored in postgres, so it should be simple enough to use the Snowball dictionary/stemmer and the tsvector/tsquery functions to sort this out.
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
Maybe you're paying for the guaranteed access to the satellite network when it's needed rather than the tech on the plane itself. ....and of course a bit of a "no competition so deal with it" charge.
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
The key (nor a hash of the key) is sent over the air. It's a challenge. Since both sides should know the key they can challenge each other by saying things like "encrypt the word 'horse' using our secret key" ... th
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
Yeah I thought this too. I guess treating the warehouse as a 2D grid vastly simplifies everything from algorithms to robotics so much that the reliability out ways any inefficiencies. Presumably they could make the stacks shorter and have m
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
I experimented with a similar idea a couple of years ago for pre-generating structs from postgres[1] Abandoned it pretty quickly though as I didn't find it idiomatic enough, and found the extra compile step rather annoying. [1] https:
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
Is "syntax" the right word there?
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CoreOS Enterprise Registry, a secure Docker registry behind your firewall(coreos.com)
16 points by chrisfarms 12y ago|0 comments
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
You can customize the cluster ... if you drop down to single core machines you could get a development cluster (1 master, 3 slaves) down to about $40/m I believe.
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
Nix, NixOS, Nix ... a thousand times Nix. I can't believe the article doesn't mention it. I've been using NixOS as my OS for development, desktop and we're in the middle of transitioning to using it for production deploy
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
What I really like is when you get random J's in emails from people. Took me a while to figure out this is some kind of autoreplace thing in Outlook that switches out emoticons with characters from the wingdings font, and J is a smiley
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
If you are relying on that encryption, just remember to clear your bash history :)
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
Ag [1] has served me very well if you haven't come across it. [1] https://github.com/rking/ag.vim
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
We always play a scrabble rule where you can challenge someone to give a definition of the word they "claim" is real ... and if the definition is not in the chosen dictionary, then they are not allowed it ... even if it's a r
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by chrisfarms 12y ago
> Adolph last peaked in 1913 . It will next peak as a baby name in 2029. Well it's bound to come back someday I guess, 2029 is as good a time as any :)
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by chrisfarms 13y ago
We've been using dnsmadeeasy[1] for years. There's something dated about their interface/presentation, but the service has been rock solid and fast since day one. [1] http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com
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by chrisfarms 13y ago
I believe they are referring to the use of Cd in displays that utilize Quantum Dots (QD-LED) not regular LED/LCD displays.

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