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by davepeck 15y ago
Awesome! Drop me an email [davepeck at getcloak.com] if you'd like the special Hacker News invite code. ;-)
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by davepeck 15y ago
It depends on your needs. If you have the tools and skillset to set up and maintain your own endpoint, and you're willing to spend the time to do so (or you believe you can only trust it if you do so) then no VPN provider like us makes sens
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by davepeck 15y ago
Yes, I've used this stuff before. It's great. It's also not specifically tied to a scalable service, or directly integrated with billing and quota management, etc. We think there's room for both things depending on circumstance.
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by davepeck 15y ago
We rolled our own actually.
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by davepeck 15y ago
We've heard this from several people and are investigating what a reasonable model would be. (Bandwidth is the key driver of our costs.) I would say that our current (beta) pricing is stake-in-the-ground, so anything you can tell us about h
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by davepeck 15y ago
Thanks, I'll pass that on to our designer, @thecropsie.
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by davepeck 15y ago
Hi gillygize, Our full terms of service and policies are listed here: https://www.getcloak.com/policies/ There are a lot of shady looking (to me, at least) VPN providers that make a big deal about how you can pretend you're in another cou
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by davepeck 15y ago
Hi Rob, What built-in stuff do you use (and who is your VPN provider)? While OSX is far better than most at making configuration of secure connections easy, we think there is still a long way to go. Cloak requires nothing but your username
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by davepeck 15y ago
Thanks very much. We put the pages together pretty quickly (MVP!), but I'm constantly in awe of how fast Nick (our designer) makes things look... solid.
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by davepeck 15y ago
Wow, that's not a very good way to use keys. ;-) We have our own authentication mechanism that ties into our billing and quota machinery. So no such problems with Cloak.
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by davepeck 15y ago
Hi kylec, There are a few components to trust. One component is trusting that the software does what it says it does. We're engaged with some reputable security consultants to ensure that we're delivering what we promise. We'll have (lots)
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by davepeck 15y ago
Hi, all. I just got the MVP of my new app out the door and I'd love to get your feedback on it! If you'd like to give it a go, drop me an email [davepeck at getcloak.com] and I'll send you a special Hacker News invite code. (Or you can just
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Show HN: My new app, Cloak for OSX(blog.getcloak.com)
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by davepeck 16y ago
Fascinating. This contains some pretty damning charges, if true.
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by davepeck 16y ago
It's not quite true that these companies have no lobbying presence in the USA. The Poker Players Alliance operates out of Washington DC and represents all of the companies indicted today.
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by davepeck 16y ago
I'm reading "The Information" right now. Gleick's book takes a wide and multidisciplinary view of information. It traces our history through the lens of information and then turns to examine the cultural impact of Shannon's work. It's fasci
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by davepeck 16y ago
Thanks. I didn't understand the relationship between entity groups/partitions and consistency in the HRD.
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by davepeck 16y ago
I suspect the answer is "yes" for most users. My understanding of how it all fits together, please correct if wrong: the default datastore is (strongly!) consistent and partition tolerant but sacrifices availability. The new HRD gives you a
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by davepeck 16y ago
The python runtime does not appear to do this in the specific case of submodule attributes. Right now, the Python bug against this indicates that it is considered a documentation bug... but my hunch is that it's an actual bug. I'll try manu
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by davepeck 16y ago
Interesting, thanks! I'm afraid I'm having trouble parsing your statement on dev_appserver's behavior. Could you clarify it? It sounds like you're saying that dev_appserver both does and doesn't set submodule attributes on parent module ins
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by davepeck 16y ago
The testbed API is exciting -- testing (python) App Engine apps has always been thorny business. It appears that support for integration testing, however, is not part of this release. How do you integration test your (python) app engine app
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by davepeck 16y ago
Despite Swoopo's self-description as an "auction" site, it is in fact a gambling site. Moreover, when you're at a casino you typically know your odds; with Swoopo, you don't. I'm happy with the argument that gambling is okay, but Swoopo sho
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by davepeck 16y ago
My perspective is a little more subtle than that. To clarify: "Pretty" is great -- desirable, even. But if "pretty" comes at the cost of using immature tools that may slow me down, or at the cost of forcing my development team to learn a ne
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by davepeck 16y ago
Interesting. To me, CoffeeScript is emphatically not JavaScript. There are new tools and, well, there's a new syntax. Semantically they may be (almost) equivalent -- but it strikes me as a far stretch to say they're the same, or that develo
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by davepeck 16y ago
Interesting; I wasn't aware that CoffeeScript makes some semantic improvements too. Everything is an expression is truly value-add.
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by davepeck 16y ago
Javascript is understood by most developers these days. CoffeeScript is pretty. (Edit: I don't think that "pretty" is a bad thing. I just... when is it the most important thing, or even high up on the priority list? Pretty isn't bad, but if
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by davepeck 16y ago
Syntactic sugar is all CoffeeScript can ever be. Is pretty syntax better than common-use syntax? (To be clear: I don't have a strong opinion. I'm curious what the community thinks the value proposition for CoffeeScript, HAML, etc is.)
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by davepeck 16y ago
Out of curiosity: What's with today's obsession over beautiful syntax? Shouldn't we strive for beautiful semantics, instead?
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by davepeck 16y ago
I've been a heavy App Engine user since the beta days -- even gave a talk at I|O 2009 about scaling with App Engine. I have clients that run complex GAE sites that handle millions of daily requests. I somewhat disagree with the author about
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by davepeck 16y ago
Interestingly, interruptive presidential security is a relatively recent development. Truman used to walk freely around Washington, DC and his security staff didn't do much to stop him. During the assassination attempt at Blair House, Truma

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