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by dozzie 9y ago
> Replaces Ansible, Puppet and Chef > || AGENTLESS ~ BASH OVER SSH ~ PLUG N PLAY || Uhm, no, not even close. You're not agentless, you have the most fragile agent that got ever commonly deployed: shell over SSH. So easy to break
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by dozzie 9y ago
If TDD is design, it's a stupid strategy. The only thing you'll get out of it is code that can be easily tested, not the one that is easy to use or robust. If you want good and robust code, aim for good and robust code, not for so
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Encryption and hashing are different processes with different algorithms - SHA vs MD5. For example, IPSec VPNs hash a packet with MD5 to prevent tampering, then encrypt the hash with SHA256 to prevent viewing. You do realize that MD5,
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by dozzie 9y ago
To I JavaScript objects?
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by dozzie 9y ago
Well? Why? And where's the promised PDF?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I also think the STL is the beautiful thing C++ gave us, [...] It did not. STL was given to us by HP and SGI, and then C++ adopted STL into its standard library.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Like in this oneliner? perl -e 'my $uid = (getpwnam shift)[2]; my $gid = (getgrnam shift)[2]; $( = $) = $gid; $< = $> = $uid; exec @ARGV' -- ...
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by dozzie 9y ago
Sure, if he doesn't care that his fancy tables and CSS formatting will look like sh&t on my terminal, defeating the very first thing that marketing material must do: look good.
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by dozzie 9y ago
INTELLIGENCE IS TO KNOW NOT TO USE ALL CAPS. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dozzie 9y ago
Receipt or order confirmation is not (or at least should not be ) a marketing e-mail. It's a technicality necessary for transaction.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Do we really need to send plain versions or it's just a second system syndrome of doing everything "right"? Yes, you do need to send plain versions. I make my e-mail clients to use plain text version first, and if that&#
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by dozzie 9y ago
How about no.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Open source works without ads cancer just fine, thank you very much.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Computer programming is highly specialized work; it can't be effectively taught in an intensive program. You must be having a very peculiar view on programming as an industrial field. The parts that are "highly specialized wo
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by dozzie 9y ago
A good fountain pen is anachronistic as well. They (pens and mechanical watches) are not casual goods just to be used, they are luxury goods, even if some of them are quite affordable.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Ah yes, the one that djb denied to somebody who found a resource exhaustion hole, from what I remember.
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by dozzie 9y ago
I doubt your skills when you couldn't not damage your personal brand in the article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15100801 BTW, nice way to promote yourself. Please do it elsewhere.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Start with a tutorial for cryptography. If you are dilettante in cryptography in general, whatever you do with blockchain will be broken by design.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Why wouldn't it? US is cool that its agencies conducted international privacy violation at a scale world has never seen.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Oh, but Ansible is not agentless. You do have an agent, and the worst kind at that: the one that you easily cut off by a single configuration mistake, because it serves both to send configuration commands and for diagnostic access. And then
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by dozzie 9y ago
API along with a service to correct dumb people who misuse the term API to mean an RPC service over HTTP.
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by dozzie 9y ago
- Shorter work week (i.e. the job would be part-time). - Projects that are both actually advanced technically and from field that interests me. Big bonus points if they are written in languages I already like or want (would want) to learn.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Well, for once I can be proud(ish) of my government.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> If everyone's wasteful there'd be way less incentive to nudge industries into changing. Ah yes, "let's show them not to be wasteful". Ever heard of the activities of making industries not to use child labour or
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by dozzie 9y ago
> So your argument is because it's not the "top of globally wasted resources", we should ignore the waste? Sometimes this argumentation is totally valid. For example, it's utterly stupid reasoning when one uses less w
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by dozzie 9y ago
Which for an OS distribution is a perfectly valid view point and a very noble goal.
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by dozzie 9y ago
It's a term for binaries (usually ELF) being byte-to-byte equal in two different runs of a compiler. This way you can build a binary package from source package and if its content is the same, you know what source code was used to buil
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by dozzie 9y ago
STEP ONE: DON'T SHOUT.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Gofmt, or rustfmt or whatever language fmt are really one of the best things that happened to modern development. Funny way to state that. There is this formatting tool `indent' for C and C++. It was already well known and rather
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by dozzie 9y ago
Note that it's not because the game was designed this way, but because the Dungeons and Dragons system was designed this way. It's not optimized for first-time and impatient computer players, but for roleplayers.

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