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by ef4 13y ago
In the case of things like Hulu, it's an attempt to enforce their geographic boundaries (so that Europeans don't buy cheap EC2 instances to watch America-only licensed content). I assume most of the others are trying to block scra
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by ef4 13y ago
If you're planning to run a VPN server on Amazon EC2, be forewarned that lots of sites are going to block you. For example, Yelp, Craigslist, the StackOverflow family, Hulu, and Bank of America.
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by ef4 13y ago
Neither. What's even better (at least for creative workers like programmers and designers) is autonomy and ownership.
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by ef4 13y ago
Part of the reason compilers don't do really thorough analysis and optimization is that it makes the compiles take a long time. But we can make that not matter if we rethink the relationship between the compiler and the programmer. Wha
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by ef4 13y ago
I don't see a reason to buy overseas hosting. So long as your body is still in the US, the NSA could get your data if they really wanted to. But the real goal here is not to stop a targeted government attack. It's to avoid cost-ef
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by ef4 13y ago
I recently searched around to answer this question, and it still seems like Roundcube is among the best. Or at least best-known.
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by ef4 13y ago
> More to the point though, is that forcing the NSA to work on a specific message is computational power that they can't use to oppress the populace at large. This, precisely. Too many people throw up their hands because it's i
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by ef4 13y ago
That argument is a cop out, because I can apply it to lots of other things that node does do. Why is the "string" implementation part of Node, and not something that everybody can choose to implement with their own microlibrary?
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by ef4 13y ago
I have designed and deployed production web services built on node, so I am intimately familiar with where it's strengths and weaknesses lie. And clearly the node devs agree with me that error handling is a problem, because they went
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by ef4 13y ago
Only if you get lucky enough to hit the exception on the initial call stack. If you do anything asynchronous first and then throw the exception, express just either leaves the client connection hanging (if you trap and log unhandled excepti
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by ef4 13y ago
I have a rich, client-side, fully-offline-capable javascript application. I started out with a different language for the backend, but over time the benefit of switching to Node and sharing one codebase became overwhelming. Just to give one
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by ef4 13y ago
That this article can claim to be error handling "done right" is a great illustration of the immaturity of the node ecosystem. Stop and ponder that express can't even return a 500 on exception without a lot of customization.
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by ef4 13y ago
> The question I struggle with is... How do you really get by without math as a mandatory topic? That's the wrong question, because "mandatory learning" is a contradiction in terms. It very clearly doesn't work. Beyon
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by ef4 13y ago
Supported Fascism? Mises personally had to flee the Nazis. He also wrote a whole book about why fascism in general is bad ("Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War").
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by ef4 13y ago
For what it's worth, I'm using express, and it doesn't come close to solving my plumbing problems. Example 1: express can't reliably send a 500 if your code hits an unexpected exception somewhere down in the callback cha
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by ef4 13y ago
You're misunderstanding the term "lifestyle". What you're describing -- an activity that is so common and natural that it becomes unremarkable -- is precisely what a "lifestyle" is. It has almost nothing to do
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by ef4 13y ago
Amazon's warehouses aren't the future of work. They're its history. That kind of zero-skilled, follow-the-instructions work is going fully robotic, much more quickly than people realize. Amazon themselves are investing heavil
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by ef4 13y ago
Having spent a lot of time in both Rails and Node, the author's unequivocal endorsement of Node as better than Rails is just silly. Building a non-trivial app on Node requires that you do an awful lot of plumbing. Yes, the performance
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by ef4 13y ago
When you attack capitalism by attacking Ayn Rand, you are attacking a terrible straw man. You'll notice that people rarely start by attacking the works of von Mises or Hayek or Rothbard, because those guys were actual serious academics
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by ef4 13y ago
> You have no evidence of that; you just made it up out of thin air. It's actually addressed in the report: "Ultimately, MIT concluded that the communication from the IP address located in China was a — not unusual — “pinging”
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by ef4 13y ago
Young minds certainly have more plasticity, and I agree that people with the requisite level of interest tend to discover programming young. But I think there's another factor that's at least as important: time. A ten year old has
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by ef4 13y ago
Part of automating deployment is automating key management. Ignoring host key checks is the worst possible solution. You're actually better off just baking a shared key into your image. So long as it's a key you generated yourself
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by ef4 13y ago
To repeat the test with Docker you'd need to use VirtualBox anyway. (Docker is Linux only. To run a Docker container on OSX, you need a Linux VM.)
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by ef4 13y ago
The article isn't about performance difference, it's about ease of distribution.
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by ef4 13y ago
I disagree. The point in either case is to get a cookie of the attacker's choosing accepted as the session identifier for the privileged domain. But even if we consider them separate techniques, the mitigation strategy is identical any
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by ef4 13y ago
"Cookie forcing" is more commonly called "session fixation". You'll find far more about it if you search under that name.
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by ef4 13y ago
> There's a huge community of non-developers who, for reasons I cannot comprehend, love to put beta OSes on their phones. I know of some affluent high-schoolers who seem to consider it prestigious if you can show off a prerelease iO
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by ef4 13y ago
And even if it's client-side encrypted, unless the client is open source there's no practical way to know whether there are backdoors, or whether a future update adds backdoors.
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by ef4 13y ago
> forget to eat for hours.... Then I'd get hunger pangs... This is a typical symptom of impaired blood sugar control. If you need four meals a day to keep the hunger pangs away, you're on the road to type 2 diabetes. With a hea
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by ef4 13y ago
That's all true, but still irrelevant to the question of fixing the obesity epidemic. "Calories eaten per day" is not a free variable. It's governed by a control loop within the brain. In a healthy person, appetite adjus

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