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by daave 12y ago
Aside: for SFTP we use (and like) https://github.com/minusnine/gosftp/
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Google Cloud Platform price drops(googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
32 points by daave 13y ago|5 comments
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by daave 13y ago
> I wonder if Dropbox have plans to start utilizing their own data center to get costs down... Mid last year a recruiter from Dropbox told me they were looking into this, and wanted to make it happen in 2014.
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by daave 13y ago
3x redundancy is very cost ineffective. See this 2010 Google presentation (slide 13) on the 'Colossus' File System, which uses Reed-Solomon encodings. http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.
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by daave 13y ago
> It would tremendously simplify for services. They now need not implement any cryptography. Uhh.. I sure hope the cookie tokens are not stored directly on the server-side, but rather verified against a (cryptographic) hash of same. Thes
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by daave 13y ago
My 'source' was merely hearsay :) It seems there's a wikipedia article on the dispute: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less Which mentions the 'rule' started to get pushed around in the
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by daave 13y ago
Hardly sounds definitive. From your link: "There is a debate about whether the word should be 'less' or 'fewer'," a campaign spokesman said. "Saying 'up to ten items' is easy to understand and av
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by daave 13y ago
That's a rather US-centric remark. 'less' is an acceptable comparative for both countable and uncountable nouns in all modern dialects of English except for US-English, where it's strictly expected that fewer be used f
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by daave 13y ago
Interesting. I've never been to MTV, but as a Googler who frequently volunteers to give tours for school/university groups in the NYC office, I'm thrilled by how wowed the visitors are at our office space. Perhaps we Googlers
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by daave 13y ago
How is making internal changes to an unpublished API evil?
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by daave 13y ago
I believe they actually whitelisted/disabled the part of the classifier that is affecting your site(s) more-generally, so it should be working across all domains. That said I know very little about the internals of that system. I'
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by daave 13y ago
I work at Google but not on this product.. so I escalated your issue to the team that works on the anti-phishing classifier. They're looking into it now, and put you on a temporary whitelist in the mean time (should take effect within
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by daave 13y ago
That does nothing to prevent the app from retaining the information they obtained using the Facebook API during the time they were authorized (yes it's against the TOS to do so, but it's completely unenforceable).
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What can stop obesity?(themonthly.com.au)
4 points by daave 13y ago|0 comments
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by daave 13y ago
It now says: "The problem with Admin control panel / API should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google,
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by daave 13y ago
Apps status dashboard is updated: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13... "We're investigating reports of an issue with Admin control panel / API. We will provide more information shortly."
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by daave 14y ago
This. "CupidWithFriends would like to access your public profile, friend list, email address, custom friends lists, birthday, current city and your friends' relationships, birthdays, current cities and photos." -> Cancel (In general, I
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by daave 14y ago
> So you're saying that we should either be willing to pay $5/m for an RSS reader service, or $5/m to host the service ourselves? Why is that so unreasonable? Though, I think it's likely that the hosted solution would be much cheaper th
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by daave 14y ago
When I was at university I wanted to take a class that had 'introduction to computer networks' as a prerequisite, but I didn't want to wait 2 semesters for it to come around again after taking networks first. I spoke to the professor and he
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by daave 14y ago
As janzer said, that's not the URL patio11 is talking about, however this redirect is here for a good reason too. It's needed to preserve the search terms in the referrer header for links that are triggered by JavaScript - which is needed i
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by daave 14y ago
Some of the parameters are there to enable certain performance enhancements. For example: -The home page, after rendering the search box and all that, asynchronously downloads the css, images and html needed to display the chrome around the
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by daave 14y ago
> I invite you to make a New Year’s resolution: Refrain from organizing stuff. Don’t plan parties or outings... All in the name of productivity! If the author feels parties are taking too much of his time away from work, can't he just n
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by daave 14y ago
I don't think the OP was intending to provide a curated list of recommendations, but rather just blog about the list of books he read this year. Even though I can't be bothered reading the whole list, this post inspires me to resolve that I
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How to find someone technical to build your idea (or not)(alexn.id.au)
20 points by daave 14y ago|4 comments
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Multiple critical vulnerabilities in Sophos (antivirus) products(seclists.org)
57 points by daave 14y ago|11 comments
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by daave 14y ago
Google uses OpenFlow software defined networking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFlow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLHJUfgxEO4
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by daave 14y ago
And they've sent the all-clear: At this point, we have stabilized service to App Engine applications. App Engine is now successfully serving at our normal daily traffic level, and we are closely monitoring the situation and working to preve
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Photos from inside Google datacenters(google.com)
4 points by daave 14y ago|0 comments
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by daave 14y ago
Off-topic, but I saw your comment and I've been looking for a good CI solution that integrates with Github, and this was my first introduction to CircleCi. I find it really off-putting that it's not possible to find out what your pricing pl
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by daave 14y ago
I wish you were right, but sadly I don't believe it. My crappy anecdotal evidence is that less than 50% of my non-dev friends know what a browser is. They generally use the default browser that comes with their system (Safari or IE), and th

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