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by dcosson 9y ago
It's a specially designed networked filesystem as the storage layer of a hosted postgres DB. From what I've read it has some interesting properties like built-in redundancy, expandable storage, you can instantly spin up replicas a
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by dcosson 9y ago
Seems like it might even be better if yes was rate limited to a couple of lines per second or less. It would be more than enough for its intended use and when users inevitably run it in a shell to see what it does it wouldn't generate
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by dcosson 9y ago
How do you freeze them online?
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by dcosson 9y ago
I don't think "pick your battles" is quite fair. I didn't read this as him being stubborn for no reason, at least not in this initial message. He knows Facebook has a reputation as a strong technical team, and since he i
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by dcosson 9y ago
I've never heard of a way to do this without giving all your contacts to the app. Hashing is pretty useless if an attacker steals the DB as the parent pointed out because you can pretty easily build a dictionary of all possible 10-digi
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by dcosson 9y ago
In my building (pretty close to where I work) it would be an extra $1200-$1500 per month to go from 1 to 2 bedrooms. So I'm not sure this math adds up, with the housing crises we've created in cities transportation is just signifi
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by dcosson 9y ago
Interesting that sharding by customer for a sass business is the example of the best use of sharding. That can also go very wrong - what if you get a huge customer that's as big as everyone else combined? You're effectively maxed
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by dcosson 9y ago
But you pay those transaction fees whether or not you use a credit card. I believe there are even laws against charging more for paying with a credit card (beyond just having credit card minimum like you see at delis and mom and pop shops).
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by dcosson 9y ago
Why is that greater fool theory?
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by dcosson 9y ago
Nice concise write-up. Worth also calling out some issues you'll run into though: - docker for mac's osxfs is incredibly slow and makes the cold rails start time even slower than it already is. Docker-sync is a third party tool th
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by dcosson 9y ago
I was under the impression that those correlations are clear but the causalities are still very much up for debate.
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by dcosson 9y ago
One major thing not mentioned is that apprently not everyone bothered implementing FireWire the same. I never learned the technical reason, but if you bought certain digital audio recording interfaces circa 2007, you learned in the fine pri
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by dcosson 9y ago
Pros: - works as advertised, we haven't had any reliability issues with it - responding to Cloudwatch Events including cron-like schedules and other resource lifecycle hooks in your AWS account (and also DynamoDB/Kinesis streams,
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by dcosson 9y ago
If people are making big, irreversible decisions in real-time on slack without a lot of deliberation, that does sound like a problem, but it hardly seems like slack's fault. The same thing could happen over email via several quick repl
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by dcosson 9y ago
> 1) Ban SMS as a second factor for high risk targets like banks. As others have pointed out, if it were just a second factor they would also need your password. SMS is being used for full account recovery, so as a single factor. > 2)
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by dcosson 9y ago
The comment in question was in poor taste by mocking victims of hacks for being stupid, and the premise of it was wrong anyway (not understanding that it's the telco customer service at fault more than the people who got hacked). That&
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by dcosson 9y ago
Why doesn't this exist yet? It seems so obvious, so many people get news from Facebook, twitter, Reddit, (and to a lesser extent HN) on an article by article basis. But all news sites delude themselves into thinking they can make these
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by dcosson 9y ago
After you read a bit on it, you can really learn a lot by opening wireshark and watching what's going on, googling for tutorials and documentation to understand the settings. As a front end developer there is actually a lot of networki
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by dcosson 9y ago
Yes, it sucks that parts of the manufacturing economy are shrinking, but we're between a rock and a hard place. Our only hope is to create new jobs, which actually seems to be working pretty well. I would also support efforts to get cr
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by dcosson 9y ago
I don't understand this complaint at all, these terms each highlight an interesting set of properties that seem worth having names to refer to them by. AI is usually an algorithm that is generalizing patterns from data, IoT means low-p
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by dcosson 9y ago
> it took almost a week to reopen the subway tunnels. More like a few years collectively - a section of the G was closed every weekend for many months, the R was closed for a year, the L closes in 2019 for over a year.
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by dcosson 9y ago
If you can easily get to a Kroger or Walmart and don't mind this errand, I don't think you're the target market for Prime Pantry. If you live in a city without a car, lots of things are either less convenient or more expensiv
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by dcosson 9y ago
To be fair you can often get free delivery on a ~$7 item on amazon, and that difference between firing off 1-click purchases on amazon whenever you want vs saving up a list of 5 things you need so you can hit the delivery minimum is a big q
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by dcosson 9y ago
Re: tax code - there was a good planet money episode a few weeks ago [0] about this. It argues that Intuit aren't nearly as big a player as conservative groups who bizarrely view simplifying the tax code as akin to raising to taxes. [0
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by dcosson 10y ago
> Homeownership is a luxury, not a right. Why do we spend $100+ billion per year of tax payer dollars subsidizing luxury purchases? (via the federal mortgage interest deduction)
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by dcosson 10y ago
> will reduce housing pressure in urban places and has the potential to lift up previously rural communities. I'm skeptical because 1. a large part of the housing pressure in many urban places is artificially created by the past sev
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by dcosson 10y ago
Yeah it's certainly possible, in both Django and Rails. But I'd still argue that both frameworks lead you astray by default unless you consciously go against the grain to avoid it.
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by dcosson 10y ago
This will likely be controversial, but IMO both frameworks will "go wrong by default" if your codebase/feature set/team working on it start to get large, and rails is worse. There is no real modularity of features or ser
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by dcosson 10y ago
If you're looking for a good ORM with migrations in python, I highly recommend SQLAlchemy and Alembic, with the web app in Flask (although you could use any web framework, which is a nice benefit of using smaller components like this).
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by dcosson 10y ago
I agree, it was odd to try out an internet company but then give it to one that doesn't have a way to stream to TVs/media players. I don't want to watch football on a small monitor, and I'm not so hardcore of a fan that

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