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9y ago
Distributed indexing is very hard, slow and easily gamed. If you remember Kazaa, for example, it had an enormous problem with low quality content and malware. The best solution is not fully distributed indexing, rather decentralized indexin
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9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of_hyperlink... You could alternatively try to argue that it’s not a “website,” but an app. Google calls certain websites “progressive apps,” for example, so it’s very pl
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9y ago
It’s cool they actually do it like that, but transferring that amount of data locally still takes some non-trivial time. > When your Snowmobile is on site, AWS personnel will work with your team to connect a removable, high-speed network
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deno
9y ago
Unless they’re shipping those disks as a ready-to-go container DC[1], you need to account for the time to unload and install them. Actually, you need to account for it on both ends. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod
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9y ago
Realistically built-in would just be Forward Error Correction scheme, like erasure coding over several disks or even trucks.
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9y ago
Significant breach in the context of web development is usually logic error that leads to unauthorized application-level access, leaking cookies, service unavailability etc. This is however not the most likely thing to go wrong, in general.
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9y ago
You can unplug the ethernet cable, however. Or at least firewall it.
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9y ago
Okay, CockDB then :)
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9y ago
On second thought I’m not sure. Everyone will call it RoachDB for short anyway, but the full name has more impact. It shocks, which is a good thing. I was so focused on aesthetics that I didn’t even consider strategy. They can always spin
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9y ago
Was about to suggest that before I saw your comment. It’s like that PostgreSQL vs Postgres naming fiasco all over again. It’s not even the association, which I actually think is great, the name is simply a mouthful. RoachDB rolls off the to
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9y ago
> and of course there won't be any CDNs or HTTP caches "upstairs" so to speak. I wonder what will be the marketing buzzword for the first datacenter in space…
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QNX 7 Desktop (KDE)
(membarrier.wordpress.com)
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9y ago
SSL termination is the most latency sensitive thing in the stack, I wasn’t talking about provisioning. With HTTP 2.0 you get to reuse the connection, so it’s not as critical. Anyway my point was you can get all those features without invo
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9y ago
> eg if you want DDoS protection, or geolocated content delivery end points, or the ability to scale traffic cost effectively should your content go viral None of those things require CDN. Doing your own SSL termination is not hard. And
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9y ago
Nope, sorry! But Firefox addons will be soon switching to extension format compatible with Chrome, so you might get it for “free.”
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9y ago
So a 0day goes through this reactive-only security product, promptly reconfigures the device to bypass Cloudflare, ???, profit/DDoS. One way to secure IoT from DDoS etc is that is relatively painless for manufactures and more importan
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9y ago
REST has been a complete failure from the very beginning. At best it maybe introduced some people to HTTP caching headers. Sad!
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deno
9y ago
You can easily write an extension to in-browser Dev Tools to show human-friendly representation of any binary protocol for development/debugging purpose.
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9y ago
Protocol Buffers can even serialize down to JSON (as does Thrift, for example). Client code for PB+JSON has been a part of Google’s Closure library in fact (open source), and they used it in production for Gmail’s RPC, but I’m not sure if i
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10y ago
> Looks pretty neat...tiny 300dpi rewritable epaper display that needs no power to retain the image. You just described regular paper.
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10y ago
This is really cool technology but printing out badges doesn’t seem like a very compelling use case. ePaper is cool because it is dynamic. Without it it’s just really expensive paper. And I don’t think this can scale to replace paper recy
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10y ago
Someone should look into what kind of impact EME have on battery life.
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10y ago
United States still has obscenity laws, a backdoor around first amendment, which can be interpreted to mean whatever the court wants it to mean in any given situation. It exists, unchallenged, because otherwise child pornography would hav
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10y ago
If ads are protected free speech how are tobacco ads illegal?
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10y ago
That would still stand out as a sore thumb. Deliberate introduction of hard to exploit 0days would be precisely how they would do it. All you need is one plant with commit access.
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10y ago
You can replace string|null with string|number in this example.
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10y ago
Typescript is nice but its type system is not the strongest selling point. For example this compiles without warnings: const foo: Promise<string|null> = Promise.resolve(null); const bar: Promise<string> = foo; bar.th
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10y ago
What about stuff like this: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134196209/study-most-plastics-...
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10y ago
Do you have any experience using it with scala.js?
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10y ago
> So, all current scientific evidence points to this not being a problem. Do you mean our lack of current scientific evidence? The fact that we have no idea about long term effects of ingesting those plastics should be alarming enoug
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