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by corford 11y ago
I can maybe see pre-trip travel planning (for certain types of holiday) working. E.g. take a VR tour of prospective hotels/resorts, cruise ships, big airports, conference halls etc. I like my travelling unscripted but lots of people I
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by corford 11y ago
>working on at minimum a 105 year mission Cathedral building in the middle-ages was a multi-generational 80+ year affair and some of the Pyramids took even longer IIRC. So societies were/are definitely capable of working on ~100 yea
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by corford 11y ago
Apparently I joined (after lurking for ages!) on or close to the day Steve Jobs passed away.
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by corford 11y ago
I suppose a lot of engineers prefer function over form rather than the other way around. If anything I'm suspicious when a tech/engineer focussed product prioritises aesthetics over function. Might be irrational but it's my f
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by corford 11y ago
I'm a heavy Linode, DO and Vultr user. All three are great (with Linode being my preferred choice if cost isn't the overriding factor). I've got Vultr instances in all of their EU locations and haven't had any issues (co
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by corford 11y ago
I wouldn't call DO's interface ugly but I hugely prefer Linode's. Much better visual feedback and it feels like a solid management console rather than a pretty toy.
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by corford 11y ago
I found 12 years a slave difficult viewing but watching this animation makes my skin crawl. The sheer scale of it is horrifying. Clicking randomly on one of the ships revealed its name: Liberty. How pathetically ironic.
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by corford 11y ago
Personally I like typeforms but I think they work best in a modal rather than embedded.
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by corford 11y ago
Keep your important business logic server side if it needs be protected. No serious web business lets their propriety magic happen client side, obfuscated or not.
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by corford 11y ago
haproxy is basically identical for your use case. I guess whether one views it as overkill or not is a matter of taste.
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by corford 11y ago
True but if they were like me, they were using those as stop gaps until SSL landed in haproxy 1.5 stable. Yes, stable support arrived 'only' a year ago but that was after years of development work :) The first dev release with ba
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by corford 11y ago
From reading the launch posts it seems the real advantage is it allows Varnish Software to bring SSL under the same roof and offer commercial support for it i.e. more a business advantage rather than a technical one?
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by corford 11y ago
From reading over the blog post, it seems hitch is a forked and patched version of stud. Nice and all but difficult to see what possible advantages it could have over using haproxy for termination? From skimming the github page the only thi
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by corford 11y ago
I happily yield to your better judgement on this :)
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by corford 11y ago
If the threshold is low enough (e.g. 50) I'd be all for it. The internet is awash with mediocre, recruiter posted tech jobs. Raising the bar ever so slightly for posting to HN doesn't seem like a negative to me.
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by corford 11y ago
Could have done but coming from a mysql background (i.e. where replace statement is supported), just crafting a simple replace rule was easier/faster to grok and implement. Also helped that the table schema was very unlikely to change
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by corford 11y ago
Unfortunately, there's no good all round solution for upsert in current postgres versions. For our use case (one logger daemon feeding results off a message queue in to a table in an idempotent way) this approach was the simplest and w
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by corford 11y ago
I've been looking forward to this for ages! The solution we use at the moment for upsert is a create or replace rule on the table but it isn't great as you need to remember to update the rule whenever you change the table schema..
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by corford 11y ago
I'd love this too. I wanted materialised views and upsert, so here's hoping :)
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by corford 11y ago
In the UK, healthcare is free regardless of employment status. You don't need health insurance.
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by corford 12y ago
For the second problem, sounds like the dbus devs should follow sqlite's lead: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/9054...
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by corford 12y ago
If you buy a pay as you go sim in the UK and use that when you're in Germany, you'll benefit from the existing roaming charge caps.
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by corford 12y ago
I'd wait a month or two for edge cases to be worked out and then go for it. If you have a fairly vanilla 7.8 system (i.e. no source compiled stuff on there, mainly just big name packages etc.) then you should be fine doing it now or in
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by corford 12y ago
Depends what you're using it for. If you're putting Debian on a server, go with netinst, deselect everything in tasksel during the install and then apt-get only what you need post installation. That way you start with a very lean
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by corford 12y ago
Nice! Was that also a re-branded TP-LINK device? Any idea what model?
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by corford 12y ago
Hadn't occurred to me actually (although I normally opt for openwrt when playing around with consumer routers). Think I'll leave the probe as is.
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by corford 12y ago
Yep, it seems to be a re-badged TP-LINK TL-MR3020
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by corford 12y ago
A few weeks back I read a comment on HN about the RIPE Atlas project. It sounded fun (and I wanted a free probe!) so I sent off an application. Completely forgot about it after that until on Monday, out of the blue, a package from the Nethe
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by corford 12y ago
If you're starting now, there's really no reason not to begin with version 3.
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by corford 12y ago
Re: FCGI/WSGI with Apache, after a lot of frustrating trial & error I found https://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/ to work the best. If you can dump Apache, uwsgi and nginx is (imho) a much nicer way to host

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