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elithrar
12y ago
Nice work. buffer.NewPool is a great convenience over writing your own sync.Pool. I was previously using https://github.com/oxtoacart/bpool as a 64K buffer pool for rendering (concurrently) template/html contents—
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> As a minor quibble (or am I missing something?) - the salt doesn't really need lots of entropy and you could send it to the client too; so lack of window.crypto isn't a major factor. The KDF (bcrypt, scrypt) certainly needs
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12y ago
Just to add to this: Current traffic light controllers and/or vehicle detection system (VDS) units are also fairly ruggedised: they're designed to live in outdoor cabinets with minimal active cooling, survive up to +50C (or more)
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12y ago
> I'm sure everyone here is dying to know what "cryptographically protected" means. Ditto. I tweeted them, but not hopeful for a reply. The words "cryptographically protected" are borderline 'weasel words&#
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12y ago
> and verify which git commit it is pointing to You'd need to go a step even further. The "application" code is only one thing - what about other applications, processes, DB logic, HTTP front-ends? All of those can modify
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12y ago
> I'm pretty sure an outdoor camera is better for that. Sure, but an indoor camera can do a "good enough" job of that too!
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12y ago
>Realistically, these cameras costed, what, five dollars? They're being put in cars that cost twenty thousand dollars. The labour to install these is not an insubstantial cost.
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12y ago
> "As a rule of thumb, you should only use MP3 devices at levels up to 60% of maximum volume for a total of 60 minutes a day" ( http://www.osteopathic.org/osteopathic-health/about-your-hea... ). Out of curio
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12y ago
> You mean apart from Tokyo? Average Monthly Disposable Salary (After Tax) Tokyo New York 312,241.52 ¥ 464,589.78 ¥ Everything appears "cheaper" up until that point, but that's never the whole picture. You cou
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12y ago
I can see this NOT being an option for a lot of users—"Mom and Dad" types, people who travel, etc. Many would prefer nothing is done if it's an option between "full reinstall" and "live with the cert". In
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12y ago
I think you might be confusing "click to play" in a Flash video/app vs. the browser-enforced "click to play", which in Chrome/Firefox prevents the plugin from running in that tab to begin with.
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12y ago
In many cases it's trickier than that too: if you're using your database's UUID's as the primary key, you'll need to find another column to use BETWEEN on and index that to make this work. Plus, as stated in the sli
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> If I recall correctly those libraries aren't type safe and composable You may be confusing interfaces (which enforce type compatibility) and the empty interface{}, which is effectively a dynamic type in the Go world.
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12y ago
Extremely few. 99%+ of your bottleneck will be in template rendering or DB access. Routing is so fast as to not matter for even "large" web applications.
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12y ago
> bcrypt or (god forbid) your secure hashing algorithm of choice doesn't care about input length bcrypt itself accepts a maximum key size of 56/72 bytes (depending on stage) as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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12y ago
Using OAuth also doesn't give you a free pass. Plenty of apps/sites/organizations mess up OAuth implementation, and OAuth doesn't solve things for corporate/enterprise users either. It's also not suitable for c
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12y ago
Duply ( http://duply.net/ ) is a wrapper around Duplicity, and there's a GUI front-end called Deja Dup too: http://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/Screenshots I use Duply to schedule incremental backups of m
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12y ago
We are not talking about permits (which are typically temporary as per whatever conditions they have). We are talking about software licenses, which often do not allow the copyright holder to revoke. These licenses are explicit about what t
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12y ago
Note that you can also force the admin password for any System Preferences GUI changes with a single click. I'm not sure whether the default for non-admin accounts is this, though.
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> so that they could essentially "shut off" entire neigborhoods. Just to add to the complications: they'd almost have to–due to either social pressure or environmental pressure–demolish the streets/poles/etc as w
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12y ago
I think your post is a slight exaggeration, but you do need a fair chunk of coin. Mining companies in Australia have been buying spectrum licenses for private LTE networks, with those licenses being considerably cheaper than the carrier-g
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12y ago
You do need a spectrum license (or unlicensed spectrum) with WiMax. Further, even if you could operate a WiMax network in an unlicensed band, you will run into issues with: a) not all countries having the same unlicensed bands, and b) the
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> We have had driverless trains for decades Yet we are only still trialling driverless trucks on mine sites. Even with the sites modelled entirely (and frequently), and with LiDAR, radar and cameras on the trucks, it is still far from pe
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> Oh sorry, we have a $10 minimum on EFTPOS." > "... You're a coffee shop." I always just ask them to charge me a surcharge instead. Some places "get it", but a few have stared at me blankly. I don't
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12y ago
No SD I can live with, but max. 32GB on a tablet (where you are like to store larger apps/more HD media) is crazy. My 32GB iPad Mini can be a bit restrictive at times when travelling - 1.07GB TV episodes means I can fit a set of 720p T
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> Also -- am I right that this is the first iPad to be able to create a hotspot? This changes the economics of mobile -- you can grab a data plan as you like it and when you like it, and use VoIP calling and so forth. Nope, existing (my
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12y ago
I've always, always had a hard time finding: * A good Twitter app for Android (like iOS' Tweetbot or Twitteriffic) * A decent RSS app (like Reeder - slick, w/ Instapaper + Evernote hooks) * A reasonable SSH client (like Promp
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12y ago
Likely because some users may be consuming/outputting JSON in a different structure from how they are storing it.
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Barometric sensors are one potential source - the latest Nexus has one at the least.
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12y ago
Then people are just likely to write it down, or forget it, etc. Need to provide for humans too :)
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