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by eksith 13y ago
Ditto. I'd still love to see whatever tidbits are available if only for historic reasons, which in itself is quite valuable. Might be also fun to see a before and after if someone else does an up to date version too.
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by eksith 13y ago
Thank you! It's quite frustrating to watch people completely ignore the fact that if a power and capability exists, it will be abused (accidentally or knowingly) for dubious ends. And those with power and capability seldom relinquish i
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CubeSat(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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Algae Art(userwww.sfsu.edu)
1 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
I don't think it's confined to just open source projects. E.G. RIM is now BlackBerry Ltd. There are a many reasons why this is the case, but chief among them is that usually the product outpaces the clout of the company/organ
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by eksith 13y ago
It's important to remember one key takeaway from this. It still applies to offline hashes. That means, if your db is compromised, it's pretty much game over for your users (who will invariably reuse them elsewhere) if you used sim
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by eksith 13y ago
Yes. Yes there were. :) We always limited transactions for UPDATES and INSERTs that involved more than one table. It was quite the learning experience since you do have to think of different ways of working with data. You get to learn very
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by eksith 13y ago
I had the exact same feeling. It's tough to swallow failure, but I hope the students accept that the bar is high for their own good. Or else, going above it means little.
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Japanese school board bans acclaimed anti-war manga(theguardian.com)
7 points by eksith 13y ago|3 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
I don't think you were downvoted because you were wrong. I like to think the HN community isn't that shallow. Reasons for downvoting is usually due to posts containing no new information, excessive snark, flippant attitude etc...
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by eksith 13y ago
Relevant (from his own bio): Steven Frischling, aka: Fish, is globe hopping professional photographer, airline emerging media consultant working with large global airlines and founder of The Travel Strategist.
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by eksith 13y ago
If we take "Cloud" to mean "Computer" or rather "Disparate systems functioning as one", then he's almost right. How many people use AWS or Google Apps now? If it's true that more and more services are
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by eksith 13y ago
Writes were generally quite fast so the next write rarely got queued. Also we ran it single-threaded. When we moved to Postgres, that also gave us the opportunity to safely switch to phpfpm without worrying about the lock issue. The nice th
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by eksith 13y ago
I should add, that we ran nothing else on the box. Just the forum and it was text only (no image uploads etc...). Backups were pretty easy. ;)
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by eksith 13y ago
It's a pretty nice little DB for a lot of things. If you just want to play with it a bit, there's a Firefox extension available : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manage... It&#
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by eksith 13y ago
Until 2010, I ran a forum on SQLite with 600 users/day + around 1000 posts/day on a single OpenBSD machine with 2gb RAM and 7200RPM HDD. We moved to Postgres when we passed 1600 posts/day. There was some minor slowdown notice
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by eksith 13y ago
Thank you. I wish OP would have done the same with a comment. In fact, this should probably be standard procedure when submitting a link to a compromised site if it's not to a blog/news post about it.
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Inside the Kowloon Walled City(dailymail.co.uk)
5 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
I appreciate the hard work that went into this, but we still have to be careful as this is a very tricky measure. E.G. Colombo, Sri Lanka : http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country... "Colombo&
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by eksith 13y ago
The tablet has pretty much taken over the netbook niche, it seems, so your options are fairly limited. I have a Sony Vaio E series 11.6" that I take around, but it's not a great option. For what I do on the road (email, some VS wo
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by eksith 13y ago
That's a hollow victory. The momentum is much weaker in most cases when people care about something for the wrong reasons and then it gets easily quelled by distractions. In fact, that's how a lot of this nonsense stayed on for so
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by eksith 13y ago
A note on the introduction: There's actually no evidence that there ever was a "solar death ray" created by, designed by or otherwise envisaged by Archimedes.
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This Satellite Could Be Beaming Solar Power Down from Space by 2025(motherboard.vice.com)
6 points by eksith 13y ago|1 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
I disagree. Pseudonyms have in no way hindered polite, serious discussions on any forum I've ever seen. The only way to ensure the atmosphere you seek is through curated and carefully moderated discourse. Heavy or light-handedness in h
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by eksith 13y ago
It's not a "watch-me-do-it-better-ism". It's a "what-if-ism". I consider these to be the design equivalent of speculative fiction for literature. It's an interesting exploration of a direction the designs
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by eksith 13y ago
I still don't understand what stealth companies are all about (I mean the premise of "stealth"). If they say, we're working on X field with some Y tech, but can't discuss details, that's whole 'nother stor
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by eksith 13y ago
Hosts file solves this : http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
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by eksith 13y ago
I have a feeling many of these are from rubbish applications that have mostly been abandoned by their developers but still remain installed and running in the background for a lot of users.
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by eksith 13y ago
It's not fair that you can't see anything good about Discourse just because of the JS requirement. That's just one handicap. It has its good points and all of its current features can be implemented (and already has in othe
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by eksith 13y ago
I'm an admin of a forum where we share ignore lists. I was very concerned about this at first because there's a very real chance that people will blindly ignore users based on others already ignoring them. However, for the most pa

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